BOERHAAVE (Hermann). Elementa chemiae quae anniversario labore docuit in publicis, privatisque scholis... Editio altera Leydensi multo correctior et accuratior. Paris, Cavelier, 1733. 2 volumes in-4, brown calf, spines decorated (Binding of the period). 6 ff, 476 pp, 31 ff (explanation of plates and table) 17 engraved plates hors-texte. - 4 ff, 346 pp, 24 ff (index), title: Opuscula omnia, 1 f. table, 231 pp, 1 p. privilege, 1 f. (Cavelier catalogue). Second edition. The first was published in Leiden in 1732. This is the great treatise on chemistry by the botanist, physician and chemist Boerhaave (1668 - 1738). This edition contains in volume II, with separate pagination, 12 speeches and treatises collected for the first time. Blake 53.