Galeria industrial, o aplicacion de los productos de la naturaleza a los artes y oficios, su origen, sus progresos y perfeccion, representados en una serie de ciento y cincuenta estampas, dibujadas y grabadas con gusto por artistas inteligentes, con un texto explicativo, para el uso de la infancia y de la juventud

Book Description

Libreria de F. Rosa, Paris, 1825. first Spanish Edition. Very good: stain to rightmost inch of upper board, overall wear to spine with chipping to ends; stain to upper right corner of first 17 leaves (not affecting text or images), offset from plates. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, iv, 178 pages, contemporary marbled boards with sheep spine, Engraved frontispiece and title page (in Spanish), plus 30 engraved plates composed of 5 images each. Captions to the plates are in French. The title page also lists Madrid and Brussels as places of publication for this Paris-region imprint; the imprint on page 178 identifies E. Pochard of Paris as the printer, while the imprint on the verso of the title names Alex. Daumont of Versailles. The text and plates describe and illustrate, for young people, a broad range of industrial arts including winemaking, textile manufacture, woodworking, clockmaking, tobacco culture, papermaking, printing, bookbinding and bookselling. OCLC locates only the New York Public Library copy (having the engraved title in French) of this edition. The work first appeared in French, in 1822.

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