LIEBIG, Jestus (1803-73). Die organische Chemie in ihrer Unwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie. [etc.]

LIEBIG, Justus (1803-73).  Die organische Chemie in ihrer Unwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie. Braunschweig: Verlag von Friedrich Viewig und Sohn, 1842. 8vo (204 x 130mm). Errata leaf at the end (without the half title, occasional light spotting). Contemporary green cloth-backed marbled boards (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the follow-up to the author’s Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie (1840) whose ‘twin constellation’ Berzelius claimed represented “the dawn of a new day in vegetable [i.e. organic] chemistry.” “In 1842 [Liebig] carried his chemical investigations into the realm of animal physiology. He showed, like Lavoisier, that animal heat is not innate, but the result of combustion; introduced the concept of metabolism (Stoffwechsel); and classified animal foodstuffs as fats, carbohydrates and proteins according to their function. He thus became the founder of the modern science of nutrition” (PMM 310(b)). With 5 other works by the same author, namely Chemische Briefe (Heidelberg, 1844, spotted, original cloth), Untersuchungen über einige Ursachen der Säftebewegung im thierischen Organismus (Braunschweig, 1848, stain to foot of title, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, “… a rare work which contains a careful study of osmosis and the permeability of membranes …” (Partington)), Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. Herausgegeben von Friedrich Wöhler und Justus Liebig. Band XLII [only] (Heidelberg, 1842, modern marbled boards), Traité de Chimie Organique (Brussels, 1843, modern leatherette-backed boards) and Die Grundsätz der Agricultur=Chemie (Braunschweig, 1855, contemporary cloth-backed boards). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (6)