[LAVOISIER] - ROZIER (François). Treatise on the best way t - Lot 127

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[LAVOISIER] - ROZIER (François). Treatise on the best way t - Lot 127
[LAVOISIER] - ROZIER (François). Treatise on the best way to cultivate the Navette and Le Colsat, and to extract an Oil stripped of its bad taste and unpleasant smell. By the author of the Journal d'Observations sur la Physique, sur l'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts et Métiers. Paris, Ruault, 1774. In-8 of (2) ff., iv, (8), lxxx, 139, v pp., modern fawn half-calf. First edition of the first treatise in French on rapeseed and the shuttle. The author gives a physical description of the two plants, then studies the different ways of cultivating them. The second part deals with the chemical transformation of rapeseed to extract oil from it. The final chapters deal with methods of oil conservation. The report of the committee of the Academy of Sciences in charge of the examination of this work, composed of Lavoisier and Macquer, is reproduced here in extenso, as a preamble. Two years earlier, Lavoisier and Tillet had already given a favourable opinion on the text, so this second report deals essentially with the long introduction that Abbé Rozier had since added to his manuscript, and in particular on the aspects concerning trade and public health. Duveen and Klickstein, 321.
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