Catalogue Raisonne Des Ouvrages Qui Ont Ete Publies Sur Les Eaux Minerales En General Et Sur Celles

by Joseph Barthelemy Francois Carrere

$2,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

viii, 584 pp. Large 4to, fine antique mottled calf first three leaves a little foxed , spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Cailleau, 1785. First edition of the earliest bibliography on mineral waters and still the most important bibliography on the subject. The book contains upwards of 1000 extensively annotated descriptions of books of all periods and in various languages on balneology, geology, chemistry, etc. Carrère

• Binding: Leather

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