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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Beautiful work by Gaspard-Alphonse Dupasquier, who was notably a pupil of Vauquelin, Gay-Lussac and Cuvier, was a renowned chemist -
Consulted on the mineral waters of Dauphiné, those of Lamotte, Allevard and Uriage, he was invited to give his opinion on the best drinking water -
This is how he invented the sulphydrometer, a device for detecting the slightest trace of sulfurous acid -
This work is one of the best studies on the subject and will allow the development of hydrotherapy in the 19th century -
The lithographs reproduce those published in the Album du Dauphiné.
Alpha. Dupasquier - Chemical, Medical And Topographical History Of Sulfurous Mineral Water And The Thermal Establishment Of Allevard - 1841
Binding in good condition, work in its original brown half-leather, covers and spine in good condition, decorated spine, red-pigmented edges, gilt titling -
Good interior condition, presence of 7 superb lithographs by Allevard by V. CASSIEN - PEGERON, marbled flyleaves -
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