LAVOISIER ANTOINE LAURENT Opuscules Physiques et Chimiques

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LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT. Opuscules Physiques et Chimiques . . . Tome Premier [all published]. 3 folding engraved plates of laboratory apparatus. [2], xxx, [2], 436 pages, with the cancels noted by Duveen & Klickstein excerpt for P1. 8vo, 194x119 mm, contemporary tan calf gilt, moderate wear; contents clean apart from few small ink blots on H3; red edges. Unidentified contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Paris: (Prault for) Durand et al., 1774

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first edition, first issue, of Lavoisier's first major work, in which he combined a historical survey of research on gases with an account of his own pneumatic experiments and first raised doubts about the phlogiston theory. Duveen & Klickstein 121; Neville II, 18.