Lieutaud. Précis de matière médicale. Heirs [864, ed. 1777 : "comprehensive work on pharmacology"]

Lieutaud. Précis de matière médicale.

Heirs [864, ed. 1777 : "comprehensive work on pharmacology"]

LIEUTAUD, Joseph. 

Précis de matière médicale, contenant ce qu'il importe de savoir sur la nature, les propriétés & les doses des médicaments, tant simples qu'officinaux; avec un grand nombre de formules. 

Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1781.

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Two 8vo (193x125 mm), xxiv-684 / (4)-592 pages. 
binding: Contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt in six compartments, title and volume number in gilt on lettering-pieces, red edges, marbled endpapers. 
Some staining and foxing. Caps and corners worn.

New edition corrected by the author.

"This long, comprehensive work on pharmacology was widely used by Lieutaud's contemporaries and it went through at least four editions" (Heirs).

references: Heirs [864, ed. 1777 : "comprehensive work on pharmacology"].

provenance: Leclerc (ownership inscription on title).

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Les souvenirs prophétiques d'une sibylle. 1814

Les souvenirs prophétiques d'une sibylle. 1814

LE NORMAND, Mlle M.A. 

Les souvenirs prophétiques d'une sibylle, sur les causes secrètes de son arrestation le 11 décembre 1809. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1814.

280 €

8vo (195x121 mm), (4)-ix-(1)-592-(4) pages and one plate. 
binding: Contemporary full tree sheep, gilt border on covers, gilt flat spine, title in gilt on lettering-piece. 
Some staining. Caps and corners worn.

First edition.

references: Caillet [II, 6517], Dorbon [2640].

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Le parnasse assiégé. 1697

Le parnasse assiégé. 1697

[ALARY, François]. 

Parnasse Assiégé (Le) ou la Guerre Declarée entre les Philosophes Anciens & Modernes. 

Lyon, Antoine Boudet, 1697.

1500 €

12mo (142x78 mm), (14)-140-(8) pages. 
binding: Contemporary full brown calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece. 
Headcap a little chipped, corners bumped.

First edtion.

It is only recently that the author of this rare treatise has been identified through the work of Didier Kahn. François Alary is also the author of the famous Texte d'Alchymie, et le songe-verd.

"It is a very curious effusion in which the author attemps to prove the reality of the Hermetic Science and the correctness of the views of Paracelsus" (Duveen).

references: Didier Kahn [Alchimie et paracelsisme en France. Droz. p. 498], Caillet [III, 8341], Guaita [802], Duveen [p. 458].

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La physique des arbres. Duhamel du Monceau. 1758. First edition

La physique des arbres. Duhamel du Monceau. 1758. First edition

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU. 

La physique des arbres où il est traité de l'anatomie des plantes et de l'économie végétale. 

Paris, Guerin et Delatour, 1758.

1750 €

Two 4to (256x196 mm), (6)-lxviii-307 and 28 plates/ (4)-iii-(1)-432 pages and 22 plates. 
binding: Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title and volume number in gilt on lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers. 
Lack on margin of page 91, 3 corners folded. Covers rubbed, very small wormholes in joints, head cap of part II a little chipped.

First edition of this work on the structure of the different parts of trees.

Fine and fresh copy.

references: Pritzel [2468].

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Lemery. Traité de l'antimoine. 1707

Lemery. Traité de l'antimoine. 1707

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Traité de l'antimoine. 

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1707.

1500 €

12mo (160x98 mm), (28)-620-(24) pages. 
binding: Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece. 
Small tear without lack page 323. Light foxing, very smal wormhole on margin of last leave. Head cap with fine repair.

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.

Very good copy of this scarce first edition of his "Traité de l'antimoine".

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"].

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