Friday, November 26, 2010

Nouvelle chymie raisonnée. 1693. Ettmuller.
First French edition

ETTMULLER, Michel.  Nouvelle chymie raisonnée. 

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1693.

650 €

12mo (6,1x3,1 inches) of (12) leaves, 443 pages, (30) leaves index.  binding: Contemporary full brown calf. Spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt.  Corners and ends of spine worn.

First French edition (originally published in Latin in 1684) of this rare work.
Ettmuller it exposes, among other things, with extraordinary clarity the history of antimonial preparations. (Hoefer).

references: Duveen [197], Dorbon [5758].

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