HILDEBRANDT, Georg Friedrich.

Chemische und mineralogische Geschichte des Quecksilbers.

x, 476 pp. 4to, cont. half-sheep & marbled boards, flat spine nicely gilt, green morocco letteringpiece on spine. Braunschweig: Schulbuchhandlung, 1793. First edition. “Hildebrandt (1764-1816), M.D. (Gottingen, 1783), became professor of medicine, chemistry, and physics at the University of Erlangen. In this book, his first, he presents a detailed history of mercury and its compounds, with reference to the works of earlier chemists (e.g., Paracelsus, Basil Valentine, Becher, and Stahl), as well as those of more recent authors (e.g., Crell, Macquer, Priestley, Scheele, and Lavoisier)...Hildebrandt also published one of the earliest German textbooks to use the new theory of chemistry of Lavoisier, entitled Anfangsgründe der Chemie (Erlangen, 1794)...Scarce.”–Neville, I, p. 640. A fine and attractively bound copy. ❧ Ferguson, I, p. 404–“An excellent monograph with numerous lists of books and papers.”

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