Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

2 volumes, 8vo (192 x 115mm.), half-titles, woodcut vignette on title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials, 2 folding letterpress tables, 13 folding engraved plates, contemporary cat's-paw calf, spine gilt in compartments, new red morocco lettering-pieces in period style, red edges, without final blank leaf in volume 1, a few plates slightly creased, a few small repairs to bindings

Duveen and Klickstein, Lavoisier 154; Norman 1295

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FIRST EDITION, second issue, of Lavoisier's textbook on chemistry; the first issue was in just one volume without the extensive table des matières. The plates were engraved by Lavoisier's wife Marie who had studied with the artist Louis David.