Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent | Traité élémentaire de chimie. Paris, 1789, full brown morocco

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

Traite elementaire de chimie. Paris: Chez Cuchet, Libraire, 1789

Second edition, published the same year as the first edition. Essentially a reprint of the first, reset with the misprints corrected (Duveen).

Three volumes, 8vo (203 x 127 mm). Half-titles in vols. 1–2 only, as issued, total of 4 folding tables, 2 each in vols. 1 and 3, 13 engraved diagrams at the end of vol. 3; the first half-title and tears or holes from paper flaws strengthened with tissue, some light fore-edge staining and occasional spotting, some leaves short, but preserving deckles, lacks final blank in one volume. Modern full brown morocco, red and black lettering-pieces.

REFERENCES

Duveen & Klickstein 340; Honeyman sale 5:1941; cf. Buffalo/Sparrow 127; Dibner Heralds of Science 43n; Grolier/Horblit 64; Printing and the Mind of Man 238

PROVENANCE

Robert S. Dunham (Sotheby's, 11 December 1993, lot 719)