Live auction - Lot 307
[Physics - Chemistry]
Recherches sur les causes des principaux faits physiques et particulièrement sur celles de la combustion, l'élévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs [...]. Avec une planche.
Paris, Maradan, 1794
Hammer price: €
180
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: xvi-375, 412 pp.; 1 pl. (some occ. light foxing, paper repair on verso of table).
Mod. sheep, flat spines with 2 red morocco labels. Very good copy.
First edition of Lamarck's first work in the field of chemistry and mineralogy. Of special interest are his 24 propositions at the end of volume 2. With a large fold. table. Ill. with an engr. pl.
Ref. DSB VII: 587-593.
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