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1791042651Paris: Fuchs 1791. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half contemporary leather over marbled boards. Worn at corners hinges slightly cracked stamp to title page. Tome 10 of the first series. 336pp folding plate at rear. Contents include: Investigations on the chemical history of the tepid springs of Buxton Refining of metal for clocks Chemical examination of skate liver etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042651. <br/><br/> Fuchs hardcover books
1793042673Paris: Joseph de Boffe 1793. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Volumes 17-20 1793-1797 of the seminal French scientific journal still published today. Half leather over marbled boards general wear at edges chipped and wear at corners and spine ends bindings tight and intact. Stamp on title pages browning to endpapers. Volume 19 with a dark dampstain all along the top margin not touching the text. 335pp two folding plates; 328pp 1 folding plate; 384pp; 396pp 1 folding plate. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042673. <br/><br/> Joseph de Boffe hardcover books
1793263321Paris 1793. hardcover. very good. Seconde edition. Volume 2 only. 13 folding copperplates by Madame Marie Paulze Lavoisier. 8vo rebound in tan cloth. Paris: Chez Cuchet 1793. Very good.<br/><br/> The foundation stone of modern chemistry; a succinct exposition of his discoveries and an introduction to the new way of approaching chemistry. "One of the most important books in the history of chemistry which finally freed the science from its phlogiston chains and formed the starting point of its modern progress. It may be said to have done almost as much for chemistry as Newton's "Principia" did for Physics". Duveen 340 Zeitlinger. DSB VIII 66-9l. Ferguson II 12.<br/><br/> unknown books
1787S9953Paris:: Chez Cuchet 1787. 1787. 8vo. iv 314 pp. Half-title woodcut title-page vignette headpiece tailpieces 6 folding tables of chemical symbols 1 folding plate; page 1 of the text trimmed at top margin and mounted on a stub foxed. Contemporary full mottled calf red leather spine label gilt-stamped spine; foot of spine chipped corners of read cover chewed. Ownership signature on title. Very good. FIRST EDITION second issue second printing with the flowered vase on the title-page previously a cherub and no colophon on page 314. Lavoisier's new terminology of chemistry was an important part of his reforms in the science and it has been in use with some modifications ever since its introduction. "The merits of the new nomenclature are even today more than evident since with only slight modification it is still the basis of the language of modern chemistry." Duveen & Klickstein pp. 119-126. Louis Guyton de Morveau was trained as a lawyer who taught himself the subject of chemistry. From 1776-1789 he taught public courses in chemistry at the Dihon Academy. He was professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1794-1811 twice serving as its director. Blake/NLM p. 191 2nd printing; Cole Chemical literature 566; DSB Vol. V. pp. 600-604; Duveen Bibliotheca alchemica et chemical p. 340; Duveen & Klickstein 130; Gascoigne 7150.4; Partington A history of chemistry Vol. III p. 372; Poggendorf Vol. I col. 981; Wellcome III p. 185. Chez Cuchet, 1787. hardcover books
