Instruction sur l'Essai des Matières d'Argent par la Voie humide. Publiée par la Commission des Monnais et Médailles
by GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis
Six large folding engraved plates of apparatus. 88 pp. 4to, orig. blue wrappers, uncut & largely unopened. Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1832. First edition. With this work Gay-Lussac made a major contribution to chemical analysis. It contains a detailed description of his precipitation titration method for the quantitative determination of silver, which completely displaced the centuries old method of cupellation. Very good copy. ❧ Cole 509. Neville I, p. 504-"One of the most important books published by Gay-Lussac." Darmstaedter, Handbuch, p. 386. (Inventory #: 2214)