LEMERY Nicolas Cours de Chymie… Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée par Baron.

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Paris, Hérissant, 1756

4to (251 x 190 mm) 2 nn.l., XXIII, 945 pp., 9 engraved folding plates. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands.

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Duveen p.349; Ferguson II,22.

Lémery was the first to condemn “the alchemistic mysteries which still cluttered Chemistry” (Duveen).

In the mid-eighteenth century, his Cours de Chymie was still the reference text before the advent of modern chemistry.

Good copy.

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