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Chimica - Metalli - Morin, Claude

The platine, the white gold, or the dark metal, 1758

Estimate

€ 300 - 500

Sold

€ 387

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Information

Paris, chez le Breton 1758. In-12°, half-title, title page, vij-xvj, 194pp, (3cc), a table folded into the text, light browning, contemporary cardboard binding, handwritten title on the spine, slight defects.

Specialist Notes

Rare first edition of one of the first treatises in French dedicated to platinum, a precious metal discovered in Peru by the astronomer and military officer Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795) and described for the first time to the Royal Society by W. Watson, while Charles Wood independently isolated the element in 1741.