[KIRWAN, Richard (1733-1812)]. Essai sur le Phlogistique, et sur la constitution des acides ... avec des notes de MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, de la Place, Monge, Berthollet & de Fourcroy, Paris: 1788, 8°, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, half title, woodcut vignette to title, woodcut illustrations (2 gatherings browned, marginal browning to first and last few leaves), contemporary calf (worn). [Duveen, p. 314: "contains important notes by Lavoisier himself attacking this [Kirwan's] theory"; Ferguson I, p. 472; Waller 11170]

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[KIRWAN, Richard (1733-1812)]. Essai sur le Phlogistique, et sur la constitution des acides ... avec des notes de MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, de la Place, Monge, Berthollet & de Fourcroy, Paris: 1788, 8°, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, half title, woodcut vignette to title, woodcut illustrations (2 gatherings browned, marginal browning to first and last few leaves), contemporary calf (worn). [Duveen, p. 314: "contains important notes by Lavoisier himself attacking this [Kirwan's] theory"; Ferguson I, p. 472; Waller 11170]

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Stanislas Meunier, ownership stamp to title; bookplate of Denis Duveen.

Lot Essay

Ferguson: "... his [Kirwan's] essay on Phlogiston (1787), on being recognized as a thorough exposition of the theory, was at once translated into French, each chapter in turn having a refutation appended to it. He replied to the criticism, but in 1791 he went over to the antiphlogistic view".

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