MORT, Jacobus le. — Pharmacia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus instructa, methodon Galenico-chymica adornata.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688. With: (2) MORT, Jacobus le. Chymia, rationibus et experimetis auctoribus, iisque demonstrativis superstructa, in qua malevolorum calumniate modestè simul diluuntur.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1688. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with a frontispiece engraved by Adriaan Schoonebeek (with an allegorical scene above and an apothecary and others at work below), originally dated 1684, changed to 1688, and Van der Aa’s herald angel device on the title page. Ad 2: with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece (also by Adriaan Schoonebeek?), dated 1688, 2 folding engraved plates of furnaces and distilling equipment and utensils, Van der Aa’s woodcut herald angel device, initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards, title in ink on spine: “Le Mort opera omnia”.

[14], 256, [34]; [36], 366, [62] pp.Two of the most important pharmacological and chemical publications of the Leiden lecturer and future professor Jacobus Le Mort, both in their second, revised editions, both first published in 1684.Jacob Le Mort (1650-1718), a Dutch chemist and physician, was an apothecary in Amsterdam before he moved to Leiden to set up a private laboratory where he also lectured. After many difficulties and fierce opposition, he was appointed professor of chemistry at Leiden University in 1702. In this capacity, he was the predecessor of the famous Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)Slightly browned, back hinge and spine weak.l Ad 1: BMN, I, pp. 374; Hoogendoorn, Mort03.2; STCN 064503798 (4 copies); USTC 1820678 (4 copies, same as STCN); Ad 2: BMN, I, pp. 525; STCN 171737261 (3 copies); USTC 1820781 (3 copies, same as STCN); cf. Hoogendoorn Mort02.1 (1684 ed.); for the author: Lex. hervorr. Aerzte, IV, p. 289; NNBW, I, cols. 1345-1346.