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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.
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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.
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