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Chemistry
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Source for Jung's Psychology & Alchemy
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BARCHUSEN, Joannis Conrad. Elementa Chemiae quibus subjuncta est Confectura Lapidis Philosophici Imaginibus Reprontata. Leiden, Theodor Haak, 1718.
Rare and best edition of this splendidly illustrated chemistry textbook, of particular interest for its "remarkable set of alchemical plates" (DSB).
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Arsenic!
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CASTELLO, Pietro. Chalcanthium Dodecaporion sive Duodecim Dubitationes in usu olei Vitrioli et defensio Antiquorum in Arsenici... ad Raymundum Minderum. Rome, Mascardi, 1629.
Rare first edition of this polemical work against the use of liquid salts and defending in their stead the controlled use of arsenic, bound with three other titles by the same author on 1)pharmacy, 2)a distilled vitriolic spirit, 3) the use of hellebore.
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"A new epoch in chemistry" - PMM
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LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing All the Modern Discoveries... Third Edition... Edinburgh, William Creech, 1796.
Robert Kerr's English translation of Lavoisier's Trait lementaire de Chimie (Paris, 1789), a work whose "...most fundamental innovations transformed how one presents, how one argues, scientific knowledge and how, as a result, one develops and transmits it" -W. C. Anderson.
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Organic Chemistry On The Index
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RASPAIL, Francois Vincent. Nouveau Systeme De Chimie Organique, Fondur Des Methodes Nouvelles D'Observation... Paris, J.B. Bailliere, 1833.
First edition of a pivotal book in organic chemistry and the most important and original scientific work of a self-taught, somewhat belligerent scientist-politician Raspail (1794-1878).
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The Discovery of Oxygen
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SCHEELE, Carl Wilhelm. Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer. Nebst einem Vorbericht von Torbern Bergman... Upsala & Leipzig, Magn. Swederus... zu finden bey S.L. Crusius, 1777.
First edition of this extremely scarce and important book which contains the announcement of Scheele’s discovery of oxygen, made independently of, and two years prior to, Priestley.
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