‎THOMSON (Th.) -- FRESNEL - AMPERE‎
‎Système de chimie traduit de l'anglais sur la cinquième édition (de 1817) par J. Riffault -- "With FRESNEL's and AMPERE's ORIGINAL MEMOIRS ON LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY" -- 5 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET) -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎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

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‎---- 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