[THIROUX D'ARCONVILLE (Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte). Essay to - Lot 322

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[THIROUX D'ARCONVILLE (Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte). Essay to - Lot 322
[THIROUX D'ARCONVILLE (Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte). Essay to serve the history of putrefaction. Par le traducteur des leçons de chymie de M. Shaw, premier Médecin du Roi d'Angleterre. Paris, P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1766. In-8 d (3) ff, xlviii-578 pp, (3) ff. and 10 plates, marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, title page, red edges (period binding). First edition, complete with 10 folding tables. Worn binding, scattered foxing, some marginal wetness. A woman of letters and science, the daughter of a farmer-general, Madame Thiroux d'Arconville (1720-1805) published, often anonymously, numerous literary, historical and especially scientific works. Her salon was frequented by Turgot, Lavoisier, Malesherbes, Jussieu, Macquer, Fourcroy... Her most important work is the Essai sur la putréfaction, which she described as the "key to all the physical sciences" and the basis of natural history. It is the fruit of numerous experiments. Rare. Expert : Madame Elvire POULAIN-MARQUIS
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