Schaeffer´s Versuche... Papier zu machen 1765
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PAPER. PRESENTATION COPY. SCHAEFFER (SCHÄFFER), JACOB CHRISTIAN. Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben Papier zu machen. I (more published). Regensburg 1765.
8:o. (12), (2), 3-54, (2, last blank)pp. 1 engraved frontispiece printed in red, 4 handcoloured engraved plates, 15 samples of paper numbered 1-15.
Original cardboard, slightly worn, with copper-coloured cover material richly stamped in blind. Presentation copy of the first volume of a series of six volumes (with partly deffering titles), with a long inscription on first endpaper signed by the author to Johann Georg Glaesel dated February 3, 1765.
First edition. Jacob Christian Schaeffer (1718-1790) did more than any of his predecessors in the quest for materials for papermaking and he was the pioneer in the use of many vegetable fibres for the fabrication of paper. He published his results in his "Versuche" 1765-71. As his experiments were carried on previous to the discovery of bleach (the process of bleaching linen and cotton was invented in 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Berthollet, and others), his samples of paper have the tint of the original materials from which they were made. There are not many sets of the work extant and the number of specimens in the various sets are not always identical. See Dard Hunter: Papermaking. The History and Technique of an ancient Craft, New York 1943, pp. 237-244.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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6147
Datum:
2015-06-16