‎"LEWIS, WILHELM.‎
‎Physikalisch=chymische Abhandlungen und Versuche, zur Beförderung der Künste, Handwerke und Manufakturen. Aus dem Englischen übersetzet, und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Johann Georg Krünitz. (Erster Theil).‎

‎Berlin, Arnold Wever, 1764. Later blank boards. A small paperlabel has been pasted over ""Erster Theil"" on titlepage. The spectacular, large folded engraved frontispiece by P.S. Cabot showing a chemical laboratory, well equipped). (16),576 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean.‎

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‎First German edition of Lewis classical work on applied chemistry ""Commercium Philosophico-Technicum"", published 1763 and 1767, and originally intended as a periodical. It deals with the history of gold, platinum, glass, porcelain etc.Poggendorff I, 1443. - Duveen, 355 (English ed.).‎