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[LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794)]. Mmoires de Chimie. [Paris, 1803(?)].
3 volumes in 2, 8o (213 x 135 mm). 2 folding engraved plates laid in at the back of Vol. 1. (Very light foxing; lower corner torn away from I:E4, not affecting text.) Original blue wrappers, uncut, one quire partly unopened; half red morocco slipcases.
FIRST EDITION. Lavoisier's work on an eight-volume edition of his memoirs was interrupted by his imprisonment and subsequent execution. His widow retained what she could of his notes (most of the first volume, all of the second and a small part of the fourth volume), and later had them privately printed and distributed to eminent institutions and experts in the field. The edition comprises 39 separate memoirs, 29 by Lavoisier (including his claim, in the fifth memoir of Vol. 2, to have discovered the theory of oxidation, for which his wife was most concerned that he should receive credit), and the remainder by Brisson, Fourcroy, Laplace, Macquart, Sguin and Vauquel. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE WORK. Duveen & Klickstein 186; Norman 1297. (2)
3 volumes in 2, 8o (213 x 135 mm). 2 folding engraved plates laid in at the back of Vol. 1. (Very light foxing; lower corner torn away from I:E4, not affecting text.) Original blue wrappers, uncut, one quire partly unopened; half red morocco slipcases.
FIRST EDITION. Lavoisier's work on an eight-volume edition of his memoirs was interrupted by his imprisonment and subsequent execution. His widow retained what she could of his notes (most of the first volume, all of the second and a small part of the fourth volume), and later had them privately printed and distributed to eminent institutions and experts in the field. The edition comprises 39 separate memoirs, 29 by Lavoisier (including his claim, in the fifth memoir of Vol. 2, to have discovered the theory of oxidation, for which his wife was most concerned that he should receive credit), and the remainder by Brisson, Fourcroy, Laplace, Macquart, Sguin and Vauquel. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE WORK. Duveen & Klickstein 186; Norman 1297. (2)