THENARD, L.-J. (LOUIS JACQUES).

Traité de Chimie élémentaire, théorique et pratique. Troisième Édition, revue et corrigée. 4 Vols.

Paris, Crochard, 1821. Clothbacked with blank wrappers. Ca. 2.700 pp., 3 folded tables and 33 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. Lower right corners on the first leaves in volume 4 with a dampstain.

Third edition of Thenard's classic and influential text-book. "Thenard was the author of a large and important chemistry textbook that went through six editions and was translated into German, Italian, and Spanish (the section on analysis was translated into English). Through this book he helped restore France to its traditional role as supplier of chemistry textbooks to the rest of the world; his only serious rival was the British chemist Thomas Thomson, who during the first two decades of the nineteenth century produced successive editions of his own textbook." (DSB).

Order-nr.: 51262