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Photo MACQUER, Pierre Joseph. 

MACQUER, Pierre Joseph. 

Elémens de chymie théorique. 

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1749.
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400 €

First edition.
This book is one of the most influential treatises of the mid-18th century.

Photo SUSSDORFF, Guillaume. 

SUSSDORFF, Guillaume. 

Contribution à l'étude de l'acide nicotique et de quelques-uns de ses dérivés. 

Genève, W. Kündig & Fils, 1897.
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450 €

First edition.
Author's copy, finely bound.
Doctoral thesis presented at the University of Geneva in 1896 on work carried out under the direction of Amé Pictet and Carl Graebe.
The chemistry of nicotine derivatives would find its application many years later in biochemistry and medicine. We now know the name of nicotic acid under the common name of Vitamin B3.

Photo BERTRAND, Gabriel. 

BERTRAND, Gabriel. 

Réflexions nouvelles sur l'acide et sur l'alcali où après avoir démontré que ces deux sels ne peuvent pas être les principes des mixtes, on fait voir le véritable usage qu'on en peut faire dans la physique & dans la médecine. 

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1683.
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450 €

Scarce first edition.

Photo CHAMBON, Joseph. 

CHAMBON, Joseph. 

Principes de physique, rapportés à la médecine-pratique
[qui comprend le]
Traité des métaux et des minéraux, et des remèdes qu'on peut en tirer. Avec dissertations sur le sel & le soufre des philosophes, & sur la goute, la gravelle, la petite vérole, la rougeole & autres maladies : avec un grand nombre de remèdes choisis. 

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750.
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450 €

Rare edition. The second volume contain the Traité des métaux et des minéraux (1750).

Photo LE GIVRE, Pierre. 

LE GIVRE, Pierre. 

Le Secret des eaux minérales acides. 

Paris, Jean Ribou, 1667.
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450 €

First edition.
A rare work by Pierre Le Givre (1618-1684) French doctor who had made a specialty of the study of mineral waters.
The book is particularly interested in the water of Provins, the author attempts an analysis of its composition and publishes several letters from his opponents to which he responds.

Photo BACCI, Andrea. 

BACCI, Andrea. 

De thermis libri septem. In quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque earum differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis. 

Venise, Felicem Valgrisum, 1588.
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550 €

Second enlarged edition.

Photo BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. 

BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. 

Traité élémentaire ou principe de physique [suivi de] Elémens ou principes physico-chymiques. 

Paris, Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1800.
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600 €

Frist complete edition with the first edition of the fourth volume.
Complete homogeneous set in 4 volumes and 52 plates of this physics and chemistry course published by Mathurin-Jacques Brisson.
Assistant to Réaumur then to Nollet, Brisson became a professor of physics at the College of Navarre and then at the Ecole Centrale. He began to publish his Elementary Treaty of Physics in 1789. This third edition of 1800 was supplemented by a new volume on chemistry to serve as a follow-up to physics.

Photo REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

Du Feu et de quelques-uns de ses principaux effets. 

Lausanne, Mourer, 1787.
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600 €

First edition.
Reynier makes "fire" in this work, an essential constituent of the material which ensures its cohesion.
His theory announces, following Lavoisier, the replacement of the phlogiston theory by the caloric theory.
Our modern gaze would find that by replacing “fire” with “energy”, Reynier demonstrates many interesting intuitions here. As such it is often cited by Bachelard in his “Psychoanalysis of Fire”.

Photo LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent. 

LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent. 

Traité élémentaire de Chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes. 

Paris, Cuchet, 1793.
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700 €

Second edition, printed by Chardon.
Several critical ideas that appear in this book laid the firm foundation for Lavoisier's
claim to the title as "the father of modern chemistry".
13 engravings from Paulze Lavoisier (author's wife).

Photo LEMERY (Nicolas) augmenté par BARON. 

LEMERY (Nicolas) augmenté par BARON. 

Cours de chymie contenant la manière de faire les opérations qui sont en usage dans la Médecine par une Méthode facile. Avec des raisonnemens sur chaque Opération, pour l'Instruction de ceux qui veulent s'appliquer à cette science. Nouvelle édition Revue, corrigée & augmentée. 

Paris, Laurent-Charles d'Houry, 1757.
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700 €

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. Lemery did not concern himself much with theoretical speculations, but holding chemistry to be a demonstrative science, confined himself to the straightforward exposition of facts and experiments. In consequence, his lecture-room was thronged with people of all sorts, anxious to hear a man who shunned the barren obscurities of the alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life as the sole end of his science. Of his Cours de chymie (1675) he lived to see 13 editions, and for a century it maintained its reputation as a standard work.
The 1756's edition (the first one in 4to) is considered by Dorbon and P.Larousse as the best one. The only difference with our edition (1757) is the title engraving which is without the artist signature.

Photo SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

De la Fonte des Mines, des Fonderies, &tc. 

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1764-1753.
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750 €

French edition (first for vol. 2 and second for vol. 1 in uniform binding).
The most important eighteenth-century book on mining, or refining, metallurgical chemistry, smelting, and essaying. (Neville).

Photo LA GARAYE, Claude Tousaint Marot, Comte de. 

LA GARAYE, Claude Tousaint Marot, Comte de. 

Chymie hydraulique, pour extraire les sels essentiels des végétaux, animaux & minéraux, par le moyen de l'eau pure. 

Paris, Didot le jeune, 1775.
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750 €

Second edition. Interresting for the Parmentier addtions and much rarer than the first.

Photo BAYEN, Pierre || CHARLARD, Louis-Martin. 

BAYEN, Pierre || CHARLARD, Louis-Martin. 

Recherches chimiques sur l'étain, faites et publiées par ordre du gouvernement. 

Paris, Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1781.
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750 €

First edition.
Bayen is today recognized as a precursor of Lavoisier. He rejected the phlogistic theory 3 years before the decisive work of Lavoisier.
In this book on the tin, Bayen and Charlard concluded that tin contained no arsenic at worst infinitesimal amount, without any danger to health.

Photo STAHL, Georg Ernst. 

STAHL, Georg Ernst. 

Experimenta, Observationes, Animadversiones, CCC Numero Chymicae et Physicae. 

Berlin, Haude, 1731.
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750 €

First edition.
"An important work in 301 sections in wihch Stahl comments critically on a wide variety of chemical and physical phenomena and experiments. There is a long discussion on phlogiston and its supposed properties (section 38, pp.55-64)... This work, published just three years before he died, is interresting because it summarizes Stahl's theories toward the end of his life" (Neville).

Photo ADET, Pierre-Auguste. 

ADET, Pierre-Auguste. 

Leçons élémentaires de chimie à l'usage des lycées. 

Paris, Dentu, An XIII - 1804.
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750 €

First edition.
Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

Photo [MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1766.
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800 €

Second (first pirated) edition.
A pirated reprint of the first edition, printed from type that has been reset and in which there are small but significant changes (Neville).

The most important work from Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) which will remain for years a reference for chemists of the 18th century.
It is also the first alphabetical dictionary of chemistry.

Photo HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van. 

HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van. 

Les Oeuvres de Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Traittant des Principes de Médecine et Physique pour la guerison assurée des Maladies : de la traduction de M. Jean le Conte. 

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1670.
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850 €

First edition in french of th works of Helmont, and first issue with the date 1670.

Photo [MONNET, Antoine Grimoald]. 

[MONNET, Antoine Grimoald]. 

Nouvelle hydrologie, ou nouvelle exposition de la nature et de la qualité des eaux. 

Paris, P.Fr. Didot, 1772.
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950 €

First edition.
Work on the chemical analysis of sea water collected on the French coasts.
A complete copy with the leaf A1 missing from almost all copies (Duveen doubt of is existence).

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Cours de Chymie. 

Paris, Chez l'autheur, 1677.
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950 €

The rare second edition.

Photo CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

Mémoires de chimie. 

Montpellier, Jean Martel Aîné, 1781.
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950 €

First edition of the first work of Chaptal.
First volume, only published.
After three years spent in Paris (1777-1780), Chaptal was offered in 1780 a chair of chemistry at the Royal Society of Sciences of Montpellier.
"It was from this moment that Chaptal's brilliant career in science began.
The revolution in chemistry was at hand. However, the old doctrine of phlogiston still prevailed and it was this doctrine that Chaptal taught at first and in his first courses that he took up in his first work. He then quickly rallied to the ideas developed by Lavoisier. "(Flourens. Eloge de Chaptal. 1835)
Rare (missing from the main collections on chemistry : Duveen, Ferguson, Neville ...)

Bound with :
- POULLE. Positiones chemico-medicae de Aere Vitali. Montpellier, Picot, 1784. 64 pages (a lack in the margin of page 41). Rare work on the chemical and medical properties of oxygen and its preparation. First edition.
- BERTHOLON. Des avantages que la physique et les arts qui en dépendent peuvent retirer des globes aérostatiques...Montpellier, Jean Martel Aîné, 1784. 82 pages. First edition.
- LAFFECTEUR. Rapport sur l'analyse du Rob Antisyphillitique. 1779. Ph. D. Pierres, Paris. 24 pages. First edition.
- GUER. [Dissertation physique & botanique sur la maladie nephretique et sur son véritable spécifique, le Raisin d'Ours]. 1768, Bauer, Strasbourg. 98 pages and 1 folding plate. Bound without the title page and the privilege.
- GOUBERT. Description et usage des baromètres, thermomètres et autres instrumens météorologiques. 1781. Jombert, Paris. 52 pages and 1 folding table. First edition

A presentation copy to the botanist of Dijon Jean-François Durande, for the second work (Poulle).

Photo GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis. 

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis. 

Cours de chimie comprenant l'histoire des sels, la chimie végétale et animale. 

Paris, Pichon et Didier, 1828.
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950 €

First edition.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux faits Physiques, Et particulièrement sur celles de la Combustion, de l'Elévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs de la Chaleur produite. 

Paris, Maradan, An II [1794].
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950 €

First edition.
Lamarck's first work in the field of chemistry in which he reverses Lavoisier's chemical revolution and proposes a system based on the theory of the four elements and phlogiston.
Apart from expounding his bizarre chemical theories, the book is important for his later views on biology and geology. Of interest is the section "Recherches sur les têtres organiques", which sets out his ideas on the origin of life before he abandoned his belief in a fixed species and became an evolutionist.
Lamarck's "chemical theories played an important part in the development of his ideas the origin of species, as they provived a materialistic definition of life, reproduction and evolution." (Norman).

Photo CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

La royalle Chymie de Crollius, suivi du traicté des signatures, ou vraye et vive anatomie du grand & petit monde. 

Rouen, David du Petit Val, 1634.
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1200 €

Rare French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first offers a admonitoire Preface, containing the very deep mysteries & Philosophy rarest of both natural grace, reaching the excellence of medicine Chymical, and magnitude of the Microcosm;
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius", describing various remedies and recipes of Medicine;
- The third one, separate pagination, is finally a Traict signatures, or true and deep anatomy of the great and little world. This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.

Photo GLASER, Christophle. 

GLASER, Christophle. 

Traité de la Chymie. 

Paris, chez l'autheur, 1663.
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1200 €

The rare first edition, first issue.
Christophe Glaser (1629-1672?) Is a Swiss doctor and pharmacist who became ordinary apothecary of King Louis XIV. Nicolas Lemery will be trained at Glaser but quickly leaves him not supporting his almost esoteric teaching.
Glaser crosses the history in the poison case. It is most probably in her pharmacy that the Marquise de Brinvilliers obtained the vials of poison. According to his testimony Glaser was sent to Italy by Fouquet to learn the secrets of Italian poisons.
Caillet attributes this book to Moyse Charas, who indeed mentions in the preface to his Thériaque that he published a Treatise on Chemistry under the name of Glaser.

We find in this book, curious preparations such as human skull oil or the distillation of viper flesh.

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Traité de l'Antimoine. 

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1707.
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1200 €

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.

Photo [MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1766.
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1250 €

First edition, state A.
The most important work from Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) which will remain for years a reference for chemists of the 18th century.
It is also the first alphabetical dictionary of chemistry.

Photo SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae
[Relié à la suite : ]
Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680. 

Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1678.
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1350 €

Bound together, two rare works by Gottfried Schultz (1643-1698) based on the work of Johann Michaelis (1606-1667).

1. First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century.

2. First edition.
Work devoted to the preparation and use of cinnabar (mercury sulphide) in the pharmacopoeia. The author discusses the different forms of cinnabar, natural cinnabar, cinnabar of antimony, ...
It is Paracelsus who first popularizes the use of cinnabar in medicine with its antimony oil.
At the end we find an appendage devoted to magnetic plaster.

Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

Photo CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

La royalle Chymie de Crollius,
traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene. 

Lyon, Pierre Drobet, 1627.
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1750 €

Second French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first offers a admonitoire Preface, containing the very deep mysteries & Philosophy rarest of both natural grace, reaching the excellence of medicine Chymical, and magnitude of the Microcosm;
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius", describing various remedies and recipes of Medicine;
- The third one, separate pagination, is finally a Traict signatures, or true and deep anatomy of the great and little world. This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.
Edition with engraved title page.

Photo STAHL, Ernst Georg. 

STAHL, Ernst Georg. 

Opusculum chymico-physico-medicum, seu schediasmatum a pluribus annis variis occasionibus in publicum emissorum nunc. 

Halle, Orphantrophei, 1715.
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2000 €

First edition.
Important work for the history of chemistry in which Stahl sets out his theories on zymotechnics which in fact lay the foundations of phlogiston, a chemical theory which will dominate the entire 18th century until Lavoisier.

Photo LE FEBVRE, Nicolas. 

LE FEBVRE, Nicolas. 

Traicté de la Chymie. 

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1660.
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2500 €

First edition.
Nicolas Lefèvre [id is Le Febvre] was a chemistry teacher at the Jardin des Plantes. He then became a member of the Royal Academy in London, a city to which he had come at the request of King Charles II of England.
A skilful chemist, people in the art praise the exactness with which he describes the operations and reports their results. It also indicates the means of recognizing fraud in pharmaceutical preparations.
A great admirer of Paracelsus, he claimed to have discovered, like him, a secret for restoring or maintaining all the vigor of youth in advanced age.
His chemistry course was a great success, went through several editions and was translated into several languages.

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