KESLAR, François

Espargne-bois, that is to say New and by-ci-devant not common nor brought to light invention of certain and various artificial furnaces Oppenheim, Jean Théodore de Bry, 1619 TO HEAT HIS HOUSE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. ILLUSTRATED MANUAL MAY BE MORE SIMPLE THAN TODAY'S instructions First and only French edition In-4 (195 x 140 mm). Woodcut initials COLLATION : A-I4 ILLUSTRATION : 5 woodcuts out of the text, including 1 folding Eighteenth century binding. Red morocco, gilt decoration, triple framing, long spine decorated with crosses with vertical titling, gilt edges, blue moire lined endpapers PROVENANCE: Nicolas Yemeniz (1781- 1871; Paris, May 1861,n° 894; bookplate) -- Jacques Bemberg (Paris, March 6, 2014, €13,000 without expenses; bookplate) Burnished text leaves Franz Kesslar (c. 1580-1630) was a Frankfurt painter, inventor, and alchemist. In addition to this text on wood-burning stoves, he wrote about sundials, calculating machines and the use of Napier sticks. In this book on heating, several individual models then unpublished in France are explained. Some of the stoves are decorated in the manner of the kachelofen, the Alsatian tile stoves. According to viaLibri, the Yale Library and the NYPL have a copy, as do the BnF and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève.