* 28. CHAPTAL (Jean-Antoine). Chemistry applied to the Arts. Paris, Deterville (Crapelet), 1807. 4 volumes in-8, lxxix, 302 p. ; 544 p. ; 534 p. ; 554 p., half brown basane with smooth spine decorated with amphora.
First edition dedicated to Napoleon and illustrated with 12 folded plates. Innovator, Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832) is the first to have associated chemistry and industry, theory and practice.
Extensive leather wear on the spines, other minor defects.
(In French in the text, 213; Duveen, 130; Bolton, I, 361).
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