Tingry (Pierre François) Traité Theorique et Pratique sur l'Art de Faire et d'Applieuer les Vernis, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 5 engraved plates (3 folding), folding table, uncut and unopened in the original blue paste-paper wrappers, rubbed, spines rather frayed, Geneva, 1803 § Sobrero (Ascanio) Manuale di Chimica Aplicata alle Arti, 3 vol., first edition, illustrations, browned, contemporary vellum spines gilt with roan labels, rubbed & stained, Turin, 1851-56; and another, 8vo et infra (6)
⁂ Both concerning the uses of chemistry as applied to the arts. The first is the standard work on varnishes; the second discusses the formulation of paints, pigments, and synthetic dyes. Sobrero is best known as the discoverer of nitroglycerine, Alfred Nobel was one of his students.
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