Almanach royal, année M.DCC.LXXX.II par Laurent d'HOURY. Par - Lot 41

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Almanach royal, année M.DCC.LXXX.II par Laurent d'HOURY. Par - Lot 41
Almanach royal, année M.DCC.LXXX.II par Laurent d'HOURY. Paris, d'HOURY, 1782; in-8, full red morocco, gilt boards decorated with engraved plates by Dubuisson, spine decorated with fleurs-de-lis, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges, light blue tabis covers and endpapers, 676 pages. Engraved bookplate of Henry Edouard Weber. A handsome, richly decorated copy; on page 551, Lavoisier, fermier général, at the Arsenal, famous chemist, and. Jacques Paulze, also a farmer-general, his father-in-law; Lavoisier had married Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, a scientist who worked closely with him, translating various publications and drawing all the plates for his treatise on chemistry. Her father, Jacques Paulze, was sent to the scaffold at the same time as Lavoisier; after his death, she published his unfinished memoirs, thus confirming his worldwide fame. Expert : Cabinet Van Eecloo
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