Paris, Michallet, 1679.
12mo (155x87 mm), (16)-262-(2) pages. (frontispiece and plate are missing). binding : Contemporary full brown calf, spine with six compartments. Corners bumped, tailcap worn. The first flyleaf is missing. Title page scratched. Pages 217-217 cropped in outer margin.
references: Duveen [269 pour l'eo anglaise: "This seems to be a rare and important books, which entitles Grew to a place in the history of the development of the atomic theory."] Duveen [499 :"First french edition. Very rare collection of chemical treatise by N. Grew ("Sur le combat qui arrive du mélange de diverses liqueurs avec toutes sortes de corps", on pp.1-124) , Robert Boyle ("Sur les saveurs et sur les odeurs", the first french translation of "Mechanical qualities: Tastes and Odours", on pp.125-220), and Leeuwenhoeck ("Observations sur le sang et sur le lait" on pp. 223-262). The translator was L. Le Vasseur.] Ferguson [II,247].
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