Volume one of a two volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) A catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Duris, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E. Not just a list of titles, but a great deal of biographical information on hundreds of authors. "The student of the literature of chemistry can have no better news than that of the republication of John Ferguson's Bibliotheca Chemica.