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Small 8vo (146 × 94 mm), pp. [xx], 345, [7], 6 folding engraved plates. Very minor marginal spotting to a few pages, folding plates slightly creased in places with slight soiling at extreme upper margin of one or two. Contemporary limp vellum, title in neat contemporary manuscript to spine. Early inscription “Esteban del Castillo” to front free endpaper and “Valladolid” to verso of final plate, later bookplate of Armando Cotarelo Valledor. A very nice copy indeed in contemporary state.
First edition in Spanish of L’art de faire les chapeaux, the first systematic and scientific study of the ancient process of hat-making, which Jean-Antoine Nollet had written for the Encyclopédie (1765). It deals with the raw materials, their preparation, manufacturing process and the dyes as well as the styles of hats. The plates, re-engraved for this Spanish edition are detailed depictions of the hatter’s craft with excellent workshop scenes.
Like his French counterpart Nollet, Suárez y Nuñez was an enlightened polymath dedicated to the scientific exposition of crafts and industry. His magnum opus was the multi-volume Memorias instructivas, y curiosas: sobre agricultura, comercio, industria, economia, chyimica, botanica, historia natural, &c (1778-1791) translated from pioneering works published across Europe.
Like his French counterpart Nollet, Suárez y Nuñez was an enlightened polymath dedicated to the scientific exposition of crafts and industry. His magnum opus was the multi-volume Memorias instructivas, y curiosas: sobre agricultura, comercio, industria, economia, chyimica, botanica, historia natural, &c (1778-1791) translated from pioneering works published across Europe.
Worldcat lists the BL and Biblioteca Nacional copies only.
£2000.00
