Variant Title:
Ars vitraria experimentalis, oder, Vollkommene Glasmacher-Kunst
Vollkommene Glasmacher-Kunst
Engraved half title: Ioh. Kunckeli Ars vitraria experimentalis
Notes:
Part 2 includes processes in arts and crafts and an appendix on precious stones.
Title in red and black; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Vol. 1: [14], 350 [i.e. 352] p., [17] leaves of plates; v. 2: 5, [3], 141, [35] p., [3] leaves of plates.
Errors in pagination: v. 1, p. 153-154 omitted in numbering, "Das Register und Inhalt der Capitel in Anthonii Neri Glas-kunst, als ersten Theil dieses Wercks" inserted between p. 348-349, but out of order.
Errata: v. 2, p. [34]-[35] (2nd group).
Includes index.
Duncan, 7454
Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica, v. 2, p. 135
P. 350a, fig. 5 photographed June 25, 2007 for Glass of the Alchemists. (Photography no. 81274.350a.5).
C. 1, p. 560 and scan of male flameworkers Displayed in the exhibition titled "The Science of Glassmaking : 8 Centuries of a Magical Art", held at the Rakow Research Library, June 27, 2008-January 4, 2009.
Copy 1 flooded; has been cleaned, deacidified and rebound; c. 2 in original binding (from Mrs. Suppes).
