Research Catalog

Title

Jacob Christian Schäffers, Doctors der Gottesgelarheit und Weltweisheit ... sämtliche Papierversuche : sechs Bände ... : nebst sieben und siebenzig Mustern und dreyzehen theils illuminirten theils schwarzen Kupfertafeln.

Author

Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790.

Publication

Regensburg : Gedruckt mit Zunkelischen Schriften, 1772.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Loibel
• Maag, Johann Nepomuk, approximately 1724-1800.
• Trautner, Gustav Philipp, active 1757-1774.

Description

6 v. in 1 ([8], 52 p., [15] leaves, [1], IV leaves of plates; [8], 28 p., [19] leaves, [1] leaf of plates; [8], 32 p., [15] leaves, II leaves of plates; [4], 24 p., [11] leaves, I leaf of plates; 22, [2] p., [9] leaves, V folded leaves of plates; [4], 16 p., [10] leaves : ill. (some col.), samples (some mounted); 20 cm. (4to)

Uniform Title

Sämtliche Papierversuche

Alternative Title

Sämtliche Papierversuche

Subject

• Papermaking > Early works to 1800
• Papermaking in art > Early works to 1800
• Papermaking machinery in art > Early works to 1800

Note

• Each part has special t.p.
• Signatures: Bd. 1: )(⁴ A-F⁴ G²; Bd. 2: A-D⁴ E²; Bd. 3: )(⁴ A-D⁴; Bd. 4: pi² A-C⁴; Bd. 5: A-C⁴; Bd. 6:pi² A-D⁴.
• Samples, chiefly full-page, comprise specimens of paper made from various materials: wood and/or bark of beech, willow, aspen, hops, grapevine, mulberry, clematis, nettles, pine, wormwood, brazilwood and fustic; tree leaves and leaves of aloe, lily of the valley, bean and tulip; stalks of cabbage, thistles, burdock, mallow, orache and dyer's broom; down of poplar seeds, cottongrass, thistles and milkweed; various mosses; hemp chaff; straw; cattails; wasps' nests; sawdust; pinecones; stalks, leaves and husks of maize; skin and pulp of potatoes; conferva; grapevines; asbestos; reeds; shingles; mixtures of scraps from the various other experimental papers. Included also are 4 samples of cloth made from poplar seed down and 1 sample of lace made from aloe leaf fibers. Some samples in v. 5 painted to show suitability of the paper for use as wallpaper, etc.
• Most samples have a higher rag content than the author asserts; for analysis, cf. Die Schäfferschen Papierversuche / von Wilhelm Herzberg. Hagen-Kabel : Papierfabrik Kabel. 1949, p. 44-49.
• Illustrations: 14 prints : engraving, 8 hand-col. ; full-page. Comprise frontispiece by J.N. Maag after a design by the author (subject: putti making paper); 3 by J.N. Maag and 2 by G.P. Trautner after Loibel (subject: plant sources of non-rag paper); and 8 unsigned (subject: plant sources of non-rag paper (3) and papermaking machinery (5)).
• Woodcut head- and tailpieces; ornamental initial.

Indexed In (note)

• GV 1700-1910

Contents

1.-2. Bd. D. Jacob Christian Schäffers Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben Papier zu machen. -- 3.-5. Bd. D. Jacob Christian Schäffers Neue Versuche und Muster das Pflanzenreich zum Papiermachen und andern Sachen wirtschaftsnützlich zu gebrauchen. -- 6. Bd. D. Jacob Christian Schäffers Wiederholte Versuche auf ordentlichen Papiermühlen aus allerhand Pflanzen und Holzarten Papier zu machen.

Call Number

Schlosser 715

LCCN

08037823 //r863

OCLC

NYPG90-B10504

Author

Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790.

Title

Jacob Christian Schäffers, Doctors der Gottesgelarheit und Weltweisheit ... sämtliche Papierversuche : sechs Bände ... : nebst sieben und siebenzig Mustern und dreyzehen theils illuminirten theils schwarzen Kupfertafeln.

Imprint

Regensburg : Gedruckt mit Zunkelischen Schriften, 1772.

Edition

Zwote Auflage.

Indexed In:

GV 1700-1910, v. 123, p. 419

Local Note

Schlosser Coll. copy misbound: text and samples of v. 4 bound with p. [1-4] (1st group) of v. 6; text and samples of v. 6 bound with p. [1-4] (1st group) of v. 4; plate to v. 2 bound in v. 3.

Provenance: Grf. Rantzau, Oppendorff (stamp).

Local Subject

Paper, Plant fiber -- Early works to 1800.

Paper, Plant fiber -- Specimens.

Paper, Experimental -- Early works to 1800.

Paper, Experimental -- Specimens.

Paper, Wood-pulp -- Early works to 1800.

Paper, Wood-pulp -- Specimens.

Added Author

Loibel.

Maag, Johann Nepomuk, approximately 1724-1800.

Trautner, Gustav Philipp, active 1757-1774.

Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790. Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben Papier zu machen. 1772.

Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790. Neue Versuche und Muster das Pflanzenreich zum Papiermachen und andern Sachen wirthschaftsnützlich zu gebrauchen. 1772.

Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790. Wiederholte Versuche auf ordentlichen Papiermühlen aus allerhand Pflanzen und Holzarten Papier zu machen. 1772.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 715