Ventes live - Lot 398
[Chemistry - Physics]
Recherches physico-chimiques [...].
Paris, Deterville, 1811
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Description du lot
2 vol., 8vo: xv-405, [4]-443-[1] pp. (some min. browning).
Mod. half calf, marbled paper on covers, flat gilt-orn. spines, mod. endpapers, red edges.
First edition by the French chemist and physicist J.-L. Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) and "the most important of Gay-Lussac's larger publications, which did much to improve the methods of organic analysis" (Duveen). Ill. with 6 fold. engr. pl. by Adam after Girard.
Ref. Duveen 237.- BnF.