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4to (251 x 190 mm) 2 nn.l., XXIII, 945 pp., 9 engraved folding plates. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands.
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Duveen p.349; Ferguson II,22.
Lémery was the first to condemn “the alchemistic mysteries which still cluttered Chemistry” (Duveen).
In the mid-eighteenth century, his Cours de Chymie was still the reference text before the advent of modern chemistry.
Good copy.