You are looking at an original 18th century book sometime recently professionally bound in a half calf gilt leather binding [sympathetically]

Die Kunst auf Glas zu malen und Glasarbeiten zu verfertigen : aus dem Französischen des verstorbenen Herrn Peter le Vieil. Erster theil. [- Dritter und lesster theil]

[The art on glass painting and glasswork]

Peter LeVieil [NB misprinted on the spine as Bieil]

Nürnberg : Bey George Peter Monath 1780

132 pages + 7 folding plates

measures 225mm x 280mm Part III only [translated from the French]

Thank you for looking - a remarkably scarce 18th century work on Stained Glass - at the time of listing Copac shows only three copies in institutions in the UK - Worldcat shows 14 locations not necessarily with all three parts. No examples appear currently offered for sale Worldwide 

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