Paris: chez Didot; Musier, fils; Dehansy; Panckouke, 1765.
Collation: 12mo:
a8 A–2T8,4, 260 leaves, pp. xvi 501 3.
Condition: 164
x 94mm.
Binding: Contemporary
mottled sheep, gilt spine. Headcap chipped, rubbed.
Provenance: Nineteenth
century engraved armorial bookplate of de Boisset Glassac; purchased by Douglas
McKie from Librairie Thomas-Scheler with invoice dated 6 February 1959.
References: Partington
III, 90, III; cf. Cole 55 and Neu 326 (1766).
Price: £350
Second edition (first 1763). The second edition makes a few changes and answers
some criticisms of the first edition.
¶ Baumé
was lecture demonstrator to Macquer for 25 years and gave 16 courses with him.
Bishop Watson (below) learnt his chemistry from an ‘Operator’ from Paris and
from Baumé’s textbook when he was appointed professor of Chemistry at
Cambridge in 1764 (Partington p. 90).
Cole’s copy is dated 1766, apparently a corrected reprint.
