Thenard (Louis Jacques) Traité de Chimie élémentai

Thenard (Louis Jacques) Traité de Chimie élémentaire, théorique et pratique,4 vol., first edition, presentation copy from the author "a Monsieur Monge, hommage de l'auteur" inscribed on front free endpaper, half-titles, 31 engraved plates of apparatus, folding table, occasional spotting, contemporary orange cartonage binding, gilt, uncut and partly unopened, rubbed, joints a little worn or split, one spine defective at foot, number in manuscript at head of spines, 8vo, Paris, 1813-16.

***Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), chemist and mathematician, assistant to Lavoisier..