Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 231

Price Realized: $ 358
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BOERHAAVE, HERMANN. Elementa chemiae . . . editio altera, Leydensi multo correctior et accuratior. Cui etiam accessere eiusdem auctoris Opuscula omnia. 17 engraved plates of laboratory apparatus. [12], 476, [30]; [8], 346, 48 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, 250x190 mm, contemporary calf gilt, first spine chipped at top, second at bottom; marginal dampstaining through most of both volumes, worming in blank lower inner corners at end of Volume 2. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1733

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First edition of Boerhaave's chemistry textbook to include his collected short writings published to date, consisting of 8 academic orations and 4 medical papers. Lindeboom 457, 527a.