A Paris, Chez Cuchet, Libraire, rue & hôtel Serpente, 1789, 5 volumes, in-8 (12.5 x 20 cm -6 x 7.9 ), xxxii - 506 pp. , 496 pp., 468 pp., 495 pp., 438 pp.contemporary three-quater roan (restorations of leather on 2 compartments and on some spine-ends), 5 compartments gilt tooled, 2 compartments with gilt lettered green morocco labels.
Third edition corrected and augmented with the " Leçons élémentaires d'histoire naturelle et de chimie" published in 1782 in two volumes. Enriched by title devices, head and tail pieces. The title page of the first volume and the leave (a2) before the warning notice are missing. Clear waterstains on the 3 first leave of the second volume. This third edition is the new chemical nomenclature coming out the modern chemistry. Fourcroy was pupil of Macquer and he was naturalist and also chemist. His "lessons" are coming out the courses he gave in his laboratory. It's the " book that established his transition to "modern theories" "chemistry, in line with the work of Lavoisier, Scheele and Bergman : Division of natural bodies, chemical affinity, air or water property, minerals classes, salts and acids, metals, plant analysis, coal, animals functions etc. See Bolton I.447 - Hoefer II.557 - Duveen p.225 - Smeaton Fourcroy p.180/82 - Wellcome III. 47.