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Phone number : 01 43 25 51 73Paris et Bruxelles, 1864, un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane havane (reliure de l'époque), quelques rousseurs, 12pp., 403pp., 10 PLANCHES sur cuivre et 4 LITHOGRAPHIES dessinées et gravées par son fils Benjamin RASPAIL
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Ce recueil est pour ainsi dire une suite de la revue complémentaire des sciences appliquées à la médecine et pharmacie, à l'agriculture, aux arts et à l'industrie... Il pourrait être considéré comme le septième volume de la Revue complémentaire". (Introduction par RASPAIL) ---- "RASPAIL's life is a moving combination of original and fruitful scientific work and reforming, frequently prophetic political activity. Among Frenchmen he is one of the best known of names and his fame has become worldwide, particularly since the upsurge in interest in the history of science among scientists and historians. Raspail held a prominent place in the development of science in the nineteenth century. He belonged to the group of biologists who prepared the way for the rise of the cell theory... An expert microscopist, he not only set forth theoretical considerations of great importance but also made many significant observations... Scientists now agree that he was one of the founders of cytochemistry... The praise accorded to him by Pearse in his classic treatise on histochemistry has substantially contributed to the recent increase in Raspail's reputation in the English-speaking countries... In cellular pathology, he was, along with other contemporary workers, a precursor of Virchow... In organic chemistry he specified the properties of numerous substances". (DSB XI pp. 300/302)**8631/o6de
P., Brunet, 1722, un fort volume in 4 relié en pleine basane mouchetée, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (coiffes usées, mors fendus, quelques rousseurs), (10), 566pp., 2pp., 17 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "REAUMUR's publication on the art of converting iron into steel and of softening cast iron laid the foundations of the steel industry in France". (Partington III p. 60/65) ---- "REAUMUR was called by his friends "the Pliny of the 18e century" for the richness and diversity of his scientific activity. In this Art de convertir le fer forgé en acier et l'art d'adoucir le fer fondu he revealed for the first time hitherto secret details of the process and also came very close to the correct explanation of the nature of steel, that it is iron combined with a small quantity of carbon". (Hoover collection N° 677) ---- "Reaumur most significant and original contribution to industrial technology was unquestionably his investigation of the iron and steel industry, the results of which he presented in a series of memoirs read before the Academy in 1720, 1721 and 1722. They were collected and published under the title L'art de convertir le fer forgé en acier et l'art d'adoucir le fer fondu ou de faire des ouvrages de fer fondu aussi finis que de fer forgé, Paris 1722... He did bring to these researches a profound mathematical ability, an extraordinarily keen power of observation, a lively experimental imagination and a fine rational intellect...". (DSB XI pp. 327/335) ---- Honeyman N° 2585**44130/4413/o1
P., Dunod, 1941, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 16pp., 566pp.
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Le livre de M. RENAULT constitue un ensemble très complet, avec un bref historique de chacune des matières traitées. L'auteur a développé surtout les chapitres consacrés aux découvertes récentes que l'on ne trouve exposées que très sommairement dans des articles de vulgarisation ou avec trop de détails dans les ouvrages destinés aux travailleurs des laboratoires...". (Préface de Mme I. JOLIOT-CURIE) ---- R. Renault a reçu en 1944, pour ce livre, le prix Henri de Parville attribué par l'Académie des Sciences**44460/4446/o6de-4447/o7de
P., Hermann, 1907, un volume in 8 relié en demi-toile bordeaux à coins, dos muet (reliure de l'époque), 17pp., (1), 191pp., (1), figures dans le texte
---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- Réédition avec des commentaires de ce texte fort rare ---- Dédicace - Discours préliminaire - Avertissement - Essais de Jean REY - Note de Maurice PETIT - Titre de l'édition de GOBET - Dédicace du libraire RUAULT - Avertissement de GOBET - Notes de GOBET - Note de DEZEIMERIS ---- "REY's fame rests on his Essays de Jean REY sur la recherche de la cause pour laquelle l'estain et le plomb augmentent de poids quand on les calcine. The fascination of the Essays lies in its succinctness and the matrix of ideas presented at a time of far-reaching changes in science- appeals to reason, observation and experiment, as well as skepticism about earlier writing. The essays created some contemporary reaction but its intrinsic interest lies in its anticipation of LAVOISIER's recognation in 1772 that calcination involves combination with air. In 1775, Pierre BAYEN drew attention to the Essays and LAVOISIER initially believed the work to be a forgery, later, however, HE SPOKE OF IT WITH ADMIRATION...". (DSB XI p. 389) --- Partington II p. 631-636 - Cole 1111 - Hoover 683 - Duveen p. 505**59540/5954/o6de
P., Ruault, 1777, un volume in 8 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), brunissures dans les marges des deux derniers feuillets, manque de papier d'origine dans la marge du dernier feuillet), notes manuscrites de l'époque dans les marges de quelques feuillets, 32pp., 216pp., 2 PLANCHES
---- Seconde édition AUGMENTEE et fort RARE --- BEL EXEMPLAIRE de cet ouvrage que BRUNET qualifiait déjà, en 1865, de RARE (cf. Brunet table méthodique n° 4419) ---- On ne connait que quelques exemplaires de la première édition parue en 1630 dans les bibliothèques nationales ou publiques ---- Dans cette seconde édition revue par GOBET a été ajoutée la correspondance de REY avec MERSENNE, l'essai de MOITREL D'ELEMENT sur la manière de rendre l'air visible et assez sensible pur le mesurer par pintes ou par telle autre mesure qu'on voudra ainsi que celui de CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS sur l'imperméabilité du verre, sur la cause de l'augmentation du poids de l'étain et du plomb par la calcination ---- "REY's fame rests on his Essays de Jean REY sur la recherche de la cause pour laquelle l'estain et le plomb augmentent de poids quand on les calcine. The fascination of the Essays lies in its succinctness and the matrix of ideas presented at a time of far-reaching changes in science- appeals to reason, observation and experiment, as well as skepticism about earlier writing. The essays created some contemporary reaction but its intrinsic interest lies in its anticipation of LAVOISIER's recognation in 1772 that calcination involves combination with air. In 1775, Pierre BAYEN drew attention to the Essays and LAVOISIER initially believed the work to be a forgery, later, however, HE SPOKE OF IT WITH ADMIRATION...". (DSB XI p. 389) --- Partington II p. 631-636 - Cole 1111 - Hoover 683 - Duveen p. 505**8535/ARB3
London, Arnold, 1951, un volume in 8 relié en demi-toile éditeur, jacquette, 1 frontispice, 44pp., 142pp., pp.45/83
---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- Introduction by Douglas McKie - The Essays - Letter from Mersenne to Rey, 1631 - Letter from Mersenne to Rey, 1632 - Letter from Brun to Mersenne - Letter from Rey to Mersenne, 1643 - Letter from Brun to mersenne, 1644 ---- "REY's fame rests on his Essays de Jean REY sur la recherche de la cause pour laquelle l'estain et le plomb augmentent de poids quand on les calcine. The fascination of the Essays lies in its succinctness and the matrix of ideas presented at a time of far-reaching changes in science- appeals to reason, observation and experiment, as well as skepticism about earlier writing. The essays created some contemporary reaction but its intrinsic interest lies in its anticipation of LAVOISIER's recognation in 1772 that calcination involves combination with air. In 1775, Pierre BAYEN drew attention to the Essays and LAVOISIER initially believed the work to be a forgery, later, however, HE SPOKE OF IT WITH ADMIRATION...". (DSB XI p. 389) --- Partington II p. 631-636 - Cole 1111 - Hoover 683 - Duveen p. 505**44610/4461/K4
P., Buisson, 1786, un volume in 8 relié en pleine basane marbrée, dos orné de fers et filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), (petite épidermure sans gravité à la partie inférieure du premier plat de couverture), 1 feuillet non chiffré (faux-titre), 10pp. (titre, préface et table des chapitres), 317pp., 1pp. et un feuillet non chiffré (approbation)
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "P. DE RIBAUCOURT (1739/1806) attended lectures of ROUELLE and BAUME, worked in latter's laboratory, apothecary, gave lectures on chemisty in his own laboratory, industrial chemist... The book is a manual of applied chemistry especially for workers in gold and silver. The author discuses all of the chemical operations used by artisans and the appropriate theory. Ribaucourt states that he has drawn on the works of many authors, especially Macquer, Bayen, Sage, Baumé, De Morveau, Tillet and D'Arcet... (Cole N° 1113) ---- Partington III p. 563**44670/4467/o2
slnd (circa 1750), un volume in 4 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (habile restauration à une coiffe), 211pp., (1pp., (1)
---- EDITION ORIGINALE du cours de pharmacie de Guillaume-François Rouelle rédigé par un de ces élèves ---- RARE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE d'une belle écriture à l'encre brune, très lisible ---- LES COURS DE G.F. ROUELLE NE FURENT JAMAIS PUBLIES. ON NE CONNAÎT QUE QUELQUES COPIES MANUSCRITES DE CE COURS :"THERE ARE FEW MANUSCRIPTS OF THE PHARMACY LECTURES". (DSB XI) ---- "Rouelle himself published little and seems to have left no manuscripts... The content of his lectures is known solely in the manuscript versions left by his students. His lectures announced some original discoveries, often first made known by his pupils. His more distinguished pupils included Lavoisier, Desmarest, Macquer, Venel, d'Arcet and Bayen ; As impressive is the list of nonscientists known to have attended his lectures : Diderot, d'Holbach, Jean-Jacqaues Rousseau, Malesherbes and Turgot". (DSB XI pp. 563/564 & Partington III p. 73) ---- "About 1730, G.F. Rouelle went to Paris and became apprenticed to an obscure german pharmacist named J.G. Spitzley. By 1740 he was giving lectures on chemistry and pharmacy in the Place Maubert and he soon attracted the attention of Buffon who, in 1742, appointed him to the post of demonstrator in chemistry at the Jardin. In 1746 Rouelle moved his laboratory to the rue Jacob where he taught private courses for the rest of his active career. Once admitted to the Company of Apothecaries of Paris in 1750, he added a pharmacy shop to his laboratory... A brilliant and flamboyant lecturer and a vivid popularizer, Rouelle filled his lecture hall at the Jardin du Roi with a mixed audience of students, young apothecaries, society folk and such well-known men of letters as Diderot, Rousseau and the economist Turgot. Besides Lavoisier, the leading french chemist of at least two generations were introduced to the subject by Rouelle. Lavoisier almost certainly followed the course Rouelle taught in his apothecary shop on the rue Jacob... Among Rouelle's innovations was his lectures with modifications, of the phlogiston theory of Stahl and the conclusion put forth by the english physiologist Hales that air can be a chemical constituent of matter. These two ideas became part of Rouelle's own synthesis, the fundamental tenet of which was that earth, air, fire (phlogiston) and water all serve as both chemical elements and physical instruments that assist in the process of chemical change...". (DSB XI pp. 562/564 & VIII p. 68)**4571/ARM3
P., Imprimerie Royale, 1786, 3 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en pleine basane, dos ornés de fers et filets dorés (reliures de l'époque), (étiquettes de tomaisons frottées, petite épidermure à un plat, un coin légèrement émoussé, petit travail de vers à un mors), T.1 : (2 - titre + dédicace), 32pp. (préface), 431pp., 2 PLANCHES, T.2 : (2 - titre + errata), 568pp., 1 TABLEAU DEPLIANT, T.3 : (2 - titre + errata), 392pp., 47pp. (table)
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- EXEMPLAIRE BIEN COMPLET DE SES DEUX PLANCHES AU TOME 1 ET DE SON TABLEAU DEPLIANT AU TOME 2 ---- "Two years after his promotion, (Pensionnaire in the Academy), SAGE's Analyse chimique et concordance des trois règnes was published. Here, he set forth the doctrine that formed the basis of his teaching...". (DSB XII p. 64) ---- "SAGE presents in this book the results of 25 years of work. The doctrine used in his public courses of chemistry serves as the basis. A firm believer in phlogiston, he also sets forth his peculiar ideas on l'acide igné, which for him is an elemental universal acid and the essence of gaseous substances... The work has three divisions : compounds (mixtes), earth and metals. At the end of vol. III are remarks on chemical affinity, some general rules on the analysis of mineral waters and instruction on the use of the blowpipe in analysis". (Cole n° 1141) ---- Partington III pp. 97/98**46260/4626/o2
P., Mallet-Bachelier, 1859, un volume in 8 reldié en demi-basane marron (reliure de l'époque), (dos légèrement frotté, cachets de bibliothèque sur les 3 premiers feuillets), 9pp., (1pp.), 176p., 1 planche dépliante
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "AN IMPORTANT BOOK". (Duveen) ---- "Deville was the first to produce aluminium on a large scale by the use of sodium. He devised an industrial process for making aluminium. His method made both metals readily available and drastically reduced their cost...". (Duveen p. 524, Partington IV pp. 497/499, DSB IV pp. 77/78) ---- "Both Oersted and Wöhler had attempted to develop a new light metal - possibly aluminum. henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville, a french chemist, also undertook the task and after many experiments actually produced aluminum by laboratory methods. De l'aluminium which described this work was published in 1859". (Milestones of Science p. 39)**4639/ARM2D
P., 1781/1785, 2 OUVRAGES reliés en un volume in 8, demi-basane de l'époque, dos orné de fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), (plats légèrement frottés), 44 pp., pp. 45-268pp., 1 planche dépliante -- SUPPLEMENT : 14pp., (1 feuillet), pp. 13/214pp.
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE --- BON EXEMPLAIRE BIEN COMPLET DU SUPPLEMENT PARU en 1785 ---- "First french translation of the first german edition by Baron De Dietrich who added an Avis and, at the end, a section of notes. The supplement translated by Baron De dietrich, contains Leonhardi's survey of the newly discovered gases as well as the other extra material found in the german second edition. An author index had been added". (Cole N° 1165 & 1166) ---- "This work contains Scheele's discovery of oxygen made independently of Priestley. He shows that air consists of two gases one of which supports combustion while the other does not. The former be identified with fixed air obtained from salpetre, nitric acid, black oxide of manganese, etc. He endeavoured to associate several phenomena with the action of this gas, particularly connecting it with the respiratory function and growth of plants. There are some interesting notes at the end by Kirwan as well as an important letter to the latter by Joseph Priestley on the differences in views existing between Scheele and him (Priestley)". (Duveen p. 532/533) ---- Ferguson II 331 - Partington III p. 211 - DSB XII pp. 143/150 - Dibner N° 41 & Norman N° 1905 (german ed.)**4689/ARB3
Amsterdam, Waesbergios, 1709, un volume in 8 relié en plein veau marbré, dos orné de fers et filets dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (14), 243pp.
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Gunther Christoph SCHELHAMER distinguished clearly the 1668 and 1674 works of MAYOW. He says MAYOW audaciously thought that air is full of nitre, that spirit of nitre forms air,and that nitre can be formed artificially from alkali and nitric acid, all of which he denies". (Partington II p. 622) ---- "SCHELHAMMER suivit les leçons de BOYLE et de MORISON. Après avoir consacré cinq années à parcourir l'Europe, il revint en Allemagne. Il enseigna la botanique à Helmstaedt. Il occupa la chaire d'anatomie, de chirurgie et de botanique à Iéna...". (Jourdan 7 pp. 130/133)**8009/ARM2D
P., Gueffier, 1775/1779, 3 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en plein veau marbrés, dos ornés de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), (petit accroc sans gravité à une coiffe), Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale : T.1 : 24pp., 342pp., 23 planches dépliantes, T.2 : 4pp., 456pp., 28 planches dépliantes, soit 51 planches dépliantes ; Essai sur différentes espèces d'air : (4), 26pp., 400pp., 5 planches dépliantes
---- Les deux ouvrages sont en EDITIONS ORIGINALES ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Sigaud De La Fond became demonstrator in experimental physics in the College Royal, professor there in 1760, in Bourges in 1786, and professor of physics and chemistry in the Ecole Centrale in 1795. Fourcroy was his pupil. He assisted Macquer in 1776 in experiments showing that water is formed in the combustion of inflammable air and published books on gases and on physics. He improved the nitric oxide eudiometer and found only slight differences in the goodness of different specimens of air, even in crowded rooms and hospitals. A similar result was found by the same method by Priestley (1779)". (Partington III pp. 105/106) ---- "In "DESCRIPTION ET USAGE D'UN CABINET DE PHYSIQUE EXPERIMENTALE" the author offers an extensive course in pure experimental physics. Apparatus is described, illustrated and its proper use explained. References are made to theories and to authors to be consulted. Parts related to chemistry include distillation, chemical affinity, fixed air, respiration and the properties and effects of fire, including conbined fire and phlogiston. References are made to Hales, Priestley, Meyer, Lavoisier, Macquer and Guyton De Morveau. "ESSAI SUR DIFFERENTES ESPCES D'AIR", which supplements the treatment of gases in the author's Eléments de physique, is introduction to the study of various kinds of airs. There are sections on fixed, nitrous, inflammable, dephlogisticated and acid and alkaline airs. Discussed for each gas are preparations, properties and experiments. Priestley, Lavoisier, Fontana and others are cited. Some bibliographical footnotes are given". (Cole N° 1210) ---- DSB XII pp. 427/728**4776/ARM1A
P., Gueffier, 1784, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en plein veau marbré, dos ornés de caissons dorés, étiquettes rouges et vertes, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), T.1 : (2), 16pp., 396pp., 25 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES, T.2 : (2), 474pp., (1), 28 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES
---- Seconde édition REVUE, CORRIGEE et AUGMENTEE par M. Rouland ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Sigaud De La Fond became demonstrator in experimental physics in the College Royale, professor there in 1760, in Bourges in 1786, and professor of physics and chemistry in the Ecole Centrale in 1795. Fourcroy was his pupil. He assisted Macquer in 1776 in experiments showing that water is formed in the combustion of inflammable air and published books on gases and on physics. He improved the nitric oxide eudiometer and found only slight differences in the goodness of different specimens of air, even in crowded rooms and hospitals. A similar result was found by the same method by Priestley (1779)". (Partington III pp. 105/106) ---- "In these two volumes the author offers an extensive course in pure experimental physics. Apparatus is described, illustrated and its proper use explained. References are made to theories and to authors to be consulted. Parts related to chemistry include distillation, chemical affinity, fixed air, respiration and the properties and effects of fire, including conbined fire and phlogiston. References are made to Hales, Priestley, Meyer, Lavoisier, Macquer and Guyton De Morveau". (Cole N° 1210) ---- DSB XII pp. 427/728**8012/ARB3
P., Gueffier, 1777, 4 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en plein veau marbré, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), (1 coin émoussé avec petit manque de cuir, déchirure d'origine sans manque de papier à deux feuillets, l'étiquette de titre du tome 2 manque), T.1 : 12pp., 778pp., (1), 7 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES, T.2 : (2), 565pp., 10 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES, T.3 : (2), 550pp., 29pp., 4 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES, T.4 : (2), 632pp., 4 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- EX-LIBRIS manuscrit dans la marge supérieure des faux-titres DUBOIS DE LA FERONIERE ---- "The author had planned to reprint his Leçons de physique with some additions but found so many changes were necessary that a new work was needed. The present work, designed to accompany his Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale, follows the arrangement of that work. Extensive notes, both mathematical and for applications to chemistry and natural history, are found at the end of each volume. Some of the topics of chemical interest are : principles of compound bodies and chemical affinities, fixed air, the effects of air on the animal economy and, in the supplement, a description and usage of new apparatus for experiments with gases, phlogiston and fire". (Cole N° 1212) ---- "Sigaud De La Fond became demonstrator in experimental physics in the College Royal, professor there in 1760, in Bourges in 1786, and professor of physics and chemistry in the Ecole Centrale in 1795. Fourcroy was his pupil. He assisted Macquer in 1776 in experiments showing that water is formed in the combustion of inflammable air and published books on gases and on physics. He improved the nitric oxide eudiometer and found only slight differences in the goodness of different specimens of air, even in crowded rooms and hospitals. A similar result was found by the same method by Priestley (1779)". (Partington III pp. 105/106) ---- DSB XII pp. 427/428**4779/m2-4777/ARM4
P., Masson, 1957, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 249pp., (1)
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE**47970/4797/o6de
SOCIETE D'ARCUEIL --- BERTHOLLET - LAPLACE - GAY-LUSSAC - THENARD - ARAGO - BIOT - DE CANDOLLE - COLLET-DESCOTILS - MALUS - BERARD - CHAPTAL - DULONG - POISSON.
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P., Bernard, 1807/1817, 3 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en pleine basane racinée, dos ornés de fers et filets dorés, étiquettes de titres et de tomaisons rouge, tranches jaspées (reliures de l'époque), (cachets de la bibliothèque de la société de Jésus dans la marge des pages de titres dont le fonds scientifique fut vendu à l'hotel Drouot en 1984), T.1 : (2), 4pp., 382pp., 1 TABLEAU DEPLIANT, 1 PLANCHE DEPLIANTE, T.2 : 3 feuillets non chiffrés, pp. 6/498, 1 TABLEAU DEPLIANT, 2 PLANCHES, T.3 : 6pp., (1), 618pp., 1 TABLEAU DEPLIANT
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE provenant de la bibliothèque de la Société de Jésus dont le fonds scientifique fut vendu à l'hôtel Drouot en 1984 ---- EN FRANCAIS DANS LE TEXTE N° 215 : "En 1807, BERTHOLLET fonde avec LAPLACE la Société d'Arcueil qui se réunit régulièrement pour discuter des grands problèmes scientifiques de l'époque. LA SOCIETE D'ARCUEIL a regroupé les savants les plus éminents de cette première moitié du XIXe siècle et, malgré sa durée très courte, CELLE-CI DOIT ETRE RETENUE COMME LE HAUT LIEU DE LA SCIENCE DE CETTE EPOQUE. Une simple liste des savants membres de la Société d'Arcueil suffit à témoigner de son importance : BERTHOLLET, LAPLACE, Alexandre de HUMBOLDT, J.B. BIOT, THENARD, GAY-LUSSAC, Pyrame de CANDOLLE, COLLET-DESCOLTILS, Amédée Barthélémy BERTHOLLET (le fils), Etienne-Louis MALUS, François ARAGO, J.E. BERARD, CHAPTAL, Pierre-Louis DULNG, Siméon-Denis POISSON. La collaboration d'un tel groupe de savant fut très fructueuse et donna lieu à un grand nombre de travaux en commun. A THENARD et GAY-LUSSAC, nous devons la préparation du sodium et du potassium en grande quantité par des moyens chimies ; à HUMBOLDT et GAY-LUSSAC des études sur le magnétisme terrestre. En 1808, GAY-LUSSAC donne sa loi sur la combinaison des gaz en volume, selon laquelle les gaz se combinent entre eux avec des rapports volumétriqaues simples. Une grande partie du premier volume est consacrée aux travaux de THENARD sur les éthers et sur la bile. MALUS découvre la polarisation de la lumière par réflexion. HUMBOLDT étudie la géographie des plantes. BIOT publie un mémoire sur la vitesse du son. DULONG découvre le chlorure d'azote" ---- NORMAN N° 1971**7639/ARB3
P., Gauthier-Villars, 1915, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile éditeur (reliure de l'époque), (2), 173pp.
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Soddy developed with Lord Rutherford the disintegration theory of radioactivity, confirmed with Sir William Ramsay the production of helium from radium, advanced in 1910 the concept of isotope, proposed in 1911 the alpha-ray rule leading to the full displacement law of 1913, and was the 1921 Nobel laureate in chemistry, principally for his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes. Applying his general principle that the common elements are mixtures of chemically inseparable elements "differing step-wise by whole units of atomic weight" specifically to the case of the radioelements, Soddy recognized that the expulsion of an alpha particle would result in a lighter element chemically inseparable from those occupying the "next but one" position in the periodic table. The second lock to the displacement law involved the beta transitions". (DSB XII pp. 504/506)**8159/M2
P., Longmans, Green and Co., 1911/1914; 2 PARTIES en 2 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en pleine toile éditeur imprimée, (petites déchirures sans gravité et sans manque de papier dans les marges supérieures de quelques feuillets au volume 1), PART I : (4), 92pp., (1), errata p. 65, PART II (The radio-elements and the periodic law) : (3), 46pp.
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- 2 VOLUMES (complete set) ---- "Soddy developed with Lord Rutherford the disintegration theory of radioactivity, confirmed with Sir William Ramsay the production of helium from radium, advanced in 1910 the concept of isotope, proposed in 1911 the alpha-ray rule leading to the full displacement law of 1913, and was the 1921 Nobel laureate in chemistry, principally for his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes. Applying his general principle that the common elements are mixtures of chemically inseparable elements differing step-wise by whole units of atomic weight specifically to the case of the radioelements, Soddy recognized that the expulsion of an alpha particle would result in a lighter element chemically inseparable from those occupying the next but one position in the periodic table. The second lock to the displacement law involved the beta transitions". (DSB XII pp. 504/506)**4817/ARM2D
P., Vincent, 1776, un volume in 12 relié en demi-basane à coins, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (petites galeries de vers sans gravité dans la marge intérieure de quelques feuillets), 24pp., 480pp.
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ------ BEL EXEMPLAIRE ------ "One of the outstanding chemists of the eighteenth century". (Partington II pp. 662/678) ------ "STAHL was the originator of the phlogiston theory, which dominated chemistry until the end of the eighteenth century. He took the structure of his theory from Becher... STAHL elaborated from Becher's "second earth" a new chemical principle, phlogiston, a substance representing the principle of combustibility that combined with other chemical substances to form compounds... The flaws in the phlogiston theory are obvious and it did not survive the eighteenth century ; however, it served as an important link between the older chemical concepts and the new, an attempt to modify the existing intellectual framework in order to account for new experimental observations" ------ "By observation and experiments the author concluded that salts are an earth combined with water. STAHL also furnished details on the various combinations of salts, the accompanying phenomena and their causes". (Cole N° 1247) ---- DSB XII - Duveen 561 - Ferguson II 397**4877/ARM2A
P., Didot, 1766, un volume in 12 relié en demi-basane à coins, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges, (4), 392pp.
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "One of the outstanding chemists of the eighteenth century". (Partington II pp. 662/678) ---- "Baron D'HOLBACH translated STAHL's Zûfallige gedanken und nützliche bedencken über den Stret von dem sogennanten sulphure because he felt it was the work which best developed the author's doctrine of the principle of inflammability, or phlogiston. The translator added a preface and an excellent index". (Cole N° 1248) ---- "Stahl was the originator of the phlogiston theory, which dominated chemistry until the end of the eighteenth century. He took the structure of his theory from Becher... Stahl elaborated from Becher's "second earth" a new chemical principle, phlogiston, a substance representing the principle of combustibility that combined with other chemical substances to form compounds... The flaws in the phlogiston theory are obvious and it did not survive the eighteenth century ; however, it served as an important link between the older chemical concepts and the new, an attempt to modify the existing intellectual framework in order to account for new experimental observations". (Cole). ---- DSB XII - Ferguson II 399**4876/ARM2A
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
---- 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
P., Blanchard, 1926, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, (couverture légèrement défraîchie), 133pp.
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- DSB XIII pp. 362/372**50080/5008/o4-CAV.F4
P., Méquignon-Marvis, 1818/1822, 5 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en plein veau glacé vert bronze, dos richement ornés de fers dorés, tranches jaspées (reliures de l'époque), (les ff. V-VI et VII de table du tome 3 ont été reliés par erreur à la fin du volume), T.1 : 26pp., 638pp., T.2 : 8pp., 784pp., T.3 : 7pp., 727pp., T.4 : 8pp., 822pp., T. 5 (supplément) : (2), 8pp., 547pp., (1pp.), figures dans le texte
---- Deuxième édition française "With FRESNEL's and AMPERE's ORIGINAL MEMOIRS ON LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY" ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "A self-taught chemist, THOMSON first secured his reputation through the publication of the System, which was so popular that it went through six editions during the next eighteen years... As the first systematic treatise of a nonelementary kind to break the French monopoly of such works, THOMSON's System tried patriotically to justice to the contributions made by British chemists to the new chemistry, which had been established in the late eighteenth century...". (DSB XIII p. 372/373) ---- "This is the second french edition translated by Riffault who added an Appendix of new discoveries to vol. IV. The supplement contains material from the sixth english edition as well as ADDED ARTICLES BY A. FRESNEL ON LIGHT (pp. 1/137) and BABINET AND AMPERE ON ELECTRICITY (pp. 163/256". (Cole N° 1283) ---- Partington III pp. 716/722**50120/5012/o3
P., Masson, 1884, un volume grand in 8 relié en demi-toile verte (reliure début XXe), (coiffe légèrement émoussée), 11pp., 321pp., (1), 218 FIGURES dans le texte, 4 PLANCHES EN COULEURS HORS TEXTE
---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- Quatrième édition ENTIEREMENT REFONDUE ET COMPLETEE ---- Célèbre aéronaute français, Gaston Tissandier (1843/1899), fondateur de la revue la Nature, publia de nombreux livres de vulgarisation scientifique accessibles à tous ---- La vision et les illusions d'optique - L'analyse des hasards et les jeux mathématiques - La chimie sans laboratoire - La toupie magique et le gyroscope - Les jeux et les jouets scientifiques - La maison d'un amateur de sciences - Les appareils de locomotion - etc**50440/5044/P2