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Photo DELUC, Jean-André. 

DELUC, Jean-André. 

Introduction a la physique terrestre par les fluides expansibles, précédée de deux mémoires sur la nouvelle théorie chymique. 

Paris, Vve Nyon, 1803.
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750 €

First edition.
Full margin copy, as issue.

Jean-André de Luc (1727-1817) was a Genevan physicist and geologist who worked on expansible fluids and hygrometry. A member of the Royal Society of London, he was known for his work on atmospheric physics and the measurement of altitude. This work is a study of terrestrial physics through the prism of gases and fluids, focusing on atmospheric phenomena.
Deluc strenuously opposed the new chemical theory associated with Lavoisier and in this work attempted to show "that meteorological phenomena strongly militate against it and in general that the hypothesis of the composition of water (the fundamental point in the theory) has maintained itself only by numerous other hypotheses which are in contradiction with known facts." (D.S.B.).

Photo GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis || POUILLET, Claude. 

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis || POUILLET, Claude. 

Leçons de physique de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris, recueillies et rédigées par M. Grosselin. 

Paris, Grosselin, 1828.
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600 €

First edition.
- Part One: Lessons taught by Gay-Lussac.
Lessons 19 to 25 are devoted to the expansion of liquids and gases, a field in which Gay-Lussac made a major advance.
- Part Two: Lessons taught by Pouillet.

Photo PASCAL, Paul || BAUD, Pascal. 

PASCAL, Paul || BAUD, Pascal. 

Traité de chimie minérale. 

Paris, Masson, 1931-1934.
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500 €

First edition of this monumental treatise published under the direction of Paul Pascal, presenting the state of knowledge at the time on the subject.

Photo GIRARDIN, Jean Pierre Louis. 

GIRARDIN, Jean Pierre Louis. 

Leçons de chimie élémentaire appliquée aux arts industriels. 

Paris, Masson, 1872-1880.
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300 €

Jean Pierre Louis Girardin (1803-1884) was a French chemist and agronomist, and a corresponding member of the Institut. He was a professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Clermont. This work is a chemistry manual that applies the principles of elementary chemistry to industrial arts, illustrating the link between scientific research and technology in the 19th century.

Photo CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

Chimie appliquée aux arts. 

Paris, Deterville, 1807.
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300 €

First edition.
Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832) was a French chemist and statesman, a member of the Institut and a professor at the École de Médecine. He played an important role in the development of the chemical industry in France. This work applies the principles of chemistry to practical fields such as dyeing and manufacturing. It illustrates the link between scientific research and industrialization.

Some old annotations in volume 4 on some margins and on 4 added leaves.

Photo MALLARD, François Ernest || LE CHATELIER, Henri Louis. 

MALLARD, François Ernest || LE CHATELIER, Henri Louis. 

Recherches expérimentales et théoriques sur la combustion des mélanges gazeux explosifs. 

Paris, Dunod, 1883.
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150 €

First edition.
François Ernest Mallard (1842-1894) and Henri Louis Le Châtelier (1850-1936) were French engineers and chemists. Le Châtelier is one of the founders of modern industrial chemistry. This work, an excerpt from the Annales des Mines, presents their joint research on the combustion of explosive gaseous mixtures. It was a fundamental work on detonation and flame propagation.

Photo AVOGADRO, Amedeo. 

AVOGADRO, Amedeo. 

Opere scelte. 

Turin, Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1911.
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120 €

Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856) was an Italian physicist and chemist, best known for his gas law, Avogadro's hypothesis, which postulates that equal volumes of different gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules. This work is a selection of his writings, published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his famous paper.

Copy n°71.

Photo GRIMAUX, Édouard. 

GRIMAUX, Édouard. 

Lavoisier 1743-1794 d'après sa correspondance, ses manuscrits, ses papiers de famille et d'autres documents inédits. 

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1888.
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80 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.

Photo LASSAIGNE, Jean-Louis. 

LASSAIGNE, Jean-Louis. 

Abrégé élémentaire de chimie. 

Paris, Bechet, 1842.
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80 €

Third edition.
Jean-Louis Lassaigne (1800-1859) was a French chemist and physician. He was a professor at the Royal Veterinary School of Alfort. His work focused on organic chemistry and physiological chemistry. This work is a chemistry manual intended for medical and pharmacy students, which presents the principles of chemistry as an ancillary science to these fields.

Photo LEVRET. 

LEVRET. 

- Cours de physique, de l'école navale
- Précis de chimie
- Précis de fortification. 

Paris, Edouard Anner, 1839.
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80 €

First edition.

Photo BERTHELOT, Marcellin. 

BERTHELOT, Marcellin. 

Leçons sur les méthodes générales de synthèse en chimie organique, professées en 1864 au Collège de France. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1864.
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50 €

First edition.
Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) was a prominent French chemist and politician, considered one of the founders of modern organic chemistry. His Leçons sur les méthodes générales de synthèse en chimie organique (Lessons on General Synthesis Methods in Organic Chemistry), stemming from his lectures at the Collège de France in 1864, is an essential work that marks an important step in the development of organic chemistry. Berthelot demonstrates the possibility of synthesizing organic compounds from inorganic elements, thereby challenging the theory of vitalism and paving the way for industrial chemical synthesis. The work highlights the importance of synthesis methods in understanding and creating new organic substances.

Photo DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste André || BOUSSINGAULT, Jean-Baptiste. 

DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste André || BOUSSINGAULT, Jean-Baptiste. 

Essai de statique chimique des êtres organisés. 

Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1844.
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40 €

Third edition.
Jean-Baptiste André Dumas (1800-1884) and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802-1887) were French chemists. Dumas is one of the founders of organic chemistry, and Boussingault is considered the father of modern agronomy.

Photo DELACRE, Maurice. 

DELACRE, Maurice. 

Histoire de la Chimie. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1920.
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40 €

Maurice Delacre (1862-1936) was a Belgian chemist, a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and professor at the University of Ghent. His work Histoire de la Chimie (History of Chemistry) is an in-depth study of the development of chemistry through the ages. Awarded by the Institut de France (Binoux prize), this book demonstrates the recognition of his work in the history of science. The work traces the major stages of chemistry, from ancient practices to modern theories, and highlights key figures and major discoveries that have shaped this discipline.

Photo BERTHELOT, Marcellin. 

BERTHELOT, Marcellin. 

Traité élémentaire de chimie organique. 

Paris, Dunod, 1872.
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40 €

First edition.
Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907), professor at the Collège de France and the School of Pharmacy, is an emblematic figure of French chemistry. His Traité élémentaire de chimie organique (Elementary Treatise on Organic Chemistry) is a key work for teaching and disseminating knowledge in organic chemistry in the 19th century. It is part of the movement that saw organic chemistry structure itself into an autonomous scientific discipline, moving away from vitalistic conceptions. This work was essential for the training of chemists of the time, detailing the fundamental principles and reactions of organic compounds.

Photo DUHEM, Pierre. 

DUHEM, Pierre. 

Thermodynamique et chimie : leçons élémentaires à l'usage des chimistes. 

Paris, A. Hermann et fils, 1910.
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35 €

Second edition.

Photo BERTHELOT, Marcellin. 

BERTHELOT, Marcellin. 

Sur la force des matières explosives, d'après la thermochimie. 

Paris, Gauthier-villars, 1883.
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90 €

Third edition.

Photo DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste André. 

DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste André. 

Essai de statique chimique des êtres organisés. 

Paris, Fortin, Masson & cie, 1842.
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90 €

Seconde edition.
Jean-Baptiste André Dumas (1800-1884) and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802-1887) were French chemists. Dumas is one of the founders of organic chemistry, and Boussingault is considered the father of modern agronomy.

Photo DITTE, Alfred. 

DITTE, Alfred. 

Leçons sur les métaux. 

Paris, Dunod, 1891.
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75 €

First edition.

Photo JEANS, James Hopwood. 

JEANS, James Hopwood. 

Théorie dynamique des gaz. 

Paris, Joseph Gibert, 1925.
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30 €

First edition in french.
James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946) was a British physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, known for his contributions to quantum theory, thermodynamics, and astrophysics. This work is a foundational textbook that deals with the kinetic theory of gases, a field of physics that studies the properties of gases based on the motion of their particles.

Photo WURTZ, Charles Adolph. 

WURTZ, Charles Adolph. 

Leçons élémentaires de chimie moderne. 

Paris, G. Masson, 1875.
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30 €

Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) was an influential French chemist, a member of the Institute and the Academy of Medicine, and Dean and Professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. His Leçons élémentaires de chimie moderne (Elementary Lessons in Modern Chemistry) is a key textbook that helped disseminate the concepts of modern chemistry of his time. Wurtz was a strong advocate for atomic theory and standardized chemical notation. This work, due to its clarity and updated content (third edition, revised and augmented, with 132 figures), played an important role in teaching and popularizing chemistry in France, particularly organic chemistry.

Photo DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste. 

DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste. 

Leçons sur la Philosophie Chimique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1878.
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30 €

Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884), professor at the Collège de France, was a leading French chemist and politician, known for his contributions to organic chemistry and the design of the metric system. His Leçons sur la Philosophie Chimique (Lessons on Chemical Philosophy), collected by M. Bineau, is a series of lectures that explore the fundamental concepts and general principles underlying chemistry of his time. This work is important for understanding the evolution of chemical thought in the 19th century, debates on the nature of elements, the classification of compounds, and scientific methodology in chemistry. It testifies to Dumas' reflective approach to his discipline.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l’aide des cercles chromatiques. Avec XXVII planches gravées sur acier et imprimées en couleurs par René Digeon. 

Paris, J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1864.
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5500 €

First edition of the rarest of Chevreul's publications on color.

Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty acids, saponification, and the discovery of stearin, but it is as a color theorist that his name will go down in history. Chevreul was appointed director of the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1824. Responsible for overseeing the production of dyes, he supported the work of dyers with his research on color perception. Thus, in 1839, he proposed a scientific approach to color complementarity and subsequently developed "color circles." A true "Pantone" color chart, a hundred years ahead of its time, Chevreul's color circles had the dual benefit of systematizing the production of hues (each with its own name) and making it easier to understand the concept of color complementarity. Thus, complementary colors are found on the same diameter of the color wheel, Red No. 2 corresponds to Green No. 2. "I believe I can affirm that it is possible to subject colors to a reasoned nomenclature, by relating them to types classified according to a simple method, accessible to the intelligence of all those who deal with colors" (extract from the preface). The standardization of color production was to interest first and foremost the industry then in full development, but it is undoubtedly in the Impressionist movement that Chevreul's theories found their finest accomplishment. Very early on, painters were inspired by Chevreul's work in their paintings, starting with Delacroix and then Monet. We will thus remember the fields of poppies dear to the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissaro...) where the red dots of the flowers burst out on complementary green backgrounds. The 27 spectacular plates were printed by René-Henri Digeon using chromochalcography, the process and difficulties of which are discussed in a paragraph in the book. Digeon appears to have presented a first edition of these plates at the 1855 World's Fair, for which he received a patent from the Empress. Several of the plates in our copy appear to be from this first edition and contain errors that have been corrected in other later copies that we have been able to consult.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

Mémoire sur la vision des couleurs matérielles en mouvement de rotation et des vitesses numériques de cercles. 

Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1882 [1881].
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3000 €

First edition of Chevreul's last works on color.
A rare offprint with its own title page published by Firmin-Didot in 1882, of an article presented to the Academy of Sciences in December 1880 and January 1881 (one generally only finds the article extracted from the Mémoires de l'institut published in 1883). Chevreul is interested here in physiological optics, trying to analyze how the contrast between complementary colors is affected by movement.
In his conclusion, in which he calls himself "the dean of students in France" (he was then 95 years old), he sees a direct application of his work to signaling for train drivers.

Photo FOURCROY, Antoine-François. 

FOURCROY, Antoine-François. 

Tableaux synoptiques de chimie, pour servir de résumé aux leçons données sur cette science dans les écoles de Paris. 

Paris, Baudouin, An VIII [1800].
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2500 €

First edition.

Photo [SENAC, Jean Baptiste]. 

[SENAC, Jean Baptiste]. 

Nouveau cours de chymie, suivant les principes de Newton & de Sthall. 

Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1723.
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2500 €

Scarce first edition, complete with the "Suite ..." often missing of this pioneering work on phlogiston chemistry.

Photo BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

Théorie des proportions chimiques, et Table synoptique des poids atomiques des corps simples, et de leurs combinaisons les plus importantes. 

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1835.
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350 €

Second edition.
A Swedish chemist considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry, Berzelius notably introduced the current chemical notation (the symbols of the elements) and discovered several chemical elements.
This edition offers a table of atomic weights largely increased compared to the first edition of 1819.

Some annotations in the margin by George-Henry Love, a former student of the Ecole Centrale de Paris (class of 1840), who was director of the Charentes railways and president of the Society of Civil Engineers.

Photo ROTHE, Gottfried. 

ROTHE, Gottfried. 

Introduction a la Chymie, accompagnée de deux traitez, l'un sur le Sel des Métaux, & l'autre sur le Souphre Anodyn du Vitriol.
Avec une analyse raisonnée de l'Antimoine. 

Paris, Hyppolite-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1741.
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350 €

First french edition.
Rothe was a pupil of Stal's, and graduated in medicine at Leipzig University, He died at the early age of thirty-one.
This work on chemistry, first posthumously published in 1717, was one of the best and clearest manuals of its time (Fergusson).
The greatly enlarged, definitive French edition of this important work, containing translations by Clausier of the main text (viz. Antleitung zur Chymie), supplement (Anhang) on metallic salts, and another work by Rothe on the anodyne sulphur of vitriol. In addition there are translations of two works on antomony and its compounds by the Dresden chemist E.P. Meuder, as listed in the title. The book ends with a supplement on Quelques nouvelles préparations du ... médicinal, describing antimonial medicines (pp.499-503).
Meuder was the first to prove that the mineral stibnite is a compound of metallic antimony and sulphur. (Partington II, 198).

Photo [MONNET, Antoine Grimoald]. 

[MONNET, Antoine Grimoald]. 

Nouvelle hydrologie, ou nouvelle exposition de la nature et de la qualité des eaux. 

Paris, P.Fr. Didot, 1772.
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First edition.
Work on the chemical analysis of sea water collected on the French coasts.
A complete copy with the leaf A1 missing from almost all copies (Duveen doubt of is existence).

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux faits Physiques, Et particulièrement sur celles de la Combustion, de l'Elévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs de la Chaleur produite. 

Paris, Maradan, An II [1794].
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950 €

First edition.
Lamarck's first work in the field of chemistry in which he reverses Lavoisier's chemical revolution and proposes a system based on the theory of the four elements and phlogiston.
Apart from expounding his bizarre chemical theories, the book is important for his later views on biology and geology. Of interest is the section "Recherches sur les têtres organiques", which sets out his ideas on the origin of life before he abandoned his belief in a fixed species and became an evolutionist.
Lamarck's "chemical theories played an important part in the development of his ideas the origin of species, as they provived a materialistic definition of life, reproduction and evolution." (Norman).

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Traité de l'Antimoine. 

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1707.
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1200 €

First edition.
French chemist, Nicolas LEMERY was born at Rouen on the 17th of November 1645. After learning pharmacy in his native town he became a pupil of C. Glaser's in Paris, and then went to Montpellier, where he began to lecture on chemistry. He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his lectures.

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