Paris, Lacombe, 1766, in-8°, XXVIII + 616 p. / 2 ff. + 686 p. + 1 f., légèrement bruni, çà et là légèrement taché d'eau, exlibris ms. tracé ‘N. Debreuet 1777’, cachet sur titres, reliures en veau usé, dorure aux dos passée, frotté, accrocs aux coiffes, coins touchés, pièce de titre sur l'un des dos, pièce de tomaison sur l'autre dos, tranches marbrées.
Edition originale, la vraie, du premier dictionnaire de chimie théorique et général, parue sans nom de l'auteur, ouvrage principal de Macquer. Il existent également des exemplaires d'une édition piratée. Norman énumere les points de différence de la vraie édition originale. Les éditions suivantes fûrent publiées avec le nom de l'auteur.First edition (not the pirated one). “Best known as the author of a widely read textbook and of the first chemical dictionary, Macquer... was an influencial member of the Paris scientific community and did much important but unpublished research behind the scenes as a government scientific adviser” (DSB).“By far the most important of Macquer's works: there had been technical dictionaries before but this was the first dictionary of theoretical and general chemistry; its success soon produced many imitators” (Duveen). Dictionary of Scientific Biography VIII/618-624; Poggendorff II/7-8; Quérard V/418; Duveen 377; Bolton I/68; Norman Library 1413 (only a copy of the pirated edition); Neville & Smeaton, «Macquer's Dictionnaire de chymie. A bibliographical study» in «Annals of science» 38 (1981), p. 613-662; Partington III/80-90; Honeyman coll. -; cf. Ferguson II/60.
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Neuchâtel, Société typographique, 1778, in-8vo, XXXVIII + 3 p. n.n. + 568 p. / 2 ff. + 655 p. / 2 ff. + 510 p., reliure en cuir originale d’époque.
Macquer's chief publication. “Best known as the author of a widely read textbook and of the first chemical dictionary, Macquer... was an influencial member of the Paris scientific community and did much important, but unpublished research behind the scenes as a government scientific adviser” (DSB). Duveen remarks to the first edition of 1766: “By far the most important of Macquer's works: there had been technical dictionaries before but this was the first dictionary of theoretical and general chemistry; its success soon produced many imitators”. Poggendorff II/7-8; DSB VIII/618-624; Quérard V/418; Duveen 377-378; Norman Library 1413 (only a copy of the pirated edition); Neville & Smeaton, «Macquer's Dictionnaire de chymie. A bibliographical study» in «Annals of science» 38 (1981), p. 613-662; Honeyman coll. -; cf. Ferguson II/60; cf. Norman Library 1413 (only a copy of the pirated edition); .
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