Traité élémentaire de chimie : présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes : avec figures / par M. Lavoisier, de l'Academie des sciences, de la Société royale de médecine, des Sociétés d'agriculture de Paris & d'Orléans, de la Société royal de Londres, de l'Institute de Bologne, de la Société helvétique de Basle, de celles de Philadelphie, Harlem, Manchester, Padoue, &c. ; tome premier[-second].
First edition, second issue, of this work in which Lavoisier laid the foundation of modern chemistry. The illustrations were designed and executed by Lavoisier's wife, Marie-Ann Paulze, who was a skilled painter and engraver, and who had studied under Louis David, and who worked with her husband on...
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The following found in items and now available in MS 466 box 3 file 220: clipped bookseller's description (from Librairie Thomas-Scheler?) of this copy; two clipped illustrations (from Thomas-Scheler catalogue?) showing spines of volumes and plate XIII; paper slip with manuscript notes on this copy taken from catalogue 89 of Librairie Thomas-Scheler; sticky note with manuscript notes taken from a 1989 catalogue from Librairie Thomas-Scheler; clipped bookseller's description for a copy of the second, unauthorized edition, from a 2009 catalogue by Librairie Thomas-Scheler; transparency of plate XIII; clipped article from Le Monde of 3 March 1993: Lavoisier rentre à l'Académie; bookseller's description, by Milestones of Science Books, along with correspondence with bookseller and librarians' correspondence. |
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MSU: Volume 1: All plates (except tables) bound at end of volume 2; tables bound in to volume 1.
MSU: Purchased with funds provided by the Raymond F. Boyer Library Fund. |
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Bound uniformly in marbled calf; blind-tooled boards; spines and outer edges tooled in gilt; spines stamped in gilt; red and green calf spine labels stamped in gilt with title and volume number; red edges; marbled end-papers; blue silk page-markers. |
Physical Description: | 2 volumes (xliv, 322 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, VII folded leaves of plates; viij, 1 unnumbered page, 324-653 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, VIII-XIII leaves of plates) : illustrations (engravings) ; 20 cm (8vo) |
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