[COFFEE - TEA - TOBACCO] - KRÜGER (Johann Gottlieb). Treatis - Lot 17

[COFFEE - TEA - TOBACCO] - KRÜGER (Johann Gottlieb). Treatise on Coffee, Tea and Tobacco. Rare little socio-medico-gastronomical treatise on coffee, bound with 8 memoirs on agronomy, natural sciences and experimental industry from the 18th and 19th centuries, documenting the modernization of agriculture. Halle, Chez C.H. Hemmerde, 1743. Factitious collection of 9 in-12 and in-8 works bound in an in-8 volume ( 220 x 140 mm), brown glazed half calf, smooth spine adorned with the title "Questions diverses", gilt and cold-stamped fillets and gilt numerals referencing. 48 pages in-12. Spine a little faded. Some foxing. First French edition published the same year as the German original "Gedanken vom Caffee, Thee und Toback" (Reflections on coffee, tea and tobacco) by the same publisher in Halle. This rare work by Johann Gottlieb Krüger (1715-1759) offers a multidisciplinary study of coffee. A physician, physicist and philosopher, this disciple of Wolff and professor at the University of Halle offers a cross-disciplinary analysis: sociological, medical and chemical, focusing on the composition of the bean and the effects of roasting. At the time, when coffee was becoming a very fashionable beverage in Germany, it aroused considerable controversy within the medical community. While some practitioners accused it of causing tremors, impotence and nervous disorders, others praised its stimulating properties. Krüger intervenes in this debate to provide a "rational" and scientific arbitration. Bound with 8 other dissertations on agronomy, natural sciences and industry: 1. TESSIER (Abbé Alexandre-Henri). Mémoire sur l'importation et les progrès des chèvres à comforter de Cachemire. Paris, Huzard, 1819. 2. LAGARDE (P. de). Lettre sur l'introduction en France des chèvres Cachemire. Paris, 1824. 3. LYONNET (S.). Observations on the sowing and planting of some useful trees, on woods suitable for artillery and shipbuilding, with indications for judging the condition and quality of the woods. Paris 1815. 4. [ANONYMOUS]. Traité de la Garance. Paris, Veuve Pierre, 1768. [plant used in the textile industry]. 5. MIRBECK (Ignace-Frédéric de).Nouvelles observations sur les abeilles, depuis 1825 jusqu'à 1836, forment, avec Le questionneur, un ouvrage classique. Nancy, 1837. 6. MORTEMART-BOISSE (Baron de). Nécessité de modifier l'état actuel de la législation sur les biens communaux. Paris, 1839. 7. TESSIER (Abbé Alexandre-Henri): Histoire de l'introduction et de la propagation des mérinos en France. Paris, 1839. 8. [MINISTERE DE LA GUERRE - Collectif]. Rapport pour apprécier l'utilité de la machine à vapeur de défrichement et de Labour de MM Barrat frères. [Paris, 1850] 5pp.