FOURCROY, Antoine François de (1755-1809). Philosophie Chimique; ou Vérités fondamentales de la chimie moderne, Paris: Chez du Pont, An III [1794-95], 8°, second edition, title signed on verso by Fourcroy as usual (library perforation on title, other library markings, occasional spotting or soiling of margins, final leaf repaired at outer margins), modern red library cloth (a little soiled, spine nicked) [Smeaton p. 221] Provenance: JCL -- Ferdinand HOEFER. Histoire de la Chimie depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a notre époque, Paris: chez L. Hachette, 1842-43, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (library perforation and stamps, vol. I: 71 torn at margins, preceding leaf torn at inner margin, 291-4 with repaired tear at outer margin, short tears elsewhere, vol. II: blank section torn from title), contemporary mottled boards (rather crudely rebacked in library buckram, now soiled, slight damage to lower cover of vol. II), original blue wrappers bound in [Duveen p. 297] Provenance: Geo. B. Neill Oct. 1842 (ownership inscription on title to vol. I) -- Pierre Eugène Marcellin BERTHELOT (1827-1907). Essai de Mécanique Chimique fondée sur la thermochimie, Paris: Dunod, 1879, 2 volumes, 8°, illustrations (library markings, some marginal soiling, occasional short tears, one gathering in vol. II pulled), blue library cloth. (5)