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Herman Boerhaave Elements of Chemistry: Being the Annual Lectures of...(1735)
- Item Number
- 152
- Estimated Value
- 2000 USD
- Opening Bid
- 700 USD
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Item Description
Herman Boerhaave Elements of Chemistry: Being the Annual Lectures of... Translated from the original Latin by Timothy Dallowe. 1735. First English edition. (Published in Latin in 1732). Volumes I & II bound together. A Good copy for its age. Missing first two pages: title and translator's notes. Front cover detached. Leather badly worn, spine slipt but held together by the raised bands. Elegant period ink signatures of the various previous owners. Vol. 1 522pp with 19 pullout plates and index. Vol. II 376pp and index. Ink notes on back pastedown.
Boerhaave (Dutch) 1368 – 1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology,"
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