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WETENSCHAPPEN 17DE-19DE EEUW ~ SCIENCES XVII
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~ The most complete collection of alchemical texts ever published ~
997 [Alchemy - chemistry]
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MANGET, Jean Jacques
- Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, seu Rerum ad
alchemiam pertinentium thesaurus instructissimus (...) artis auriferae (...) tractatus omnes. Geneva,
Chouet e.a., 1702, 2 vol., folio, mod. vellum, gilt spines on 6 raised bands, red leather labels, [20]-
938, [4]-904 pp. (brown. throughout, engr. of pl. 4 in vol. II cut out and pasted on). Good copy
(usual spotting).
Cfr. ill.
€ 2000/3000
Very rare famous collected ed. by the Swiss physician in Brandenburg service, J.J. Manget (1652-
1742). Geneva issue (another issue with “Coloniae Allobrogum” in the imprint). “The most
complete collection of alchemical texts ever published, containing 140 treatises (...). For the
historian of chemistry this is the most important and indispensable work” (Duveen).
Engr. ills
:
full-page
portrait
by J.G. Sciller after Guillibaud and
30 full-page pl.
(complete: n. 1-15 + 1,
I-XIV). The last text is titled “Mutus liber” and consists of 15 beautiful pl. of hieroglyphic figures
explaining the Hermetic philosophy. General title in red and black. Woodcut mark on titles. Printed
in 2 cols. Ownership entries crossed out on titles.
Ref.
Duveen 387 (= Ferguson II:68). Blake 285.
Caillet 7071. Wellcome IV:42.
998 [Astronomy]
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LA LANDE, Jérôme de
- Exposition du calcul astronomique. Paris, Imprimerie
Royale, 1762, in-12, demi-basane à coins de l’époque (coins frottés à émoussés, papier des plats
lég. frotté), dos orné doré à 5 nerfs (mors inf. part. fendu, coiffes défect.), tr. jaspées, [4]-280-[4] pp.
(cahier N davantage bruni, qqs lég. mouill. marg. ou en fond de cahier). Bon ex.
€ 600/800
Edit. orig.
peu courante d’un ouvr. de l’astronome français J. de La Lande (1732-1807), réputé tant
pour ses recherches dans le domaine de la mécanique céleste (parallaxes de la lune, du soleil...)
que pour son important travail de vulgarisation scientifique. Ex. complet des
3 planches dépliantes
(“Noms des taches de la lune” et 2 pl. pour le calcul des longitudes en mer). Qqs annotations
marginales anciennes.
Ref.
Conlon 62:1013 (= BL, BnF, NUC).
999 [Botany - nature printing]
- [
Nature printed ferns, leaves of trees and plants
] [= title on spine].
[England, 19th c.], large folio, c. 43 x 27,5 cm, 13 blank ff. + 189 nature prints on facing ff. (=
both sides of lvs, only 1 side for the 1st print) + 15 blank ff. (occ. minor spotting), 19th-c. green
half morocco by
Townsend
, gilt titled spine on 5 raised bands, a.e.g., marbl. endpapers. Nice copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 6000/7000
999