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BOREL, Pierre (c. 1620-1671). Bibliotheca chimica. Seu catalogus librorum philosophicorum hermeticorum. Paris: Charles du Mesnil and Thomas Jolly, 1654.
12° (130 x 78mm). Woodcut headpieces. (A4 with marginal paper flaw touching a letter.) Contemporary vellum, later spine label (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Abbatia Clunecensis (ownership inscription on title) — bookseller’s ticket.
FIRST EDITION of the first bibliography of chemistry and of the earliest alchemical works. Borel studied at Montpellier and began a practice at Castres in 1641. In 1653 he went to Paris and within a year was appointed physician to the king. A year after he published his Bibliotheca chimica, he published the first bibliography of the telescope. Ferguson I, 116.
12° (130 x 78mm). Woodcut headpieces. (A4 with marginal paper flaw touching a letter.) Contemporary vellum, later spine label (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Abbatia Clunecensis (ownership inscription on title) — bookseller’s ticket.
FIRST EDITION of the first bibliography of chemistry and of the earliest alchemical works. Borel studied at Montpellier and began a practice at Castres in 1641. In 1653 he went to Paris and within a year was appointed physician to the king. A year after he published his Bibliotheca chimica, he published the first bibliography of the telescope. Ferguson I, 116.
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