COURS DE CHYMIE (7TH EDITION, FRENCH TEXT) by Nicolas Lemery

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COURS DE CHYMIE (7TH EDITION, FRENCH TEXT) by Nicolas Lemery

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Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1688

12mo, xiv + 655pp. Original full leather hardcover binding, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and tooling to spine, speckled edges. With 3 woodcut illustrations of laboratory equipment.

Nicolas Lémery (1645-1715), French chemist, was born at Rouen. He was one of the first to develop theories on acid-base chemistry. 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. (wikipedia.com)

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Condition: Fair-good. Some rubbing, edgewear and bowing to boards, and small section of leather binding missing from bottom edge of rear board. Open tears to rear hinge, and one small closed tear to front hinge. Small open tear to tail of spine. Previous owner’s signature to front pastedown scratched out. Wrinkling to pages. Some pages have small instances of worming to the edges. Last signature of leaves are coming loose from binding. Light foxing throughout, and some pages have small stains. Text is overall clean, and copy is tightly bound.