Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, présenté dans un Ordre nouveau et d'après les Découvertes modernes...Seconde Édition...
Two folding printed tables & 13 folding engraved plates, drawn & engraved by Madame Lavoisier. xliv, 322 pp.; viii, 331 pp. Two vols. 8vo, antique sheep-backed marbled boards (some foxing), flat spines gilt. Paris: Cuchet, 1793.
Although described as the “seconde édition” on the title, this seems to follow a pirated “seconde édition” printed by de Boiste earlier in the same year. Our edition was printed by Chardon.
“One of the great milestones in the history of chemical literature. By common consent modern chemistry begins with this work, ‘which finally freed the science from its phlogiston chains and formed the... More