FOURCROY, Antoine François de (1755-1809). Systême des Connaissances Chimiques et de leurs applications aux phénomènes de la Nature et de l'Art, Paris: Baudoin, Brumaire An IX [1800], 10 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (most volumes have title perforation and stamp on verso of title, with accession number on following leaf, perforation occasionally repeated in text, lacking blanks), contemporary grey mottled boards (spines rubbed and chipped, and with shelf label, some corners worn). [Duveen p. 226 (4° version); Smeaton pp. 225-6; Norman 823] Provenance: JCL (10)

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FOURCROY, Antoine François de (1755-1809). Systême des Connaissances Chimiques et de leurs applications aux phénomènes de la Nature et de l'Art, Paris: Baudoin, Brumaire An IX [1800], 10 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (most volumes have title perforation and stamp on verso of title, with accession number on following leaf, perforation occasionally repeated in text, lacking blanks), contemporary grey mottled boards (spines rubbed and chipped, and with shelf label, some corners worn). [Duveen p. 226 (4° version); Smeaton pp. 225-6; Norman 823] Provenance: JCL (10)

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This copy of Fourcroy's monumental treatise is without the Table Alphabétique of the following year, which is often bound in and sometimes described on the binding as volume XI. A 5 volume quarto edition was issued simultaneously with the octavo edition.

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