GLAUBER JOHANN RUDOLPH The Works 1689

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GLAUBER, JOHANN RUDOLPH. The Works . . . Containing, Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy, in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals. 7 engraved and 4 woodcut plates of chemical apparatus and processes. [12], 440; [4], 220; 92, [12] pages. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 354x252 mm, contemporary calf with later gilt stamp of Camperdown Library on front cover, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; dampstaining in upper inner corners through first quarter of volume and in lower margin of index leaves, with restoration in upper inner corner of preliminaries not affecting text, corner off last leaf of preface affecting several words, blank corner off a couple of plates. London: Thomas Milbourn et al., 1689

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first collected edition in english. "Glauber has justly been called the best practical chemist of his day and the first industrial chemist. His instructions for the improvement of laboratory technique were instrumental in preparing the way for the chemical revolution of the next century. In his own estimation, however, the final goal of his labors was the perfection of the material world, capped by the preparation of the philosophers' stone"--DSB V, 422-23. Duveen, page 260; Partington II, 341-61; Wing G845.