Antoine-Laurent de LAVOISIER

First edition, highly sought after in the 19th century, comprising 14 of the first 15 volumes, published between 1789 and 1792, of the first series of the celebrated French scientific periodical Annales de chimie. Volume 10 missing.

Contemporary full brown calf, spines smooth with gilt fillets, brown morocco lettering-piece and green morocco numbering-piece, blind-ruled border to covers, red speckled edges, bookplate of P. H. Chavoix to front pastedown of each volume. Volumes 1 and 11 numbered in Roman rather than Arabic numeral

New printing of the second edition, illustrated with three folding plates engraved by Tardieu and bound before the table of contents. The first edition was published in 1774.
Contemporary binding in half speckled sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and dotted lines, red straight-grained morocco title label, paste-paper boards, the first stamped in gilt with the inscription "Ecole royale d'artillerie de Douai". Bookworm damage to the lower part of the upper joint as well as to the upper part of the lower joint. Front board joint cracked for a few centimeters without significance. One corner slightly bumped.
Some scattered foxing.
Manuscript annotations on the front

Second printing of the first edition: pages 257 to 272 are misnumbered 241-256 (Duveen and Klickstein). Illustrated with a large chart and 6 folding plates at rear.
Library stamp of Laboratoires Lumière on the half-title, title page and several other pages. Another stamp "G. Chicanuard" appears on the half-title; we have found no information about this person.
Temporary binding in full marbled paper. Handwritten title on spine. Some small paper losses in places and joint on second board cracked but still sound. Copy as issued with full margins.
The Méthode forms a manifesto for a revolution in the world of chemistry, and the birth of modern chemistry,

Essai sur le Phlogistique, et sur la constitution des Acides [Essay on Phlogiston]First edition and sole publication of the French translation and critical analysis under the direction of Madame Lavoisier of this text published in English the previous year under the title An Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids. The work is made up of twelve sections, all followed by critical notes by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Pierre Simon de Laplace & Gaspard Monge & Claude Louis Berthollet & Antoine François de Fourcroy.
Contemporary half light brown

Recueil de Mémoires et d'Observations sur la formation & sur la fabrication du salpêtre [Observations on the Formation and Fabrication of Saltpeter]
Chez Lacombe | Paris 1776 | 8vo (12.5 x 20 cm) | 622 pp (2) | contemporary sheep
First edition of this memoir, Duveen ascribing it to Lavoisier. With three folding plates.
Contemporary light brown marbled sheep, spine in five compartments with gilt compartments and fleurons, black morocco title label, gilt arms to foot, joints skilfully repaired, all edges speckled blue. A few small wormholes to first compartments of spine.
The upper quarter of the half-title cut away, presumably to remove traces of a former owner. One faint

A rare and sought-after edition of the French Constitution, published the same year as the first edition, printed by Pierre-Samuel du Pont de Nemours, deputy to the National Assembly, who was also a journalist, philosopher, economist, and Franco-American diplomat. He worked as a bookseller-printer from 1791 to 1800 alongside the chemist Antoine de Lavoisier, then with his son Eleuthère-Irénée, founder of the world's oldest chemical company, E.I. du Pont de Nemours.

Contemporary full calf, smooth spines divided by gilt fillets, gilt floral