Author: THENARD Louis Jacques (1777-1857) :
Title: Traité de Chimie Éléméntaire, Théorique et Pratique. Seconde Édition, revue et corrigée. Tome Premier (- Tome Quatrième). 4 vols.
Description: .: 12. Paris, Chez Crochard, 1817 - 1818, 4 vols in-8°, xvi + 648 pp ; xvi + 712 pp ; xvi + 715 pp ; x + 392 pp + 34 engraved plates (numbered 1-33 and 7bis) (some folding). Uniform contemporary marbled boards and spine, paper title labels on spine, blue speckled edges, upper right corner of volume II slightly damaged, a fine/good set. Second edition of this important chemistry textbook. Thenard is also known for his discovery of hydrogen peroxide. The book went through six French editions and was translated in German, Italian, and Spanish.The first edition of Thenard's Traité de chimie élémentaire was published in four volumes in 1813-1816. The work is dedicated to his friend Gay-Lussac. Later editions were constantly updated. The first two volumes deal with inorganic chemistry, the third with organic chemistry (vegetable and animal), the fourth with analytical chemistry. In this second edition a brief treatment of Dalton's theory has been added to volume I. The detailed index included in each volume makes Thenard's book a particularly useful reference work for the chemistry of its period." D. S. B. , XIII, p. 313. The final 58 pages in Vol. IV describe chemical apparatus. (See Cole 1263. Partington, IV, pp. 90-97).. .

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