Author: LAVOISIER, A.A.
Title: Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes. 2nde édition.
Description: Paris, Cuchet, 1793. 2 vols. in 1 W. 13 fold pls and two fold. tables. 19th cent. hlf. mor., gilt (XLIV, 322; VIII, 332 pp.). (Sl. yellow) Duveen & Kickstein 157:' ...all the errata are here corrected,...It is difficult to explain now the reasons why this edition was put out in the same year, but it might be assumed that Lavoissier and Cuchet wanted to counteract the distribution of the books which had been fraudulenty issued (see Duveen 156) by printing an authorative edition.' 2nd ed., 2nd printing. Cole, 778: Ferchl, 299 - 301: Partington vol. III, p. 363 - 394 (mentioned p. 373): Duveen, pp. 339 - 342 (mentioned 340/1): '... one of the most important books in the history of chemistry which finally freed the science from its phlogiston chains and formed the starting point of its modern progress. It may be said to have done almost as much for chemistry as Newton's "Principia" did for physics (Zeitlinger.).'... a "second edition" was published in 1793 (See Bolton I, 606, Grimaux 351). This edition has been reset and has the misprints corrected, but is otherwise a reprint of the first edition...':

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