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LEMERY, Traité de l'Antimoine, 1707
LEMERY, Nicolas.
Traité de l'Antimoine.
Paris, Jean Boudot, 1707.
12mo (160x105 mm), (28)-620-(24) pages. binding : Contempory full calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece. Joints, caps and corners restored. Wormholes in the corne without affecting the text.
First edition.
French chemist, Nicolas LEMERY was born at Rouen on the 17th of November 1645. After learning pharmacy in his native town he became a pupil of C. Glaser's in Paris, and then went to Montpellier, where he began to lecture on chemistry. He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his lectures.
references: D.S.B. [VIII, p. 174 : "His last major work ... which contained the results of his investigation into the properties and preparations of mineral antinomy], Partington [III, 31 : "a tedious collection of experiments, showing little advance over Basil Vanetine's Triumphal Chariot."], Neville [II, p. 44 : "It contains all that was then known on the subject"].
Price : 1200 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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