Glauber (J. R.) The Works...

Glauber (Johann Rudolf) The Works...containing Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy...,3 parts in 1, first edition in English, 4 woodcut and 7 engraved plates, small rust-hole in Ff1 in part 2 with loss of one or two letters, lightly browned, very slight water-staining to lower margin of last few leaves, contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper of Godfrey Boseville recording the acquisition of the book at £1 2s in 1699, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine with morocco label, [Duveen p.260; Ferguson I p.322; Wellcome III p.124; Wing G845], folio, by Thomas Milbourn, for the Author, 1689.

***Glauber is regarded as the best practical chemist of his day and the first industrial chemist. .