Verhandeling over de sneeuwfiguren, en hoe deze natuurbeschouwing best aan te leggen, ter verheerlyking van Gods magt, wysheid en goedheid ... Tweed uitgave; verrykt met een voorrede van Pieter Boddaert

Utrecht: G. Van den Brink, 1771. 8vo, pp. [28], 178; uncut; 5 folding tables and 29 folding plates; 20th-century blue calf-backed decorative paper-covered boards; a very good, sound, and clean copy. Engelman (1710-1782) was a Dutch doctor, one of the directors of the Rijnland Water Board, and an amateur meteorologist. In Van der Aa's Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands it is mentioned that Engelman also wrote a book about ''snow figures'' (snow crystals), which was first published in Haarlem in 1747, and here in a second edition with a lengthy preface by Boddaert. (Inventory #: 68810)