[PHYSICS - CHEMISTRY] - Lot 580

[PHYSICS - CHEMISTRY] - LAVOISIER (Antoine-Laurent de): Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau, et d'après les découvertes modernes. Paris, Deterville, year 9 (1801). 2 volumes in-8; illustrated with 2 tables and 13 plates, all folding. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, ornate smooth spines, red title-pieces and end-pieces, accident to a headband at foot, rubbing and spotting, gilt fillet on edges, dull corners, marbled edges. - LA CAILLE (abbé de): Leçons élémentaires de mécanique, ou traité abrégé du mouvement et de l'équilibre. Paris, Guérin & Delatour, 1764. In-8: VIII, 192pp; 5 folding plates. Contemporary fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, fawn title page, rubbed and worn, red edges. - LAMARCK (Jean-Baptiste de Monet de): Recherches sur les causes des principaux faits physiques. Paris, Maradan, year 2. 2 volumes in-8: XVI, 375pp. / 2f., 412pp. ; one folding table. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, ornate smooth spines, red title-pieces, black tomaisons, rubbing and epidermis, small leather tears, marbled edges. Set of 5 volumes. Provenance: Copy from the library of Alexis Jean Armand Mieulet de Lombrail (1828-1904), a native of Tarn-et-Garonne, a young aristocrat whose family came from the Garonne nobility. He attended a Catholic preparatory school in Versailles and espoused positivist ideas. He was a pupil of Auguste Comte.