Boerhaave, Elementa Chemiae, 1732 (1st ed; signed by author). Lindeboom's copy.
Elementa Chemiae, quae anniversario labore docuit, in publicis, privatisque, scholis, Hermannus Boerhaave. Tomus primus. Qui continet historiam et artis theoriam [with Tomus secundus. Qui continet operationes chemias]. Cum tabulis aeneis. Lugduni Baraborum, apud Isaacum Severinum. 1732.
Two volumes in original speckled brown leather with gold ornamentation on spines and board edges. Red leather title labels (chipped) and raised bands on spines. Leather chipped, scuffed, and stained; ragged at corners and fore-edges. Marbled page edges. Heads and tail of vol 1 spines tearing and chipping; joints splitting at heads. Book plate on front paste downs (Ex Libris Prof. Dr. G A. Lindeboom). Signed by Boerhaave on verso of the title page in vol 1. Thumbed and folded corners. Bottom corner torn at 895/6 in vol 1. Significant damp stain; some mildew in vol 2. End papers of vol 2 quite ragged. Despite stains, leaves are largely bright. Large margins. Bindings tight.
Vol 1: ffep, half title, title, **4, A – Fff4, Ggg3, H Vvvvv4 , Aaaaaa – Eeeeee4, blank, rfep. With 17 folding plates.
No Ggg4 (pg 423/4), however catchword corresponds, so this appears to be intentional. 207 as 107.
Vol1: ffep, half title, title (8) 896 (80), blank, rfep. With 17 folding plates.
(Pl 1 after 140, pl 2 after 154, pl 3 after 206, pl 4 after 326, p 5 follows 366 pl 6 follows 506, pl 7 follows 508, pl 8 follows 522, pl 9 follows 874 with damp stain, pl 10 follows 876 w stains, pl 12 follows 878 w stains, pl xi follows 880 w stains, pl 13 follows 890 s stains, pl 14 follows 892 w stains, pl 15-17 follow 896 w stains
Vol 2: ffep, half title, title, **2, A – Dddd4, title (1738 Opuscula) - *2, A – R4, S2, blank, rfep. With 2 figures.
Ffep, half title, title (4) 538 (46) 139, blank, rfep. With 2 figures.
Pg 67 in opuscula is a title page. Engraved figure on K3/page 77 in opuscula. Engraved figure on N/page 97 in opuscula.
Boerhaave, 1668 to 1738, was a successor of Govert Bidloo and teacher of Albrecht von Haller. Hi sname remains immortalized in the diagnosis Boerhaave’s syndrome (esophageal rupture due to vomiting), and his Aphorisms are considered a medical classic.
G-M 666.1: “Boerhaave was the first to separate out urea from urine, and to do so without adding chemical substances such as alcohol or nitric acid. He first published his method for isolating it in the above work.”
According to the Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands, vol 4, Gerrit Arie Lindeboom (4-1-1905 to 5-6-1986) was an internist and son of a clergyman. He published more than 180 medical (and almost 300 medical-historical) publications, including about 50 monographs. “He became known internationally mainly for his studies about Boerhaave, published between 1959 and 1979 in the series Analecta Boerhaaviana, culminating in the book Herman Boerhaave. The man and his work from 1968.” A significant figure among Protestant physicians in the Netherlands, he was greatly interested and involved in medical ethics, being now the namesake of the Prof. G.A. Lindeboom Institute.
