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LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794). Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau, et d'après les découvertes modernes. Paris: [Chardon] for Cuchet, 1789.
First edition, second issue, containing tables and several extracts from the registers of the Academie des Sciences and other learned societies not included in the single-volume first or trial issue, of which only two copies are known. The ‘culmination of Lavoisier's achievement’ the Traité was ‘neither a general reference work nor a technical monograph’ but ‘a succinct exposition of Lavoisier’s discoveries (and those of his disciples) and an introduction to the new way of approaching chemistry’ (DSB VIII, pp. 81-82). Grolier/Horblit, Science 64; PMM 238; Norman 1295; Wellcome III, p.460.
2 volumes, octavo (192 x 120mm). 13 engraved folding plates by and after Paulze Lavoisier, woodcut head- and tailpieces by Papillon, 2 folding letterpress tables in vol. 1, 2-page errata at end (scattered spotting and browning, occasional faint waterstaining in margins). Contemporary half calf, red and green spine labels lettered in gilt, spines gilt, red edges (light surface wear).
First edition, second issue, containing tables and several extracts from the registers of the Academie des Sciences and other learned societies not included in the single-volume first or trial issue, of which only two copies are known. The ‘culmination of Lavoisier's achievement’ the Traité was ‘neither a general reference work nor a technical monograph’ but ‘a succinct exposition of Lavoisier’s discoveries (and those of his disciples) and an introduction to the new way of approaching chemistry’ (DSB VIII, pp. 81-82). Grolier/Horblit, Science 64; PMM 238; Norman 1295; Wellcome III, p.460.
2 volumes, octavo (192 x 120mm). 13 engraved folding plates by and after Paulze Lavoisier, woodcut head- and tailpieces by Papillon, 2 folding letterpress tables in vol. 1, 2-page errata at end (scattered spotting and browning, occasional faint waterstaining in margins). Contemporary half calf, red and green spine labels lettered in gilt, spines gilt, red edges (light surface wear).
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