GUYTON , MONGE , BERTHOLLET (et al) ; contributors include HUMPHRY DAVY

Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Memoires concernant la Chimie et les Arts Qui en Dependent et Specialement la Pharmacie [ 4v in 1 Tome LXI, LXII, LXIII, LXIV ] - incl.Questions et Reponses sur les Vignes et sur les Vins de Champagne / Notice sur l'Opium

      Chez Bernard, Paris 1807 - three volumes in 1. later binding by G P Gray & Son of Cambridge of tan calf over blue paper-covered boards. red and black gilt ruled and lettered morocco labels to spine. three printed paper shelf labels to spine. spine further ruled in gilt. further blind-tooling to edges of leather on boards. 336; 336; 336, 1l plate; 340pp each volume with its own title page. two folding plates. ex-libris Cambridge University Chemistry Laboratory & the library of Professor William Jackson Pope with the usual accession stamps and Pope's bookplate to front free endpaper. volumes include a number of papers on various aspects of chemistry and related sciences including a 63pp paper on Wine & Champagne titled 'Question et Reponses sur les Vignes et les Vins de Champagne'. Also includes the first French translation of Wollaston 's paper on the discovery of Palladium; a translation of work by Humphry Davy entitled 'De quelques effets chimiques de l'electricite; and a paper by French pharmacist Accarie - 'Notice sur l'opium du commerce ; et sur celui extrait du papaver somniferum de Linnaeus, cultive en France, sous le rapport d'en extraire la partie gommeuse privee totalement de son odeur vireuse et stupefiante &c. library treatment notwithstanding a very good copy.