Author: Baumé, [A.]
Title: Éléments de pharmacie théorique et pratique. Quatrième édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. Contenant toutes les opérations fondamentales de cet art; avec leur définition, & une explication de ces opérations par les priciples de la chymie; la manière de bien choissir, de préparer & de mêler les médicaments; avec des remarques & des réflexions sur chaqye procédé; les moyens de reconnoître les médicaments falsifiés ou altérés; les recettes de médicaments nouvellement mis en usage; les principes fondamentaux de plusiers arts dépendants de la pharmacie : tels que l'art du confiseur, & ceux de la préparation des eaux de senteur & les liqueurs de table. Avec l'exposition des vertus & doses de médicaments, à la suite de chaque article. Quatrième édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée.
Description: Paris, Samson, 1778. 8vo (19.4 x 12.5 cm). xl, 600 pp.; three large, folded, engraved plates showing equipments; one large, mult-folded table. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with five raised bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and gilt title. Matrbled endpapers. All edges red. = Written by the Parisian master pharmacist, Antoine Baumé (1728-1804), and with his autograph on the title page verso, as usual. "He was apprenticed to the chemist Claude Joseph Geoffroy, and in 1752 was admitted a member of the École de Pharmacie, where in the same year he was appointed professor of chemistry. The money he made in a business he carried on in Paris for dealing in chemical products enabled him to retire in 1780 in order to devote himself to applied chemistry, but, ruined in the Revolution, he was obliged to return to a commercial career. He devised many improvements in technical processes, e.g. for bleaching silk, dyeing, gilding, purifying saltpetre, etc., but he is best known as the inventor of the Baumé scale hydrometer or "spindle" which provides scientific measurements for the density of liquids. The scale remains associated with his name but is often improperly spelt "Beaumé". Of the numerous books and papers he wrote the most important is his Éléments de pharmacie théorique et pratique (9 editions, 1762-1818). He became a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1772, and an associate of the Institute in 1796" (Wikipedia). Provenance: small bookplate of J. C. Desgraviers, medical doctor in Montpellier, mounted on the front pastedown. Small hole in the front free endpaper; first few leaves a bit stained at he lower edge, the half-title and front free endpaper also at the top edge, and gutter, but hardly obtrusive; otherwise, a very good, clean copy.

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