OBSERVATIONS on Physics, Natural History and the Arts. - Lot 178

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OBSERVATIONS on Physics, Natural History and the Arts. - Lot 178
OBSERVATIONS on Physics, Natural History and the Arts. Paris, at the Bureau du Journal de Physique, 1771-1790. 40 volumes in-4, contemporary marbled basane binding, decorated spines, blue edges (last volume bound). Head of the collection of this important scientific monthly launched in July 1771 by Abbé Rozier. It covers the period of Lavoisier's collaboration. 459 plates engraved out of text. Exasperated by the chronic delay in the publication of his Memoirs by the Academy of Sciences, Lavoisier turned to this monthly on numerous occasions. Here are 28 memoirs of his composition on various subjects (chemistry - including several important texts on the composition of air and the decomposition of water - optics, mineralogy...), most of them spread out from 1771 to 1781, most often in their complete version, preceding their publication in the Mémoires de l'Académie. When, in 1787, the journal passed into the hands of Jean-Claude de La Métherie, a convinced phlogistician opposed to the new chemistry, Lavoisier and his friends turned away from it to found their own journal, the Annals of Chemistry, the first issue of which appeared in April 1789 . Very good copy, complete from the beginning to July 1790 without interruption. The issues of 1771 and 1772, first published in in-12 format, are here reprinted in in-4 format, dated 1777 (by Le Jay and Barrois) and 1784. The following eleven volumes are also reprints slightly later than their original dates, the remainder being first editions. The two supplemental volumes published in 1779 and 1782 are complete. Slight differences in decoration on the spines of the last volumes. Duveen and Klickstein, 7 - 9 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 29 - 31 - 32 - 51 - 52 - 54 - 58 - 64 - 65 - 107.
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