Traité de chimie élémentaire, théorique et pratique -- 4 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET)

P., Crochard, 1821, 4 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-basane verte, dos ornés de fers dorés (reliures de l'époque), (quelques mouillures et défaut de papier d'origine dans les marges des derniers feuillets du tome 1, taches d'encre à la page 4 du tome 1), T.1 : 18pp., 741pp., 2 tableaux dépliants, T.2 : 16pp., 758pp., 2 TABLEAUX dont 1 dépliant, T.3 : 14pp., 788pp., T.4 : 12pp., 450pp., 1 TABLEAU dépliant, 34 PLANCHES numérotées 1 à 33

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---- Troisième édition REVUE et CORRIGEE ---- "The third editon of THENARD'S popular textbook has been CORRECTED and RECENT DISCOVERIES ADDED. SOME CHANGES were made in the topics in the firs part". (Cole n° 1265) ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "THENARD wrote AN EXCELLENT TEXTBOOK which was kept up to date by appendices in all the editions. Through this book he helped restore France to its traditonal role as supplier of chemistry texbooks to the rest of the world. The first two volumes dealt with inorganic chemistry, the third with organic chemistry (divided into vegetable and animal) and the fourth with analytical chemistry... Besides drawing on prevous textbooks, such as those of Lavoisier, Fourcroy and Thomson, Thénard incorporated the most recent research of his contemporaries. Plates and detailed descriptions of apparatus were provided. The detailed index included in each volume makes Thenard's book a particularly useful reference work for the chemistry of its period...". (Partington III pp. 90/96 & DSB XIII)**4830/4983/o2