ROTHE, Gottfried. Introduction a la Chymie, accompagnée de deux traitez, l'un sur le Sel des Métaux, & l'autre sur le Souphre Anodyn du Vitriol. Avec une analyse raisonnée de l'Antimoine. 1741.

First french edition.
Rothe was a pupil of Stal's, and graduated in medicine at Leipzig University, He died at the early age of thirty-one.
This work on chemistry, first posthumously published in 1717, was one of the best and clearest manuals of its time (Fergusson).
The greatly enlarged, definitive French edition of this important work, containing translations by Clausier of the main text (viz. Antleitung zur Chymie), supplement (Anhang) on metallic salts, and another work by Rothe on the anodyne sulphur of vitriol. In addition there are translations of two works on antomony and its compounds by the Dresden chemist E.P. Meuder, as listed in the title. The book ends with a supplement on Quelques nouvelles préparations du ... médicinal, describing antimonial medicines (pp.499-503).
Meuder was the first to prove that the mineral stibnite is a compound of metallic antimony and sulphur. (Partington II, 198).