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LIBAVIUS (ANDREAS)
Rerum chymicarum epistolica forma ad philosophos et medicos... Liber primus [-secundus], 2 parts in 1 vol., Frankfurt, Petrus Kopffius

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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LIBAVIUS (ANDREAS)

Rerum chymicarum epistolica forma ad philosophos et medicos... Liber primus [-secundus], 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut device on titles and final leaf of volume 1, with the blanks [Adams L639; Ferguson II, pp.32/33; Duveen, p.355], 1595; Praxis alchymiae, hoc est, Doctrina de artificiosa praeparatione pracecipuorum medicamentorum chymicorum, woodcut illustrations, mostly of distilling apparatus [Duveen, pp.356-7], 1604, 2 works in 1 vol., early vellum, yapp edges, leather ties, 8vo (160 x 95mm.), Frankfurt, Petrus Kopffius

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Libavius (c.1560-1616) "can be regarded as one of the founders of chemical analysis... his books were used by many adepts of chemistry throughout most of the seventeenth century" (DSB). Despite the breadth of his influence Duveen states all his works are rare. Praxis alchymiae is a shortened form of his major work on alchemy Alchemia. A third part of Rerum chymicarum was published in 1595.

Provenance: Garratts Hall Library, case label; Frederick A. Heygate Lambert (1857-1929), ownership inscription dated 1880.

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