Chemie - - Bergman, Torbern Olof.
Chemistry - - Bergman, Torbern Olof. Opuscules Chymiques et Physiques. Recueillis, revue et augmentée par lui-même. Traduits par de Morveau. 2 vols. With 4 folded copper plates and 1 folding table. Dijon, Frantin, 1780-85. 8 pp, XXXI, 445 pp, 1 fol.; 2 pp, XVI, 525 pp, 1 fol. 24.5 x 18 cm. Leather bindings of the period with 2 spine labels and rich spine gilt, standing edge gilt.
First French edition, copy on large paper. - Bound in volume 2 a contemporary handwritten copy of a 4-page letter from Bergman to Morveau regarding the translation of the work. - Volume 1 initially faintly waterstained in inner margin. - Fine copy with wide margins.
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