Antoine Baume - Eléments de Pharmacie Théorique et Pratique - 1795

Eléments de Pharmacie Théorique et Pratique by Antoine Baume.

Published by: Guillon-d’Assas, Paris, 1795.

Work containing all the fundamental operations of this art, with their definition and an explanation of these operations through the principles of chemistry.
- La manière de bien choisir, préparer et mêler les médicaments, avec des remarques et des réflexions sur chaque procédé.
- Les moyens de reconnaitre les médicaments falsifiés ou altérés. - Les principes fondamentaux de plusieurs arts dépendants de la pharmacie... avec l’exposition des vertus et doses des médicaments à la suite de chaque article,

Followed by a new appendix.

Antoine Baumé (1728-1804) was a French pharmacist and chemist, famous for his chemical experiments and "inventions" on materials of various subjects...

In this edition, from 1795, he attempts to demonstrate that water is not composed of hydrogen and oxygen by refuting the experiments of Lavoisier and Laplace.

New edition, revised, corrected and expanded by the author, complete with 5 plates and the table of eaux de vie.

Thick octavo volume (20
x 13 x 6 cm, 840 grams) xlj, 835 pp., period full calfskin binding, adorned ribbed spine, red edges, with 5 out of text engravings and a fold-out table of eaux de vie.
Cover, corners, crowns and joints in good condition, a small, inconsequential crack on the spine, decent inside, free of foxing, complete of the 5 plates (the only edition with 5 plates) and the table, in very good condition.

A lovely copy.