Recherches sur les Lois de l'Affinité.
2 p.l., 105 pp. 8vo, orig. pink wrappers (spine worn & chipped, upper wrapper nearly detached), uncut. Paris: Baudouin, An IX [1801].
First separate edition, originally appearing in the Mémoires of the Institut National des Sciences et Arts, Vol. III (1801). This is a very important and scarce work which marks the starting point of Berthollet’s complete new system of chemistry, later developed in his comprehensive, two volume Essai de Statique Chimique. The present work has as its origins a paper read before the Institute of Egypt in Cairo in the summer of 1799 while Berthollet accompanied Napoleon on his... More