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"].
