John McInnis Auctioneers: Private Alchemy and Chemistry Library, 339514, Amesbury

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Auction Date
December 13, 2024 - December 13, 2024
Page Size: 619 items in 25 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 R. ABRAHAM ELEAZAR (Pseudonym)

Uraltes Chymisches Werck. Welches ehedessen von dem Autore Theils in Lateinischer und Arabischer, theils auch in Chaldaeischer und Syrischer Sprache geschrieben, ...

Erfurt 1735 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,612.00
2 ACCUM, Friedrich

A Practical Essay on Chemical Re-Agents or Tests Illustrated by A Series of Experiments

Philadelphia 1817 USD 125.00 - 250.00 USD 62.00
3 ACCUM, Frederick

A Practical Essay on the Analysis of Minerals, Exemplifying the Best Methods of Analyzing Ores, Earths, Stones, Inflammable Fossils, and Mineral Substances in General

Philadelphia 1809 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 124.00
4 ACCUM, Friedrich

A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light: exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for illuminating Streets, Houses and Manufactories,...

Third Edition, 8vo USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 186.00
5 ACCUM, Frederick (Friedrich)

Chemical Amusement, Comprising A Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry

Philadelphia 1818 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 155.00
6 ACCUM, Frederick

Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructional Experiments in Chemistry

Philadelphia 1818 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 62.00
7 ACCUM, Friedrich [Anonymous] (By A Practical Chemist)

Explanatory Dictionary of the Apparatus and Instruments Employed in the Various Operations of Philosophical and Experimental Chemistry

London 1824 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 155.00
8 ACCUM, Friedrich

Manuel de Chimie Amusante, ou Nouvelles Recreations Chimiques: Contenant une Suite d'Experiences curieuses et instructives en Chimie d'une Execution facile et ne presentant auccun Danger....

Paris 1825 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 62.00
9 ACCUM, Friedrich

System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry

USD 100.00 - 175.00 USD 186.00
10 ACCUM, Friedrich

System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry in Two Volumes with Plates

Philadelphia 1808 USD 125.00 - 250.00 USD 93.00
11 ACCUM, Friedrich

System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry in Two Volumes, with Plates. With An Appendix Containing A View of The Late Doctrines and Discoveries in Chemistry, By Thomas Cooper

Philadelphia 1814 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 62.00
12 ACCUM, F. (Friedrich)

Traite Pratique Sur L'Usage et Le Mode D'Application Des Reactifs Chimiques

(Translated from the English by J. Riffault) USD 65.00 - 125.00 USD 93.00
13 ADET, Pierre-Auguste

Lecons Elementaires de Chimie

Paris 1804 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 62.00
14 AGGRAVI, Giovanni Francesco

Protolume Chimico echeggiante di condupplicati paraphasia: La Natura non diversare nella simmetria delle connaturali operationi, ...

Venice 1682 USD 375.00 - 750.00 USD 527.00
15 AGRICOLA, Georgius

De Re Metallica

USD 350.00 - 700.00 USD 434.00
16 AIKIN, A. (Arthur); AIKIN, C.R.

A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy, with an Account of the Processes Employed in Many of the Most Important Chemical Manufactures. ...

London 1807 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 589.00
17 ARIES, Emmanuel

La Statique Chimique Basee sur Les Deux Principes Fundamentaux de la Thermodynamique

Paris 1904 USD 25.00 - 50.00 USD 62.00
18 "ALBERTUS MAGNUS" (pseudonym)

Les Secrets Mervelleux, de la Magie Naturelle Au Petit Albert Tires de l'ouvrage Latin intitule Albert Parvi Lucii Libellus de Mirabilibus Naturae Arcanis ...

Lyon 1668 (1868 printing) USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 558.00
19 ALBINEUS, Nathan (Nathan d'Aubigne) (Nathan Aubigne de la Fosse)

Bibliotheca Chemica Contracta Ex delectu & emendatione Nathanis Albinei D. M. In gratiam & commodum artis Chemica studiosorum

Geneva 1653 (1654). USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 155.00
20 ALBINEUS, Nathan (Nathan d'Aubigne) (Nathan Aubigne de la Fosse)

Bibliotheca Chemica contracta ex delectu & emendatioen Nathanis Albinei Doctoris Medici.In gratiam & commodum Artis Chemicae studiosorum

Geneva 1673 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 403.00
21 (M. ALBO and COLBERT, Jean-Baptiste)

Instruction Generale Pour La Teinture Des Laines et Manufactures de laine de toutes couleurs, & pour la culture des drogues ou ingrediens qu'on y employe

Paris 1671 USD 375.00 - 750.00 USD 124.00
23

ALCHEMY and the Occult: A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts from the Collection of Paul and Mary Mellon, 4 Vols

New Haven 1968; 1977 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,116.00
24 ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT (Giralamo Ruscelli?)

De' Secreti del Reverendo Donno Alessio Piemontese

Venetia 1568 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 558.00
25 ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT (Giralamo Ruscelli?)

De' Secreti del Reverendo Donno Alessio Piemontese

Venetia 1568; 1567 USD 125.00 - 250.00 USD 341.00
26 (ALLETZ, Pons Augustin) (1703-1785)

L'Albert Moderne ou Nouveaux Secrets eprouves et licites, Recueillis d'apres les decouvertes les plus recentes...

Paris 1776 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 93.00
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