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LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Traité Elémentaire de Chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les Découvertes Modernes, Paris: chez Cuchet, 1789, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, second issue, 2 folding letterpress tables in vol. I, 13 engraved plates by and after Marie Anne Pierette Paulze Lavoisier in vol. II (final plate slightly tattered at outer margin, Chicago University blind stamp on title page to both vols., versos of titles with two library ink stamps, title to vol. I with date in arabic numerals added in manuscript, probably by a librarian), contemporary blue-mottled vellum. [Dibner 43; Duveen & Klickstein 154; Horblit 64; Norman 1295; PMM 238; Sparrow 127] Provenance: Louis Baron de Ransonet Villey (inscription on both titles. The title to vol. I has a further ownership inscription with two names, one of which may be Louis Madergrach). (2)

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LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Traité Elémentaire de Chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les Découvertes Modernes, Paris: chez Cuchet, 1789, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, second issue, 2 folding letterpress tables in vol. I, 13 engraved plates by and after Marie Anne Pierette Paulze Lavoisier in vol. II (final plate slightly tattered at outer margin, Chicago University blind stamp on title page to both vols., versos of titles with two library ink stamps, title to vol. I with date in arabic numerals added in manuscript, probably by a librarian), contemporary blue-mottled vellum. [Dibner 43; Duveen & Klickstein 154; Horblit 64; Norman 1295; PMM 238; Sparrow 127] Provenance: Louis Baron de Ransonet Villey (inscription on both titles. The title to vol. I has a further ownership inscription with two names, one of which may be Louis Madergrach). (2)

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A work which was decisive "in the final overthrow of alchemy and the phlogiston theory ... by the use of the balance for weight determination at every chemical change and the building of a rational system of elements, Lavoisier laid the foundation of modern chemistry" (Dibner). Of the book's three parts, the first is of the greatest interest, as "it discusses, in some cases for the first time, the details of the new chemistry. The subject of heat, the composition of the atmosphere, the analysis of atmospheric air and its parts, the consideration of nomenclature, the composition of water are but a few of the topics included." Part two also has a "revolutionary feature," its list of 33 elements forming what Duveen & Klickstein describe as "one of the mileposts of modern chemistry." The chemist's wife, Madame Lavoisier, who designed and executed the plates, was a highly skilled draughtswoman, engraver and painter, who studied under Louis David.