Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT. Opuscules Physiques et Chimiques. 3 folding engraved plates of laboratory apparatus. xxx, [2], 443 pages, including half-title. 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked, cords intact; scattered minor foxing. Paris, 1801

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Second edition, second issue, of Lavoisier''s first major work, originally published in 1774, 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 123 (this edition); Duveen, page 341; Norman 128; Partington III, 388-94 (all citing the original edition).