Nicholas Lemery (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Nicolas Lémery was a 17th-century French chemist known for his chemistry theories on acids, pharmaceutical medicines, and his works medical drugs and chemistry. Perhaps his best and most important book was his 'Cours de Chymie'. More commonly known as 'Chemistry Lessons,' this book was the standard text for studies in chemistry. In this book, Lemery provides methods for preparing chemicals, medicines, and various physics experiments. Each method includes an explanation and commentary for proper execution and preparation. He also spends some time discussing astrology and alchemy, such as the influence of the planets on metals and the elusive goal of creating a Philosopher's Stone. Second English Edition 8vo: New endpapers, 13 lvs, 548 pp, 7 lvs index, 1 leaf adverts, with 3 unnumbered descriptions followed by unnumbered plates of apparatus between pp 32 and 33. Neville II p 44: It is the first English edition to contain illustrations and the first to describe experiments on the preparation and properties of elementary phosphorus (pp 523-538) and other luminescent materials. Modern ¼ leather over cloth-covered boards, title page crudely reinforced, tear at bottom right missing about 1 square inch and missing publication date; first two pages (1 leaf) of Preface printed at an angle (no losses); worm track in the header pp 15-80 (larger pp 15-58 with occasional small loss of part of a single letter). Overall G-. Full title: A Course of Chymistry. Containing An easie Method of Preparing those Chymical Medicines which are used in Physick with Curious Remarks and Useful Discourses upon each Preparation, for the benefit of such who desire to be instructed in the knowledge of this Art. Translated from the Fifth Edition in the French by Walter Harris, MD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 25 plates, each with 16 botanical or zoological subjects. [4], xxiv, 1015 pages. 4to, contemporary mottled calf gilt; moderate foxing of text throughout, plates (apart from frontispiece) clean. Mounted on the rear pastedown is an interesting engraved leaf of directions for a contemporary patent remedy ("Usage de la Poudre Capitale").

Nouvelle edition, avec figures. 4to, pp. xxiv + 1019 + 400 engravings on 25 plates. Contemporary full mottled calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down. Complete with half-title, engraved frontis and title page. Dr. Lemery (1645 -1715), French (al)chemist who reintroduced theory to chemistry in order to bridge alchemy and chemistry, making the emergence of the science of chemistry, independent of medicine, possible. The final separation from medicine, however, had to await the work of Boyle. Lemery wrote the most popular French chemistry textbook, Cours de Chimie (1675), and used a mechanical atomistic interpretation of chemical reactions. The first edition of the Dictionnaire was published in Paris (1698).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Latin Edition 12mo. Contemp. vellum, handwritten title and date in ink on spine: Endpapers, 5 lvs, 3 blank lvs, 664 pp, 7 lvs (Index); some exterior soiling, occasionally light foxing throughout. Neville II p 45: "This translation was important as it enabled chemists in other European countries (who could not read French) to become acquainted with Lemery's clear manner of teaching chemistry and thus spread his influence on the continentVery rare." VG.

Condition: Very Good. Full calf with remnants of gilt title to spine;gilt rolled edges. Bookplate of Lord Battersea to front paste down. Occasional inked notations. Contains 25 fold-out plates illustrating 400 medicinal plants and animals. Intermittent foxing throughout.; 4to; [xx];590;[58] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.