Opuscules Physiques et Chymiques...Seconde Édition.
Three folding engraved plates. xxx, [2], 443 pp. Two parts in one vol. 8vo, cont. half-sheep & speckled boards, flat spine gilt, blue morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Deterville, 1801.
Second edition of this “pioneer work in which [Lavoisier] first gives a historical survey of previous workers’ efforts and then describes his own experiments on gases and the conclusions to be derived from them.”–Duveen & Klickstein, p. 94.
“The genuine second edition in which Deterville has reprinted the entire book with the errata corrected in the text and with the plates reengraved by Tardieu senior. Another so-called seconde edition... More