Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 337
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BOERHAAVE, HERMANN. A New Method of Chemistry; including the Theory and Practice of that Art. 2 engraved plates. xvi, 383, [1]; 160, 161-188, 161-335, [45] pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary calf, quite worn, front joint reinforced, rear joint cracked, cords intact; some marginal soiling, dampstaining, and spotting, scattered early marginalia and ink smudges, doodles on blank verso of last index leaf. O. O. Fisher bookplate. London: J. Osborn & T. Longman, 1727

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first edition in english of the 1724 Institutiones et experimenta chemiae, an unauthorized edition of Boerhaave's chemistry lectures. Lindeboom 449.