Barchusen,J.C. Lot n° 16

Acroamata, in quibus complura ad iatro-chemiam atque physicam spectantia, jocunda rerum varietate, explicantur. Utrecht, Vischer, 1703. with gest. Titeivign. 12 pp, 376 pp, 11 pp. - Prebound: Rohhault,J., Tractatus physicus . . latinitate donatus per Th. Bonetum, cum animadversionibus A. le Grand. Cui acc. ejusdem Rohaulti De arte mechanica tract. mathematicus. 3 vols. in 1 vol. London 1696 u. (Mechanica:) 1692. With 20 partly folded. Copper plates (instead of 21). Full d. (Spotted and somewhat worn with small age spots). Ad I.: First edition, of great rarity. - Poggendorff 1, 100; Ferchl 22; Bolton 1, 281; Ferguson I, 71: "This is an interesting series of papers upon acids, salts, precipitation, fire, water, earth, fermentation, and other ehemical subjects, bot of special note are the adress he gave on to appointment to the Chair of Chemistry in Utrecht: on the Antiquity and Use of Chemistry...." - Without the front portrait. - Ad 11: First Latin. Edition. - Cf. Poggendorff II, 678 (mentions only a Latin translation by Sam Clarke from 1697). -- In tl. 1, 1 plate is missing and two folding plates are only half present. (1283).