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178871724Paris: S. n. 1788. Fine. S. n. Paris 1788 12.50 x 20 cm relié Essai sur le Phlogistique et sur la constitution des Acides Essay on Phlogistonn. p. Paris 1788 8vo 12.5 x 20 cm xij ; 344 pp.; 4 p. contemporary half sheep First edition and sole publication of the French translation and critical analysis under the direction of Madame Lavoisier of this text published in English the previous year under the title An Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids. The work is made up of twelve sections all followed by critical notes by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau Pierre Simon de Laplace & Gaspard Monge & Claude Louis Berthollet & Antoine François de Fourcroy. Contemporary half light brown sheep over marbled paper boards smooth leather spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons morocco leather title piece. Very skillfully restored joints. Interior in very good condition except for two marks left by bookmarks on pages 68-69 and 176-177. Rare autograph inscription by Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier to Joseph Louis de Lagrange prominent mathematician and loyal friend to Antoine Lavoisier. Valuable record of the leading role played by Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier in the chemical revolution at the dawn of the French Revolution. Phlogiston theory emerged at the end of the 17th century conceived by Johann Becker and developed by Georg Ernst Stahl postulating the existence of a flame element inherent in combustible bodies and released during combustion. This hypothesis was completely refuted by Lavoisier who revealed the role of oxygen in the combustion process thus inventing the theory of oxidation. Irritated by Lavoisier's skepticism with regard to phlogiston theory the eminent Irish chemist Richard Kirwan published this text titled Essay on Phlogiston. . The French chemists who rallied around Lavoisier decided to respond by translating An Essay on Phlogiston into French. Keiko Kawashima Madame Lavoisier et la traduction française de l'Essay on phlogiston de Kirwan in Revue d'histoire des sciences 2000. This text far from being a simple translation of Kirwan's work adopted the form of a manifesto in itself in which the greatest chemists of the day contested phlogiston theory dissecting its advocates' arguments one by one. The huge success of the French translation led Kirwan to attempt to refute the objections of Lavoisier and his collaborators. In 1789 he published a second edition of his work translating the French notes written by its detractors into English and adding his own refutations. He finally converted to the ideas of the anti-phlogisticians the founders of modern organic chemistry. Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Mme Lavoisier played a key role in the career of her husband who taught her chemistry at her request; she then became his assistant recording the experiments he carried out and their results. She very quickly took on a role that went beyond that of the devoted wife becoming a translator but also a writer: many of the notes in the Essai sur le phlogistique were written by her. At the height of her involvement it was she in her capacity as a skilled illustrator who drew all the plates in Traité élémentaire de chimie 1789 appending her signature Paulze Lavoisier Sculpsit on this occasion. This specimen includes a rare autograph inscription by the translator Mme Lavoisier to Joseph Louis de Lagrange 1736-1813 one of her husband's closest friends. It was Lavoisier who aroused the interest of Lagrange in the new science of chemistry. Together they participated in the development of a metric system that standardized weights and measures which came to light during the Revolution. Working for the revolutionary government Lagrange had more opportunities than his chemist friend who was executed as a victim of the Terror. When he learned that Lavoisier had been killed at the guillotine the mathematician declared: It took them only an instant to cut off Lavo S. n. hardcover
1791174569Paris: c.1791. A prime example of Madame Lavoisier's formidable analytic eye First edition scarce offprint issue of Madame Lavoisier's critical translation of the work of a prominent fellow of the Royal Society. In the UK institutional copies are recorded at UCL and in the Wellcome Collection. Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier 1758-1836 famously refuted the claims of the chemist Richard Kirwan 1733-1812 several times. In 1787 after he published his Essay on Phlogiston she brought out a similarly deprecatory translation complete with a preface which undermined his authority as an academic. Kirwan published Of the strength of acids and the proportion of ingredients in neutral salts in Dublin in 1791. In her translation Lavoisier's extensive annotations and critical apparatus focus on Kirwan's scientific and procedural errors. "II y a dans ces sortes d'expériences une cause d'erreurs qui paroit avoir échappé à M. Kirwan; c'est la grande quantité d'eau que l'acide carbonique est susceptible de dissoudre et qui échappe avec lui" "There is in these types of experiences a cause of errors which appears to have escaped Mr Kirwan: the large quantity of water which carbonic acid is likely to dissolve and which escapes with it" - p. 40. Marie-Anne married Antoine Lavoisier in 1771. She promoted their collaborative work to the international scientific community and used her command of languages to keep Antoine abreast of the latest developments. "Through her drawings translations interpretations of notes and skillful editing of Lavoisier's memoirs she made some important additions to the body of scientific knowledge. there are indications that she made some theoretical contributions" Ogilvie & Harvey. This translation was published in journal form in the Annales de Chimie which Antoine Lavoisier edited. Octavo 193 x 120 mm pp. 108. Woodcut headpieces and tables in the text. Recent red quarter morocco spine lettered in gilt marbled paper sides. Minimal wear minor foxing and creasing to contents: a very good copy indeed. Ogilvie & Harvey Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science II p. 753. unknown
1787173027Paris: Chez Cuchet 1787. Modern chemistry therefore starts in 1787 First edition second issue of the work which introduced modern chemical terminology among the most fundamental scientific texts of the 18th century. 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. 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. 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. The first edition itself there were two in 1787 is identified by the woodcut on the title page depicting a cherub supervising distillation. Octavo 185 x 120 mm pp. 4 314. With 7 folding tables woodcut title page vignette head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled sheep spine with foliate decoration in gilt brown calf label lettered in gilt raised bands covers with single fillet border in blind marbled endpapers edges red pink silk bookmarker. Later pencil annotation to upper margin of p. 9. Light bumping and rubbing minor stripping to covers tail of front joint neatly repaired front inner hinge split but holding firm loss to lower outer corner of half-title inner margin of leaf G7 and outer margin of rear free endpaper none affecting text a couple of closed tears to initial folding table contents otherwise clean: a very good copy. 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. hardcover
1790EBS100146Edinburgh: William Creech 1790. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Robert Kerr 1755-1813 undertook this first English translation of Lavoisier's Traité elementaire de Chimie Paris 1789. Printing & the Mind of Man headlines the original edition as "A new epoch in chemistry." <br /> <br /> A more recent analysis pinpoints the importance of this book: "Lavoisier's most fundamental innovations transformed how one presents how one argues scientific knowledge and how as a result one develops and transmits it. The transformation of the terms and structures of scientific discussions had consequences beyond chemistry-consequences that Lavoisier himself did not foresee". W. C. Anderson Between the library & the laboratory John Hopkins 1984. <br /> <br /> BOOK DETAILS AND CONDITION: First Eng. Ed 8vo: 50 511 1 pp with 2 folding tables and 13 folding copper plates Duveen and Klickstein pp 180-182 Cont. leather w/some wear missing head and tail bands. Neville II p 24: Some alterations have been made in the tables in the appendix to accommodate the English reader: e.g. rules for converting French weights and measures are added and temperatures are given in degrees Fahrenheit. See A. Greenberg From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story John Wiley & Sons New York 2007 pp 309310316. Overall: VG.<br /> <br /> RARITY: Rare Book Hub shows eleven copies have sold in the last century.<br /> <br /> PROVENANCE: Signatures of three past owners in book: Alfred Brunton 1843; Henry Hallett and Charles Lucy. This book was also owned by Arthur Greenburg. Henry Hallett shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in physiology for discovery of the role of acetylcholine in neural transmission. Greenburg is a well known historian of chemistry. Edinburgh: William Creech hardcover
178718453Paris: Chez Cuchet 1787. FIRST EDITION. With half-title 6 large folding copperplates and 1 large folding table title vignette woodcut headpiece above first text leaf pages 257-272 misnumbered. Contemporary tree calf spine label very small crack at top of spine and rear cover otherwise an excellent copy printed partially on blue paper from the library of Melchet Court Romsey and a small book label with the heraldic motto “virus in arduis†on the paste-down. First edition of one of the most important works in the history of modern chemistry. Lavoisier’s discoveries brought about a critical need to develop a new chemical nomenclature. Its importance was first recognized by Guyton de Morveau an adherent of the phlogiston theory. De Morveau was invited to join a group of the leading anti-phlogistonists to discuss the possibility of applying his nomenclature to Lavoisier’s chemistry and in the process was converted to Lavoisier’s doctrines. The result of this collaboration of Bertholet Fourcroy de Morveau Lavoisier and others is contained in this volume and marks the foundation of modern chemical nomenclature.<br /> <br /> Cole Chemical Literature 1700-1860 566C under Guyton de Morveau; Duveen 126; Duveen & Klickstein p. 127; Norman 1291; see Printing & the Mind of Man 238; Sparrow Milestones of Science 125. Chez Cuchet unknown
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. 23122 pp. The entire volume offered. Some scattered brownspots. A small wormtract to upper margin of ab. 20 leaves no loss of letters. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the first volume of this very important journal founded by Lavoisier and his friends collaborating in establishing THE NEW SCIENCE of Anti-Phlogistic theory in chemistry. Crosland in "The two French Revolutions" and "The Imperial Despotism of Oxygen" claims that for a clear understanding of the CHEMICAL REVOLUTION THE NEW JOURNAL of ANNALES DE CHIMIE can be rightly considered as FUNDAMENTAL as the "Traite élementaire de Chimie"."A third and most important instrument was the establishment of a new scientific journal edited - and dominated - by the votaries of the "new chemistry". The first number of this journal of the Annales de chimie appeared in 1789 the year of the Revolution. Its editors were besides Lavoisier his early disciples - Guyton Berthollet Fourcroy and Monge - with the addition of three new recruits: the Strassbourf metallurgist the Baron de Dietrich Jean-henri Hssenfratz and Pierre Auguste Adet."DSB VIII p.81.LAVOISIER'S paper on COMBUSTION pp. 19-30 contains his important interpretation of the phenomena of combustion in air making the fundamental distinction between burning and combustion. By this "Lavoisier gave to the study of chemistry a new life a new direction and a wider outlook." Alexander Findley."The Lavoisierian memoir on combustion of iron stood out among the large number of interesting papers discussed in the first volume of the "Annales". In his account Lavoisier sustained that in nature combustion without flames did occur. Thus he clarified the distinction between ordinary burning and combustion: an issue on which the majority of traditional chemists were confused. The need for accuracy and precision in laboratory practices was emphasised in his study as it was a means to determine quantities rather than assuming them."Angela Bandinelli in "Scientific Communication During a Major Change .Empirical Research: Annales de chimie vs Obs. sur la physique/ Journal de physique 1789-1803.The volume furthermore contains important papers by: Adet Fourcroy 3 papers Berthollet 3 papers Chaptal Hassenfratz 5 papers Baron de Dietrich 2 papers Klaproth 2 papers Girtanner Dollfuss Bonz de Ettingen Crell De Morveau. </em> unknown
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
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
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
1783EBS100454Warrington: Printed by W. Eyres for J. Johnson 1783. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of this group of papers which Lavoisier published in the Mémoires of the Académie Royale des Sciences; there is no equivalent edition in French. <br /> <br /> The first paper is the first edition in English of his Expériences sur la respiration des animaux in which he asserted that respiration involved only the air éminement respirable i.e. oxygen and that the remainder of the air is purely passive entering and leaving the lungs unchanged. This began his first serious studies of respiration which were to culminate in 1785-1789 in his classic investigations on the subject see Fulton Selected readings in the history of physiology. <br /> <br /> Other papers are on combustion and on the analysis of acids including his paper read to the Académie in 1779 which contains the first appearance of the word oxygen in chemistry although the translator uses the usual term for time dephlogisticated air and Lavoisier's original definition of it. <br /> <br /> In the eighth essay pp. 96-118 of this important work Lavoisier proposes his theory that oxygen is an essential constituent of all acids and he remarks: Here therefore we have a new road opened in chemistry. p. 115. <br /> <br /> BOOK DETAILS AND CONDITION: 8vo xx 142 pp. Without half-title and advert leaf; Bound in recent half calf and marbled paper over boards; Early leaves foxed as usual. VG <br /> <br /> RARITY: A relatively rare book. Has sold five times at auction in the last century RBH. OCLC reports 32 copies in the worlds libraries / ESTC T63988 shows 30 copies. <br /> <br /> PROVENANCE: Ex-library Franklin Institute See Duveen and Klickstein pp 368-370. From the Arthur C. Greenberg History of Chemistry Library. <br /> <br /> REFERENCES: Blake p.258; Cole 761. Duveen p. 340. Neville II p. 17. Duveen & Klickstein 336. Warrington: Printed by W. Eyres, for J. Johnson hardcover
178990025Paris: Rue et Hôtel Serpente 1789. Fine. Opening run of the journal ""Annales de chimie"" vehicle of ""The New Chemistry"" founded and directed by Antoine de Lavoisier Rue et Hôtel Serpente Paris 1789-1792 12.8 x 19.6 cm Relié First edition highly sought after in the 19th century comprising 14 of the first 15 volumes published between 1789 and 1792 of the first series of the celebrated French scientific periodical Annales de chimie. Volume 10 missing. Contemporary full brown calf spines smooth with gilt fillets brown morocco lettering-piece and green morocco numbering-piece blind-ruled border to covers red speckled edges bookplate of P. H. Chavoix to front pastedown of each volume. Volumes 1 and 11 numbered in Roman rather than Arabic numerals. Overall discreet restorations corners rubbed occasional light foxing and browning some worming to bindings not affecting text head and tail of headcaps worn on volumes 7 13 14 and 15. The complete first series of the Annales de chimie published between 1789 and 1815 runs to 96 volumes. From 1793 to 1797 publication was suspended following the arrest of Antoine Lavoisier the journal's treasurer and in Édouard Grimaux's words its ""true director."" The opening run here contains nearly all the issues produced under the direction of and with contributions from the chemists Antoine de Lavoisier and Baron Philippe Frédéric de Dietrich. Both were condemned to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror in 1794 and 1793 respectively. This set is further illustrated with 12 scientific plates including two by the engraver Sellier as well as a map of the county of Bigorre. The majority of the articles and essays are first editions written by distinguished French and foreign chemists and physicists who helped disseminate ""The New Chemistry"": in order of appearance Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau Antoine de Lavoisier Gaspard Monge Claude-Louis Berthollet Anne-François Fourcroy Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich Jean Henri Hassenfratz Pierre-Auguste Adet Jean-Antoine Chaptal Martin Heinrich Klaproth Johann Georg Albrecht Höpfner Christoph Girtanner Johann Christian Wiegleb Jacques-Anselme Dorthes Johann Friedrich Westrumb Armand Seguin Henry Cavendish William Austin Martin van Marum l'abbé René Just Haüy Peter Jacob Hjelm Jan Ingenhousz Isaac Milner Johan Gadolin James Watt Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell Charles Blagden Jean Senebier Jean d'Arcet William Higgins Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin Nicolas Joseph Thiéry de Ménonville Dom Michel Rubin de Celis Jacques Louis Schurer Augustin-François de Silvestre l'abbé Claude Chappe Antoine Augustin Parmentier Nicolas Deyeux Bertrand Pelletier Charles-Augustin Coulomb Joseph Priestley Richard Kirwan Jean André de Luc Jean-François Clouet chevalier Marsilio Landriani Jean-Noël Hallé François Pierre Nicolas Gillet de Laumont Georges-Charles Bartholdi Alexandre Brongniart Jean-Michel Haussmann Henri Reboul François René Curaudau Thomas Henry Jean-Anthyme Margueron Nicolas Leblanc Johann Rudolph Deiman Pieter Nieuwland Pierre de Ribaucourt Pissis fils Jean-Baptiste Van Mons ou encore Louis François Antoine Arbogast. In 1816 the Annales de chimie was retitled Annales de chimie et de physique. In 1913 the journal split into two separate publications Annales de chimie and Annales de physique. The titles have undergone further changes up to the present day. A collection of 14 volumes from the opening run of the prestigious French scientific periodical Annales de chimie containing numerous essays and articles most in first edition published under the editorship of distinguished figures: Antoine de Lavoisier Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau Gaspard Monge Claude-Louis Berthollet Anne-François Fourcroy Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich Jean Henri Hassenfratz and Pierre-Auguste Adet. Rue et Hôtel Serpente unknown
178773124à Paris: Chez Cuchet 1787. Fine. Chez Cuchet à Paris 1787 13.50 x 21 cm broché Second printing of the first edition: pages 257 to 272 are misnumbered 241-256 Duveen and Klickstein. Illustrated with a large chart and 6 folding plates at rear. Library stamp of Laboratoires Lumière on the half-title title page and several other pages. Another stamp ""G. Chicanuard"" appears on the half-title; we have found no information about this person. Temporary binding in full marbled paper. Handwritten title on spine. Some small paper losses in places and joint on second board cracked but still sound. Copy as issued with full margins. The Méthode forms a manifesto for a revolution in the world of chemistry and the birth of modern chemistry a chemistry that resolutely turns its back on the past by becoming scientific. It was Lavoisier the most influential scientist at the Academy of Sciences who brought together around his theory and to support it decisively the greatest French chemists: Fourcroy Berthollet Adet Hassenfratz and Guyton de Morveau whom the already formed group welcomed to Paris in February 1787. The latter joined them with an advanced chemical nomenclature which would be revised by Lavoisier who demanded that Morveau abandon his phlogistic theory principle of a combustible element in air dating from the 17th century since he had discovered the role of oxygen. It was at this price that he was entrusted with presenting the new nomenclature. It was in the session of May 2 1787 at the Academy of Sciences that the terms ""oxygen"" ""hydrogen"" and ""carbon"" were pronounced for the very first time. Adet and Hassenfratz were responsible for proposing symbols for ""new characters to be used in chemistry"" which would not have much success but was destined for a great future. The entire project was placed under the authority and will of Lavoisier and the decision that Morveau should carry the project was a political decision intended to ensure better reception among foreign scientists. No one was deceived because it was Lavoisier who would be attacked by Western science. Very important work that marks the birth certificate of scientific chemistry. Chez Cuchet unknown
1793EBS100381Paris: Cuchet 1793. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. AUTHORIZED SECOND EDITION OF LAVOISIER'S KEY WORK. This is authorized Chardon issue; 1st 1793 issue was pirated; 3rd 1793 issue was improved version of pirated issue by authorized publisher. Like the original 1789 edition the plates bear the signature of Madame Lavoisier."Although it does not show any material changes in the text nor any additions all the errata are here corrected and the plates are the original ones with Madame Lavoisier's signature. It is difficult to explain now the reasons why this edition was put out in the same year but it might be assumed that Lavoisier and Cuchet wanted to counteract the distribution of the books which had been fraudulently issued by printing an authoritative edition" Duveen & Klickstein. BOOK DETAILS AND CONDITION: 2 Vols 8vo 2 folding tables 13 fine folding copperplates by Mme Lavoisier Second ed second issue 8vo 19th cent. half calf VG See A. Greenberg From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story John Wiley & Sons New York 2007 pp 313 315 316 335 PROVENANCE: Professor A. Bernardes de Oliveira of Sao Paolo Brazil bookplate a well-known science book collector and Arthur C. Greenberg an author and expert on the history of chemistry. REFERENCES: Duveen et Klickstein 157; PMM 238 for the Paris 1789 edition. Paris: Cuchet hardcover
176844940Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1768. 4to. Extract from "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans" Tome V. With tittlepage to vol. 5. Pp. 341-357. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Lavoisier's FIRST PUBLISHED CHEMICAL PAPER introducing quantitative methods in chemistry and in which he for the first time brought a hydrometer in use to measure the specific gravities of components of a chemical solutions. Lavoisier defended the originality of his approach in the following words: "It is to the art of combination that the knowledge of the specific gravities of fluids can bring most light. This aspect of chemistry is much less advanced than we thought we possess barely the rudiments of it." "This first paper which in so many respects embodies the quantitative methods Lavoisier was to employ in his later work had in fact been largely anticipated by others notably by Marggraf who had already discovered the composition of gypsum and shown that it contained water phlegm. Yet Lavoisier’s work was more through; and his paper his first contribution to the Academy of Sciences read to the Academy on 25 February 1765 appeared in 1768. The paper offered. - Lavoisier’s earliest chemical investigation his study of gypsum was mineralogical in character; begun in the autumn of 1764 it was intended as the first paper in a series devoted to the analysis of mineral substances. This systematic inventory was to be carried out not by the method of J. H. Pott "who exposed minerals to the action of fire" but by reactions in solution by the "wet way." "I have tried to copy nature" Lavoisier wrote. "Water this almost universal solvent "is the cheif agent she employs; it is also the one I have adopted in my work." Using a hydrometer he determined with the care the solubility of different samples of gypsum samples of selenite or lapis specularis some supplied by Guettard and Rouelle. He made similar measurements with calcined gypsumplaster of paris. Analysis convinced him that this gypsum was a neutral salt a compound of vitriolic sulfuric acid and a calcareous or chalky base. Not content with having shown by analysis the composition of the gypsum Lavoisier completed his proof by a synthesis following as he said the way that nature had formed the gypsum. He further demonstrated that gypsum when transformed by strong heating into plaster of Paris gives off a vapor which he showed to be pure water making up about a quarter of the weight of gypsum. Conversely when plaster of Paris is mixed with water and turns into a solid mass it avidly combines with water. Using the expression first coined by Rouelle he called this the "water of crystallization." DSB.Partington III pp. 378-79. - </em> unknown
17833925London: Warrington Printed by W. Eyres for J. Johnston 1783. First English Language Edition. Octavo : pp. vii viii 2 141 3 List of Books lately published by J. Johnston : now custom clamshell box with red leather title panel lettered in gilt. DUVEEN 336<br /> <br /> Lacks covers and half title; toned foxed and brittle; title page detached; thereafter first gathering detached; chips and water stains. Antoine Lavoisier often referred to as the Father of Modern Chemistry and his wife Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier later Countess von Rumford were eighteenth century French chemists responsible for overthrowing the "false doctrine of Phlogiston". Lavoisier relied on Paulze's translation of foreign works to keep abreast of current developments in chemistry. In the case of phlogiston it was Paulze's translation of Richard Kirwan's 'Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids - with her own footnotes critiquing his errors - that convinced him the idea was incorrect ultimately leading to his studies of combustion and his discovery of oxygen gas. <br /> <br /> Lavoisier was a victim of The Terror of 1794 and guillotined in Paris. "It took but a moment to cut off his head; it will take a century to produce another like it" mourned his friend Lagrange the mathematician. The Autobiography of Science p.228.<br /> <br /> The collected essays show the development of Lavoisier's thinking and in the penultimate essay VIII the term "oxyginous principle" principe oxygin i.e. oxygen appears for the first time in chemistry p.98 This paper was first submitted to the Academie in 1777 and read in 1779. DUVEEN 49. Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres for J. Johnston unknown
1787612Paris: Cuchet 1787. 1st. Full mottled calf with gilt tooling along the edges gilt spine compartments with floral ornaments and leather spine label. Contemporary binding with rubbing and wear along the spine and corners. Boards show mottling and fading with some scuffing. Pages exhibit foxing toning and occasional spotting consistent with age. Folding tables are intact and legible though with some creasing and edge wear. Features: Marbled edges; multiple large folding tables and engraved charts; decorative typographic ornaments. Overall good. <p data-start="251" data-end="727">Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique Paris: Cuchet 1787 is the groundbreaking work that introduced the modern system of chemical nomenclature marking a turning point in the history of science. Written collaboratively by Morveau Lavoisier Berthollet and Fourcroy—four of the most influential chemists of the 18th century—this treatise sought to replace centuries of inconsistent and confusing chemical terminology with a rational systematic method of naming substances.</p> <br /> <p data-start="729" data-end="1178">The work introduces a new nomenclature rooted in clarity precision and universality laying the foundation for the modern language of chemistry. Included are detailed explanations of the logic behind the naming system as well as extensive tables of elements and compounds that illustrate the method in practice. The treatise also contains supplementary sections by Hassenfratz and Adet who proposed a symbolic notation for chemical substances.</p> <br /> <p data-start="1180" data-end="1537">Lavishly produced the book features large folding tables and engraved charts including the famous “Tableau de la Nomenclature Chimique†which visually organizes the new classification of substances. These elements highlight both the pedagogical and scientific ambitions of the project: to unify chemists under a single coherent system of communication.</p> <br /> <p data-start="1539" data-end="1749">This volume is considered a cornerstone of the Chemical Revolution appearing just two years before Lavoisier’s Traité élémentaire de chimie 1789 and cementing his role as the father of modern chemistry.</p> . Cuchet unknown
17781465Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale 1778. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION LAVOISIER'S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. <br /> <br /> In this work Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases one "highly respirable" that he named "oxygen" and the other later named nitrogen that was unable to support combustion or respiration. This work is commonly referred to as Lavoisier's "Easter Memoir" because he presented an earlier version to the Academy around Easter of 1775; as this is the 1778 revised version historians regard it as Lavoisier's "official" Easter Memoir Wikipedia. We offer the 1780 edition separately.<br /> <br /> In April 1778 "Lavoisier read for a second time the memoir in which he had originally demonstrated in April 1775 that mercury precipitate reduced without charcoal disengages not fixed air but the ‘air itself entire' or ‘the purest portion of the air'. He made some revisions in the text that have attracted widespread attention from historians" Holmes Lavoisier 137. <br /> <br /> In the time between 1775 and 1778 Lavoisier repeated some of performed some new experiments of his own and repeated some of Priestley's. In the 1778 ‘official' version Lavoisier "altered the language in which he had described that air calling it now ‘the most salubrious the most pure portion of the air' and air ‘in an eminently respirable state'. Fastening on to this last phrase he again referred to the air later in his memoir as ‘eminently respirable air'. At the same time he deleted references to it in the original version as ‘common air' and eliminated the experimental description that it reacted to the nitrous air test in the same manner as common air. <br /> <br /> "Historians have tended to treat with suspicion the textual changes Lavoisier made. The implication seems to be that he sought to represent himself as having clearly understood in 1775 that the air released from the mercury calx is a specific portion of the atmosphere when in fact he had then still not distinguished it unambiguously from ordinary air. If one couples this suspicion with acceptance of Priestley's charge that Lavoisier had obtained the idea for the experiment from him in the first place then one creates an image of Lavoisier as one who is known to have had an ‘occasional tendency to allow the work of others to pass as his own'. <br /> <br /> "There is however no solid evidence that in making these changes he was attempting to rewrite history. His motivation was probably simple. By the spring of 1778 when his new theoretical edifice had solidified the experiments on mercury calx would have come to appear to him as one of the decisive experimental foundations on which he had erected it. Yet when he looked back on the paper which reported these experiments from the vantage point he had since attained the descriptions of the air he had identified in it would have appeared confused ambiguous and inconsistent. <br /> <br /> "The embarrassment of allowing such flaws to remain in what he could now anticipate might someday be regarded as a classic paper is obvious. Since the paper had yet to appear in the Memoirs of the Academy chronically two to three years late in publication he had a convenient opportunity to avoid that outcome" Holmes. <br /> <br /> ALSO INCLUDED: An important paper by P. S. Laplace introducing the concept of the "Coriolis effect" fifty years before Coriolis. Euler had also written about the effect in 1749. "Recherches sur plusieurs points du système du monde" in Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences Année 1775 pp. 75-182 1778. This is part one of a two part paper. CONDITION: Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. 4to 10.5 x 8.25. 11 folding engraved copperplates. Prior ownership name 'Bernardi' on front free endpaper. Contemporary full leather binding. Front joint between spine and boards cracking but solid. Handsome wide margins throughout. Slight toning throughout otherwise bright and very clean. Very good condition. De l'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
1787S14078Paris :: Chez Cuchet 1787. 1787. 8vo. iv 314 pp. PAGINATION NOTE: pages 257-272 are mis-numbered 241-256 Duveen. 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 mended with kozo patch upper joint cracked corners of read cover chewed. Ownership signature on title under the vignette. Very good. 264 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. ALL AUTHORS: LAVOISIER Antoine Laurent 1743-1794 ; Louis Bernard GUYTON DE MORVEAU 1737-1816 ; Claude-Louis BERTHOLLET 1748-1822 ; Antoine-Francois de FOURCROY 1755-1809 ; Jean Henri HASSENFRATZ 1755-1827 ; Pierre-Auguste ADET 1763-1834. PROVENANCE: Emile on title. REFERENCES: Blake/NLM p. 191 2nd printing; Cole Chemical literature 566; DSB Vol. V. pp. 600-604; Duveen Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica 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
1768EBS100145In: Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physiques Présentés à l Académie Royale de Sciences par divers Savans & lûs dans ses Assemblées; Pp 341-366 in Volume 5 1768. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST EDITION JOURNAL ISSUE OF LAVOISIER'S FIRST CONTRIBUTION TO THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. "Lavoisier's earliest chemical investigation his study of gypsum was mineralogical in character; begun in the autumn of 1764 it was intended as the first paper in a series devoted to the analysis of mineral substances. 'I have tried to copy nature' Lavoisier wrote. 'Water this almost universal solvent. is the chief agent she employs; it is the one I have adopted in my work.'. Analysis convinced him that this gypsum was a neutral salt a compound of vitriolic sulfuric acid and a calcareous or chalky base. He further demonstrated that gypsum when transformed by strong heating into plaster of Paris gives off a vapor which he showed to be oure water making up about a quarter of the weight of gypsum. This first paper which in so many respects embodies the quantitative methods Lavoisier was to employ in his later work had in fact been anticipated by others." DSB. Other essays in the Mémoires include works by Chevalier Muller and Boucher. The entire volume is illustrated with 20 engraved folding plates. See Duveen and Klickstein p 14Paris: De L Imprimerie Royale 1768Large 4to Complete Volume 5 bound in cont. leather spine raised bands in compartments folding plates; Also chemical papers by Cadet 2 de Cortanvaux 2 Baumé 2 Bomare 1 plus others; VG. In: Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physiques Présentés à l Académie Royale de Sciences, par divers Savans & lûs dans ses hardcover
1776EBS100409Chez Lacombe Libraire rue Christine 1776. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition 8vo: Marbled endpapers 55 pp including ½ title; titlepage 622 pp 3 folding plates. Slight wrinkling of some wrinkled; pp 289-296 edges somewhat oxidized. Neville II: p 20: A valuable collection of memoirs on the production of saltpeter for the manufacture of gunpowder. This extensive survey of the literature comprises extracts from the earlier works of Glauber and Stahl as well as more recent papers by Lavoisier Louis Lemery and others A rare book Duveen who lists it under Montigny. New full goatskin. VG-. From the Arthur C. Greenberg History of Chemistry Library. Chez Lacombe, Libraire, rue Christine hardcover
17801466Paris: Hotel de Thou rue des Poitevins 1780. LAVOISIER'S OFFICIAL EASTER MEMOIR ON THE COMPOSITION OF AIR. THIS IS THE 1780 edition. WE OFFER THE 1st 1778 EDITION SEPARATELY. <br /> <br /> In this work Lavoisier proposed that ordinary air is composed of two different gases one "highly respirable" that he named "oxygen" and the other later named nitrogen that was unable to support combustion or respiration. This work is commonly referred to as Lavoisier's "Easter Memoir" because he presented an earlier version to the Academy around Easter of 1775; as this is the 1778 revised version historians regard it as Lavoisier's "official" Easter Memoir Wikipedia. <br /> <br /> In April 1778 "Lavoisier read for a second time the memoir in which he had originally demonstrated in April 1775 that mercury precipitate reduced without charcoal disengages not fixed air but the ‘air itself entire' or ‘the purest portion of the air'. He made some revisions in the text that have attracted widespread attention from historians" Holmes Lavoisier 137. <br /> <br /> In the time between 1775 and 1778 Lavoisier repeated some of performed some new experiments of his own and repeated some of Priestley's. In the 1778 ‘official' version Lavoisier "altered the language in which he had described that air calling it now ‘the most salubrious the most pure portion of the air' and air ‘in an eminently respirable state'. Fastening on to this last phrase he again referred to the air later in his memoir as ‘eminently respirable air'. At the same time he deleted references to it in the original version as ‘common air' and eliminated the experimental description that it reacted to the nitrous air test in the same manner as common air. <br /> <br /> "Historians have tended to treat with suspicion the textual changes Lavoisier made. The implication seems to be that he sought to represent himself as having clearly understood in 1775 that the air released from the mercury calx is a specific portion of the atmosphere when in fact he had then still not distinguished it unambiguously from ordinary air. If one couples this suspicion with acceptance of Priestley's charge that Lavoisier had obtained the idea for the experiment from him in the first place then one creates an image of Lavoisier as one who is known to have had an ‘occasional tendency to allow the work of others to pass as his own'. <br /> <br /> "There is however no solid evidence that in making these changes he was attempting to rewrite history. His motivation was probably simple. By the spring of 1778 when his new theoretical edifice had solidified the experiments on mercury calx would have come to appear to him as one of the decisive experimental foundations on which he had erected it. Yet when he looked back on the paper which reported these experiments from the vantage point he had since attained the descriptions of the air he had identified in it would have appeared confused ambiguous and inconsistent. <br /> <br /> "The embarrassment of allowing such flaws to remain in what he could now anticipate might someday be regarded as a classic paper is obvious. Since the paper had yet to appear in the Memoirs of the Academy chronically two to three years late in publication he had a convenient opportunity to avoid that outcome" Holmes. CONDITION: Paris: Hotel de Thou rue des Poitevins. 8vo. 6.5 x 4. 12 folding engraved copperplates. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full leather binding. Chipped in several places. Internally fine. Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins hardcover
17756424Paris: Chez Ruault 1775. Original edition. Very Good. 2 volumes Quarto 28 cm; 464; 504 pages 25 engraved plates some folding and folding table. Engraved headpieces. Many pages unopened. In stiff paste paper paper labels on spine titled in manuscript and with volume numbers in ink. Old bookplate. References: For Lavoisier Duveen 24-27. <br /><br />Volumes 3 and 4 comprising the year 1774 of the lively forum for the publication of advancements in physics natural history and in mechanical arts. Electricity was in the air that year and indeed Monsieur Franklin figures heavily in reports letters addressed to him and in many articles that refer to him. While experiments with electricity are everywhere the obstetrician Sigaud de Lafond sees gold turn purple in response to a current of electricity; a Monsieur Bajon describes his research on electric eels subjects range widely. Lavoisier contributes research on white lead and other metals. Other articles investigate bird song British leather dressing rainbows epsom salts fish glue a hermaphroditic ass the Philadelphian method of drying figs and the effects of a strong dose of opium. Chez Ruault hardcover
1793051313Chez Cuchet. Good with no dust jacket. 1793. Second Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover 2 volumes. Written in French no translations. Elementary Treatise on Chemistry Presented in a new order and According to Modern Discoveries. Beautiful matching mottled leather boards worn and frayed at edges some bumping. Soil and rubbing. Title labels on spines between worn raised bands. Spine ends frayed. Light foxing/soil/creasing to text. 2 fold out charts in volume 1 and 13 plates in volume 2 are all in nice condition a few rough edges from improper folding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Chez Cuchet hardcover
179637031Venezia: dalla Tipogr. Pepoliana presso Antonio Curti 1796. Edizione terza corretta ed ampliata di due Dissertazioni inedite dell'Autore e di nuove Annotazioni del Traduttore dalla Tipogr. Pepoliana presso Antonio Curti unknown
