GUETTARD (Jean-Antoine) - [LAVOISIER (Antoine-Laurent de)]. - Lot 165

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GUETTARD (Jean-Antoine) - [LAVOISIER (Antoine-Laurent de)]. - Lot 165
GUETTARD (Jean-Antoine) - [LAVOISIER (Antoine-Laurent de)]. Mineralogical Atlas of France. S.l.n.d. (Paris, circa 1778). In-folio, contemporary marbled calf binding, decorated spine, gilt edges. Two double leaves of text, one folding assembly map and 25 double-page copper-engraved maps. First state, very rare of the Atlas minéralogique de la France, an ambitious undertaking initiated by the mineralogist Jean-Etienne Guettard assisted by the young Lavoisier, who planned the production of some 230 maps. The project did not succeed and only a "first part" was published in 1780 with a text by Monnet, who had been entrusted with the project after Guettard's withdrawal, and 32 plates. Previously, a few copies had been made around 1778 with the 25 maps published up to then. The present copy, which also contains, in addition to the large folding assembly map, two sheets of text that were not included in the 1780 edition: the first, engraved on copper on double page, is entitled "Avis sur l'Atlas minéralogique de la France" (Opinion on the Mineralogical Atlas of France). It contains this note: "This warning should be regarded as the Supplement to the Memoir that Mr. Guettard read at the Academy of Sciences at the public session of Easter 1770, and which he had inserted in the newspapers a few months ago". The purpose of his Memorandum was to make known the plan and the whole of the Mineralogical Atlas, at the same time as he gave an account of the trip he had made on this subject in the Vôsges with Mr. Lavoisier, and this warning is published to make known the general utility and the particular advantages of this Mineralogical Atlas. It will be sold, as the sheets are published, to Sr. Dupain-Triel, Father, King's Geographic Engineer, etc., who will be able to sell it. "The second sheet of text, composed in typographical characters, is entitled: "New Warning on the Mineralogical Map of France, by Mr. Monnet, General Inspector of Mines". Among the 25 maps, all engraved by Dupain-Triel, that make up the s
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