‎Chemistry‎

‎"PASTEUR, L. (LOUIS).‎

‎Isomorphisme entre des corps isomères, les uns actifs, les autres inactifs sur la lumiere polarisée.‎

‎(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1856. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 42, No 26. Pp. (1229-) 1280. (Entire issue offerd). Pasteur's paper: pp. 1259-1264. A small paperhole in upper margin of p. 1259.‎

‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - A LANDMARK PAPER IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.‎

‎Mémoire sur les acides aspartique et malique.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier, 1851). 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 33, No 8. Pp. (217-) 252 (entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 217-221. Clean and fine.‎

‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF ""MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY""‎

‎Mémoire sur la relation qui peut exister entre la forme cristalline et la composition chimique, et sur la cause de la polarisation rotatoire" " (Extrait). (Séance du Lundi 22 Mai 1848).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1848. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 26, No 21. Pp. (529-) 548. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 535-538. Clean and fine.‎

‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - DISCOVERY OF ""MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY""‎

‎Recherches sur les relations qui peuvent exister entre la forme cristalline, la composition chimique et le sens de la polarisation rotatoire. (+) Note sur la Cristallisation du soufre. (Memoir on the relation that can exist between crystalline form an...‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1848 a. 1851. 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepages and on verso of 1 plate. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome XXIV and XXXI. (6),512 pp. and 2 plates + 512 pp. a. 4 plates.(2 entire volumes offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 442-459 a. pp. 459-460, 1 double-page folded engraved plate + pp. 67-102 a. 1 plate. Some scattered brownspots to first part of the first volume, not affecting P's papers.‎

‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - RECHEARCES ON MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY & OPTICAL ACTIVITY.‎

‎Mémoire sur les acides aspartique et malique.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1848. Without wrappers. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome 34, January-issue. With titlepage to vol. 34. 128 pp. (entire January-issue). Pasteur's paper pp. 30-64, 1 litographed plate. Some scattered brownspots and browning.‎

‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - REVEALING A NEW KIND OF ISOMERISM.‎

‎Transformation des acides tartriques en acide racémique. Découverte de l'acide tartrique inactif. Nouvelle méthode de séparation de l'acide racémique en acides tartriques droit et gauche.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier),1853. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XXXVII, No. 5. Pp. (145-) 196. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 162-166.‎

‎"PELLETIER, PIERRE et JOSEPH CAVENTOU.‎

‎Note sur un nouvel Alcali (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 10 août 1818. - [THE DISCOVERY OF STRYCHNINE]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1818. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities and paperlabel pasted on to top to spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 8 (Cahier 3). Entire volume offered. Stamps to verso of title-page and verso of plates. (Pelletier & Caventou's paper): pp. 323-324. (Entire issue:) 448 pp. + 1 plate.‎

‎First printing of this classic paper in chemistry in which the authors announced their discovery of Strychnine. This was the first alkali of vegetable origin to be discovered after morphine. This discovery (and their discovery of chlorophyll) brought them international fame. ""Strychnine was only the second alkaloid to be extracted, the first was morphine. Pelletier and Caventou wanted to name their new alkaloid vauqueline after Nicolas Vauquelin, one of their associates who had refined the technique of ether extraction for use in isolating alkaloids. However, the officers of the Académe des Sciences in Paris rejected the idea on the grounds that a respected scientist’s name should not be paired with a deadly poison. In addition to strychnine the pair isolated other important compounds from plants including caffeine, chlorophyll and the anti-malaria drug quinine. (Paul L. Burnham). Parkinson:""Breakthroughs"", 1818 C. - Garrison & Morton: 1846. The first issue also contains their importent memoir ""Examen chimique de la Cochenillee et de sa matière colorante"", pp. 250-287 which describes how they obtained crotonic acid from croton oil and analyzed carmine in the cochineal.‎

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‎"PELIGOT, EUGENE- ISOLATION OF URANIUM.‎

‎Recherches sur L'Uranium.‎

‎(Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1842). No wrappers, as extracted from: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago et al."", Troisieme Ser., tome 5, pp. 5-46. With halftitle to volume 5.‎

‎Peligot, professor of applied chemistry in the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, was the first to isolate Uranium in 1841. The paper offered is his long account of the process and the history of the chemistry of Uranium. The process of isolation was first recorded in 1841 in ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"".He ""showed that what was regarded as metallic uranium was the dioxide UO2, and first prepared the metal. He treated Uranium oxychloride mixed withcarbon in a stream of chlorine, when carbon dioxide and monoxide were evolved and uranium tetrachloride was formed. This ws reduced to the metal by heating it with potassium.""(Partington IV, p. 362).‎

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‎"PELIGOT, EUGENE- ISOLATION OF URANIUM.‎

‎Recherches sur L'Uranium.‎

‎(Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1842). No wrappers, as extracted from: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago et al."", Troisieme Ser., tome 5, pp. 5-46. With halftitle to volume 5.‎

‎"PELLETIER, PIERRE et JOSEPH CAVENTOU.‎

‎Note sur un nouvel Alcali (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 10 août 1818. - [THE DISCOVERY OF STRYCHNINE]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1818. 8vo. In a bit later half cloth. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 8 (Cahier 3). Entire volume offered. No institutional stamps. Light occassional brownspotting, otherwise a good copy. (Pelletier & Caventou's paper): pp. 323-324. (Entire issue:) 448 pp. + 1 plate.‎

‎"PELLETIER, PIERRE et JOSEPH CAVENTOU. - THE NAMING AND ISOLATION OF CHLOROPHYLL‎

‎Sur la Matière verte des Feuilles.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1818). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 9 (Sec. Cahier), pp. 113-224. (Entire issue offered). Pelletier & Caventou's paper: pp. 194-196. Clean and fine.‎

‎"PIRIA, RAFFAELE. - THE DISCOVERY OF SALICIN - ASPIRIN.‎

‎Recherches sur la Salicine et les produits qui en dérivent.‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome VIII, No 13. Pp. (459-) 504. (Entire issue offered). Piria's paper: pp. 479-485.‎

‎First apperance of a main paper in pharmacology, describing the discovery of Salicylic acid compound, giving it the empirical formula C7H6O3. It is the most successful drug in history. A trillion tablets are consumed every year. Used to treat everything from headaches to heart disease, from rheumatism to cancer - scientists are still struggling to understand all its qualities. But aspirin can truly claim the title of wonder drug.Raffaele Piria (20 August 1814 - 18 July 1865), an Italian chemist from Scilla who converted the substance Salicin into a sugar and a second component, which on oxidation becomes salicylic acid, a major component of an analgesic drug, Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).Garrison & Morton No 1857.‎

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‎"PIRIA, RAFFAELE. - THE DISCOVERY OF SALICIN - ASPIRIN.‎

‎Recherches sur la Salicine et les produits qui en dérivent.‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome VIII, No 13. Pp. (459-) 504. (Entire issue offered). Piria's paper: pp. 479-485.‎

‎"PLANCK, MAX.‎

‎Absolute Entropie und chemische Konstante.‎

‎Leizig, Barth, 1921. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vol. 66, 1921. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on to front free end papers, stamp to title page. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 365-372. [Entire volume: 564, VII pp].‎

‎"POTT, JOHANN HEINRICH.‎

‎Examen Chymique de la Nature de sel Acide volatil de L'Ambre. Traduit de Allemand.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1755). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome IX, Année 1753, pp. 51-72.‎

‎"PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH.‎

‎Observations on different Kinds of Air. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D.F.R.S. (Caption title: ""Read March 5,12,19,26,1772"").‎

‎(London, 1772). 4to. Bound in a fine recent brown hmorocco in old style, gilt back. In: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society pp. 147-264 (vol. 62) and 1 folded engraved plate (P.Basire Sc.). A fine large copy, broad margins, printed on good paper, clean and fine throughout.‎

‎First edition of this important tract, which marked an epoch in the history of chemistry. As it is Priestley's first extensive work on Gases, it foreshadowed his identification of Oxygen.""The paper here, for which the Royal Society awarded Priestley the Copley medal announced the discovery of hydrochloric acid and nitric oxide and the use of the latter in measuring the purity of air, which led through the work of Cavendish, Fontana and others to exact eudiometry. Priestley also observed that plants consume carbon dioxide and gave out oxygen, thereby purifying air which has been vitiated by combustion, respiration and putrefaction, and that this action takes place only under daylight."" (Printing and the Mind of Man No. 217).""In this paper he also announced two new gases that he had obtained - nitrous oxide and carbonic oxide"" these won him the Royal Society's Copley medal. Two years later his experiments in heating red oxide of mercury produced ""dephlogisticated air"" which was announced in 1775 and identified by Lavoisier as oxygen."" (Dibner Heralds of Science No. 40).The work contains a proposal to saturate water with carbonic acid under either atmospheric or increased pressure, which led to the creation of the mineral-water industry.The Centenary of the discovery of oxygen was celebrated at Priestley's American home at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, and was followed in 1876 by the foundation of the American Chemical Society. (PMM). Honeyman No. 2535 - The Barchas Collection No 1718.‎

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‎"PROUT, WILLIAM. - COINING THE WORD ""MERORGANIZED""‎

‎On the ultimate composition of simple alimentary substances"" with some preliminary remarks on the analysis of organized bodies in general. Read June 14, 1827. - [FIRST SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION OF FOODSTUFF.]‎

‎(London, W. Nicol, 1827). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1827 - Part II. Pp. 355-388 a. 2 engraved plates. (a small dampstain to lower margin of plates). Text clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of this milestone paper, containing the first scientific classification of foodstuffs as carbonhydrates, fats, proteins, and water.""The brilliant demonstration in 1824 that the gastric juices of animals contains hydrochloric acid appeared incredible to many of Prout's contemporaries. Yet in 1827 (in the paper offered) they readily adopted his classification of foodstuffs into water, saccharinous (carbonhydrates), oleagineous (fats), and albuminous (proteins). Although Prout promised detailled analyses of the three organic aliments, only those of the saccharinous class were published by him. As a vitalist, Prout maintained that organized bodies (which were composed from organic substances) contained ""independent existing vital principles.""Under the influence of these teleological agents, the four aliments were transformed into blood and tissues. Prout termed the process of digestion and blood formation ""primary assimilation."" ""Secondary assimilation"" (Liebig's ""metamorphosis of tissues"") included both the process of tissue formmation from blood and the destruction and removal of unwanted parts from the animal system. The absorption and removal of water from processed aliments were the principal chemical features of chylification and sanguification, respectively. Organization of processed aliments could not occur, however, without the presence and admixture of minute amounts of water or of elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. In 1827 Prout coined the word (in the paper offered) ""merorganized"" to denote the isomerism and vitalization of organic substances by the presence of these incidental materials.""(DSB XI, p. 173). - Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1827 C.‎

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‎"PROUT, WILLIAM. - COINING THE WORD ""MERORGANIZED""‎

‎Sur la Composiion des Substances alimentaires simples, etc.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1827. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering on spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", 2 Séries, Tome 36.. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Prout's paper: pp. 366-378. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First French edition (simultaneously with the English original ""On the ultimate composition of simple alimentary substances"".."") of this milestone paper, containing the first scientific classifilassification of foodstuffs as carbonhydrates, fats, proteins, and water.""The brilliant demonstration in 1824 that the gastric juices of animals contains hydrochloric acid appeared incredible to many of Prout's contemporaries. Yet in 1827 (in the paper offered) they readily adopted his classification of foodstuffs into water, saccharinous (carbonhydrates), oleagineous (fats), and albuminous (proteins). Although Prout promised detailled analyses of the three organic aliments, only those of the saccharinous class were published by him. As a vitalist, Prout maintained that organized bodies (which were composed from organic substances) contained ""independent existing vital principles.""Under the influence of these teleological agents, the four aliments were transformed into blood and tissues. Prout termed the process of digestion and blood formation ""primary assimilation."" ""Secondary assimilation"" (Liebig's ""metamorphosis of tissues"") included both the process of tissue formmation from blood and the destruction and removal of unwanted parts from the animal system. The absorption and removal of water from processed aliments were the principal chemical features of chylification and sanguification, respectively. Organization of processed aliments could not occur, however, without the presence and admixture of minute amounts of water or of elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. In 1827 Prout coined the word (in the paper offered) ""merorganized"" to denote the isomerism and vitalization of organic substances by the presence of these incidental materials.""(DSB XI, p. 173). Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1827 C.The volume contains an importent pioneer-investigation on piezo-electricity by ANTOINE CÉSAR BECQUEREL ""De quelques Phénoménes électriques produits pa la pression et le clivage des cristaux"", pp. 265-271.‎

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‎"PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH.‎

‎Observations on different Kinds of Air. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D.F.R.S. (+) An Account of further Discoveries in Air (+) Observations on Respiration, and the Use of the Blood (+) Experiments relating to Phlogiston, and the seeming Conversion of Wate... - [PMM 217 - THE DISCOVERY OF OXYGEN]‎

‎London, Lockyer Davis, 1772, 1775, 1776 & 1783. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"". Including title-page of volume. Most leaves reinforced in margin. Light offsetting from folded plates as usual. Plate depicting the full telescope with professional repair to lower right corner. Pp. (4), 147-264, 383-394, 225-248, 397-434.‎

‎"PROUST, L.J.‎

‎Sur la Poudre a Canon. 1.-9. Mémoire. (The first memoir with the title: Faits pour servir a L'Étude de la Poudre a Canon).‎

‎Paris, 1811-14. 4to. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. The second leaf with stamps. These 9 papers from ""Journal de Physique, de Chimie et D'Histoire Naturelle"", Tome 70-78, pp. 320-340, pp. 113-126, pp. 266-281, pp.14-36, pp. 376-400, pp. 203-220, pp. 362-392, pp. 334-352 and pp. 169-206. Widemargined, a few scattered brownspots. Some leaves in lower right corner with a wormtract, no loss of letters.‎

‎"PROUT, WILLIAM. - COINING THE WORD ""MERORGANIZED""‎

‎Sur la Composiion des Substances alimentaires simples, etc.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1827. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt lettering on spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", 2 Séries, Tome 36.. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. a. 1 folded engraved plate. Prout's paper: pp. 366-378. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎"PYROTECHNICS - FREZIER, (AMEDÉE FRANCOIS).‎

‎Traité des feux d'artifice, Ou l'on voit. I. La manière de préparer les Matières qui entrent dans la Composition des Feux d'Artifice. II. La Méthode de faire & de composer toutes fortes de Feux d'Artifice. III. Où l'on donne un idée de la Conduit...‎

‎Haye, Chez J. Neaulme, 1741. Small 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf w. five raised bands on back, back richly gilt. Small holes and lack of leather to lower capital and back-hinge, due to insect-bites. Bdg. somewhat worn. Internally a bit of brownspotting and occationally a little soiling, but overall fine. Engr. frontispiece (= engr. t-p. dated 1707), 8 full-page engr. plates and 3 about half-page engr. vignettes. (6), XVIII, 394, (6) pp.‎

‎This is the Dutch reprint (in French) (also called the ""pirated edition"") of the first edition from 1706/07, with the engraved title-page from this. The second edition appeared in 1747. ""In 1741 Neaulme issued a pirated edition which again, apart from variations on the title-page, is identical to the 1706 edition. Encouraged by this pirated edition Frezier wrote a second edition which appeared in 1747 in three differing versions."" (C. Philip, p. 59). Very important reference-work on firewirks. ""Frezier was probably one of the most important pyrotechnics in the mid 18th century..."" (C. Philip, p. 58). He borrows heavily from other authors, but his works are interesting, also as they scrupulously cite the sources. The plates show different kinds of fireworks, with many illustrations on each and the vignettes show displays of fireworks, as this work also deals much with the conduct and displaying of these.‎

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‎"PYROTECHNICS - FIREWORKS - LODEN, ARTHUR.‎

‎Der Lustfeuerwerker, oder gründliche Anweisung zur Lustfeuerwerkerei, als: Schwärmer, Raketen, Leuchtkugeln, bengalische Flammen, Frösche, Bienenkorb, Pfauenschwanz, feuerräder, Kanonschläge und viele andere Feuerwerkkünste. nebst einer Anweisung zur ...‎

‎Quedlinburg und Leipzig, Ernst'schen Buchhandlung, 1862. Small 8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small brownspot in upper part of frontwrapper and on the first 2 leaves. VI,138 pp., 1 folded lithographed plate, textillustrations in woodcut.‎

‎"PÉLIGOT, EUG. (EUGÈNE)‎

‎Sur le poids atomique de l'urane.‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XII, No. 17. Pp. (697-) 740. (Entire issue offered). Péligot's paper: pp. 735-737. Some faint brownspots.‎

‎"RAOULT, F.-M. (FRANCOIS MARIE). - DISCOVERY OF RAOULT'S LAWS.‎

‎Loi générale de congélation des dissolvants, Mémoire de... (Extrait par l'auteur). (+) Loi générale des tensions de vapeur des dissolvants. (2 Papers).‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 95, No 22 a. Tome 104 No 21 (entire issues offered). Pp. 1017-1076 and pp. 1387-1462. Raoult's papers: pp. 1030-33 (tome 95) and pp. 1430-1433 (tome 104).‎

‎First appearance of Raoult's two importent papers in which described a method for finding the molecular weight of an organic compound by the determination of the lowering of the freezing point of water that resulted from dissolving that compound in water and the law governing the relation between solutes and vapor pressure.""Then in 1882, F.-M. Raoult published his results on the effects of nondissociating organic solutes, from which he deduced a general law controlling the lowering of freezing points (the first paper offered). Four years later he extended this work to show the effect of solutes on vapor pressure (the second paper offered). Having established the effect of nondissociating compounds, he was in position to show that salts produced an eeffect which, though anomalous, could nevertheless be explained by the supposition that a dissolved molecule broke up into other molecules. This work was of great value in supplying a new method for determining molecular weights, since the depression of freezing point and vapor pressure (as well a the related rise in boiling point later discovered) are proportional to the moleculat concentrations ofthe solutions"" it was of equal value in supporting the ideas of van't Hoff on osmotic pressure. With the announcement of the dissociation theory of Arrhenius, the anomalies were explained and the full significance of the generalizations of Raoult was recognized. Raoult published the formulations of his laws in the ""Comptes Rendus"" for 1882 and 1887 (the papers offered)"" (Leicester a. Klickstein ""A Source Book in Chemistry"", pp. 471 ff).‎

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