Author: PLENCK, J.J. von
Title: Bromatologia seu doctrina de esculentis et potulentis.
Description: Viennae, Apud Rudolphum Graeffer, 1784. 8vo. W. very nice engr. front. portr. ['Joann Baptista Lampi. pinx. 1783 / Jacob Adam sc. Viennae 1784'], small engr. vignette ['Jac. Adam fecit Vienae']on pr. title & some woodc. vignettes in the text. Contemp. full marbl. clf., spine gilt, w. titleshield in orange, giltlettered. (Lower cover 4 small imperf. / holes in leather, unimportant). (428, XII (index & works) pp.). (Quires H - L sl. browning and a few spots). Dedicated to Brambilla. Hirsch vol. IV, pp. 631 - 632: In the year 1783 Plenck was appointed prof. of Chemistry and Botany at the Josephs Akademie in Vienna. After this date the bulk of his works would deal virtually all with these subjects.: Bayle & Thillaye, vol. II, pp. 630 - 631: Ferchl, p. 416: Lesky, Jos. Bibl., p. 510: Blake, p. 355: Waller vol. I, 7524 (ed. 1785): Vicaire, p. 699: Drawing our attention to the small engraving on the printed title by Jacob Adam, representing various kinds of food (a pig, vegetables, fruits etc). The engraved portrait of the surgeon Alexandre Brambilla also by Adam after Jean Baptiste Lampi (Thieme Becker vol. I, p. 63 (Adam) and TB vol. XXII, pp. 272 - 275 (Lamp(i).: Horn Arndt, p. 323 (ed. 1785 in German): Pritzel, 7499: Simon, Bibl. Gastr., item 1204: Mueller, Bibl. 168: Blake's mentioning of a Vienna 1783 ed. seems doubtfull.

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