BERTHOLLET, Claude Louis (1748-1822). Essai de Statique Chimique, Paris: chez Firmin Didot, 1803, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (titles perforated and stamped on verso, each vol. with accession stamp on following leaf, vol. I: some gatherings detached, "Table des Matieres" cleanly torn and repaired, page 528 adhering to page 529, vol. II: first gathering detached, 218 affected by paper fault), contemporary boards (worn, spine of vol. I broken, and of vol. II split) [Duveen p. 75; Honeyman 296; Norman 221] -- Pierre Joseph MACQUER (1718-1784). Elemens de Chymie-Pratique, Paris: chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1751, 2 volumes, 12°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title vignettes (library markings as above, C4 of vol. II with small burn-hole affecting 2 characters on verso), contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (upper joints badly cracked, library label in one compartment of spines) [Duveen p. 376; Norman 1412]; together with Jean Senebier's Mémoires Physico-Chymiques (Geneva, 1782, 3 volumes), lacking at least 3 leaves in volume II. Provenance: I. JCL; II. C.E. Linebarger (book label); JCL (7)

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BERTHOLLET, Claude Louis (1748-1822). Essai de Statique Chimique, Paris: chez Firmin Didot, 1803, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (titles perforated and stamped on verso, each vol. with accession stamp on following leaf, vol. I: some gatherings detached, "Table des Matieres" cleanly torn and repaired, page 528 adhering to page 529, vol. II: first gathering detached, 21⁸ affected by paper fault), contemporary boards (worn, spine of vol. I broken, and of vol. II split) [Duveen p. 75; Honeyman 296; Norman 221] -- Pierre Joseph MACQUER (1718-1784). Elemens de Chymie-Pratique, Paris: chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1751, 2 volumes, 12°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title vignettes (library markings as above, C4 of vol. II with small burn-hole affecting 2 characters on verso), contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (upper joints badly cracked, library label in one compartment of spines) [Duveen p. 376; Norman 1412]; together with Jean Senebier's Mémoires Physico-Chymiques (Geneva, 1782, 3 volumes), lacking at least 3 leaves in volume II. Provenance: I. JCL; II. C.E. Linebarger (book label); JCL (7)

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Berthollet, in this work, "was probably the first chemist to perform an exhaustive investigation of how physical conditions affect chemical reactions, creating a molecular model of matter to explain the effects of temperature and density on chemical reactions" (Norman). Macquer's work, though including an account of compound substances, is a practical guide to laboratory procedures (in fact, forming the companion work to his Elemens de Chymie Théorique, Paris, 1749).

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