Lot 238
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. The Works of Geber, the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher faithfully Englished by R. R. a lover of Chymistry, printed for N.E. by Thomas James mathematical printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1678.
Hammer Price: £19,000
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Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. The Works of Geber, the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher faithfully Englished by R. R. a lover of Chymistry, translated by Richard Russell, first edition in English, errata f. at end, E8 very small burn hole within text, affecting a few letters, some spotting, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Hoover 446; Duveen p.239; Wing J54A; cf. Ferguson I, pp.299-304], 8vo, printed for N.E. by Thomas James mathematical printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1678.
⁂ Exceedingly rare at auction and in commerce. The last copy we can trace at auction was in 1958 (£38). Includes precious and non-precious metals, fires and furnaces, chemical elements, and medical matters. Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān, known as Geber in English, was an early chemist (c.712 - c.815), whose writings contain the oldest known systematic classification of chemical substances, and the oldest known instructions for deriving an inorganic compound. Richard Russell, the translator, was chemist-in-ordinary to Charles II.
Description
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. The Works of Geber, the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher faithfully Englished by R. R. a lover of Chymistry, translated by Richard Russell, first edition in English, errata f. at end, E8 very small burn hole within text, affecting a few letters, some spotting, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Hoover 446; Duveen p.239; Wing J54A; cf. Ferguson I, pp.299-304], 8vo, printed for N.E. by Thomas James mathematical printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1678.
⁂ Exceedingly rare at auction and in commerce. The last copy we can trace at auction was in 1958 (£38). Includes precious and non-precious metals, fires and furnaces, chemical elements, and medical matters. Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān, known as Geber in English, was an early chemist (c.712 - c.815), whose writings contain the oldest known systematic classification of chemical substances, and the oldest known instructions for deriving an inorganic compound. Richard Russell, the translator, was chemist-in-ordinary to Charles II.
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