MANGET, Jean Jacques Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, seu Rerum ad alchemiam pertinentium thesaurus instructissimus (...) artis auriferae (...) tractatus omnes. 1702 Chouet [etc.], 2 vol., folio, mod. vellum, gilt spines on 6 raised bands with gilt...
Estimation :
4000 / 6000
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
labels, [20]-938, [4]-904 pp. (engr. of pl. 4 in vol. II cut out en pasted on). Good copy (usual spotting).
Famous collected ed. by the Swiss physician in Brandenburg service, J.J. Manget (1652-1742). Engr. ills : full-page portrait by J.G. Sciller after Guillibaud and 30 full-page pl. (15 + 1 in 1st vol., 14 in 2nd vol.). “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). General title in red and black. Woodcut mark on titles. Printed in 2 cols. Ownership entries on titles crossed out.
Famous collected ed. by the Swiss physician in Brandenburg service, J.J. Manget (1652-1742). Engr. ills : full-page portrait by J.G. Sciller after Guillibaud and 30 full-page pl. (15 + 1 in 1st vol., 14 in 2nd vol.). “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). General title in red and black. Woodcut mark on titles. Printed in 2 cols. Ownership entries on titles crossed out.
