The Correspondence Of Lavoisier With Guyton De Morveau Fourteen Documents From Guytons Own

by Antoine Laurent De Lavoisier Louis Bernard Guyton De Morveau

$185,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Paris and Dijon: 1774-1793. Fourteen documents that carry the chemical revolution from beginning to end, on the side from which Lavoisier’s correspondence almost never survives: the letters as he actually sent them. The great edition of that correspondence was built in large part from the retained minutes on Lavoisier’s own desk, because the letters themselves went out into the world and mostly did not come back; what is offered here is the file of

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