[buc'hoz (pierre-joseph)] - Dictionary Of Mineral Waters. 2 Volumes, 1775, Period Bound.

[BUC'HOZ (Pierre-Joseph)] - Dictionary of mineral waters containing their natural history; general observations & particular notices on different fountains; a hydrological biography; different methods for analyzing these waters, & for making them artificial, to which we have attached the list of the different places where the mineral waters are found, which are mentioned in this work. Paris, Rue Saint-Jean de Beauvais, 1775; in-8, VI + 635 + 520 pp. + CLXIV pp., approval and privilege, period full marbled calfskin bindings, spine decorated with 5 raised bands, edges painted red. The 2 volumes. Joseph-Pierre Buc'hoz was born in Metz in 1731. He first became a lawyer in 1750 but left the profession to become a doctor in Nancy in 1763. He was appointed ordinary physician to King Stanislas, then to Monsieur, brother of the king and the Duke of Artois, but he left his functions to devote himself entirely to botany. He participated in the creation of the Nancy Plant Garden and gave courses in botany and natural history. From 1770, Buc'hoz published numerous works of botany and natural history such as a Natural History of Animals, Plants, Minerals and Natural Productions of France, a Veterinary Dictionary of Domestic Animals and a Natural History of the Plant Kingdom which is rewarded by the Academy of Sciences. Work on the mineral waters of France published without author's name. Good condition.