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MANGET, JEAN JACQUES. Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, seu Rerum ad Alchemiam pertinentium Thesaurus Instructissimus. Geneva: Chouet, G. de Tournes, et al., 1702. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 engraved plates and some woodcuts and engravings in text. 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, spines gilt, one spine head chipped, some wear to joints and edges, cover finish abraded in some areas; some browning and staining throughout. FIRST EDITION. Duveen, p. 387; Ferguson II:68; Mellon 147; see Honeyman V, 2128.
"The most complete collection of alchemical texts ever published, containing 140 treatises...For the historian of chemistry this is a most important and indispensable work"--Duveen. (2)
"The most complete collection of alchemical texts ever published, containing 140 treatises...For the historian of chemistry this is a most important and indispensable work"--Duveen. (2)