LEWIS, WILLIAM F.R.S. - Commercium Philosophico-Technicum; or, The Philosophical Commerce of Arts: designed as an attempt to improve Arts, Trades and Manufactures

1765, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, for the Author, 1765. [Vol 1 on title - but all published]. [i], x, 646p, 12p index]. No imprimatur leaf. 6 plates including the fine frontispiece of a chemical laboratory, equipped with an array of Lewis's portable furnaces. With the bookplate of US Senator Samuel Powel. Some browning, text generally VG. Binding chipped & worn, hinges cracked, original full-calf gilt. Thornton & Tully p158 ' William Lewis has been neglected by historians. (This) his most important publication is mainly a description of the laboratory of an experimental chemist, and a comprehensive account of physics and chemistry'. Very Good.

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