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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.

[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).

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.

[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.

[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.

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).

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.

DEMACHY, Jean François.

Examen physique et chimique d'une eau minérale trouvée chez M. de Calsabigi à Passy; comparée aux eaux du même côteau, connues sous le nom des nouvelles eaux minérales de Madame Belami.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1756].

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250 €

First edition.

Rare brochure that follows the analyzes of Rouelle and Cadet on the waters of Passy. The purpose of this study is to show that the water found in Mrs. Belami, neighbor of the Calasabigi is at least as good.

[CAYAUX ou CAILLOT].

Lettre sur les nouveaux bains médicinaux.

Paris, Veuve Quillau, 1752.

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250 €

First edition.
Curious work promoting Guérin's machine intended to produce steam for the Baths. The steam generator is inspired by Denis Papin's machine and coupled with different ovens either for the whole body or for the seat alone.
The novelty lies in the possibility of regulating vapors and showers precisely.

CHAMBON, Joseph.

Principes de physique, rapportés à la médecine-pratique
[qui comprend le]
Traité des métaux et des minéraux, et des remèdes qu'on peut en tirer. Avec dissertations sur le sel & le soufre des philosophes, & sur la goute, la gravelle, la petite vérole, la rougeole & autres maladies : avec un grand nombre de remèdes choisis.

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750.

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450 €

Rare edition. The second volume contain the Traité des métaux et des minéraux (1750).

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.

BERKELEY, George.

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1745.

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150 €

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

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 ..).

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).

[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.

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.

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.

ETTMULLER, Michel.

Nouvelle Chymie raisonnée.

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1693.

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400 €

First french edition.
Professor of botany and surgery at the University of Leipzig, Ferguson [I,251] reports that Ettmuller died on March 9, 1683 as a result of an unfortunate chemistry experiment.

BERTRAND, Gabriel.

Réflexions nouvelles sur l'acide et sur l'alcali où après avoir démontré que ces deux sels ne peuvent pas être les principes des mixtes, on fait voir le véritable usage qu'on en peut faire dans la physique & dans la médecine.

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1683.

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450 €

Scarce first edition.

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae
[Relié à la suite : ]
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.

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.

LEMERY, Nicolas.

Cours de Chymie.

Paris, Chez l'autheur, 1677.

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950 €

The rare second edition.

HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van.

Les Oeuvres de Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Traittant des Principes de Médecine et Physique pour la guerison assurée des Maladies : de la traduction de M. Jean le Conte.

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1670.

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850 €

First edition in french of th works of Helmont, and first issue with the date 1670.

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.

GLASER, Christophle.

Traité de la Chymie.

Paris, chez l'autheur, 1663.

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1200 €

The rare first edition, first issue.
Christophe Glaser (1629-1672?) Is a Swiss doctor and pharmacist who became ordinary apothecary of King Louis XIV. Nicolas Lemery will be trained at Glaser but quickly leaves him not supporting his almost esoteric teaching.
Glaser crosses the history in the poison case. It is most probably in her pharmacy that the Marquise de Brinvilliers obtained the vials of poison. According to his testimony Glaser was sent to Italy by Fouquet to learn the secrets of Italian poisons.
Caillet attributes this book to Moyse Charas, who indeed mentions in the preface to his Thériaque that he published a Treatise on Chemistry under the name of Glaser.

We find in this book, curious preparations such as human skull oil or the distillation of viper flesh.

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.

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).

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius).

La royalle Chymie de Crollius, suivi du traicté des signatures, ou vraye et vive anatomie du grand & petit monde.

Rouen, David du Petit Val, 1634.

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1200 €

Rare French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first offers a admonitoire Preface, containing the very deep mysteries & Philosophy rarest of both natural grace, reaching the excellence of medicine Chymical, and magnitude of the Microcosm;
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius", describing various remedies and recipes of Medicine;
- The third one, separate pagination, is finally a Traict signatures, or true and deep anatomy of the great and little world. This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius).

La royalle Chymie de Crollius,
traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene.

Lyon, Pierre Drobet, 1627.

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1750 €

Second French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first offers a admonitoire Preface, containing the very deep mysteries & Philosophy rarest of both natural grace, reaching the excellence of medicine Chymical, and magnitude of the Microcosm;
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius", describing various remedies and recipes of Medicine;
- The third one, separate pagination, is finally a Traict signatures, or true and deep anatomy of the great and little world. This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.
Edition with engraved title page.

BACCI, Andrea.

De thermis libri septem. In quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque earum differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis.

Venise, Felicem Valgrisum, 1588.

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550 €

Second enlarged edition.

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Chemistry

TRECOURT, M.

Apologie des eaux minérales de Saint-Amand.

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.

[MONNET, Antoine Grimoald].

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

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).

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

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

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph].

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

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph].

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

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.

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT.

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

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).

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.

DEMACHY, Jean François.

Examen physique et chimique d'une eau minérale trouvée chez M. de Calsabigi à Passy; comparée aux eaux du même côteau, connues sous le nom des nouvelles eaux minérales de Madame Belami.

First edition. Rare brochure that follows the analyzes of Rouelle and Cadet on the waters of Passy. The purpose of this study is to show that the water found in Mrs. Belami, neighbor of the Calasabigi is at least as good.

[CAYAUX ou CAILLOT].

Lettre sur les nouveaux bains médicinaux.

CHAMBON, Joseph.

Rare edition. The second volume contain the Traité des métaux et des minéraux (1750).

MACQUER, Pierre Joseph.

Elémens de chymie théorique.

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

BERKELEY, George.

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron.

First edition in French. One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop. Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

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.

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 ..).

STAHL, Georg Ernst.

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

[SECRETS].

Secrets concernant les arts et métiers.

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.

STAHL, Ernst Georg.

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

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.

LEMERY, Nicolas.

Traité de l'Antimoine.

ETTMULLER, Michel.

Nouvelle Chymie raisonnée.

First french edition.Professor of botany and surgery at the University of Leipzig, Ferguson [I,251] reports that Ettmuller died on March 9, 1683 as a result of an unfortunate chemistry experiment.

BERTRAND, Gabriel.

Réflexions nouvelles sur l'acide et sur l'alcali où après avoir démontré que ces deux sels ne peuvent pas être les principes des mixtes, on fait voir le véritable usage qu'on en peut faire dans la physique & dans la médecine.

Scarce first edition.

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae [Relié à la suite : ] Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680.

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae.

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.

LEMERY, Nicolas.

Cours de Chymie.

The rare second edition.

HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van.

Les Oeuvres de Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Traittant des Principes de Médecine et Physique pour la guerison assurée des Maladies : de la traduction de M. Jean le Conte.

First edition in french of th works of Helmont, and first issue with the date 1670.

LE GIVRE, Pierre.

Le Secret des eaux minérales acides.

GLASER, Christophle.

Traité de la Chymie.

LE FEBVRE, Nicolas.

Traicté de la Chymie.

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.

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).

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius).

La royalle Chymie de Crollius, suivi du traicté des signatures, ou vraye et vive anatomie du grand & petit monde.

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius).

La royalle Chymie de Crollius, traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene.

BACCI, Andrea.

De thermis libri septem. In quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque earum differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis.

Second enlarged edition.

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.

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).

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.

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).

First edition.

Rare brochure that follows the analyzes of Rouelle and Cadet on the waters of Passy. The purpose of this study is to show that the water found in Mrs. Belami, neighbor of the Calasabigi is at least as good.

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

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

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 ..).

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.

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.

First french edition.
Professor of botany and surgery at the University of Leipzig, Ferguson [I,251] reports that Ettmuller died on March 9, 1683 as a result of an unfortunate chemistry experiment.

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae
[Relié à la suite : ]
Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680.

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.

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).

La royalle Chymie de Crollius,
traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene.