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Photo VIGENERE, Blaise de. 

VIGENERE, Blaise de. 

Traicté du feu et du sel. Excellent et rare opuscule du Sieur Blaise de Vigenère, Bourbonnois, trouvé parmy ses papiers après son décès. 

Rouen, Jacques Cailloué, 1642.
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3500 €

Copy of the 1618 edition.
This classical alchimical treatise contains an interesting passage in which VigenEre described the discovery of the crystalline benzoic acid, obtained by the sublimation of gum benzoin (Partington).

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TROOST, L. 

Précis de chimie. 

Paris, Victor Masson et fils, 1868.
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40 €
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TRECOURT, M. 

Apologie des eaux minérales de Saint-Amand. 

Cambrai, Samuel Berthoud, 1775.
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95 €

First edition.
Book written in response to a work published under the title of Instruction on the use of mineral waters, in which one had sought to depress the reputation of the waters of Saint-Amand.

Photo SUSSDORFF, Guillaume. 

SUSSDORFF, Guillaume. 

Contribution à l'étude de l'acide nicotique et de quelques-uns de ses dérivés. 

Genève, W. Kündig & Fils, 1897.
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450 €

First edition.
Author's copy, finely bound.
Doctoral thesis presented at the University of Geneva in 1896 on work carried out under the direction of Amé Pictet and Carl Graebe.
The chemistry of nicotine derivatives would find its application many years later in biochemistry and medicine. We now know the name of nicotic acid under the common name of Vitamin B3.

Photo STAHL, Georg Ernst. 

STAHL, Georg Ernst. 

Experimenta, Observationes, Animadversiones, CCC Numero Chymicae et Physicae. 

Berlin, Haude, 1731.
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750 €

First edition.
"An important work in 301 sections in wihch Stahl comments critically on a wide variety of chemical and physical phenomena and experiments. There is a long discussion on phlogiston and its supposed properties (section 38, pp.55-64)... This work, published just three years before he died, is interresting because it summarizes Stahl's theories toward the end of his life" (Neville).

Photo STAHL, Ernst Georg. 

STAHL, Ernst Georg. 

Opusculum chymico-physico-medicum, seu schediasmatum a pluribus annis variis occasionibus in publicum emissorum nunc. 

Halle, Orphantrophei, 1715.
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2000 €

First edition.
Important work for the history of chemistry in which Stahl sets out his theories on zymotechnics which in fact lay the foundations of phlogiston, a chemical theory which will dominate the entire 18th century until Lavoisier.

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[SECRETS]. 

Secrets concernant les arts et métiers. 

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1716.
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350 €

First edition.
This book contains many craft secrets for the decorative arts with the recipes of varnishes, ink, dyes useful to painters, engravers, jewelers, cabinetmakers, perfumers ... A real treasure for the restorers of objects of the eighteenth century.

Photo SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae. 

Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1678.
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350 €

First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century.

Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

Photo SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae
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Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680. 

Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1678.
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1350 €

Bound together, two rare works by Gottfried Schultz (1643-1698) based on the work of Johann Michaelis (1606-1667).

1. First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century.

2. First edition.
Work devoted to the preparation and use of cinnabar (mercury sulphide) in the pharmacopoeia. The author discusses the different forms of cinnabar, natural cinnabar, cinnabar of antimony, ...
It is Paracelsus who first popularizes the use of cinnabar in medicine with its antimony oil.
At the end we find an appendage devoted to magnetic plaster.

Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

Photo SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

De la Fonte des Mines, des Fonderies, &tc. 

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1764-1753.
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750 €

French edition (first for vol. 2 and second for vol. 1 in uniform binding).
The most important eighteenth-century book on mining, or refining, metallurgical chemistry, smelting, and essaying. (Neville).

Photo ROSSIGNOL, Marcel. 

ROSSIGNOL, Marcel. 

Contribution à l'étude de la fabrication de l'acide sulfurique par le procédé des chambres. 

Bruxelles, Veuve Monnom, 1922.
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50 €
Photo ROBIN, Charles-Philippe || VERDEIL, François. 

ROBIN, Charles-Philippe || VERDEIL, François. 

Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique normale et pathologique ou des principes immédiats normaux et morbides qui constituent le corps de l'homme et des mammifères. 

Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1853.
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Charles-Philippe Robin (1821-1885), was a doctor, a botanist, and a French physiologist.
This book is the result of his research, which aimed to analyze the different components of human tissues and those of animals. The atlas illustrates more than 1000 crystals observed under the microscope and which are parts of the tissues studied. Out of 26 plates of the atlas are watercolored by hand.

Photo REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

REYNIER, Jean-Louis-Antoine. 

Du Feu et de quelques-uns de ses principaux effets. 

Lausanne, Mourer, 1787.
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600 €

First edition.
Reynier makes "fire" in this work, an essential constituent of the material which ensures its cohesion.
His theory announces, following Lavoisier, the replacement of the phlogiston theory by the caloric theory.
Our modern gaze would find that by replacing “fire” with “energy”, Reynier demonstrates many interesting intuitions here. As such it is often cited by Bachelard in his “Psychoanalysis of Fire”.

Photo REUMONT, Gerhard || MONHEIM, Johann Peter Joseph. 

REUMONT, Gerhard || MONHEIM, Johann Peter Joseph. 

Analyse des eaux sulfureuses d'Aix-La-Chapelle. 

Aix La Chapelle, J.G. Beaufort, 1810.
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90 €

First edition signed by the author Gerhard Reumont (1765-1828).

German doctor, Reumont works in Aachen from 1793. In 1804, he works on the thermal journey of Impératrice Joséphine. Then by order of Napoléon he becomes "thermal waters inspector" .

Aix was part of the French Empire until 1814, and the spa being frequented by the imperial couple, Reumont and Monheim published their study in French.

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REGNAULT, Victor. 

Premiers éléments de chimie. 

Paris, Victor Masson / Garnier Frères, 1873.
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40 €

Sixth edition.

Photo RAULIN, Joseph || COSTEL, Jean-Baptiste-Louis. 

RAULIN, Joseph || COSTEL, Jean-Baptiste-Louis. 

Observations sur l'usage des eaux minérales de Pougues avec l'analyse chimique des mêmes eaux. 

Paris, Edme, 1769.
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250 €

First edition.
Joseph Raulin (1708-1784) doctor, who is also known for his work on obstetrics was commissioner and general inspector of mineral waters. He will notably publish a very beautiful work listing French mineral waters.
Here his recommendations for Pougues mineral waters. The mineral water of Pougues-les-eaux was sold continuously from 1768 to 1971 and made the fortune of this small village in the Nièvre.
Following is the chemical analysis performed by Costel, Master apothecary of Paris.

Photo PILHES, Jean-François. 

PILHES, Jean-François. 

Traité analytique et pratique des eaux thermales d'Ax et d'Ussat, avec la description des bains, des douches et des fontaines. 

Pamiers, André Larroire, 1787.
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90 €

Rare first edition of this work of Jean-François Pilhes (1746-1832) doctor in Pamiers about analysis of thermal waters from Ax and Ussat in the french Pyrenean moutains.

Photo PAYEN, Anselme. 

PAYEN, Anselme. 

Précis de chimie industrielle à l'usage des écoles préparatoires aux professions industrielles et des fabricants. 

Paris, L. Hachette et Cie, 1849.
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75 €

First edition.
Anselme Payen (1795-1871) was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose.

Photo [MONNET, Antoine Grimoald]. 

[MONNET, Antoine Grimoald]. 

Nouvelle hydrologie, ou nouvelle exposition de la nature et de la qualité des eaux. 

Paris, P.Fr. Didot, 1772.
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950 €

First edition.
Work on the chemical analysis of sea water collected on the French coasts.
A complete copy with the leaf A1 missing from almost all copies (Duveen doubt of is existence).

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MALRIEU. 

Mémoire sur les eaux minérales chaudes ou thermales de Sylvanés, & sur les eaux minérales froids de Camarés. 

Toulouse, Veuve de J.P. Robert, 1776.
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350 €

First edition.
Rare brochure on the ferruginous waters of Sylvanès and Camarès two small towns in the south of Aveyron.

Photo MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques. 

MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques. 

Traité de Chimie contenant la manière de préparer les remèdes qui sont les plus en usage dans la Pratique de la Médecine. 

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1734.
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300 €

First edition.
Paul-Jacques Malouin (1701-1778) is a French chemist and doctor. This chemistry treatise is intended for the use of doctors and pharmacists, it mainly offers preparations based on metals (mercury, antimony ..) and salts (tartar, ammonia ..).

Photo [MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1766.
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800 €

Second (first pirated) edition.
A pirated reprint of the first edition, printed from type that has been reset and in which there are small but significant changes (Neville).

The most important work from Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) which will remain for years a reference for chemists of the 18th century.
It is also the first alphabetical dictionary of chemistry.

Photo [MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1766.
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1250 €

First edition, state A.
The most important work from Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) which will remain for years a reference for chemists of the 18th century.
It is also the first alphabetical dictionary of chemistry.

Photo MACQUER, Pierre Joseph. 

MACQUER, Pierre Joseph. 

Elémens de chymie théorique. 

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1749.
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400 €

First edition.
This book is one of the most influential treatises of the mid-18th century.

Photo LÜDERT, Hugo. 

LÜDERT, Hugo. 

Über hexametaphosphorsaure Salze. Inaugural-Dissertation. 

Hamburg, Voss, 1893.
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120 €

First edition of this thesis on chemistry
With 17 other inaugural dissertation for obtaining doctorate.(1929-1949. All in German, from Leontyna Mamlok, Peter Leiser, Georg Läufer, August Grüne, Max Heilmann, Oskar Riester, Bernhard Cyriac, Johann Porges, Hans, Rikli, Kurt Tauss, Johann Porges, Hans Rikli, Walter Jenny, Muvaffak Seyhan, Wilhelm L. Steven, Baboo Mehta, Eduard J. Schubert, Gustav Renckhoff, R. Wisinger.

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Traité de l'Antimoine. 

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1707.
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1200 €

First edition.
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.

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Cours de Chymie. 

Paris, Chez l'autheur, 1677.
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950 €

The rare second edition.

Photo LEMERY (Nicolas) augmenté par BARON. 

LEMERY (Nicolas) augmenté par BARON. 

Cours de chymie contenant la manière de faire les opérations qui sont en usage dans la Médecine par une Méthode facile. Avec des raisonnemens sur chaque Opération, pour l'Instruction de ceux qui veulent s'appliquer à cette science. Nouvelle édition Revue, corrigée & augmentée. 

Paris, Laurent-Charles d'Houry, 1757.
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700 €

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. Lemery did not concern himself much with theoretical speculations, but holding chemistry to be a demonstrative science, confined himself to the straightforward exposition of facts and experiments. In consequence, his lecture-room was thronged with people of all sorts, anxious to hear a man who shunned the barren obscurities of the alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life as the sole end of his science. Of his Cours de chymie (1675) he lived to see 13 editions, and for a century it maintained its reputation as a standard work.
The 1756's edition (the first one in 4to) is considered by Dorbon and P.Larousse as the best one. The only difference with our edition (1757) is the title engraving which is without the artist signature.

Photo LE GIVRE, Pierre. 

LE GIVRE, Pierre. 

Le Secret des eaux minérales acides. 

Paris, Jean Ribou, 1667.
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450 €

First edition.
A rare work by Pierre Le Givre (1618-1684) French doctor who had made a specialty of the study of mineral waters.
The book is particularly interested in the water of Provins, the author attempts an analysis of its composition and publishes several letters from his opponents to which he responds.

Photo LE FEBVRE, Nicolas. 

LE FEBVRE, Nicolas. 

Traicté de la Chymie. 

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1660.
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2500 €

First edition.
Nicolas Lefèvre [id is Le Febvre] was a chemistry teacher at the Jardin des Plantes. He then became a member of the Royal Academy in London, a city to which he had come at the request of King Charles II of England.
A skilful chemist, people in the art praise the exactness with which he describes the operations and reports their results. It also indicates the means of recognizing fraud in pharmaceutical preparations.
A great admirer of Paracelsus, he claimed to have discovered, like him, a secret for restoring or maintaining all the vigor of youth in advanced age.
His chemistry course was a great success, went through several editions and was translated into several languages.

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