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All auctions / Books, Maps & Manuscripts / BERTHELOT (Marcellin). Organic chemistry based on synthesis. - Lot 482
BERTHELOT (Marcellin). Organic chemistry based on synthesis. Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1860. 2 volumes in-8, dark green morocco half-basin, smooth spine decorated (period binding). First edition. This synthesis [of acetylene] will have an immense, immediately recognized, scientific and philosophical impact. By means of a simple procedure, Berthelot laid the foundations for a chemistry destined for almost unlimited development. "The synthetic preparation of acetylene, in the electric egg, constitutes one of the most famous experiments in all of chemistry" (R. Massain) (En français dans le texte, n°280). Copy well bound in contemporary style. Stamp in violet ink on endpapers: René Chary. Minor rubbing to binding, some light foxing.
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