Chymie hydraulique, pour extraire les Sels essentiels des Végétaux, Animaux & Minéraux, avec l’eau pure. Par M. L. C. D. L. G.

by Claude Tousaint Marot La Garaye, Comte de

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First edition

Two folding engraved plates. xi, 5 , 390 pp. Small 8vo, cont. red morocco, with the arms in gilt of either the Comtesse de Provence or the Comtesse d’Artois see below , triple gilt fillet round sides, spine nicely gilt, a.e.g. Paris: J.B. Coignard, 1745. First edition and a lovely copy in contemporary red morocco with arms see below . “La Garaye 1675-1755 , a Breton nobleman and philanthropist, was a diligent chemist who devised a novel method

• Binding: Leather

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