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AXT, JOHANN CONRAD. Tractatus de arboribus coniferis et pice conficienda, aliisque ex illis arboribus provenientibus. 5 engraved plates. [2], 131 pages, including engraved additional title. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, worn, spine ends chipped; some toning and foxing. 18th-century signature ("Guettard") and 19th-century stamp of the Bibliothèque du Château d'Oublesse. Jena: Samuel Krebs for Joh. Bielke, 1679
first edition of a work on common conifers, including instructions for making resin, pitch, charcoal, lamp-black, etc. Duveen, page 34; Ferguson I, 61.
