BILLICH, Anton Günther.

Observationum ac Paradoxorum chymiatricorum Libri Duo: Quorum Unus medicamentorum Chymicorum praeparatione, Alter eorundem usum succincte perspicuèque explicat.

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Finely engraved title. 4 p.l. (incl. engraved title), 11-173, [1] pp. Small 4to, cont. vellum overboards. Leyden: J. Maire, 1631. First edition of a rather scarce book. Billich (1598-1640), the son-in-law of Angelo Sala and private physician to the Count of Oldenburg, was one of the earliest chemists to challenge the then-prevalent Paracelsian doctrines. “Continuing the attack on the Paracelsian tria prima, which he had begun in his De Tribus Chymicorum Principiis (Bremen, 1621), Billich here presents a number of chemical paradoxes and rejects the tria prima altogether. He criticizes the arrangement of chapters two to five in the first book of Jean Beguin’s Tyrocinium Chymicum. In addition to Beguin, Billich also criticizes the various iatrochemical preparations described in the works of Croll, Du Chesne (Quercetanus), Paracelsus, and other chemists. The book contains numerous descriptions of pharmaceutical chemical preparations, from animals, vegetables, and minerals, with their supposed physiological actions on man. Rare.”–Neville, I, p. 153. Fine copy. Title with tiny tear at foot, not touching image. ❧ Duveen, p. 78. Ferchl, p. 46. Ferguson, I, p. 107. Partington, II, p. 280-81–“a good chemist.”

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