Benjamin LEWY
Recherches sur la composition de l'air atmosphérique, lues à l'Académie des sciences, le 7 août 1843[Research on the Composition of Atmospheric Air, read before the Academy of Sciences on 7 August 1843]
Imprimerie de Bachelier|Paris 1843|15 x 22.5 cm|Broché
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Annales de chimie et de physique, 3rd series, vol. VIII.
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched state under temporary blue paper wrappers.
A rare and attractive copy.
Only two copies recorded in the French Union Catalogue (CCFr), at the Sorbonne and the Institut de France.
Autograph presentation inscription from Benjamin Lewy to the physicist Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) on the upper wrapper.
€500