"FIRST MODERN DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY"

MACQUER, PETER JOSEPH.

Chemisches Wörterbuch, oder allgemeine Begrifft der Chymie nach alphabetischer Ordnung. Zweyte verbesserte und vermehrte Ausgabe. 6 vols [out of 7, missing vol. 5.].

Leipzig, Weidmanns, 1788-1791. 8vo. In 6 contemporary blue card board bindings with paper title-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper on all volumes. Small stamp to front free end-paper end title-page. Otherwise fine. Vol 1: LXII, 806, (2 blanks) pp + frontiespiece; Vol 2: (2), 853, (1) pp.; Vol 3: (2), 788 pp.; Vol 4: (2), 754 pp.; Vol 6: (2), 813, (1) pp.; Vol 7: (2), 1030,

Third (second Leonhardi) German edition of this landmark work "which may be regarded as the first scientific work of its class." (Ferguson I:p.60) and is considered the "first modern dictionary of chemistry".

"The second edition of the German translation of the second French edition of the Dictionnaire (Paris, 1778), revised by J. G. Leonhardi (1746-1823). Beginning his translation in 1780 while teaching medicine at Leipzig, he completed the work in 1783 after being appointed professor at Wittenberg . Leonhardi was a former pupil of Pörner, the title of whose translation he incorporated into his first edition (Leipzig, 1781-83; 6 vols., 8vo). To the present edition Leonhardi added numerous notes of his own, plus some from Pörner's German and Keir's English translation and material from the Italian editions of Scopoli and Vairo." (Neville vol. 2, P. 118).

Order-nr.: 52785