Opuscules Physiques et Chymiques.Seconde Édition

LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent

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Three folding engraved plates. xxx, [2], 443 pp. Two parts in one vol. 8vo, cont. half-sheep & speckled boards, flat spine gilt, blue morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Deterville, 1801. Second edition of this "pioneer work in which [Lavoisier] first gives a historical survey of previous workers efforts and then describes his own experiments on gases and the conclusions to be derived from them." Duveen & Klickstein, p. 94. "The genuine second edition in which Deterville has reprinted the entire book with the errata corrected in the text and with the plates reengraved by Tardieu senior. Another so-called seconde edition published in 1801 is merely a reissue of the first edition, with the replacement of the dedication leaf to Trudaine de Montigny by a half title and a new title page, and with the same plates as the 1774 issue. The present edition is the first new printing of the Opuscules since Lavoisier s death in 1794." Neville, II, p. 19. A very fine copy. ? Cole 769. Duveen & Klickstein 123. Neville, II, p. 19 "It exerted a tremendous influence on Continental chemists and set the stage for Lavoisier s overthrow of the phlogiston theory.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1771

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