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JEAN-JACQUES MANGET (1652-1742)
Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, Seu Rerum ad Alchemiam Pertinentium Thesaurus Instructissimus. Geneva: Chouet, G. de Tournes, Cramer, Perachon, Ritter and S. de Tournes, 1702. 2 volumes, 2° (354 x 214mm). Half-title, engraved portrait, title of volume I printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, 30 engraved plates, woodcut initials and headpieces, engraved and woodcut illustrations, with an advertisement leaf at beginning of volume II. (Portrait frayed in gutter and slightly soiled, small tear in Xx1 in volume II, Ccc3-4 bound upside down, last two leaves becoming detached, some browning and staining.) Contemporary vellum (light rubbing and staining, spine tails chipped, volume I chipped at bottom edge, corners bumped).
FIRST EDITION of ‘The most complete collection of alchemical texts ever published, containing 140 treatises... For the historian of chemistry this is a most important and indispensible work’ (Duveen). Caillet 7071; Duveen p.387; Ferguson ii, 68; Mellon 147.
Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, Seu Rerum ad Alchemiam Pertinentium Thesaurus Instructissimus. Geneva: Chouet, G. de Tournes, Cramer, Perachon, Ritter and S. de Tournes, 1702. 2 volumes, 2° (354 x 214mm). Half-title, engraved portrait, title of volume I printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, 30 engraved plates, woodcut initials and headpieces, engraved and woodcut illustrations, with an advertisement leaf at beginning of volume II. (Portrait frayed in gutter and slightly soiled, small tear in Xx1 in volume II, Ccc3-4 bound upside down, last two leaves becoming detached, some browning and staining.) Contemporary vellum (light rubbing and staining, spine tails chipped, volume I chipped at bottom edge, corners bumped).
FIRST EDITION of ‘The most complete collection of alchemical texts ever published, containing 140 treatises... For the historian of chemistry this is a most important and indispensible work’ (Duveen). Caillet 7071; Duveen p.387; Ferguson ii, 68; Mellon 147.
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