MACQUER, [Pierre Joseph].
Dictionnaire de Chymie, contenant la théorie et la pratique de cette science, son application à la physique, à l’histoire naturelle, à la médecine, & aux arts dépendans de la chymie. Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée.
En Suisse: Chez Les Libraires Associés. [–1780]. 1779
4 volumes, small 8vo, pp. xxviii, 580; 1 leaf, pp. 655; 1 leaf, pp. 520, (4) bank; 2 leaves, pp. 776. Contemporary restoration to lower blank corner of a3 in vol. 1. Contemporary vellum, brown morocco labels on spines, red edges, a fine set. Bookplates of G.P.C., and of Fratelli Salimboni.
Second Swiss edition, an unchanged reprint of the expanded and improved second edition of 1778 by Les Libraires Associés, the imprint used by the Sociétés Typographiques of Berne, Lausanne, and Neuchâtel in the years 1779–82 for books that they issued in co-operation. The fourth volume of this edition appeared a year after the others as the original fourth volume did not appear until 1780, although dated 1778. Cole 872. DSB, VIII, pp. 618–624. Neville p. 115.
£800
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