Lecons Elementaires de Chimie, a l'usage des lycees, ouvrage redige par ordre du gouvernement ; . . . Prefet du Departement de la Nievre.

Paris :: Dentu, An XIII, 1804., 1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. XVI, 435, [1] pp. Half-title (signed with the author's initials), Avant-propos, Explication des principaux termes . . . errata. Modern quarter linen, marbled boards, dark green cloth gilt-stamped spine label. Fine. [003] First edition. "This elementary textbook of chemistry for the pupils in the public schools was published at the request of the French government." – Cole. / "Adet . . . was a physician to the Ministry of Marine, served under Napoleon, and was an editor of the Annales de Chimie. He was an early supporter of the anti-phlogistic system and collaborated with Lavoisier's assistant, [Jean Henri] Hassenfratz, with whom he devised a table of chemical symbols to be used in the new chemistry. This is one of the earliest textbooks of elementary chemistry based on the antiphlogistic system of Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau, Berthollet, and Fourcroy . . ." – Neville. REFERENCES: Bolton (1893) 262; Cole 14; Neville I, p. 13; Partington III, p. 107.