[DARCET, J., A. GIROUD, C.-H. LELIEVRE, & B. PELLETIER].

Description de Divers Procédés pour extraire la Soude du Sel Marin, faite en exécution d'un arrêté du Comité de Salut Public du 8 Pluviose, an 2 de la République Française. Imprimé par ordre du Comité du Salut Public.

Eleven folding engraved plates. 1 p.l., 80 pp. 4to, later boards (title slightly foxed). Paris: de l’Imprimerie du Comité de Salut Public, an 3 [1794]. First edition of the earliest account of the discovery, made in 1789 by Nicolas Leblanc, of the use of limestone in the conversion of salt drawn from sea water into soda for commercial consumption. Upon this discovery rested almost the entire alkali industry throughout much of the nineteenth century, during the time when it was the most extensive single chemical industry. Jean D’Arcet and his fellow commissioners examined and published for the Committee of Public Safety all the known processes for making artificial soda in the present volume, “which remains the most important source of knowledge of the Leblanc process and of all the others” (Gillispie). The plates depict the construction and arrangement of Leblanc’s furnaces. Very good copy. Early signature of “Bigot Morogues eleve des mines” on title. ❧ Cole 369. Duveen p. 169–“rare pamphlet.” Partington III, pp. 562–565. Gillispie, “The Discovery of the Leblanc process” in Isis, 48 (1957), pp. 152 ff.

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