8vo. viii, 210pp, [6]. With four engraved plates on two folding sheets. Contemporary blind-tooled half-calf, tan paper boards, printed paper lettering- piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. FFEP shaved, very occasional early manuscript annotations, scattered spotting.

The first edition of German pedagogue, and sometime tutor at the Catholic theological seminary in Mainz, Joseph Uihlein's (1756-1813) textbook providing instruction on the natural sciences for a juvenile readership.

OCLC records copies at just three locations (Augsburg, Frankfurt, and Liechtenstein).