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LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent. Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes. Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1789.
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LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent. Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes. Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1789.
2 vols., 8o. Half-titles, 2-page errata at end, 2 letterpress folding tables in vol. I, 13 finely engraved folding plates by and after the author's wife, Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, woodcut head- and tailpieces by Papillon. (Several plates lightly rubbed, folding creases, the last plate worn along fore-edge, volume II with title, preliminaries and last several gatherings with paper discoloration around the text block, occasional marginal soiling, a few leaves with paper flaws at the sheet edges, some light foxing.) Contemporary decorated vellum, paper spine labels (volume I loose in stitching, all hinges weak, backstrips worn and faded).
Provenance: Louis Baron de Rasonet Villey (ownership signature on titles); Louis ?Maïersgard (ownership signature on title on volume I); University of Chicago Library, Chemistry Department (booklabels on pastedowns with release stamps; blindstamps on titles and Ss5; stamps on verso of titles).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, of THE "CULMINATION OF LAVOISIER'S ACHIEVEMENT" (DSB). Dibner Heralds of Science 43; Duveen and Klickstein 154; Grolier/Horblit 64; Norman 1295; PMM 238; Wellcome III, p.460. (2)
2 vols., 8
Provenance: Louis Baron de Rasonet Villey (ownership signature on titles); Louis ?Maïersgard (ownership signature on title on volume I); University of Chicago Library, Chemistry Department (booklabels on pastedowns with release stamps; blindstamps on titles and Ss5; stamps on verso of titles).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, of THE "CULMINATION OF LAVOISIER'S ACHIEVEMENT" (DSB). Dibner Heralds of Science 43; Duveen and Klickstein 154; Grolier/Horblit 64; Norman 1295; PMM 238; Wellcome III, p.460. (2)