Des Herrn Macquer, vorsitzenden Doctors von der medicinischen Facultät zu Paris, und der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Anfangsgründe der theoretischen Chymie
Subtitle: erster Theil mit Kupfern
By: aus dem Französischen ins Deutsche übersetzt
Contributors: Kongelion Artilleriecorps Bibliothek
Edition: Zweyte Auflage.
Publisher: Bey Johann Friedrich Junius.
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 850
Subjects: Chemistry; Physical and theoretical Chemistry
Other titles: Anfangsgründe der theoretischen Chymie.
Work titles: Élémens de chymie théorique
Notes: Translation of the author's: Élémens de chymie théorique, first printed in Paris, 1749, and Élémens de chymie-pratique, first printed in Paris, 1749.

The first German edition with the two parts bound together was printed in Leipzig, 1752.

Part two, p. [1-32], 850, and [14], 4th through 6th counts, has separate dated title page reading: Des Herrn Macquer, vorsitzenden Doctors von der medicinischen Facultät zu Paris, und der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Anfangsgründe der practischen Chymie, als der zweyte Theil in dessen theoretischen Anfangsgründen aus dem Französischen ins Deutsche übersetzt, and has imprint: Leipzig, Bey Johann Friedrich Junius. 1768.

Includes a reference to cacao butter which he notes as grown from a shrub from Louisiana (part 2, p. 459) and a long chapter on Guaiacum and the various oils and extracts that can be made from the wood (part 2, p. 514-525)

Signatures: a¹⁰ (a1 verso blank) A-Q⁸ R⁶ (R6 verso blank); a-b⁸ (a1 verso blank) A-3H⁸

Includes indexes at the ends of parts 1 and 2.

Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes one unnumbered folded leaf of plates as a frontispiece to part one and three plates numbered 1-3 following p. [14], 3rd count, in part two.

Purchase; 2016; 17-075.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full specked calf with blind-tooled and hand-colored coat of arms on front and rear boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Frederick Lippitt Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Det Kongelion Artilleriecorps Bibliothek: bookstamp on title page.