Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 205

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT.) Guyton De Morveau, Louis-Bernard; et al. Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique. 6 folding plates; folding table. [4], 314 pages. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 citron morocco, lettering piece chipped, extremities rubbed; contents browned, occasional marginal dampstaining. Paris: Cuchet, 1787

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first edition, second issue, with woodcut floral ornament on title and no colophon on page 314. "The new chemical nomenclature, originally developed by de Morveau before he had converted to anti-phlogisticism, was adopted by Lavoisier as a means for communicating his new chemistry . . . With only slight modifications, Lavoisier and de Morveau's system remains the basis of modern chemical nomenclature"--Norman 1291. Duveen & Klicksteen 126. With the bookplate of the Paris surgeon Joseph-Claude-Anthelme Récamier (1774-1852), who first recognized the process of metastasis in cancer.
bound with: Viricel, Jean-Marie, fils. Mémoire sur l'Art de préparer les Malades aux grandes Opérations. 80 pages. [Lyons], An VII [1799]. and: Schroeder, Theodor Wilhelm. Historia febris bilioso-pituitoso-putridae quae . . . in variis Hassiae regionibus epidemice grassata est. 35 pages. Dampstained. Göttingen, 1784.