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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Very Good. 8vo. xxx, 443 pp., [3]. French. Quarter bound in contemporary leather. Marbled boards. Red spine label with gilt lettering. Five gilt trimmed raised bands and gilt head and tail lines. minor scattered foxing. Three fold out plates in back. Second edition 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).
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Very good(+) Illustrated with 3 folding copper engravings. xxx, [ii], 443, [2] pages. 8vo, contemporary marbled boards with mottled calf spine, decorated in gilt; marbled page edges. Paris: Deterville, 1801. Second Edition. Final leaf damaged, else a very good(+) clean copy. "Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, a meticulous experimenter, revolutionized chemistry. He established the law of conservation of mass, determined that combustion and respiration are caused by chemical reactions with what he named "oxygen" and helped systematize chemical nomenclature, among many other accomplishments."--Science History Institute.