Éléments de pharmacie théorique et pratique.

8vo: xxxviii-[2]-943 pp. (title frayed, normal browning).

Later half leather with corners, marbled paper on covers, spine with 5 raised bands.

Later edition by the French chemist and pharmacist Baumé (1728-1804). Ill. with 3 engr. fold. pl. by L. François showing the materials used to prepare medicines and 1 fold. table "Table à l'usage du commerce des eaux-de-vie". Baumé 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.
Ref. Wellcome II:117. - Blake p. 35. - BnF. - Not in Garrison & Morton.
Prov. "L. Bertrand, chirurgien" (ms. entry on title). - Brandlig (stamp on title).