LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794). Opuscules physiques et chymiques . Paris: Durand, Didot le jeune, Esprit, 1774. 2 parts in one volume, 8 o (215 x 137 mm). Variant issue, with a single dedication leaf and conjugate *a 2 (title-leaf and dedication leaf) a cancel, 5 cancel leaves, including 4 of the 6 described by Duveen and Klickstein (*A3, *N1, *R1, and *S6, with original leaves P1 and V2), and one (*Q8) not cited by them, 3 folding plates by and after de la Gardette. (Some mostly marginal staining and soiling, occasional foxing and browning.) Original marbled wrappers (torn and fragile, stitching loose). Provenance : "Budierai(?) 1775" (signature on title). FIRST EDITION OF LAVOISIER'S FIRST MAJOR WORK, a "pioneer work" (Duveen and Klickstein), in which Lavoisier first expressed his doubts about the phlogiston theory. The first part contains an historical review of the experiments with gases of Lavoisier's predecessors. In part 2 Lavoisier records the quantitative experiments in combustion and calcination that he had carried out with great excitement during the previous year, and which had "confirmed Lavoisier's suspicions that air, or some constituent of air, played an important role in the processes of combustion and calcination" (DSB). Duveen 339; Duveen and Klickstein 121; Wellcome III, p. 460; Norman 1288.
LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794). Opuscules physiques et chymiques . Paris: Durand, Didot le jeune, Esprit, 1774. 2 parts in one volume, 8 o (215 x 137 mm). Variant issue, with a single dedication leaf and conjugate *a 2 (title-leaf and dedication leaf) a cancel, 5 cancel leaves, including 4 of the 6 described by Duveen and Klickstein (*A3, *N1, *R1, and *S6, with original leaves P1 and V2), and one (*Q8) not cited by them, 3 folding plates by and after de la Gardette. (Some mostly marginal staining and soiling, occasional foxing and browning.) Original marbled wrappers (torn and fragile, stitching loose). Provenance : "Budierai(?) 1775" (signature on title). FIRST EDITION OF LAVOISIER'S FIRST MAJOR WORK, a "pioneer work" (Duveen and Klickstein), in which Lavoisier first expressed his doubts about the phlogiston theory. The first part contains an historical review of the experiments with gases of Lavoisier's predecessors. In part 2 Lavoisier records the quantitative experiments in combustion and calcination that he had carried out with great excitement during the previous year, and which had "confirmed Lavoisier's suspicions that air, or some constituent of air, played an important role in the processes of combustion and calcination" (DSB). Duveen 339; Duveen and Klickstein 121; Wellcome III, p. 460; Norman 1288.
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