BAUMÉ, Antoine (1728-1804). Chymie Expérimentale et Raisonné, Paris: chez P. Franç. Didot, 1773, 3 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait after Cochin, engraved title vignettes by Le Veau after J.M. Moreau, 12 folding plates of apparatus, volume III without the misprint 968 (for 698) and with the privilege, errata and catalogue of books at end (frontispiece torn at inner margin and creased, 2B1 of vol. II torn with loss, T5-8 of vol. III stained, 2F5 of same vol. slightly scorch-marked, occasional light spotting), contemporary stained sheepskin, spines gilt (some wear to joints and extremities). [Duveen p. 53: "One of the very latest and at the same time the best text books based on the phlogiston theory by one of the most distinguished eighteenth century French chemists"; Ferguson I, p. 84] (3)