Béguin (Jean) Les Elemens de chymie, rare first edition, Paris, Mathieu le Maistre, 1615.

Béguin (Jean) Les Elemens de chymie, first edition in French, woodcut ornament to title, head-pieces and decorative initials, diagram to p.168, sigs. S&T hole to inner gutter, loss of few letters, occasional light staining, 17th century speckled calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired at end, [Wellcome I, 753; cf. Ferguson I, pp.93-94], 8vo, Paris, Mathieu le Maistre, 1615.

⁂ Rare first edition in French of this chemistry textbook. This edition prints for the first time a reaction diagram where there are two or more reagents. The first edition was published in 1610 under the title Tyrocinium chymicum. Béguin had visited the mines of Hungary and Slovenia.