"GAY-LUSSAC, (JOSEPH). - THE ""GAY-LUSSAC LAW"" OF EXPANDING GASES ANNOUNCED.
Reference : 43078
(1802)
Paris, Chez Fuchs, An X, (1802). Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Top of spine with wear. A few scratches to binding. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 43. 332,(4) pp., 2 engraved plates (the entire volume offered). Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 137-175. The first 20 leaves a bit brownspotted, otherwise with a few marginal brownspots. 1 leaf (pp. 197-98) torn with loss of some letters. Gay-Lussac's paper fine and clean.
First printing of this extremely important discovery, in which Gay-Lussac first formulated the law, Gay-Lussac's Law, stating that if the mass and pressure of a gas are held constant then gas volume increases linearly as the temperature rises. This is sometimes written as V = k T, where k is a constant dependent on the type, mass, and pressure of the gas and T is temperature on an absolute scale. (In terms of the ideal gas law, k = n R / P.).""In 1802 he (Gay-Lussac) showed that different gases all expanded by equal amounts with rise in temperature. Charles had made the same discovery some years earlier but had not published it"" the credit therefore belongs to Gay-Lussac at least as much, and probably more. This was an extremely importent discovery, which Avogadro was to use within the decade to formulate hid long-neglected hypothesis that equal volumes of different gases at equal temperatures contained equal numbers of particles.""(Asimov).Magie ""A Source Book in Physics"", p.165-172 - Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 374-379. - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1802 C.The volume contains other importent papers in chemistry by Humphrey Davy (first French translation of his announcement of the finding of ""Laughing Gas"" (Nitrous Oxide), Parmentier, Vauquelin, Clement et Desormes, Thenard, Guyton, Chenivix
Paris, Chez Crochard, 1814. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Top of spine with wear. A few scratches to binding. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 91. - 336 pp. a. 1 engraved plate.(the entire volume offered). Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 5-160. Some scattered brownspots.
First printing of Gay-Lussac's classic paper on Iodine, (discovered 1811 by J.C. Courtois), in which he showed that the new substance was an element analogous of chlorine and in which he named the substance Iode, from the Greek ioeides, meaning ""violet colored"".Gay-Lussac's and Davy's rechearches on iodine were carried out simultaneously, which makes it difficult to assaign priority. Gay-Lussac was annoyed at Davy's introsion. His work, however, is considered as a model of experimental research. (Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 293).""Gay-Lussac's major publication on iodine was not ready to be read to the Institute until August 1814, by which time not only Davy but Vaquelin had explored the subject fairly extensively. Gay-Lussac, however, deserves full credit for his detailled study of hydrogen iodide, which he found to have a 50 percent hydrogen content by volume. He contrasted its thermal decomposition with the stability of hydrogen chloride. By the action of chlorine and iodine, he pepared, independently of Davy and at about the same time, iodine monochloride and trichloride. After further carefull study of the properties of iodine, he prepared and examined a number of iodides and iodates. He prepared for the first time ethyl iodide by distilling together concentrated hydriodic acid with absolute alcohol. The close analogy that he emphasized between chlorine and iodine led him to further investigation of the former, and he discovered chloric acid by the action of sulfuric acid on a solution of barium chlorate.""(DSB V, pp. 322-23). - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1814 C. - Duveen p. 237.The volume contains other importent chemical papers, A. Séguin: ""Premier-Second Mémoire sur le Quinquina"", pp.273-284 a. 304-317 and 3 other papers by him (one together with Lavoisier), by Guyton-Morveau, Payssé, Colin etc.
Paris, Chez Bernard, An XIII (1805). Contemp. hcalf., gilt spine. Top of spine with wear. In: ""Annales de Chimie"" Vol. 52. 358 pp. (The entire volume offered). Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 75-94 a. large foldet ""Tableau des Observations"". Internally clean, printed on good paper.
First printing of the scientific account of Gay-Lussac's famous ascent in a hydrogen ballon in order to make observations on the composition of the air, pressure and the earth's magnetic force. This voyage together with the voyage in the same year with Biot is the first ascents with a scientific purpose.""Gay-Lussac made an ascent in a hydrogen ballon with Biot on 24 August 1804. The primary object of the ascent was to see whether the magnetic intensity at theearth's surface decreased with an increase in altitude. The concluded that it was constant up to 4,000 meters. They also carried long wires to test the electricity of different parts of the atmosphere. Another object was to collect a sample of air from a high altitude to compare its composition with that of air at ground level. Gay-Lussac made a second ascent, on 16. September 1804 (the paper offered), but this time by himself, in order to lessen the weight of the balloon and thus reach a greater high.He was able to repeat observations of pressure, temperature, and humidity and also make magnetic measurem,ents. He had taken two evacuated flasks, which he opened to collect samples of air when he had attained an altitude of over 6,000 meters. His subsequent analysiss of these samples showed that the portion of oxygen was identical with that in ordinary air. Gay-Lussac reached a calculated high of 7,o16 meters above sea level, a record not equaled for another half a century.""(DSB V, p. 318).Brockett: 5164 a - Tissandier p. 23.The volume contains other importent papers, Thenard ""Mémoire sur la liqueur fumante e Cadet"", Parmentier ""Experiences et Observations sur la collage et la clarification des vins, de la biere, etc."", Vauquelin ""Analyse des topazes"", Chenevix and others.
"GAY-LUSSAC, (JOSEPH). - THE ""GAY-LUSSAC LAW"" OF EXPANDING GASES ANNOUNCED - GERMAN VERSION.
Reference : 44130
(1803)
Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1803. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 12. Pp. 257-291 a. 1 folded engraved plate showing the experimental apparatus used.
First appearance in German of this extremely important paper in which Gay-Lussac first formulated the law, the Gay-Lussac's Law, stating that if the mass and pressure of a gas are held constant, then gas volume increases linearly as the temperature rises. This is sometimes written as V = k T, where k is a constant dependent on the type, mass, and pressure of the gas and T is temperature on an absolute scale. (In terms of the ideal gas law, k = n R / P.).""In 1802 he (Gay-Lussac) showed that different gases all expanded by equal amounts with rise in temperature. Charles had made the same discovery some years earlier but had not published it"" the credit therefore belongs to Gay-Lussac at least as much, and probably more. This was an extremely importent discovery, which Avogadro was to use within the decade to formulate hid long-neglected hypothesis that equal volumes of different gases at equal temperatures contained equal numbers of particles.""(Asimov).Magie ""A Source Book in Physics"", p.165-172 - Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 374-379. - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1802 C.
GAY-LUSSAC, (JOSEPH). - THE FIRST IDENTIFICATION OF AN ORGANIC RADICAL
Reference : 43079
(1815)
Paris, Chez Crochard, 1815 Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Top of spine with wear. A few scratches to binding. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 95. - 336 pp. (the entire volume offered). Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 136-231. Some scattered brownspots throughout.
First appearance of this milestone paper in organic chemistry, in which Gay-Lussac describes the preparation, the chemical reactions, and the determination of the physical properties of prussic acid.""One of the most importent contributions of Gay-Lussac was his work on hydro-cyanid acid and its compounds. In the course of his investigations on the combining volumes of gases he had prepared gaseous hydrogen cyanide. This led him to the study of related compounds, and in 1815 he published a paper, ""Recherches sur l'acide prussique"" (the paper offered), wherein he announced the discovery of cyanogen and chlor-cyanogen and the composition of hydrocyanic acid. His demonstartion that hydrogen cyanide contains no oxygen added another oxygen-free acid to those already known (hydrogen halides and sulfide) and contributed to the overthrow of Lavoisier's oxygen theory of acids. Gay-Lussac found that the cyano radical,the first orgianic radical clearly recognized, could act as an element analogous to chlorine, passing unchanged through various reactions. This concept of an organic radical was importent to organic chemistry.""(Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 293). - Partington IV, p.85 a. p. 253. - Roy G. Neville, p. 505. - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1815 C.
"GAY-LUSSAC, (JOSEPH). - THE ""GAY-LUSSAC'S LAW"" OF COMBINING VOLUMES.
Reference : 43627
(1810)
Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1810. Without wrappers as published in ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 36, Neuntes Stück. The entire issue offered (=Heft 9). Titlepage to vol. 36. Pp. 1-112. a. 2 engraved plates. Gay-Lussac's papers: pp. 6-36 a. pp. 37-51.
First German edition of this classic paper in chemistry in which he states the law, that when two gases combine chemically, they do so that the volumes are in the ratio of whole small numbers.""In 1805, with Alexander von Humboldt he observed the already known fact that hydrogen and oxygen combines in the ratio of 2 to 1 by volume. Stimulated by this work he studied the reactions of other gases to see whether there were other simple relationshipas, and in 1808 he announced the la of combining volumes, which is now known as GAY-LUSSAC'S LAW, This generalization, obviously connected with some fundamental property of matter, was in part responsible for Avogadro's hypothesis.""(Leicester & Klickstein).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1809 C. - Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book in Chemistry"" pp. 292 ff.
Paris, Rouvier, Le Bouvier, 1833.
Seconde édition, elle est identique à l'édition originale de 1828. Rare. Gay-Lussac a publié la plupart de ses travaux de chimie dans des revues. "Gay-Lussac's course of 33 lectures given at the Faculty of Sciences April 11 to Aug. 1, 1828 was published from notes taken by a student, M. Marmet, corrected by Gaultier de Claubry. Gay-Lussac did not approve of the work. A good general subject index for each lecture." Cole 508. Quelques rousseurs. DSB 5, 327./// 2 volumes in-8 de XIX, (1), 30, (2), 24, 30, (2), 28, 27, (1), 24, 16, 30, (2), 27, (1), 23, (1), 23, (1), 32, 28, 24, 31, (1), 27, (1), 28, 32, 24 pp. /(4), 31, (1), 28, 35, (1), 34, (2), 31, (1), 32, 34, (2), 32, 35, (1), 36, 36, 43, (1), 35, (1), 43, (1), 56 pp. Demi-basane bleue, dos orné. (Reliure de l'époque.) //// /// PLUS DE PHOTOS SUR WWW.LATUDE.NET
(Leipzig, Barth), 1818. No wrappers. In: ""Annalen der Physik. Neue Folge. Herausgegeben von L.W. Gilbert"", Bd. 28, Erstes Stück. Pp. 1-120 a. 1 engraved plate. (Entire issue offered). Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 29-53.
First German edition of Gay-Lussac's ""Sur les combinaisons de l’azote avec l’oxigène"", in which he identified 5 oxides of nitrogen.""In 1809 Gay-Lussac carried out a study of the combining volumes of nitric oxide and oxygen. This was a more complex problem than he then realized, but he returned to it in 1816 after criticism of his earlier work by Dalton"" this time his results were of permanent value. He recognized five oxides of nitrogen.""
"GAY-LUSSAC, (JOSEPH) et LOUIS JACQUES THENARD. - THE DISCOVERY OF BORON.
Reference : 43299
(1808)
Paris, Chez Mad. Ve. Bernard, 1808 Contemp. hcalf., gilt spine. Some scratches to binding.. Verso of titlepage and plates with small stamps.In: ""Annales de Chimie"" Vol. 68. - 358 pp. a. 3 engraved plates. (The entire volume offered). Gay-Lussac's a. Thenard's paper: pp. 169-174.
First announcement of the results that they had obtaines by treating boric acid with potassium, showing that acid is composed of a combustible substance and oxygen. ""Before regarding their proof (of the existance of a new element) as complete Gay-Lussac and Thenard wished not only to decomposed boric acid, but to recompose it. On November 30 of the same year they were able to state in the 'Annales de Chemie et de Physique"" (the paper offered) that ""the composition of boracid s no longer problematical. In fact, said they, ""we decompose and we recompose this acid at will"" (Weeks ""Discovery of the Elements"", p. 160). - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1808 C. - Bunch, 1808.The volume contains other importent paper, Davy's famous paper on electrolysis in first French translations, Gayton-Morveau""Description d'un hygrometre pour le gaz..."", d'Arcet ""Observations sur la potasse et sur la soude préparées à l'alcool"" etc.
(Paris, Chez Crochard, 1835). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Ser. II, Tome 60, Cahier 2. Pp. 225-331. (Entire issue offered). Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 225-261 and 1 folded engraved plate. -
First printing. In 1824 Gay-Lussac extended earlier methods for the estimation of hypochlorite or chlorinated lime solution using indigo solution. He later improved on the method (in the paper offered).by the use of standard solutions of certain reducing agents: arsenious oxide, mercurous nitrate, and potassium ferrocyanide and describing the apparatus (depicted on the plate).
(Paris, Chez Crochard, 1828.). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Ser. II, Tome 39, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-444 (Entire issue offered). Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 337-368 and 1 engraved plate.
First printing of this paper in which he describes acide normale (""normal acid"") as a standard solution of l00 grams of sulfuric acid diluted to one liter. Gay-Lussac used litmus as an indicator and describes accurately the color transition in different reactions.
Paris, Pichon et Didier, 1828. 2 volumes in-8°, xix-56 (tables); 30; 24; 30; 28; 27; 24; 16; 30; 27; 23; 23; 32; 28; 24; 31; 27; 28; 32 pages / 24; 31: 28; 35; 34; 31; 32; 34; 32; 35; 36; 36; 43; 35; 43 pages. Reliures demi-veau d'époque.
Edition originale du cours de chimie de Gay-Lussac, publié avec son autorisation, d'après les notes de Marmet, un de ses élèves. Cours professé du 1 avril au 1er août 1828, soit 33 leçons. Quelques rousseurs, mais dans l'ensemble très bel exemplaire. Peu courant.
GAY-LUSSAC Joseph-Louis ( 1778 - 1850 ) - Commission des Monnaies ( éditeur ) :
Reference : 57440
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1832, format petit in-4°, 24 x 18,5 cm, 88 pp + 5 grandes planches gravées, dépliante. [relié avant ce titre] Documents..., Rapport... Ordonnance du Roi...Tarifs ...de change... Imprimerie Royale, Juillet 1830, vii pp + 80 pp + 1 planche h.t., Reliure moderne à la bradel, en toile vert, étiquette en cuir sur le dos. Les couvertures originales en papier bleu-gris ont été conservées. Les planches avec qq. tâches de rousseurs, sinon bel exemplaire. Réunion importante de deux textes de Gay-Lussac, avec l'encadrement légal, pour déterminer d'une manière scientique le titre des monnaies d'or et d'argent. Un des textes le plus rare de cet eminent chemiste français.
O. O., (ca. 1822). Lithographie (Brustbild) von Julien Boilly. Bildformat: 24 x 19 cm. Blattformat: 27,5 x 35,5 cm.
Angestaubt u. etwas fleckig.
GAY-LUSSAC (Joseph Louis) - [COLLET-DESCOSTILS (Hippolyte-Victor)].
Reference : 25774
(1815)
(Paris), de l'Imprimerie de Feugueray, s.d. [circa 1815]. 1 plaquette au format in-8 (213 x 132 mm) de 8 pp., cousu, sous couverture d'attente de l'époque de plein papier bleuté.
Edition originale. Belle condition.
Paris, Chez Crochard, 1824. Later full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", Tome 25. 448 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Liebig & Gay-Lussac's paper: pp. 285-311. Titlepage with browning and marginal repairs. Stamp to verso of titlepage. A few scattered brownspots, mostly to plates. The paper clean.
First printing of a classical paper in chemistry, helping to establish ""Isomerism"", stating that some chemical substances have the same composition, but different properties.""One of Wöhler's earliest researches was made on the cyanates, the same group of compounds which led to the syntheis of urea. The silver salt of cyanic acid was carefully analyzed and reported in the litterature - 77.23 per cent silver oxide, 22.77 per cent cyanic acid. At about the same time Justus von Liebig, working in Gay-Lussac's laboratory, completed analyzing silver fulminate - 77.53 per cent silver oxide, 22.47 per cent cyanic acid. The analyses indicated an identity, but the compounds clearly differed in properties. Liebig, certain that Wöhler analyses was wron, apparently confirmed this by preparing and analzing silver cyanate, it contained 71 per cent of silver oxide... The two chemists were faced with the dilemma of having two compounds, but drastically different properties... brzelius took notice of the fact that the composition of cyanates and fulminates was apparently identical, but was unable to arrive at an explanation. Gay-Lussac, convinced of the correctness of the analyses, attributed the difference in properties to variation in the way the elements were combined."" (Ihre ""The development of Modern Chemistry"", p. 171).The volume contains other notable papers by Humphrey Davy, Poisson, Felix Savart, Humboldt, Wollaston etc.
ESSAI DES MONNAIE ET DOCIMASIE CHAUDET, Laurent Jean, D'ARCET, Jean-Pierre-Joseph , PYUMARTIN, A. de, GAY-LUSSAC, Louis Joseph
Reference : 69738
(1814)
Paris, Chez M. Desmarais, 1814-1835, in-8, [4]-XVIII-[2]-396 pp. ; diverses pièces imprimées et manuscrites, paginées à l'encre 397 à 666. ; 7 pl. dépl. et rehaussées à la main, dont 3 dessinées à la plume, demi-veau tabac, dos lisse, Ex-dono manuscrit, non signé, de Laurent Chaudet : "Offert à l'auteur à M. E. Onfraye", au titre de la première pièce. A la suite de L'art de l'essayeur, diverses pièces ont été numérotées à l'encre 397 à 666 pp. : de 397 à 546 figurent des pièces imprimées ; les pages 547 à 595 sont manuscrites, 596-642 vierges, 643-657 imprimées, et 659-666 manuscrites. Ces pièces, extraites de recueils, touchent à la certification des métaux et aux travaux du Laboratoire des essais de monnaie. Ces documents sont particulièrement intéressants pour l'histoire des techniques proto-industrielles, à la croisée des chemins avec la science académique. Le compilateur et transcripteur, anonyme, y a fait figurer des mémoires de Chaudet, d'Arcet, Gay-Lussac et Puymartin, reliés dans l'ordre suivant : - CHAUDET, Mémoire contenant quelques expériences sur l'emploi du bismuth dans la détermination du titre des matières d'or et d'argent. Tirage à part, extrait des Annales de chimie et de physique. 24 pp. - CHAUDET, Mémoire sur quelques expériences tendantes [sic] à déterminer, par la coupellation et le départ seulement, le titre exact d'un lingot contenant de l'or, du platine, de l'argent et du cuivre. 24 pp. (Tirage à part, extrait des Annales de chimie et de physique, t. II, 1816.) - CHAUDET, Note contenant quelques expériences relatives à l'action de l'acide hydrochlorique sur les alliages d'étain et d'antimoine. 11 pages. (Tirage à part, extrait des Annales de chimie et de physique, t. III, 1816.) - CHAUDET, Note sur la fabrication des médailles coulées. 12 pages. (Tirage à part, extrait des Annales de chimie et de physique, t. VI, 1817.) - PUYMARTIN, Mémoire sur les procédés les plus convenables pour remplacer le cuivre par le bronze dans la fabrication des médailles. Paris, A. Égron, 1823. 58 pages. - [MANUSCRIT] D'ARCET, Mémoire sur la détermination des quantités de plomb nécessaires pour passer à la coupelle les essais d'argent à différens titres. (Retranscrit à partir des Annales de chimie et de physique, t. I, 1816.) - [MANUSCRIT] D'ARCET, Note sur les alliages de platine et d'argent, et sur l'application que l'on peut faire de ce procédé à l'exploitation des mines d'argent contenant du platine. (Retranscrit à partir des Annales de chimie, ou recueil de mémoires concernant la chimie et les arts qui en dépendent, t. 89, 1814). - [MANUSCRIT] CHAUDET, Note sur l'essai d'or fin (or à 1000 millième). (Retranscrit à partir des Annales de chimie et de physique, t. IV, 1817.) - [MANUSCRIT] GAY-LUSSAC, Observation sur l'essai des matières d'argent par la voie humide. (Retranscrit à partir des Annales de Chimie et de Physique, tome LVIII, 1835.) - CHAUDET, Description du laboratoire des essais des monnaies. (Tirage à part, extrait des Annales de l'Industrie française et étrangère, Août 1830.) Ex-libris Henri Vieillard et cachet annulé de la bibliothèque catholique de Paris. Étiquette en pied du dos. Charnières frottées, rousseurs. Couverture rigide
Bon [4]-XVIII-[2]-396 pp. ;
Paris, 1828,GROSSELIN,In-8,562p.,12 planches depliantes,une manquante,dos abimé,charnieres fendues,tres rare,dans l’etat
seul tome paru,rare
(à la fin : Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1830).
Edition originale. Gay-Lussac y expose son mode d'essai de l'argent par la voie humide, qui doit remplacer celui par coupellation. Ce rapport précède donc son 'Instruction sur l'essai des matières d'argent par la voie humide' de 1832. Il est illustré par une planche en lithographie de 4 figures. Le texte de Gay-Lussac est précédé d'un faux-titre : "Commission des Monnaies. Documens officiels relatifs à la rectification en France du mode d'essai des matières d'or et d'argent, généralement suivi en Europe", d'une page de table et d'un avant-propos. Petites déchirures au dos du brochage. Bon exemplaire, tel que paru. Inconnu de DSB, Cole, Duveen. /// In-4 de VII, (1), 80 pp., 1 planche h.-t. Broché, couverture bleue de l'époque. //// /// PLUS DE PHOTOS SUR WWW.LATUDE.NET
Lithographie P. Degobert - format 25,5 x 16,5 cm marges comprises - Bruxelles - Méline -1848 - Extraite de la "Galerie des Contemporains illustres, par un homme de rien" (Mr de Loménie)-
On y joint une notice biographique de quelques pages - - très bon état -
Paris, chez Grosselin, Papinot, Hachette, Gautier, 1828 1 volume In-8° (12,3 x 20,2cm) Reliure d'époque pleine basane blonde; dos lisse à 4 fleurons dorés et pièces d'auteur et titre rouge et de tomaison noire, en alternance avec bandes de triples filets et chainette dorés, large roulette dorée en queue; gardes marbrées. 1 faux-titre, 1 titre, 562p., 2 feuillets; 5 doubles planches dépliantes in fine (paginées de 1 à 10). Fente verticale de 7cm sans manque au 1/3 inférieur du dos; épidermures; quelques pages fumées.
Recueil des 36 leçons données par le chimiste et physicien Louis-Joseph GAY-LUSSAC (1778-1850) de novembre 1827 à mars 1828 (la seconde partie du recueil sera consacrée aux leçons professées par Pouillet); recueillies et rédigées par Augustin GROSSELIN (1800-1878). 1ère édition; exemplaire bien complet des 5 doubles planches dépliantes, méritant restauration.
Paris, Collardeau, 1824, in-12, Pagination multiple : 22-[1 ff. blanc]-[24]-[10]-55-59-[8]-[1 ff. blanc]-[1 ff. d'addition]-6-[34]-[1 ff. blanc] pp, Demi-toile chagrinée noire postérieure, dos fileté, titre doré, Première édition. Exemplaire bien complet avec "L'instruction" suivie de la "Table de la force réelle des liquides spiritueux", puis de la "Table de richesse en alcool des liquides spiritueux" , du "Mouillage des liquides spiritueux", et enfin du "Barême [sic] décimal". Gay-Lussac(1778-1850) construisit un alcoomètre d'une très grande précision, instrument alors le plus précis pour doser la quantité d'alcool contenu dans les liquides. L'ouvrage présenté ici était destiné à être joint à son alcoomètre. Le dernier feuillet est revêtu d'une table manuscrite à l'encre noire. Étiquette ex-libris J[oseph] Laissus. Joli exemplaire, fines rousseurs éparses. Couverture rigide
Bon Pagination multiple : 22-[1
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1832, in-4, 88 pp, 6 pl, Broché, couverture d'attente bleue de l'époque, Première édition. Rare. 6 planches gravées sur métal représentant le matériel de l'essayeur construit par Collardeau. Le chimiste Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), professeur de physique à la Sorbonne et de chimie à l'École polytechnique était aussi vérificateur des monnaies. C'est pour cette dernière fonction qu'il apporta d'importantes modifications dans les essais des matières précieuses (or et argent). Pour remplacer l'ancien procédé par coupellation pour déterminer le titre des matière d'argent, il proposa un procédé nouveau qui consistait en une dissolution de sel marin titré (procédé dit par la voie humide). Exemplaire non coupé conservé dans sa couverture d'attente muette, usée. Bolton, 471; Cole, 509; Poggendorff I, 861; Partington IV, p. 85. Couverture rigide
Bon 88 pp., 6 pl.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale 1830 vii + 80pp.+ 1 planche hors-texte (avec 4 figures), Edition originale, 26cm., sans couv. (comme paru), texte frais et sans rousseurs, bon état, rare, G88206
Paris, Deterville, 1811. In-8 de [4]-443 pages, demi-basane brune, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, pièces de titre et tomaison verte.
Orné d'une planche (n°6) dépliante. Édition originale. Second et dernier volume seul. 3 petits chocs au dos. Illustré XXe