Traite de Chimie elementaire theorique et pratique, suivi d'un essai sur la philosophie chimique et d'un precis sur l'analyse . . .

Bruxelles :: Louis Hauman, 1836., 1836. Two volumes + Atlas (complete). TEXT: Small 4to. [6], ii, 604 ; [4], 564 pp. Half-titles, index ; vol. II p. 439/40 with lower corner torn away, with some loss of text. Contemporary quarter gilt-stamped dark marron calf, marbled boards ; white-paper endleaves; extremities gently rubbed, corners showing. ATLAS: Oblong 4to. [2], 25, [1] pp. Text in 3 columns, 20 large engraved plates. Original printed yellow wrappers Very good. [443] With TEXT & ATLAS Brussels edition issued by Louis Hauman. The first edition of this text was published in 1813-16. This issue is scarce. There is another issue from Bruxelles issued by the Societe Belge de Libraire, with Hauman as printer – the two issues should be nearly identical, but the issuing body is different. / "Thenard carried out a great deal of important chemistry, on which see Partington (IV,90-96), who states, "Thenard wrote an excellent text-book which was kept up to date by appendices in all the editions." – Neville II, p. 541 (1816 ed.). / Above all things Thenard was a teacher; as he himself said, the professor, the assistants, the laboratory — everything must be sacrificed to the students. Like most great teachers he published a textbook, and his Traite de chimie elementaire, theorique et pratique (4 vols., Paris, 1813–16), which served as a standard for a quarter of a century, perhaps did even more for the advance of chemistry than his numerous original discoveries. – Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 759–760. / This edition not in either Cole, Duveen, or Neville.