Roger Gaskell Rare Books

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	§ BAUMÉ, Antoine (1728–1804). Chymie expérimental et raisonnée. Paris: chez P. Franç. Didot le jeune (de l’Imprimerie de Didot), 1773. Collation: 3 vols 8vo, pp. [4] clx 482; [4] 671; [2] 704, engraved vignettes on titles (different in each volume) signed ‘J.M. Moreau le jne. inv. J.J. le Veau sc.’ Plates: Portrait and 12 engraved plates; portrait signed ‘C.N. Cochin del. 1772 Aug. de St. Aubin sculp.’, plates unsigned, numbered Planche 1–8; I–II; I–II (bound as throwouts interspersed in the text). Condition: 197 x 123mm. Portrait creased, some foxing, plates discoloured, slight loss to vol. II p. 357 where it has adhered to the verso of a plate. Binding: Contemporary mottled calf. Head and tailcaps repaired. Provenance: W. A. Smeaton (1925–2001), no ownership marks. References: Cole 45A; Ferguson I, p. 84. Price: £550 First edition. Cole identifies two re-settings, both dated 1773, with unsigned copies of the portrait and vignettes; a second edition was published in 1774 and there was a German translation 1775–76 and Italian translations 1781 and 1788. ¶ The last major text-book based on the phlogiston theory – ‘clear, detailed and practical’ (Partington III, p. 91).
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