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HELMONT, JOHANNES BAPTISTA VON. Ortus Medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. [Issued with:] Opuscula medica inaudita. Both Amsterdam: Ludovic Elzevier 1648.
2 works in one, small thick 4to, 198 x 153mm. (7 3/4 x 6in.), contemporary vellum over pasteboard, yapp outer board edges, remains of silk ties, spine lettered in ink, upper cover with large oval gilt stamp of Maximilian, Bishop of Lambach Abbey, covers slightly soiled, some dampstaining affecting lower outer corners sporadically through both works, tiny hole in Rr1 of first work affecting a catchword, modern brown quarter morocco box.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of the first work, edited and published posthumously by Helmont's son, Francisco Mercurio; second edition of Opuscula, first work with engraved portrait of author and editor with engraved coats of arms.
Garrison and Morton 665; Norman 1048; PMM 135.
"Helmont devoted his life to exploring the first principles of nature through chemistry. He is best remembered as the discoverer of gas [derived from the Greek 'chaos'], a term he coined to describe the 'specific smokes' that remain after the combustion of solids and fluids; among the gases he identified were carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, chlorine gas and sulphur dioxide."--Norman.
Provenance: Maximilian, Bishop of Lambach, supra-libros -- Fran. Conrad Myller -- Martin Waibel, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century signatures on title -- Unidentified library stamp on title.
2 works in one, small thick 4to, 198 x 153mm. (7 3/4 x 6in.), contemporary vellum over pasteboard, yapp outer board edges, remains of silk ties, spine lettered in ink, upper cover with large oval gilt stamp of Maximilian, Bishop of Lambach Abbey, covers slightly soiled, some dampstaining affecting lower outer corners sporadically through both works, tiny hole in Rr1 of first work affecting a catchword, modern brown quarter morocco box.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of the first work, edited and published posthumously by Helmont's son, Francisco Mercurio; second edition of Opuscula, first work with engraved portrait of author and editor with engraved coats of arms.
Garrison and Morton 665; Norman 1048; PMM 135.
"Helmont devoted his life to exploring the first principles of nature through chemistry. He is best remembered as the discoverer of gas [derived from the Greek 'chaos'], a term he coined to describe the 'specific smokes' that remain after the combustion of solids and fluids; among the gases he identified were carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, chlorine gas and sulphur dioxide."--Norman.
Provenance: Maximilian, Bishop of Lambach, supra-libros -- Fran. Conrad Myller -- Martin Waibel, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century signatures on title -- Unidentified library stamp on title.