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Photo ADET, Pierre-Auguste. 

ADET, Pierre-Auguste. 

Leçons élémentaires de chimie à l'usage des lycées. 

Paris, Dentu, An XIII - 1804.
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750 €

First edition.
Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

Photo BACCI, Andrea. 

BACCI, Andrea. 

De thermis libri septem. In quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque earum differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis. 

Venise, Felicem Valgrisum, 1588.
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550 €

Second enlarged edition.

Photo BAYEN, Pierre || CHARLARD, Louis-Martin. 

BAYEN, Pierre || CHARLARD, Louis-Martin. 

Recherches chimiques sur l'étain, faites et publiées par ordre du gouvernement. 

Paris, Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1781.
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750 €

First edition.
Bayen is today recognized as a precursor of Lavoisier. He rejected the phlogistic theory 3 years before the decisive work of Lavoisier.
In this book on the tin, Bayen and Charlard concluded that tin contained no arsenic at worst infinitesimal amount, without any danger to health.

Photo BERKELEY, George. 

BERKELEY, George. 

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron. 

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1745.
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150 €

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

Photo BERTHELOT, Marcelin. 

BERTHELOT, Marcelin. 

Thermochimie. Données et lois numériques. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1897.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo BERTHELOT, Marcelin. 

BERTHELOT, Marcelin. 

Essai de mécanique chimique fondée sur la thermochimie. 

Paris, Dunod, 1879.
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400 €

First edition, with the rare supplement.
"A monumental work in which Berthelot "laid the foundation of thermochemistry" (Zeitlinger). His researches began a new epoch, and in this work he introduced the terms exo- and endo-thermic. Although a number of chemists before him had made contributions regarding the evolution and absoption of heat in chemical reactions, it was Berthelot whose experimental determinations cover almost the whole range of chemical reaction." ... "Most copies lack the important and rare Supplément" (Neville).

Photo BERTRAND, Gabriel. 

BERTRAND, Gabriel. 

Réflexions nouvelles sur l'acide et sur l'alcali où après avoir démontré que ces deux sels ne peuvent pas être les principes des mixtes, on fait voir le véritable usage qu'on en peut faire dans la physique & dans la médecine. 

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1683.
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450 €

Scarce first edition.

Photo BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

Des Changemens dans le système de minéralogie chimique, qui doivent nécessairement résulter de la propriété que possèdent les corps isomorphes, de se remplacer mutuellement en proportions indéfinies. (publié dans Annales de Chimie et de Physique - Tome XXXI). 

Paris, Crochard, 1826.
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250 €

First edition.
Berzelius is the first to propose a system of classification of the elements by designating them by an abbreviation of their Latin name. It is the system of naming atoms that we always use (Au for Gold for example). He also proposed in his System of mineralogy in 1818 a beginning of classification of simple and compound elements. In this article he modifies his system taking into account Mitscherlich's recent work on isomorphic crystals and proposes a new classification according to the electronegativity of the elements.

We find in the same volume an article by Antoine Becquerel, "Investigations on the electrical effects of contact produced in changes of temperature, and application which can be made to the determination of high temperatures".

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 BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Edme Jean-Baptiste. 

BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Edme Jean-Baptiste. 

Essai sur les eaux minérales naturelles et artificielles. 

Paris et Saint-Pétersbourg, Klostermann, 1810.
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350 €

First edition, the first issue with the scarce 1810 title page.
An important work and comprehensive treatise on natural and mineral waters. The first part covers internal and external uses of fresh water, seawater, and different kinds of mineral water. The major portion of the book describes the principal spas of Europe in alphabetical order, including chemical analyses of the waters. The last section gives detailed directions for the preparation of artificial mineral waters, with plates showing apparatus for making hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogel sulphide. The machine designed by L.A. Planche for making carbonated mineral waters under pressure is described.

Photo BOURDON, Isidore. 

BOURDON, Isidore. 

Guide aux eaux minérales de la France, de l'Allemagne, de la Suisse et de l'Italie. 

Paris, Crochard et Cie, 1837.
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150 €

Seconde edition.

Photo BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. 

BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. 

Traité élémentaire ou principe de physique [suivi de] Elémens ou principes physico-chymiques. 

Paris, Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1800.
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Frist complete edition with the first edition of the fourth volume.
Complete homogeneous set in 4 volumes and 52 plates of this physics and chemistry course published by Mathurin-Jacques Brisson.
Assistant to Réaumur then to Nollet, Brisson became a professor of physics at the College of Navarre and then at the Ecole Centrale. He began to publish his Elementary Treaty of Physics in 1789. This third edition of 1800 was supplemented by a new volume on chemistry to serve as a follow-up to physics.

Photo [CAYAUX ou CAILLOT]. 

[CAYAUX ou CAILLOT]. 

Lettre sur les nouveaux bains médicinaux. 

Paris, Veuve Quillau, 1752.
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250 €

First edition.
Curious work promoting Guérin's machine intended to produce steam for the Baths. The steam generator is inspired by Denis Papin's machine and coupled with different ovens either for the whole body or for the seat alone.
The novelty lies in the possibility of regulating vapors and showers precisely.

Photo CHAMBON, Joseph. 

CHAMBON, Joseph. 

Principes de physique, rapportés à la médecine-pratique
[qui comprend le]
Traité des métaux et des minéraux, et des remèdes qu'on peut en tirer. Avec dissertations sur le sel & le soufre des philosophes, & sur la goute, la gravelle, la petite vérole, la rougeole & autres maladies : avec un grand nombre de remèdes choisis. 

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750.
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450 €

Rare edition. The second volume contain the Traité des métaux et des minéraux (1750).

Photo CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine. 

Mémoires de chimie. 

Montpellier, Jean Martel Aîné, 1781.
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950 €

First edition of the first work of Chaptal.
First volume, only published.
After three years spent in Paris (1777-1780), Chaptal was offered in 1780 a chair of chemistry at the Royal Society of Sciences of Montpellier.
"It was from this moment that Chaptal's brilliant career in science began.
The revolution in chemistry was at hand. However, the old doctrine of phlogiston still prevailed and it was this doctrine that Chaptal taught at first and in his first courses that he took up in his first work. He then quickly rallied to the ideas developed by Lavoisier. "(Flourens. Eloge de Chaptal. 1835)
Rare (missing from the main collections on chemistry : Duveen, Ferguson, Neville ...)

Bound with :
- POULLE. Positiones chemico-medicae de Aere Vitali. Montpellier, Picot, 1784. 64 pages (a lack in the margin of page 41). Rare work on the chemical and medical properties of oxygen and its preparation. First edition.
- BERTHOLON. Des avantages que la physique et les arts qui en dépendent peuvent retirer des globes aérostatiques...Montpellier, Jean Martel Aîné, 1784. 82 pages. First edition.
- LAFFECTEUR. Rapport sur l'analyse du Rob Antisyphillitique. 1779. Ph. D. Pierres, Paris. 24 pages. First edition.
- GUER. [Dissertation physique & botanique sur la maladie nephretique et sur son véritable spécifique, le Raisin d'Ours]. 1768, Bauer, Strasbourg. 98 pages and 1 folding plate. Bound without the title page and the privilege.
- GOUBERT. Description et usage des baromètres, thermomètres et autres instrumens météorologiques. 1781. Jombert, Paris. 52 pages and 1 folding table. First edition

A presentation copy to the botanist of Dijon Jean-François Durande, for the second work (Poulle).

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 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 CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

La royalle Chymie de Crollius,
traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene. 

Lyon, Pierre Drobet, 1627.
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1750 €

Second French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first: Préface admonitoire, contenant les mysteres tres-profond & plus rares de la Philosophie tant naturelle que de la grace, touchant l'excellence de la medecine Chymique, & grandeur du Microcosme
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius"
- The third: Traicté des signatures, ou vraye et vive anatomie du grand & petit monde.
This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.
Edition with engraved title page.

Photo CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius). 

La royalle Chymie de Crollius, suivi du traicté des signatures, ou vraye et vive anatomie du grand & petit monde. 

Rouen, David du Petit Val, 1634.
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1200 €

Rare French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first offers a admonitoire Preface, containing the very deep mysteries & Philosophy rarest of both natural grace, reaching the excellence of medicine Chymical, and magnitude of the Microcosm;
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius", describing various remedies and recipes of Medicine;
- The third one, separate pagination, is finally a Traict signatures, or true and deep anatomy of the great and little world. This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.

Photo DECKENS, A. 

DECKENS, A. 

Étude complète sur les phosphates.
Atlas contenant 250 figures. 

Liège, H.Poncelet, 1894.
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20 €
Photo DEHERIAN, Pierre-Paul || SCHUTZENBERGER, Paul || FRIEDEL, Charles || LE ROUX? FRançois-Pierre || GAUTIER, Armand || TOLLENS, Bernhard. 

DEHERIAN, Pierre-Paul || SCHUTZENBERGER, Paul || FRIEDEL, Charles || LE ROUX? FRançois-Pierre || GAUTIER, Armand || TOLLENS, Bernhard. 

Leçons de Chimie professées en 1868 et 1869. 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1870.
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75 €

First edition.

Photo DEMACHY, Jean François. 

DEMACHY, Jean François. 

Examen physique et chimique d'une eau minérale trouvée chez M. de Calsabigi à Passy; comparée aux eaux du même côteau, connues sous le nom des nouvelles eaux minérales de Madame Belami. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1756].
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250 €

First edition.

Rare brochure that follows the analyzes of Rouelle and Cadet on the waters of Passy. The purpose of this study is to show that the water found in Mrs. Belami, neighbor of the Calasabigi is at least as good.

Photo [DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste]. 

[DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste]. 

Traité de chimie appliquée aux arts. Atlas du deuxième volume. 

[Paris], s.n., [1828].
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25 €
Photo ETTMULLER, Michel. 

ETTMULLER, Michel. 

Nouvelle Chymie raisonnée. 

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1693.
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400 €

First french edition.
Professor of botany and surgery at the University of Leipzig, Ferguson [I,251] reports that Ettmuller died on March 9, 1683 as a result of an unfortunate chemistry experiment.

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 FOURCROY, Antoine-François de. 

FOURCROY, Antoine-François de. 

Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Lavoisier. 

Paris, Impr. de la Feuille du cultivateur, An IV [1796].
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Bound after with separate title page and pagination : "La Mort de Lavoisier, Hyérodrame Mis en musique par le Citoyen Langlé... Paroles de Charles Désaudray". 7-(1bl.) pages.
Two brochures praising Lavoisier after he was guillotined.

Photo GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis. 

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis. 

Cours de chimie comprenant l'histoire des sels, la chimie végétale et animale. 

Paris, Pichon et Didier, 1828.
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950 €

First edition.

Photo GAY-LUSSAC, Louis Joseph. 

GAY-LUSSAC, Louis Joseph. 

Instruction Pour l'usage de L'Alcoomètre Centésimal, et des Tables qui l'accompagnent. 

Paris, Collardeau, 1824.
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250 €

First edition.
In 1821, he was commissioned by the French administration to define a practical method for accurately measuring the alcohol concentration of drinks. Gay-Lussac is developing a hydrometer graduated on the volumetric alcohol concentration. This gives the Gay-Lussac degree which corresponds to the percentage of alcohol in the wine for example. The law of 1824 on the taxation of alcoholic beverages uses his work. With Collardeau, a former student of the École Polytechnique, he became a manufacturer of scientific instruments and marketed his alcoholometer in 1830.

Photo GLASER, Christophle. 

GLASER, Christophle. 

Traité de la Chymie. 

Paris, chez l'autheur, 1663.
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1200 €

The rare first edition, first issue.
Christophe Glaser (1629-1672?) Is a Swiss doctor and pharmacist who became ordinary apothecary of King Louis XIV. Nicolas Lemery will be trained at Glaser but quickly leaves him not supporting his almost esoteric teaching.
Glaser crosses the history in the poison case. It is most probably in her pharmacy that the Marquise de Brinvilliers obtained the vials of poison. According to his testimony Glaser was sent to Italy by Fouquet to learn the secrets of Italian poisons.
Caillet attributes this book to Moyse Charas, who indeed mentions in the preface to his Thériaque that he published a Treatise on Chemistry under the name of Glaser.

We find in this book, curious preparations such as human skull oil or the distillation of viper flesh.

Photo HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van. 

HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van. 

Les Oeuvres de Jean Baptiste Van Helmont Traittant des Principes de Médecine et Physique pour la guerison assurée des Maladies : de la traduction de M. Jean le Conte. 

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1670.
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850 €

First edition in french of th works of Helmont, and first issue with the date 1670.

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