LAVOISIER (Antoine-Laurent de).Livre Rare Book
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177615781Paris, Lacombe, 1776. In-8, 55-(1)-622-(2) pp., 3 planches repliées, table, veau marbré, dos orné à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque).
179141023Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. In-8 de (2)-48 pp., demi-maroquin rouge à grains longs, dos lisse, titre doré en long, non rogné (reliure moderne).
1792One large folding printed table & six folding engraved plates. 2 p.l. 314 pp. 8vo cont. mottled calf foot of one joint repaired. Paris: Cuchet 1787. First edition second issue of one of the key books in the history of modern chemistry. Lavoisier's discoveries made a new and rational chemical nomenclature imperative. Initiated by Guyton de Morveau still an adherent of the phlogiston theory the project was taken up by Lavoisier who soon convinced Guyton of the truth of his system. They entered into collaboration with Berthollet and Fourcroy. The result of their combined efforts is contained in the present volume the most important milestone in the development of chemical nomenclature. The new nomenclature with only slight modifications is still the basis of the language of modern chemistry. In the second printing of the first edition the following pages are misnumbered: 241-56 instead of 257-72. Very good copy. ❧ Cole 566. Duveen & Klickstein 129. Sparrow Milestones of Science p. 27 and plate 113. unknown books
17894282Paris, Chardon for Cuchet, 1789. 1789 2 vol. in-8° reliés en 1 (205 x 125 mm.) de : XLIV; 653 pp.; VIII; 2 pp.; quelques tableaux dans le texte dont 1 dépliant ; 13 planches dépliantes. Demi basane d'époque, dos lisse orné, titre de maroquin rouge, plats recouverts de papier bleuté. (Coiffes supérieur restaurée, rousseurs).
116617Edinburgh for William Church and sold by G.G. & J. Robinsons and T. Kay 1796. . Third English language edition; 8vo; 2 folding tables 13 engraved folding plates bookplate of Oliver Sacks contemporary ownership signature to title a little toning and occasional small spots to the text plates possibly added from another volume with some dampstain and tanning; original blue boards rebacked to style with printed paper label to spine boards worn very good condition; 592pp.<br /> Third English language edition of Traité Élémentaire de Chemie the text that revolutionised chemistry. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks with his octopus bookplate. Though best known as a neurologist Sacks had a lifelong interest in chemistry. As recounted in the book Uncle Tungsten: Memoirs of a Chemical Boyhood he spent much of his childhood performing his own experiments and reading classic chemistry texts and his thoughts on Lavoisier and Traité Élémentaire de Chemie comprise chapter ten.<br /><br />Lavoisier's remarkable experimental program elucidated several major interrelated aspects of chemistry. It 'finally established the modern conception of elements as substances which cannot be further decomposed' and the fact that matter is conserved in chemical processes i.e. elements change their arrangements but are not themselves created or destroyed. This was connected with his discovery that respiration and combustion are similar processes in which oxygen is taken from the air and added to another substance. He was therefore able to explain 'many cyclical processes in animal and vegetable life and to carry out the earliest biochemical experiments' Printing and the Mind of Man 238. <br /><br />As Sacks writes in Uncle Tungsten 'All of Lavoisier's enterprises - the algebraic language the nomenclature the conservation of mass the definition of an element the formation of a true theory of combustion - were organically interlinked formed a single marvellous structure a revolutionary refounding of chemistry. The path to his revolution was not easy or direct even though he presents it as obvious in the Elements of Chemistry. There had been violent disputes and conflicts during the years in which Lavoisier was slowly gathering his ammunition but when the Elements was finally published - in 1789 just three months before the French Revolution - it took the scientific world by storm. It was an architecture of thought of an entirely new sort comprable only to Newton's Principia'.<br /> Printing and the Mind of Man 238; Hook & Norman The Norman Library of Science and Medicine 1295 all for the first edition. Edinburgh, for William Church, and sold by G.G. & J. Robinsons, and T. Kay, 1796. hardcover
177667051Paris: Chez Lacombe 1776. Fine. Chez Lacombe Paris 1776 12.50 x 20 cm relié Recueil de Mémoires et d'Observations sur la formation & sur la fabrication du salpêtre Observations on the Formation and Fabrication of Saltpeter Chez Lacombe Paris 1776 8vo 12.5 x 20 cm 622 pp 2 contemporary sheep First edition of this memoir Duveen ascribing it to Lavoisier. With three folding plates. Contemporary light brown marbled sheep spine in five compartments with gilt compartments and fleurons black morocco title label gilt arms to foot joints skilfully repaired all edges speckled blue. A few small wormholes to first compartments of spine. The upper quarter of the half-title cut away presumably to remove traces of a former owner. One faint dampstain to inside margin of final gatherings not serious. A very good and rare copy. Chez Lacombe unknown
3154P., Durand, 1774, un volume in 8 relié en pleine basane marbrée, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (léger manque à la partie inférieure du dos, coiffe & coins légèrement émoussés), 1pp.(titre), 30pp.(épitre + avertissement + table), 1 feuillet non chiffré(faux-titre), 436pp., 3 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES
31600P., Cuchet, 1787, un volume in 8 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, filets dorés sur les plats (reliure de l'époque), (minime accroc à la coiffe, quelques rousseurs), (2 - faux-titre + titre)), 314pp., 1 GRAND TABLEAU DEPLIANT, 6 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES
178717876Paris, (Chardon für) Cuchet, 1787. 2 Bll., 314 S. mit Titelholzschnitt-Vignette. 6 mehrfach gefalt. Kupfertafeln und 1 mehrfach gefalt. Tabelle. 8°. HLdr. des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Rückenschild (leicht berieben und bestoßen). [5 Warenabbildungen]
1789187081789 Paris, Cuchet (de l'imprimerie de Charde), 1789, 2 tomes en 1 vol. in-8 de XLIV-322 pp. - VIII pp., puis paginé de la p. 323 à la p. 653 - (2) pp. d'errata, rel. d'ép. de plein veau brun granité, dos à nerfs orné de fers dorés, pièce de titre de veau marron, habiles restaurations anciennes, le faux-titre du tome 1 manque, comme à bon nombre d'exemplaires, la planche II est en double exemplaire, bon ex.
178644923Paris, Moutard, 1786. 4to. Contemp. full sprinckled calf with 5 raised bands on spine. Richly gilt compartments, title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. A small nich to leather at middle of front hinge. A small tear to rear hinge at upper compartment. ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome XI. (4),198,682 pp. Wide-margined, fine and clean.
178644923Paris Moutard 1786. 4to. Contemp. full sprinckled calf with 5 raised bands on spine. Richly gilt compartments title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. A small nich to leather at middle of front hinge. A small tear to rear hinge at upper compartment. "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans" Tome XI. 4198682 pp. Wide-margined fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>This collective work is the French Academy's monumental treatise on the chemistry and the production of Salpetre a topic of great importence for the war-industry in making gunpowder. The volume contains papers by Macquer Darcy Lavoisier Sage Baumé de la Rochefoucault Clouer and an anonymous report on experiments made in England CAVENDISH'S on the composition of nitric acid.papers by Cornette Thouvenel and Thouvenel Le Lorgna Gavinet and Chevrand de Beunie Romme Clouet and Lavoisier de Rochefoucault etc.Partington III p. 467 n."The Regie des Poudres et Salpetres had the monopoly of refining salpetre from 1775 until it was suppressed during the Revolution. Until his retirement in 1791 the leading light in it was Lavoisier who seems to have written its publications. - In 1775 the Academy offered a prize of 4000 livres for a process for procuring an abundant supply of salpetrethe announcement being written by Lavoisier. Altogether 66 papers were received and the prize was finally awarded in 1782 to the brothers Thouvenel who gave a full account of nitre plantations. The material was published in 1786 in one volume by the Academy. In it Lavoisier describes 'Experiences sur la décomposition du nitre par le charbon' said to have been made in 1784."Partington III pp. 466 ff."Peu de temps après que Lavoisier eut été nommé régisseur des poudres et salpêtres il suggéra à Turgot alors contrôleur général des finances l'idée de charger l'Académie des sciences de décerner un prix au meilleur mémoire sur la formation du salpêtre. 'Académie nomma une commission dont Lavoisier fut le rapporteur ; c'est lui qui examina tous les mémoires présentés au concours en fit l'analyse et quand l'Académie publia en 1786 un volume contenant l'histoire du prix du salpêtre et les mémoires présentés au concours c'est encore Lavoisier qui en fut le rédacteur. Ce volume fait partie du Recueil des mémoires de mathématiques et de physique présentés à l'Académie royale des sciences par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées tome XI contenant le Recueil des mémoires sur la formation et la fabrication du salpêtre à Paris de l'imprimerie Moutard DCCLXXXVI. Sauf les mémoires des concurrents et un mémoire du duc de la Rochefoucault ce volume est tout entier de la main de Lavoisier. Il est formé de deux parties ; la première est intitulée : Histoire de ce qui s'est passé relativement au prix proposé sur la formation du salpêtre ; la seconde partie comprend les mémoires présentés au concours ainsi que des mémoires de Lavoisier et Clouet un mémoire sans signature mais qui appartient à Lavoisier le manuscrit autographe a été conservé le mémoire du duc de La Rochefoucault et les expériences de Lavoisier sur la décomposition du nitre par le charbon." </em> hardcover
thl53Paris: Cuchet 1787. First Edition First Issue of this important collaborative work which established the first systematic method of chemical nomenclature that is still in use today. “Originally suggested by Guyton de Morveau to eliminate the confused synonymy of chemistry and prefaced by a memoir of Lavoisier it emerged as a complete break with the past. In effect the scheme was based upon the new anti-phlogiston discoveries and theories…In a series of tables the ‘Nomenclature’ listed the elements substances non décomposées that is those bodies that had not been or perhaps could not be decomposed. Fifty-five in number these simple bodies included light and Lavoisier’s “matter of fire†now called “caloricâ€; the elementary gases: oxygen nitrogen azote and “inflammable air†now called hydrogen; carbon sulphur and phosphorus; the sixteen known metals; a long list of organic “radicals†i. e. accidifiable bases; and the as yet undecomposed alkaline earths and alkalis. Compounds were designated as chemists have done ever since so as to indicate their constituents." DSB VIII p. 80. Honeyman 1936. Neu 1791. Sparrow 126. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 256 241-256 273-314. with half-title. 6 folding engraved tables & 1 folding engraved plate. woodcut title vignette of a cherub supervising distillation. contemporary sprinkled calf gilt back small chip to head of spine short cracks in joints light dampstain to some leaves & first table stain on last leaf. thl53 Paris: Cuchet, 1787 unknown
178762432Paris, Cuchet, 1787, in-8, de (4), 314 pages 1 grand tableau et 6 planches, veau marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, filet à froid sur les plats, Première édition, second tirage, correspondant à la description de Duveen et Klickstein : la vignette du titre représente un chérubin affairé à des travaux de distillation, la marque de l'imprimeur au colophon est bien présente (page 314), et les pages 257 à 272 sont numérotées par erreur 241-256. Ouvrage capital dans lequel les grands chimistes de l'époque mettent au point une nouvelle manière de dénommer les éléments et ouvrent ainsi la voie à la chimie moderne la dégageant pour toujours de la lourdeur héritée du langage des alchimistes. "Avec Guyton de Morveau, Berthollet et Fourcroy, Lavoisier fait paraître en 1787 la Méthode de Nomenclature chimique qui donne une révision complète de l'ancienne nomenclature" (En Français dans le texte). "First of all, to persuade a new generation of chemists to join their ranks and to complete what Lavoisier had envisaged since 1773 - a revolution in chemistry - these men brought out a collaborative work, the Méthode de nomenclature chimique (1787) ; originally suggested by Guyton De Morveau to eliminate the confused synonymy of chemistry, and prefaced by a memoir of Lavoisier, it emerged as a complete break with the past. The Nomenclature was extremely influential and widely read" (DSB). Un grand tableau dépliant donne la nouvelle nomenclature et 6 planches dépliantes finales les nouveaux caractères chimiques. Malgré quelques rousseurs éparses, bon exemplaire, portant l'ex-libris imprimé de la bibliothèque de M. Boutron-Charlard, membre de l'Académie de Médecine et l'estampille, annulée, de l'Institut Catholique de Paris. DSB VIII p. 80. Partington III p. 481. Honeyman n° 1937. En Français dans le texte n° 184. Duveen et Klickstein n° 129. Norman n° 1291 (pour le premier tirage) Couverture rigide
1784513931784. <p>Franklin Benjamin 1706-90; Antoine Lavoisier 1743-94 Jean-Sylvain Bailly 1736-93 et al. Exposé des expériences qui ont été faites pour l'examen du magnétisme animal lu à l'Académie des Sciences . . . 16pp. N.p. 1784. 212 x 141 mm. uncut. Original plain wrappers. Paper flaw in last leaf but fine otherwise.</p> <p> Early Octavo Edition issued in the same year as the official quarto edition printed by the Imprimerie Royale. OCLC records two octavo editions one with imprint reading "A Paris: Chez Moutard Imprimeur-Libraire de la Reine . . . M.DCC.LXXXIV" and the other simply dated "1784" with no place or publisher information as in our copy. The typesetting also differs between the two editions: The Moutard edition has 15 pages with blank page 16 while our edition has 16 printed pages. </p> <p> After the Franklin commission issued its official report on animal magnetism a shorter précis of its findings was read by Bailly before the Académie des Sciences on 4 September 1784; this was then published under the title Exposé des expériences . . . As noted above the Exposé was issued in both quarto and octavo format. Not in Duveen Bibliography of the Works of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier which records only the Moutard edition. </p> . unknown
1787EBS100301Chez Cuchet Paris 1787. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A landmark publication in chemistry where four French scientists presented a new systematic way of naming chemical substances laying the foundation for modern chemical nomenclature still used today. <br /> <br /> The late 18th century witnessed considerable debates over the theory and practice of chemistry. The chief theoretical shift was the identification of oxygen in place of the hypothesized phlogiston which led many contemporaries to view the existing chemical terminology as outdated and confused. <br /> <br /> This move was largely driven by Lavoisier 1743-1791 and his fellow authors of the Méthode Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau 1737-1816 Claude-Louis Berthollet 1748-1822 and Antoine-François de Fourcroy 1755-1809. In the Méthode they develop a systematic nomenclature largely derived from oxygen theory arguing that chemical substances should be named according to their constituents. Simple substances should receive simple names and compounds should receive complex names deriving from their constituents. "The new terms were soon translated and adapted into other languages and became the basis of the modern nomenclature of inorganic chemistry. In the purely pragmatic terms of the terminology used modern chemistry therefore starts in 1787" Crosland p. 411. There were two issues of the first edition: this second is identified by misnumbering pages 258-9 262-3 266-7 and 270-1. <br /> <br /> The first edition itself there were two in 1787 is identified by the woodcut on the title page depicting a cherub supervising distillation. Duveen & Klickstein 126; Norman 1291. Maurice Crosland "Chemistry and the chemical revolution" in The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-century Science 1980. <br /> <br /> BOOK DESCRIPTION AND CONDITION: First Ed First Printing Second Issue Duveen and Klickstein pp 119-126 8vo 314pp huge folding table of Nomenclature six folded tables of chemical symbols; cherub & distillation apparatus on title page colophon p. 314. Mod. marbled boards. Very good condition throughout. The folding tables outline the first taxonomic system of chemical substances arranged according to their composition a system which proved immediately influential; even established figures like Priestley felt obliged to adopt the new terminology.<br /> <br /> PROVENANCE: From the Arthur C. Greenberg Chemical History Library. Presentation copy to Thomas Wedgwood Junior the eldest son of Thomas Wedgwood and older brother of the more well-known Isaiah Wedgwood from his cousin Thomas Byerley in 1787; T. Wedgwood Jr. and Byerley manufactured their own line of porcelain. Chez Cuchet (Paris) hardcover
31610P., Cuchet, 1787, un volume in 8 relié en pleine basane marbré, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches jaspées (reliure de l'époque), (2 - faux-titre + titre)), 314pp., 1 GRAND TABLEAU DEPLIANT, 6 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES
178775598À Paris, chez Cuchet [de l'imprimerie de Chardon], 1787, in-8, [4]-314 pages 1 grand tableau et 6 planches, veau tabac de l'époque, dos à nerfs et fleuronné, tranches marbrées, Première édition, en premier état. Ce dernier se reconnait à la vignette du titre représentant un chérubin affairé à des travaux de distillation, à la marque de l'imprimeur au colophon (page 314), et aux erreurs de pagination suivantes : 242-243 au lieu de 258-259, 246-247 au lieu de 262-263, 250-251 au lieu de 266-267, et 254-255 au lieu de 270-271. Ouvrage capital dans lequel les grands chimistes de l'époque mettent au point une nouvelle manière de dénommer les éléments et ouvrent ainsi la voie à la chimie moderne la dégageant pour toujours de la lourdeur héritée du langage des alchimistes. "Avec Guyton de Morveau, Berthollet et Fourcroy, Lavoisier fait paraître en 1787 la Méthode de Nomenclature chimique qui donne une révision complète de l'ancienne nomenclature" (En Français dans le texte). "First of all, to persuade a new generation of chemists to join their ranks and to complete what Lavoisier had envisaged since 1773 - a revolution in chemistry - these men brought out a collaborative work, the Méthode de nomenclature chimique (1787) ; originally suggested by Guyton De Morveau to eliminate the confused synonymy of chemistry, and prefaced by a memoir of Lavoisier, it emerged as a complete break with the past. The Nomenclature was extremely influential and widely read" (DSB). Un grand tableau dépliant donne la nouvelle nomenclature et 6 planches dépliantes finales les nouveaux caractères chimiques. Rares rousseurs claires. Charnières et coupes frottées. DSB VIII p. 80. Partington III p. 481. Honeyman n° 1937. En Français dans le texte n° 184. Norman n° 1291. Duveen & Klickstein n° 126. Couverture rigide
186225309Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale 1862. 6 volumes 4to 54 plates many folding and 2 double-p. tables; contemporary quarter brown morocco gilt-lettered direct on spine; ex-Northwestern University small labels on each spine perforated stamp on first leaf of text pocket at rear of each volume with withdrawn stamp; some wear to bindings; small tide-marks in the lower blank margins of most leaves also on some of the plates. The monumental collected edition of Lavoisier's works. "So many of the papers written by Lavoisier remained unpublished during his lifetime and can only be found in the Oeuvres particularly those of his earlier periods." Duveen & Klickstein pp. 377-456. <br/><br/> Imprimerie Imperiale unknown books
186225309Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale 1862. 6 volumes 4to 54 plates many folding and 2 double-p. tables; contemporary quarter brown morocco gilt-lettered direct on spine; ex-Northwestern University small labels on each spine perforated stamp on first leaf of text pocket at rear of each volume with withdrawn stamp; some wear to bindings; small tide-marks in the lower blank margins of most leaves also on some of the plates. The monumental collected edition of Lavoisier's works. "So many of the papers written by Lavoisier remained unpublished during his lifetime and can only be found in the Oeuvres particularly those of his earlier periods." Duveen & Klickstein pp. 377-456. Imprimerie Imperiale unknown
392692 volumes in-8 (200 x 118 mm), demi-basane de lépoque, dos lisses ornés de doubles filets dorés en place des nerfs, pièce de titre et de tomaison de veau rouge, xliv, 322 p., 2 tableaux dépliants et viij, [323]-653, (2) p., 13 planches dépliantes in fine. Paris, Cuchet, 1789.
4235...M. Lavoisier qui est de retour dun petit voyage qu'il vient de faire Cherbourg et lieux circumvoisins a l'honneur d'envoyer Monsieur le Baron Dietrich la suitte de la traduction de Kirwan qui est presqu' sa fin. Il y a joint une copie des observations de M. de Morveau qui doivent terminer l'ouvrage. Il espre qu'avec ces matriaux il pourra commencer le rapport. L'imprimeur le demande avant de terminer l'impression. M. Lavoisier a l'honneur de lui renouveller l'assurance de son tres parfait attachement...Il sagit de lEssai sur le phlogistique, et sur la constitution des acides de M. Kirwan, traduit de l'anglais, avec des notes de MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, de La Place, Monge, Berthollet, & de Fourcroy. En 1788, lpouse du chimiste, MARIE-ANNE DE LAVOISIER, chimiste elle-mme, avait traduit louvrage du scientifique irlandais Richard Kirwan (1733-1812), Essai sur le phlogistique et la constitution des acides, qui sera complt par des notes critiques rdiges par Lavoisier et ses collaborateurs.Pre de la chimie moderne et dcouvreur de l'oxygne, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier tmoigne par sa vie et son Suvre de la grandeur du XVIIIe sicle franais.Ses recherches sont rassembles dans un Trait lmentaire de chimie, publi en 1789. Elles tournent autour d'un principe que l'on rsume par l'aphorisme : Rien ne se cre, rien ne se perd, tout se transforme .Il est galement fermier gnral (collecteur d'impts), ce qui lui vaudra d'tre guillotin sous la Rvolution. On prte au vice-prsident du tribunal la formule : La Rpublique n'a pas besoin de savants ! ...
178943634Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Gilt spine, slightly rubbed, light wear to spine ends. ""Annales de Chimie: ou Recueil de Mémoires Concernant la Chimie et les Arts qui en Dépendent. Par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Monge, Berthollet, De Fourcroy, le Baron de Dietrich, Hassenfratz & Adet."" Tome Premier. (2),312,(2) pp. The entire volume offered. Some scattered brownspots. A small wormtract to upper margin of ab. 20 leaves, no loss of letters.
