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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Octavo. Slight overall wear, near fine in price-clipped and modestly spine-toned very good dust jacket. A history of early chemistry separating out of Alchemy and seen through the work of the two fathers of modern chemistry: Priestley and Lavoisier. The book is a parallel biography showing not only their experiments and thinking, but presenting the men as people in their own right, each having a personal story.