Author: MOLTKE, ADAM GOTTLOB [From the library of:]
Title: Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, faites ou approuvées par messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris. [...]. Nouvelle edition [= second edition]. Tome 4. Contenant l'art du tuilier et du briquetier; [...] de tirer des carrieres la pierre d'ardoise, de la fendre & de la tailler; [...] du couvreur; [...] du chaufournier; [...] de faire le papier; [...] du cartonnier; [...] du cartier.
Description: A Neuchatel, Société Typographique, 1776. [2[,658 pp. 29 engr. plates, fold. table. Contemp. mottled calf, richly gilt, floral spine raised in compartments and with 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces, exquisite supralibra with the coat of arms of Adam Gottlob Moltke on the frontcover, marbled endpapers. Large 8vo. - Partly vaguely waterst. (mostly in margins); library stamps on first blank; extremities trifle worn; corners showing. * Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710-1792) was a German-Danish Viscount and chief court marshal and large landowner and one of the most important people during King Frederik V's twenty-year reign 1746 - 1766 . He was also a patron of the arts and has left significant buildings and works of art, which he commissioned the best architects and artists of the time. This binding with his gilt coat-of-arms on the frontcover was made by: August Heinrich Helmuth (1714 - 1777), who made a lot of bindings for the Danish Royal Court and contains a volume of the descriptions des arts et metiers. (cf. S. Larsen and A. Kyster, Danish Eighteenth Century Bindings, 1730-1780, Copenhagen and London 1930, pp. 28-32). contributions by: J.E. Bertrand, Duhamel, Fourcroy, Gallon, Fougeroux de Bondaroy and De la Lande. # Poggendorff I, p.618, 782f and 1349.

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