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(Berthelot, Marcelin Pierre Eugene) (1827 - 1907)
CENTENAIRE DE MARCELIN BERTHELOT, 1827-1927.
Paris, L'Imprimerie de Vaugirard, 1930.
36,5 cm. 714 pp. + frontispiece portrait + 12 plates.

Publisher's full calf, stamped in blind and gilt, with gilt inset profile of Berthelot on upper cover.
Original slipcase (partly cracked) preserved.

$ 200

First edition. Includes bibliography of Berthelot's works (p. 23-52), and colour reproductions of many addresses. Marcellin Pierre Eugène Berthelot [1827-1907], French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle of thermochemistry, considered as one of the greatest chemists of all time.

* Duveen, p. 73.