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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
a108438Paris. "An III de la Republique" publisher: "Chez Fugs Libraire au coin des rues de Hurpoix & Gille-Coeur." The landmark paper which set the foundation for modern chemistry appeared in the "Tome Premier" of 1789. The text of this volume is exactly the same as the 1789 edition of the Annales except for the titlepage publisher and date. Lavoisier paper is on pp.19-30 . The volume as a whole has 313p. and includes articles by Girtanner Klaproth M. Berthollet others. In French. Small octavo. Volume's original boards are gone but text block is strongly and securely bound text has no wear or tear and is almost entirely clean except for a very few spots of soiling; light foxing on initial and final pages. Text lightly evenly toned. There is an old red oval institute stamp on tp and a black ink number on tp. Blue marbled end papers original Our binder will put a plain paper cover on the book on request and free of charge or book can be purchased "as is" for customer to arrange for recovering. The book would make a beautiful volume in fine leather. Antoine Lavoisier was tragically guillotined in May of 1794 by the radical government during the French Revolution. Pictures of the book available on request. Essential article in history of Chemistry. . 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
1801866Paris: Chez Deterville 1801. Second edition. <br /> <br /> A significant early collected work by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier the founder of modern chemistry bringing together a series of his shorter but influential papers on physics and chemistry. Opuscules Physiques et Chimiques reflects the transitional moment in late 18th-century science when experimental chemistry began to replace older speculative systems. The volume includes studies on elastic fluids gases combustion fermentation and chemical decomposition illustrating Lavoisier’s role in redefining chemical processes through quantitative experimentation and precise observation.<br /> <br /> This 1801 second edition is particularly notable for its historical context: as stated in the prefatory note the work was printed during Lavoisier’s imprisonment amid the French Revolution shortly before his execution in 1794. As such the book stands not only as a scientific milestone but also as a poignant artifact of Enlightenment science disrupted by political upheaval. The inclusion of engraved folding plates depicting experimental apparatus underscores the practical and experimental nature of the work offering insight into early laboratory techniques that helped establish modern chemical methodology.<br /> <br /> Condition & Binding: Bound in contemporary full calf with an elaborately gilt-decorated spine and a central gilt armorial device on the boards likely institutional or academic possibly French reading “Collegium Lugdunense†or similar. Spine with gilt compartments and red morocco title label; some rubbing and wear to extremities including minor loss at head of spine. Boards show scuffing and surface wear but remain solid and attractive. Internally text is generally clean with light to moderate foxing and toning throughout. Overall- very good. Chez Deterville unknown
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
1801S14204Paris :: Deterville An IX 1801. 1801. 8vo. 197 x 122 mm xxx 2 443 pp. Three folding engraved plates. Speckled edges; paper flaws in K2 and O5 affecting text. Quarter-bound in 19th century half calf over brown marbled boards raised bands gilt-stamped title and gilt-rules on spine. Housed in a custom folding chemise and red quarter morocco and cloth slipcase raised bands gilt rules and gilt-stamped titles; light shelf wear. PROVENANCE: Robert Honeyman's copy. 261 Second edition second issue. "An entirely different issue of the usual 'Seconde edition.' Deterville has reprinted the entire book with the errata corrected in the text and the plates re-engraved by Tardieu l'aine Rue de Sorbonne No. 385. In the original edition the engraver had been de la Gardette who incidentally engraved Lavoisier's bookplate. The half-title with the titre de relais is present as before. The remark which appears at the end of the prior issue 'Le Privilege du Roi se trouve aux Memoires de l'Academie Royale del Sciences' is here omitted." Duveen & Klickstein. / This is Lavoisier's first major work. In this work on combustion and calcination which first appeared in 1774 Lavoisier first published his investigations into the nature and properties of gases in connection with numerous experiments and laid the basis of his antiphlogistic theory. Lavoisier gives a history of gases and a detailed account of his experiments. It was in this pioneer work that he broke ground that was new to him and asserted himself on an important question that was in controversy. The Opuscules one of Lavoisier's four major works resulted from his study on combustion and experiments with phosphorus and sulfur and the conversion of calces into metals. The work consists of a historical section and an introduction on gases; the second part describes his experiments dealing with the problems of combustion calcination and air fixation. / "Although Priestley isolated oxygen it was Lavoisier who discovered its real significance. He showed the true nature of the interchange of gases in the lungs and exploded Stahl's phlogiston theory." Garrison and Morton. / A native Parisian Lavoisier was one of the most important scientists of the 18th century. Because of his loyalty to the Ancien Regime Lavoisier fell into disfavor with the ruling National Assembly. He and his father were both arrested on 24 December 1793 tried on 8 May 1794 and executed by guillotine the same day. As the apocryphal story goes Lavoisier appealed at his trial for time to complete some scientific work at which the presiding judge replied "The Republic has no need of scientists." Authentic however is the remark attributed to Lagrange the day after Lavoisier's execution: "It took them only an instant to cut off that head and a hundred years may not produce another like it." / The half-title reads: "Cet ouvrage a l'exception des tables fut imprime pendant la detention du citoyen Lavoisier. Il ne faut donc pas etre surpris si l'edition n'en est pas belle ; on se rappelera sans peine qu'a cette epoque les matieres premieres manquoient pour l'impression. trans.: "This work with the exception of the tables was printed during the detention of Citizen Lavoisier. One should not be surprised if the edition is not beautiful; one will note without sorrow that this impression is without the errors of the first edition. ". PROVENANCE: From the celebrated Robert Honeyman IV library sold at auction by Sotheby Park Bernet & Co. May 12 1980 Part V Lot # 1933. REFERENCES: BM Readex Vol. 14 p. 998; Cole 770; DSB Vol. VIII pp. 66-91; Duveen p. 342; Duveen & Klickstein 123; Norman 1288 1st ed.; Partington III 372 V; Poggendorff I 1392. Deterville, An IX [1801]. 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
1803309551803. Allg. Journ. Chemie 10/59. - Berlin Heinrich Frölich 1803 8° pp.463-572 orig. Broschur; unbeschnittenes Exemplar in der sehr seltenen orig. Broschur. INCUNABULA OF MODERN PHYSIOLOGY - This is the first German translation of "Premier Mémoire sur la Transpiration des Animaux par Seguin et Lavoisier" Mémoires de l' Acad. des sc. p. Année 1790. Paris 1797 S.601-612" by Alexander Nicolau Scherer "It set a new standard of accuracy for metabolic studies and along with the "Premier Mémoire sur la Respiration des Animaux" 1789; it is one of the incunabula of modern physiology." - Duveen & KLickstein No.106 Not in Duveen und Klickstein only Italian and Spanish translation. unknown
1787655401787. Paris: Chez Cuchet 1787 8° IV 314 pp. 6 gefalt. Kupfertafeln Ledereinbnand. d.Zt.; Falttabll fehlt; Rücken restauriert; feines Expl. FIRST EDITION first issue of one of the key books in the history of modern chemistry. This copy has all the features mentioned for the first issue such as the figurative title vignette and the misnumbered pages: 242/34 instead of 258/% 246/7 instead of 262/3 291 instead of 266/7 254/5 instead of 270/1. Unfortunately the table opposite page 100 is missing. 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. The table of contents: 1 Mémoire Sur la nécessité de réformer & de nomenclature de la Chimie lu à l'Assemblée publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences du 18 Avril 1787; Par M. Lavoisier pp. 1-25 This is the first appearance of this memoir in print. It was never published in the Mém. Acad. R. Sci. The contents are discussed in the introduction to this section. Lavosier revised the memoir and used it again for the "discours préliminaire" of this 'Traité Elementaire de Chemie. 2 Mémoire sur le développement des principes de la Nomenclature méthodique lu à l'Académie le 2 Mai 1787; Par M. de Morveau pp.26-70. 3 Appendice Contenant la nomenclature de quelques substances composées qui s ; combinent quelquefois à la manière des corps simples pp.70-74. 4 Mémoire Pour servir à l'explication du Tableau de Nomenclature. Par M. de Fourcroy pp.75-100. 5 Avertissement Sur les deux Synonimies pp.101-106. 6 Synonimie Ancienne & novelle par ordre alphabétique pp.107-143. 7 Dictionnaire Pour la nouvelle Nomenclature Chimique pp.144-237. 8 Rapport Sur la nouvelle Nomenclature pp.238-252. 8 Mémoire Sur de nouveaux Caractères à employer en Chimie. Par MM. Hassenfratz pppp.253-270. 9 IIe Mémoire Sur de nouveaux Caractères à employer en Chimie & l'arrangement que doivent avoir ces nouveaux Caractères afin de leur faire exprimer les rapports de quantité des substances simples contenues dans les mixtes. Par MM. Hassenfratz & Adet pp.271-287. As a complement to he new nomenclature Hassenfratz and Adet devised a system of symbols straight lines. Half -circles squares triangles lozenges and circles in different positions and combinations which as they intended should make possible an immediate understanding of chemical substances and their nature the world over. Ingenious though their methods seemed this sign language proved unsatisfactory and it has long been discarded. 10 Rapport Sur les nouveau Caractères chimiques pp.288-312. This memoir was never published in the Mém. Acad. R. Sci. H.F. Norman Lib. Cat. 1291. Duveen & Klickstein 126. Duveen p. 340. D.S.B. 8: 80. Cole 566. Bolton I. 58. Partington III. 372.VI. Smith Coll. p.209. Edelstein 1361. Milestones of Science 126. First issue not in Neville. Duveen-Klickstein 126 unknown
1801291810Paris: Deterville 1801. Second. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with 3 folding copper engravings. xxx ii 443 2 pages. 8vo contemporary marbled boards with mottled calf spine decorated in gilt; marbled page edges. Paris: Deterville 1801. Second Edition. Final leaf damaged else a very good clean copy.<br/> <br/> "Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier a meticulous experimenter revolutionized chemistry. He established the law of conservation of mass determined that combustion and respiration are caused by chemical reactions with what he named "oxygen" and helped systematize chemical nomenclature among many other accomplishments." -- Science History Institute<br/> <br/> Deterville unknown
1793ABE-1747758279317Paris: Cuchet 1793. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 Vols 8vo 2 folding tables 13 fine folding copperplates by Mme Lavoisier Second ed second issue This is authorized Chardon issue; 1st 1793 issue was pirated; 3rd 1793 issue was improved version of pirated issue by authorized publisher See Duveen and Klickstein pp 176-177 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. Paris: Cuchet hardcover
RO-WPP4-JDKFHardcover. Good. THIRD EDITION Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech 1796. Hardcover in original full leather boards with red leather title label on spine. 592 pages illustrated with thirteen folding copperplates. Translated from the French by Robert Kerr. 8vo bound in old full mottled calf. The Third Edition with notes tables and considerable additions of this foundational work of modern chemistry. Lavoisier overthrew the phlogiston theory of Stahl established the concept of elements as substances which cannot be further decomposed and reformed chemical nomenclature. Front board and endsheet detached neat owner sig. on front paste-down some minor foxing and dampstaining to plates and text otherwise a very good example of this important title. NOT EX-LIBRARY frnc hardcover
thl50Paris: Deterville 1801. Second i.e. Third Edition of Lavoisier’s first major work. It was originally intended to consist of a series of volumes but only this first was ever published. The first part contains an historical review of the experiments with gases of Lavoisier's predecessors while the second records Lavoisier’s own experiments that he had carried out in 1773. “These experiments confirmed Lavoisier's suspicions that air or some constituent of air played an important role in the processes of combustion and calcination.†DSB p. 74 “Remarkable for his versatility as scientist and public servant Lavoisier was first of all a chemist of genius justly remembered for his discovery of the role of oxygen in chemical reactions and as the chief architect of a reform of chemistry a reform so radical that he himself spoke of his early on as a “revolution†in that science.†Ibid. p. 66 Duveen p. 342. cfHoneyman 1933. See Printing and the Mind of Man 238. 8vo. pp. xxx 2 443. with half-title. 3 folding engraved plates. index. contemporary tree calf gilt back head of spine & corners damaged front joint partly cracked. thl50 Paris: Deterville, 1801 unknown
180173210Paris: Chez Deterville 1801. Fine. Chez Deterville Paris An IX - 1801 12.50 x 20 cm relié New printing of the second edition illustrated with three folding plates engraved by Tardieu and bound before the table of contents. The first edition was published in 1774. Contemporary binding in half speckled sheep smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and dotted lines red straight-grained morocco title label paste-paper boards the first stamped in gilt with the inscription ""Ecole royale d'artillerie de Douai"". Bookworm damage to the lower part of the upper joint as well as to the upper part of the lower joint. Front board joint cracked for a few centimeters without significance. One corner slightly bumped. Some scattered foxing. Manuscript annotations on the front pastedown a bibliographer's note in pencil on the first blank endpaper. Several stamps of the Ecole royale d'artillerie de Douai on the verso of the half-title and on the title page. The work consists of two parts: the first - entitled Précis historique sur les émanations élastiques qui se dégagent des corps pendants la combustion - concerns fixed air; the second Nouvelles recherches sur l'existence d'un fluide élastique fixe dans quelques substances et sur les phénomènes qui résultent de son dégagement ou de sa fixation focuses on the nature of air and marks the beginnings of his research on phlogiston. Chez Deterville hardcover
1776ABE-17454235012311776. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Essays Physical and Chemical. Translated with Notes and an Appendix by Thomas Henry. Volume the First ALL PUBLISHED London 1776 First Edition in English of Lavoisier`s first book 3 folding plates xxxiii 475pp Duveen and Klickstein p 118 8vo orig boards rebacked in mod. 1/4 calf See A. Greenberg From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story John Wiley & Sons New York 2007 p 307. hardcover
1788374291788. Crells Chem. Annalen 1788/ 67. - Helmstädt Leipzig Müller 1788 8° pp.481-574 96 pp. 2 orig. Broschur. First German Edition of the report made by Lavoisier to the Académie on the French translation of Scheele's Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer. "The review is a warm one with Lavoisier expressing a greater confidence in his own ideas because of the confirmation given them by Scheele's experiments. Scheele used phlogiston to explain his results. No record has been found as to the time when Lavoisier first read ths book. previously on August 8 1781 Bertholett and Lavoisier had already submitted a joint report on Dietrich's translation of Scheele's book which was printed for the first time in his Oeuvres IV 337-379." In the second article "Lavoisier proves that air fixe rally is a compound of carbon charcoal and oxygen; he details a good many of the experiments by which this fact was established. The work thus certainly forms a plank in the platform of his new theory. He was of the opinion that all acids contain oxygen that oxygen is in fact the acidifying principle in all acids and he therefore called air fixe carbonic acid. This view was confirm to him by the fact that a solution of the gas in water exhibits acid properties." Duveen & Klickstein Nr.61 63. Fierz-David Anhang II: Entdeckungsgeschichte der Elemente 6: Lavoisier erkannte das C in reinem Zustand im Diamant vorhandnen ist. unknown
1791315271791. Crells Chem. Annalen 1791/ 1- 6. - Helmstädt Universitäts-Buchhandlung 1791 Kl.8° 564 pp. 3 Bl. 1 Tab. Pappband der Zeit. This paper was read on February 15 1785. Lavosier proves by experiments made on a guinea pig and in a theatre that animals and men cannot breathe and live without inconvenience in a determined volume of atmosphere for any length of time. He proposes that theatres hospitals and other places of assembly should be better ventilated but he does not draw any definite conclusions as to the exact chemical nature of the expired air which vitiates the atmosphere under such given circumstances. Duveen & Klickstein I p. 70f. Duveen & Klickstein 79 abstract unknown
210972New York Johnson Reprint Corp. 1965. from the Paris Imprimerie Imperiale edition of 1864-1893 . Six volumes 8vo. c.3000pp. B/w frontis. folding charts folding engraved plates etc. An excellent set. A high quality facsimile marking the centenary of the original publication. New York, Johnson Reprint Corp. 1965. [ from the Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale edition of 1864-1893 ]. unknown
1985201021Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. AS NEW in shrinkwrap Leather Bound Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Library hardcover
2-74316Venezia dalle stampe di Antonio Zatta e Figli 1792 due volumi in-8° cm. 19 x 13 bella legatura in piena pergamena con tassello e titoli dorati al dorso tagli spruzzati pp. 4-399 con numerosi prospetti nel testo e due grandi tabelle ripiegate fuori testo "Quadro delle combinazioni binarie dell'ossigeno colle sostanze metalliche." e "Quadro delle combinazioni del Radicale acetoso ossigenato." VIII-305 con numerose tabelle nel testo â€Tavole ad uso de' chimici†soprattutto e 13 tavole calcografiche più volte ripiegate in fine. Seconda edizione italiana che corregge e amplia la prima dell'anno precedente la prima francese invece è del 1789. Sono presenti solo i primi due volumi di quattro ma sono quelli che contengono tutto il Trattato di Lavoisier e le 13 tavole che ne illustrano la terza parte dedicata agli “Apparati†e alle “Operazioni manuali della chimica†i voll. III e IV ospitano infatti rispettivamente le opere del Morveau e dello stesso Dandolo. Le solite fioriture qui leggere e sporadiche ma copia eccellente con ampi margini. unknown
18011106210079Paris: Deterville 1801. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. xxx 443 pp. 3. French. Quarter bound in contemporary leather. Marbled boards. Red spine label with gilt lettering. Five gilt trimmed raised bands and gilt head and tail lines. minor scattered foxing. Three fold out plates in back. Second edition of Lavoisier's first major work originally published in 1774 in which he combined a historical survey of research on gases with an account of his own pneumatic experiments and first raised doubts about the phlogiston theory. Duveen & Klickstein 123 this edition; Duveen page 341; Norman 128; Partington III 388-94 all citing the original edition. Paris: Deterville hardcover
