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How to use a microscope View picture(s) 1 ADAMS, George. Essays on the Microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar  habits and oeconomy: an account of the various species, and singular properties, of the hydrae and vorticellae: a description of three hundred and eighty-three animalcula: with a concise catalogue of interesting objects: a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts, when under the microscope. Second edition, with considerable additions and improvements by Frederick Kanmacher, F.L.S. London, Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones, 1798. 2 vols. Large 4to. 20th-century blue half calf. With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates. XVII, (7), 724, 14, 2 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Entomology  Microscopy  Natural History  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a discussion on Chinese medicine and acapuncture View picture(s) 2 BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad. De medicinae origine et progressu dissertationes. In quibus medicinorum sectae, institutiones, decreta, hypotheses, praeceptiones, &c. Ab initio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora traduntur. Utrecht, Gysbertus Paddenburg and Guilielmus Croon, 1723. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine divided in five compartments, light brown morocco title label, red edges. Title-page printed in red and black, few woodcut illustrations in text. (16), 680 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Medicine  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Major work on subterranean physics View picture(s) 3 BECHER, Johann Joachim. Physica subterranea, profundam subterraneorum genesin è principiis hucusque ignotis, ostendens. Leipzig, Joh. Ludov. Gleditsch, 1703. 8vo. Later half vellum, speckled boards. Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece. [32], 560, [2], 561-822, [3], 836-1008, [36], [8], 304, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three ground-breaking scientific works on air by Robert Boyle, in the rare Latin translations published in the Netherlands View picture(s) 4 BOYLE, Robert. Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de VI aëris elastica & ejusdem effectibus, facta maximam partem in nova machina pneumatica. Editio postrema. Rotterdam, Arnold Leers Jr, 1669. Engraved frontispiece and 1 folding engraved plate. [24], 351, [9] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Chemistry  Great Britain  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First publication on the revolutionary discovery of extracting soda out of seasalt View picture(s) 5 DARCET, Jean, Bertrand PELLETIER & Claude-Hugues LELIEVRE. Extrait du rapport sur la fabrication de la soude. (Paris, L'imprimerie du Comité de Salut Public, after 1794). 8vo. Contemporary boards with black gilt title-label on spine. 12 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Industry  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Havana imprint on sugar View picture(s) 6 EVANS, William Eugene. Manual del hacendado azucarero ó sea arte de obtener el azucar de la caña. Traducido al castellano y dedicado a la Real Junta de Fomento. Habana, imprenta del gobierno y capitania general por s.m., 1849. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards and endpapers. With 3 folding lithographed plates (ca. 260 x 210 mm). XI, (1 blank), 271, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Chemistry  Cuba  Sugar  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three works on metallurgy and chemistry in one View picture(s) 7 FACHS, Modestin. Nunmehro zum neundten mahl herausgegebenes Probier-Büchlein. Darinnen gründlicher Bericht vermeldet wird wie man alle Metall und derselben zugehörende Metallische  Ertzte und Getöchte ein jedes auff seine Eigenschafft und Metall recht probiren soll; dessgleichen Lehr und Unterricht der rechten Probier-Ofen, Gewichten, Capellen und Flüssen. Leipzig, Johann Grosse, 1689. 4 parts. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Title printed in red and black, folding engraved plate with cross-section of an oven. (20), 185, (9); 51, (1); 173 (1); 69, (7), (2) blank pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Chemistry  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Gold  Magnetism  Medicine  Metals  Science  Silver  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first pharmacopoeia printed in Sicily View picture(s) 8 GERVASI, Nicolao (or Nicolo). Antidotarium panormitanum pharmaco-chymicum. Panormi (Palermo), Ex typographia Petri de Isula, 1670. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum, title written in ink on spine. With title in elaborately engraved borders with alchemistic utensilia and woodcut head- and tailpieces. (2), 16, 744, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Chemistry  Italy  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of this important work on procedures to desinfect air, with special attention to fumigations with a base of chlorine View picture(s) 9 GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Lous-Bernard. Traite des moyens de desinfecter l'air, de prévenir la contagion, et d'en arrêter le progrès. Paris, Bernard, 1801. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, with black morocco title label. XXXII, 306 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two Elzevier editions of important works on medicine and chemistry View picture(s) 10 HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Ortus medicinae. Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1648. With full-page engraved portrait of Helmont and his son Franciscus Mercurius, surrounded by eight coat of arms of related families. [36], 800 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Elzevier  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Johann Hollander and the philosopher’s stone View picture(s) 11 HOLLANDUS, Johannes Isaac. Opera Mineralia, sive de Lapide Philosophico, omnia, duobus libris comprehensa. Nunquam antehac edita, ac nunc primum ex optimis manu-scriptis Teutonicis exemplaribus fidelissimè in Latinum sermonem translata, à P.M.G. Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1600. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With dozens of small woodcut illustrations in the text, 2 woodcut initial letters, 1 woodcut tailpiece, cast fleurons, and roman and italic type. With the red morocco bookplate of Robert Honeyman IV. [16], 431, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare second edition of a Dutch handbook on distillation View picture(s) 12 J.K.B. Verbeterde nieuw ontdekte distilleer en stook-konst. Tweede druk. Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt. 1763. 8vo. Contemporary half roan. With engraved frontispiece of the interior of a distillery and one half-page engraving of a press in the text. 272, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Alchemy  Chemistry  Dutch  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attar of roses from Arabia View picture(s) 13 LANGLÈS, Louis. Recherches sur la découverte de l'essence de rose. Paris, de l'imprimerie impériale, An XIII (=1804). 12mo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. 47, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Chemistry  Linguistics  Perfume  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare issue with the 7 corrected leaves of Lavoisier's first major separately published work View picture(s) 14 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Opuscules physiques et chymiques. Paris, Laurent François Prault for Durand neveu (Pierre Etienne Germain), François Ambroise Didot le jeune, & Jacques Esprit, 1774. 2 parts in one. First volume (= all published). 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With several fine woodcut borders, head- and end-pieces, some tables in the text, and 23 figures on three folding plates by and after Pierre-Claude de la Gardette (1745-1792). (2), ii (corrected dedication), xxx, (2), 436 pp. (6 extra lvs between pp. 434 and 435). Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Chemistry  French  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the influences of the stars, comets, perpetuel motion machine, and new inventions View picture(s) 15 LE ROYER, Jacques. (Oeuvres). Le bastion universel - L'art des arts et des sciences ou des nouvelles inventions - Le moevement perpetuel hydraulique - La véritable cause des cometes - Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere partie des influences des cieux, & des astres. ... Deuxie'me partie des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres. Avranches, Nicolas Motays, 1677. 8vo. Contemporary full brown mottled calf, sprinkled edges. With woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials and many woodcut borders, 5 half page and 10 smaller woodcut diagrams in the text, depicting arrangements for chemical experiments, diagrams, astrological symbols, spheres, etc. (6), 3-112, 109- 364 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Chemistry  Engineering  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare chemical and medical work View picture(s) 16 MÜLLER, Philipp. Miracula chymica et misteria medica. Libris quinque enucleta, quorum summam pagina versa exhibet. (Wittenberg), Laurens Seuberlich for Clemens Berger, 1611. 12mo. Paper over boards, preserved in modern slipcase. Title printed in red and black, with 12 woodcuts of 19 chemical instruments and retorts in the text, interesting head- and tailpieces. (24), 189 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Chemistry  Germany  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise on a special medicament against various kinds of poisons by the personal physician of Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau View picture(s) 17 SALA, Angelo. Ternarius Bezoarticorum ou trois souverains medicaments Bezoardiques, contre tous venins et empoisonnements tant externes que internes: corruption de sang, & autres humeurs. Leyden, Govert Basson, 1616. 4to. Modern vellum. With engraved allegorical title-page in architectural setting with Andromachus and King Mithridates flanking the title. (28), 92 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Medicine  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Lectures on metallurgy View picture(s) 18 WALLERIUS, Johan Gottskalk. Elementa metallurgiæ speciatim chemicæ conscripta atque observationibus, experimentis et figuris aeneis illustrata. Stockholm, printed by Johan. Edman at the Uppsala Royal Academy for Carol. Abr. Askergren, 1768. 8vo. Contemporary tanned half sheepskin. With engraved title, engraved scene with coat of arms above dedication, and folding engraved plate. [16], 440 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Earth Sciences [Mineralogy]  Economy  Medicine  Metals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the libraries of Marquis Marc Antoine-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson and Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry View picture(s) 19 [ARMORIAL BINDING]. Almanach royal pour l'an bissextil 1724, calculé au meridien de Paris. Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1724. 8vo. Contemporary dark green morocco, spine ribbed and elaborately gilt and title lettered in gold, covers with gilt dentelles and gilt central coat of arms of Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Woodcut device on title, some woodcuts in text. (2), 368, (2) pp. (368 = A-E8 pp. 1-80 + another quire E with pp. *65-80 + F-Z8 pp. 81-368). Full description >> Related Subjects: Almanacs & Calendars  Armorial Bindings  Bibliophily  Bindings  Chemistry  Libraries & Collections  Paris  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare work on gunpowder and military pyrotechnics View picture(s) 20 [BÜCHSENMEYSTEREI]. Von Geschoss, Büchsen, Pulver, Salpeter und feurwergken ec. (Colophon: Frankfurt am Main, Chr. Egenolff, March 1531). 4to. Old vellum. With large woodcut illustration on title. 24 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Chemistry  Fireworks  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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