LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent.

Opuscules Physiques et Chymiques.

Three folding engraved plates. 1 p.l., xxx, [2], 434, [six cancelled leaves], 435-36 pp. Two parts in one vol. 8vo, cont. speckled calf (joints & ends of spine carefully repaired), flat spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Durand, Didot le jeune, & Esprit, 1774. First edition, mixed issue, 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. This copy has one dedication leaf following the title (pp. i-ii) and six cancelled leaves bound between pages 434 and 435. A very good copy. ❧ Cole 769. Duveen & Klickstein 121. Neville, II, p. 19–“It exerted a tremendous influence on Continental chemists and set the stage for Lavoisier’s overthrow of the phlogiston theory.”

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