Béguin (Jean) Les Elemens de chymie, first edition in French, woodcut ornament to title, head-pieces and decorative initials, diagram to p.168, sigs. S&T hole to inner gutter, loss of few letters, occasional light staining, 17th century speckled calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired at end, [Wellcome I, 753; cf. Ferguson I, pp.93-94], 8vo, Paris, Mathieu le Maistre, 1615. ⁂ Rare first edition in French of this chemistry textbook. This edition prints for the first time a reaction diagram where there are two or more reagents. The first edition was published in 1610 under the title Tyrocinium chymicum. Béguin had visited the mines of Hungary and Slovenia.
Béguin (Jean) Les Elemens de chymie, first edition in French, woodcut ornament to title, head-pieces and decorative initials, diagram to p.168, sigs. S&T hole to inner gutter, loss of few letters, occasional light staining, 17th century speckled calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired at end, [Wellcome I, 753; cf. Ferguson I, pp.93-94], 8vo, Paris, Mathieu le Maistre, 1615. ⁂ Rare first edition in French of this chemistry textbook. This edition prints for the first time a reaction diagram where there are two or more reagents. The first edition was published in 1610 under the title Tyrocinium chymicum. Béguin had visited the mines of Hungary and Slovenia.
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