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xvi, 447, [1 errata] pp. 3 engraved plates by Sellier. (8vo) unbound sewn signatures, untrimmed and completely unopened. First Edition.

A collection of 27 of Fourcroy’s (1755-1809) chemical memoirs read before the Académie des Sciences betweeen 1777 and 1784; including experimental papers, discussions of various chemical theories, and two short papers on the chemistry of animal substances (which would later become his main scientific interest).  Most of them had been contributed to the “Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences,” but some were first published here.  Duveen, p. 225.  Ferguson, I, pp. 287-288.  Bolton, I, p. 448.  Kopp, I, p. 329.  Partington, III, pp. 535-551.  Smeaton, Fourcroy: Chemist and Revolutionary, 1755-1809, pp. 31-33; no. 20.  Norman Library 822.  Wellcome, III, p. 48.  Poggendorff, I, col. 782.  Hirsch, II, p. 413.