Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362
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Sale 2362 - Lot 158

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DUCHESNE [or QUERCETANUS], JOSEPH. Ad Jacobi Auberti . . . de ortu et causis metallorum contra chymicos explicationem . . . brevis responsio. [16], 186, [13] pages. 8vo, 156x95 mm, 17th-century calf gilt, spine varnished; contents browned, early underscoring and cropped marginalia, free endpapers lacking, armorial bookplate torn. Lyon: Jean Lertot, 1575
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first edition of a defense of Paracelsian iatrochemistry written in response to an anti-Paracelsian work on the formation of metals and the use of metallic medicines published the same year by Jacques Aubert. Durling 1289; Neville I, 387 and 48.