LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794) & Louis Bernard GUYTON DE MORVEAU (1737-1816). Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique, proposée par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet & de Fourcroy, Paris: Cuchet, 1787, 8° (193 x 120mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, half title, large folding letterpress table by Fourcroy (slightly browned at folds, and with small tear), 6 folding engraved plates (half title and title spotted, slight spotting throughout, occasional browning), contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated in gilt, contrasting lettering-piece (small wormhole to tail of spine), bookplate of L. G. A. Larue. [Duveen p. 340; Norman 1291; Sparrow 126].

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LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794) & Louis Bernard GUYTON DE MORVEAU (1737-1816). Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique, proposée par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet & de Fourcroy, Paris: Cuchet, 1787, 8° (193 x 120mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, half title, large folding letterpress table by Fourcroy (slightly browned at folds, and with small tear), 6 folding engraved plates (half title and title spotted, slight spotting throughout, occasional browning), contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated in gilt, contrasting lettering-piece (small wormhole to tail of spine), bookplate of L. G. A. Larue. [Duveen p. 340; Norman 1291; Sparrow 126].

拍品專文

A collaborative work by Lavoisier with Claude Berthollet, Antoine de Fourcroy and Guyton de Morveau. Although the new chemical nomenclature had at first been developed by de Morveau before his conversion to the anti-phlogiston theory, it was used by Lavoisier as a means of propogating his new chemistry and "marked a complete break with the past". The work lists the 55 known elements in a series of tables, introducing many new terms which have remained in standard use.