MENDELEÏV Dmitri Ivanovitch La Loi périodique des éléments chimiques. In: Le Moniteur scientifique Quesneville.

The  first detailed account of Mendeleeff's periodic classification of the elements, translated from Russian into French by Charles Baye, appears here for the first time. The text was immediately translated into English and published in Chemical News.

The chemical classification links the atomic weights of simple bodies with all their chemical and physical properties, and has earned Mendeleeff a universal reputation (André Chrétien, in: Mendeleeff, un grand centenaire, 1969).

"The discoveries of the three elements [indium, uranium, thorium] predicted by Mendeleev was, however, of decisive importance in the acceptance of his law… From that moment the periodic law was no longer a mere hypothesis, and the scienctific world was astounded to note that Mendeleev, the theorist, had seen the properties of a new element more clearly than the chemist [Lecoq] who had empirically discovered it. From this time, too, Mendeleev's work came to be more widely known ;… in 1879 a French translation of the full article, with a new introduction was published by G.G. Quesneville in the Moniteur scientifique" (DSB).

Very good copy, crisp.