DUPORTEL, A.S.

Mémoire sur l'état actuel de la distillation du vin en France, et sur les moyens d'améliorer la distillation des liqueurs vineuses de tous le pays. (+) Suite du Mémoire...

Paris, J. Klostermann fils, 1811.

Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine. Slightly rubbed. Stamp to verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 77. 344 pp. and 5 engraved folded plates. Some scattered brownspots. (Entire volume offered). Duportel's paper: pp. 178-224 a. pp. 225-258. and 5 large plates describing different destillation apparatus.

First appearance. The ppaer relates Descortel's and Adam's new destillation processes, and Descortel gives an historical account of destillation processes throug the ages.

The volume contains further 2 papers by Gay-Lussac "Note sur L'Acide Prussique", pp. 128-133 and "Extrait d'un Mémoire sur les sels triples", pp. 134 - 150 and Berzelius "Lettre de M. Berzelius à M. Berthollet", pp. 63-84.

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