1803 Dictionnaire de Chimie by Charles-Louis Cadet, 4 Volumes, Complete, 1st Ed

Description: Dictionnaire de Chimie, Contenant la Theorie et la Pratique de Cette Science, son Application a l'Histoire Naturelle et aux Arts by Charles-Louis Cadet de Gassicourt, 4 Volumes, Chaignieau Aine, Paris, 1803, 448pp, 560pp, 726pp, 607pp, half leather, 5 x 8", 12mo Fair condition. Wear and chipping to boards. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. All joints and hinges show some level of cracking. Chipping and cracking to spines; barely legible. Marbled boards and speckled fore edges. Provenance in ink on half title page or flyleaf of all volumes (illegible). Front endpapers of volumes 1 and 2 are missing. Toning, age-staining, tea-staining, and ink-staining throughout textblocks. Fold-out plates at rear of textblocks. Please see photos. First edition of the first chemical dictionary to be published after the discoveries of Lavoisier. Charles-Louis Cadet de Gassicourt (23 January 1769 - 21 November 1821) was a scientist most noteworthy for his part in the diffusion and popularization of the New Chemistry rather than for any specific discovery. Dictionnaire de chimie replaced the older chemical dictionary of Macquer and clearly elucidated the revolutionary changes that had occurred in chemistry and in chemical nomenclature. FORN-SHELF-0427-XX-2407-JC1086

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