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LIBAVIUS, Andreas (d.1616). Rerum chymicarum episolica forma ad philosophos et medicos quosdam in Germania. Frankfurt: Johannes Saurius for Petrus Kopfius, 1595.
2 parts in one volume, 8o (166 x 97 mm). Woodcut printer's device on titles. Contemporary yapp-edged vellum (lacking ties).
FIRST EDITION of one of Libavius's early works on chemistry, written in the form of letter-lectures to various prominent chemists. Libavius's important Alchymia was published the same year. Ferguson I:32-33.
2 parts in one volume, 8o (166 x 97 mm). Woodcut printer's device on titles. Contemporary yapp-edged vellum (lacking ties).
FIRST EDITION of one of Libavius's early works on chemistry, written in the form of letter-lectures to various prominent chemists. Libavius's important Alchymia was published the same year. Ferguson I:32-33.