ON DYEING SILK

MACQUER, P.J.

Art de la Teinture en Soie.

(Paris), 1763. Folio. Later marbled boards. IX,86 pp. and 6 engraved plates (showing tools and dyeing processes). Printed on good thick paper, clean.

First edition of Macquer's influential work on silk dyeing - it was even trtanslated into Arabic as late as 1823. It further contains a previously unpublished work on dyeing by Jean Hellot (pp. 71-78). - Poggendorff II:p.7.

Order-nr.: 35947