THENARD, Louis Jacques.

Traité de Chimie Élémentaire, Théorique et Pratique.

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32 engraved plates & five folding printed tables. Numerous tables in the text. Four vols. 8vo, cont. blue boards (minor foxing or browning throughout due to the quality of the paper), green vellum tips, flat spines gilt, red morocco lettering pieces on spines. Paris: Crochard, 1813-16. First edition of one of the greatest chemistry textbooks of the 19th century. Thenard (1777-1857), the eminent chemist, is best known for his discovery of hydrogen peroxide. "Thenard was the author of a large and important chemistry textbook [the present work] that went through six editions and was translated in German, Italian, and Spanish...Through this book he helped restore France to its traditional role as supplier of chemistry textbooks to the rest of the world; his only serious rival was the British chemist Thomas Thomson... "The first edition of Thenard's Traité de chimie élémentaire was published in four volumes in 1813-1816. The first two volumes dealt with inorganic chemistry, the third with organic chemistry (divided into vegetable and animal), and the fourth with analytical chemistry...In the Lavoisier tradition, oxygen was still considered as a unique element...The detailed index included in each volume makes Thenard's book a particularly useful reference work for the chemistry of its period."­D.S.B., XIII, p. 313. The final 68 pages in Vol. IV describe chemical apparatus. Fine and handsome set. Stamped at foot of each spine: "A. Morin, École Polytechnique." Cole 1263. Partington, IV, pp. 90-97­"an excellent textbook."

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