kebira
04-27-2009, 04:55 AM
Pretty rare original book by Antonio Neri, a Florentine priest who did lots of work with glassblowing and color recipes for glass. Shame to see it go outside of the glass community. Worth looking at.
VERY RARE, ORIGINAL 1668 EDITION OF: "DE ARTE VITRARIA LIBRI SEPTEM". This influential 17th century treatise was written by Antonio Neri (1576-1614) and printed by Andream Frisium, Amsterdam, Holland. Text contains author's historically important work on glass blowing. Antonio Neri (1576-1614) was a Florentine priest who traveled extensively in Italy and Holland. This is his principal work. Neri's interest in glass blowing was aroused by watching his father who was a glass maker, as well as a physician, herbalist and alchemist. [Brunet, IV, 41].
The present treatise contains a comprehensive range of recipes and techniques for producing different types and colors of glass, imitation gems, enamels and gold leaf. Neri's work served as a blueprint for all subsequent early works on glass-making. "This work is said to have given a considerable impetus to glass making in various parts of Europe.” ODNB.
"Neri is remembered only for [the present treatise] in which many, although by no means all, of the closely guarded secrets of glass making were printed for the first time...The main part of text deals with the coloring of glass with metallic oxides to give not only clear and uniform colors but also various veined effects. There are chapters on making lead glass of high refractive index and enamel [opaque] glass by the addition of tin oxide." [D.S.B.]. Text was edited by Christopher Merret (1614-95), friend of Harvey and Boyle, and one of the founding members of the Royal Society.
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VERY RARE, ORIGINAL 1668 EDITION OF: "DE ARTE VITRARIA LIBRI SEPTEM". This influential 17th century treatise was written by Antonio Neri (1576-1614) and printed by Andream Frisium, Amsterdam, Holland. Text contains author's historically important work on glass blowing. Antonio Neri (1576-1614) was a Florentine priest who traveled extensively in Italy and Holland. This is his principal work. Neri's interest in glass blowing was aroused by watching his father who was a glass maker, as well as a physician, herbalist and alchemist. [Brunet, IV, 41].
The present treatise contains a comprehensive range of recipes and techniques for producing different types and colors of glass, imitation gems, enamels and gold leaf. Neri's work served as a blueprint for all subsequent early works on glass-making. "This work is said to have given a considerable impetus to glass making in various parts of Europe.” ODNB.
"Neri is remembered only for [the present treatise] in which many, although by no means all, of the closely guarded secrets of glass making were printed for the first time...The main part of text deals with the coloring of glass with metallic oxides to give not only clear and uniform colors but also various veined effects. There are chapters on making lead glass of high refractive index and enamel [opaque] glass by the addition of tin oxide." [D.S.B.]. Text was edited by Christopher Merret (1614-95), friend of Harvey and Boyle, and one of the founding members of the Royal Society.
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