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(LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT.) Ehrmann, Friedrich Ludwig. Essai d'un Art de Fusion à l'Aide de l'Air du Feu, ou Air Vital . . . Traduit de l'Allemand . . . Suivi des Memoires de Mr. Lavoisier . . . sur le même Sujet. 3 folding engraved plates. xxxii, 366, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 8vo, 199x126 mm, contemporary paste-paper wrappers, spine ends worn; occasional toning, opening leaves dog-eared, light soiling on title, small stain in blank outer margin of several leaves toward beginning, dark stain in upper margin of second and third plates. Strasbourg & Paris, 1787
first edition in french of Ehrmann's 1786 account of his experiments on fusion, containing an early description and illustration of an oxygen blowpipe, and 3 papers on the subject by Lavoisier. Duveen & Klickstein 241; Partington III, 461; Schuh, Ehrmann 2.
