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LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent -- Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique, proposée par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet, & de Fourcroy, Paris, chez Cuchet, 1787, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 6 folding plates, folding letterpress table, half title (library perforation on title and G3, title also with accession no. on verso), contemporary stained calf, spine gilt (with shelf-mark at base). [Sotheran I, 2491; Honeyman Pt. V, lot 1937]
Lavoisier's reform of language, propounding the principle of chemical nomenclature now in use, was the "indispensable prelude" to the reform of anti-phlogistic thought.
Lavoisier's reform of language, propounding the principle of chemical nomenclature now in use, was the "indispensable prelude" to the reform of anti-phlogistic thought.