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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
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
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
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
1791042651Paris: Fuchs 1791. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half contemporary leather over marbled boards. Worn at corners hinges slightly cracked stamp to title page. Tome 10 of the first series. 336pp folding plate at rear. Contents include: Investigations on the chemical history of the tepid springs of Buxton Refining of metal for clocks Chemical examination of skate liver etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042651. <br/><br/> Fuchs hardcover
1791042651Paris: Fuchs 1791. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Half contemporary leather over marbled boards. Worn at corners hinges slightly cracked stamp to title page. Tome 10 of the first series. 336pp folding plate at rear. Contents include: Investigations on the chemical history of the tepid springs of Buxton Refining of metal for clocks Chemical examination of skate liver etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042651. <br/><br/> Fuchs hardcover books
1793042673Paris: Joseph de Boffe 1793. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Volumes 17-20 1793-1797 of the crucial French scientific journal still published today. Half leather over marbled boards general wear at edges chipped and wear at corners and spine ends bindings tight and intact. Stamp on title pages browning to endpapers. Volume 19 with a dark dampstain all along the top margin not touching the text.<br /> <br /> 335pp two folding plates; 328pp 1 folding plate; 384pp; 396pp 1 folding plate.<br /> <br /> Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042673. Joseph de Boffe hardcover
1793042673Paris: Joseph de Boffe 1793. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Volumes 17-20 1793-1797 of the seminal French scientific journal still published today. Half leather over marbled boards general wear at edges chipped and wear at corners and spine ends bindings tight and intact. Stamp on title pages browning to endpapers. Volume 19 with a dark dampstain all along the top margin not touching the text. 335pp two folding plates; 328pp 1 folding plate; 384pp; 396pp 1 folding plate. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042673. <br/><br/> Joseph de Boffe hardcover books
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
1793263321Paris 1793. hardcover. very good. Seconde edition. Volume 2 only. 13 folding copperplates by Madame Marie Paulze Lavoisier. 8vo rebound in tan cloth. Paris: Chez Cuchet 1793. Very good.<br/><br/> The foundation stone of modern chemistry; a succinct exposition of his discoveries and an introduction to the new way of approaching chemistry. "One of the most important books in the history of chemistry which finally freed the science from its phlogiston chains and formed the starting point of its modern progress. It may be said to have done almost as much for chemistry as Newton's "Principia" did for Physics". Duveen 340 Zeitlinger. DSB VIII 66-9l. Ferguson II 12.<br/><br/> unknown books
1787S9953Paris:: Chez Cuchet 1787. 1787. 8vo. iv 314 pp. Half-title woodcut title-page vignette headpiece tailpieces 6 folding tables of chemical symbols 1 folding plate; page 1 of the text trimmed at top margin and mounted on a stub foxed. Contemporary full mottled calf red leather spine label gilt-stamped spine; foot of spine chipped corners of read cover chewed. Ownership signature on title. Very good. FIRST EDITION second issue second printing with the flowered vase on the title-page previously a cherub and no colophon on page 314. Lavoisier's new terminology of chemistry was an important part of his reforms in the science and it has been in use with some modifications ever since its introduction. "The merits of the new nomenclature are even today more than evident since with only slight modification it is still the basis of the language of modern chemistry." Duveen & Klickstein pp. 119-126. Louis Guyton de Morveau was trained as a lawyer who taught himself the subject of chemistry. From 1776-1789 he taught public courses in chemistry at the Dihon Academy. He was professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1794-1811 twice serving as its director. Blake/NLM p. 191 2nd printing; Cole Chemical literature 566; DSB Vol. V. pp. 600-604; Duveen Bibliotheca alchemica et chemical p. 340; Duveen & Klickstein 130; Gascoigne 7150.4; Partington A history of chemistry Vol. III p. 372; Poggendorf Vol. I col. 981; Wellcome III p. 185. Chez Cuchet, 1787. hardcover books
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
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
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
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
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
17997013Mathew Carey. Good with no dust jacket; Hardcover; No marks clean tight binding . owners names and date 1818 on FEP; full original leather; rubbed on all . egdes back cover professionally reattached; toned end sheets some foxing . on few pages; hinge paper crack but not hinges; privately printed; NOT . ex-library; hand made paper pages; original black and gilt spine label ;. 1799. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Thirteen fold out plates of the modern lab equipment; appendix and tables by the Father of Chemistry; ; 592 pages . Mathew Carey hardcover
179625031Edinburgh: William Creech 1796. Third Edition. Full-Leather. Good. Octavo. 592pp 13 folding copper plates.Last few pages including the plates wavy from moisture mildly stained Small bookplate. Third Edinburgh edition. <br/><br/> William Creech hardcover
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
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
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
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
1788315231788. Crells Chem. Annalen 1788/11. - Helmstädt bey C.G. Fleckeisen 1788 8° pp.387-480 Broschur. The main object of this memoir is to show that the dissolution of metals in acids is a form of calcination . He proposes a system of symbols to express the reaction in a general way and shows that he is well aware of the problems of thermodynamics which were to prevent a full comprehension of chemical reactions until the concept of entropy had been formed. Duveen & Klickstein I p. 65 and: Lavoisier über die Fällung der metalischen Körper durch einander S.453-471. "This paper was presented on December 20 1783. Its title indicates its general scope which was to show the phenomenon of the replacement of certain metals from solutions of their salts by other metals. Lavoisier carried out numerous experiments tabulated their results and showed that had an inkling of the hypothesis afterwords known as the "law of multiple proportions". He was led to this concept by considering the amount of oxygen necessary to burn a given weight of each metal." Duveen & Klickstein I p.65f. Duveen & Klickstein No. 70 abstract; 71 extensive abstract unknown
1789315251789. Crells Chem. Annalen 1789/ 2. - Helmstädt bey C.G. Fleckeisen 1789 8° pp.99-192 Broschur. Lavoisier in this memoir which was presented on December 20 1783 built up a table of affinities of various elements with oxygen which he suggested should be added to the tables of affinities drawn up by Bergman and other chemists. Duveen & Klickstein I p.66 and: Lavoisier über die Natur der luftartigen Flüssigkeiten welche von einigen thierischen Stoffen in Gährung aufsteigen pp.173-183. "Lavosier in this paper studies the products of fermentation of sewage and shows that the emanating gases consist of carbon dioxide and 'gas inflamable' -he seems to have confused methane and hydrogen. It is a typical Lavosier production containing an account of detailed laboratory work on the products of fermentation of fecal matter and going on to make sound general recommendations for the construction of cesspits and the appropriate method of emptying them." Duveen & Klickstein I p. 67 Duveen & Klickstein 71 abstract; 74 abstract unknown
