Jacob Christian Schäffers Doctors der Gottesgelehrsamkeit und Weltweisheit ... Neue Versuche und Muster das Pflanzenreich zum Papiermachen und andern Sachen wirthschaftsnützlich zu gebrauchen
Contributors: Maag, Johann Nepomuk, approximately 1724-1800; Franck, J. F.; Schäffer, Jacob Christian, 1718-1790
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1765
Place of publication: Regensburg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Papermaking; Early works to 1800; Papermaking in art; Paper machinery in art
Work titles: Neue Versuche und Muster das Pflanzenreich zum Papiermachen und andern Sachen wirthschaftsnützlich zu gebrauchen
Notes: Continues the author's Versuche und Muster ohne alle Lumpen oder doch mit einem geringen Zusatze derselben Papier zu machen. Continued by his Wiederholte Versuche auf ordentlichen Papiermühlen aus allerhand Pflanzen und Holzarten Papier zu machen.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² )(⁴ A-D⁴ chi1; v. 2: )(⁴ A-C⁴ chi1; v. 3: [A]⁴ ([A]3+"A3.4") B-C⁴ chi1.

Illustrations: 9 prints : engraving, 3 hand col. ; plate mark 18 x 19 cm. (2) and 17 x 13 cm. (7). Comprise one engraving by J.N. Maag after J.F. Franck printed in dark blue-green (subject: putti harvesting poplar seed down), 3 hand-col. engravings (subject: plant sources of non-rag paper), and 5 engravings on folded leaves (subject: papermaking machinery).

Samples, chiefly full-page, comprise specimens of paper made from various materials: down of the seeds of cotton grass, thistles and milkweed; stalks of thistles, burdock, mallow, orache and dyer's broom; pine wood and pinecones; wood and bark of wormwood; lily of the valley leaves; stalks, leaves and husks of maize; skin and pulp of potatoes; conferva; grapevines; asbestos; peat; mixtures of scraps from the various other experimental papers. Included also are 4 samples of cloth made from poplar seed down and 2 samples of lace made from aloe leaf fibers. Some samples in v. 3 painted to show suitability of the paper for use as wallpaper, etc.

Woodcut tailpieces.

Includes bibliographical references.

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

Hunter, D.  Literature of papermaking, p. 34-36

Labarre, E.J.  Paper-making (2nd ed.), p. xvii, no. 185

Renker, A.  Buch vom Papier (3. Ausg.), p. 208

Gatterer, C.W.J.  Schriften vom Papiermachen, p. 204