‎Química‎

‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - CRYSTAL STRUCTURES‎

‎Nouvelles Reseraches sur les relations qui peuvent exister entre la forme cristalline, la composition chimique et la phénomène rotatoire mpléculaire. Premiere - (Deuxieme) Partie.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1853. Without wrappers. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome XXXVIII, August-issue. With titlepage to vol. 38.Pp. 385-508. a. 2 plates.(entire issue - Aout). Pasteur's paper pp. 437-483. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in which Pasteur extended his work on the optical activity and the molecular assymetry. An importent paper among the handfull of his early papers on these subjects.An importent paper by Robert Bunsen comes with the Pasteu-paper in this issue: ""Recherches sur les Rapports intrinseques des Phénomenes pseudovolcaniques de L'Islande"". Pp.385-436 a. 1 plate.‎

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‎"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.‎

‎First full exposition of Pasteur's momentous and revolutionary discovery of ""molecular assymetry"" and founding the science of Polarimetry.The discovery was first announced by Pasteur in may 1848 by the printing of the preliminary report of only 4 short pages, in order to establish priority. The announcement - 4 pages - was published in Comptes rendus hebdomadaires de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, Seance of May 15, 1848, 26 (21), 535-538 (Published on May 1848).""In 1848....Pasteur studied the crystals of tartrates (one of the substances that exhibited the now-clockwise, now-counterclockwise effect) under the microscope and found that the crystals were mirror images of the others. The two crystals resembled each other as a right-hand glove resembles a left-hand glove....This was a revolutionary discovery and it took some courage to announce it. A few years before, the well-known chemist Mitscherlich had studies the same tartrate crystals and declared them all to be identical. Pasteur was only a twenty-sic-year-old unknown. neverthelless he announced his findings and went before Biot to repeat the separation ofthe crystals before the eyes of the aged authority in the field. Biot was convinced and Pasteur received the Rumford medal of the Royal Society for his work....Pasteur had thus founded the science of polarimetry in which the measurements of the manner in which the plane of polarized light was twisted could be used to help to determine the structure of organic substance, to follow various chemical reactions, and so on.""(Asimov). Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 374-379).‎

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‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - ON MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY.‎

‎Etudes sur les modes d'accroissement des cristaux et sur les causes des variations de leurs formes secondaires.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier),1856. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XLIII, No. 17. Pp. (769-) 824. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 795-798.‎

‎First appearance of one of Pasteur's last importent papers on Molecular Assymetry.‎

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‎"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.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in which Pasteur extended his work on the optical activity and the molecular assymetry. This paper is among Pasteurs most importent among the handfull of his early papers on the subject.‎

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‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - RECHEARCES ON MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY.‎

‎Recherches sur la Propriétés spécifique des deux Acides qui composent L'Acide Racémique.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1850. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Very light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and on verso of plate. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome XXVIII. 504 pp. a. 5 plates. (The entire volume offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 56-99. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in which Pasteur extended his work on the optical activity and the molecular assymetry. This paper is among Pasteurs most importent among the handfull of his early papers on the subject.‎

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‎"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.‎

‎First appearance of a milestone paper in chemistry in which Pasteur announced two momentous importent discoveries, that racemic acid could be separated into the two optically active tartaric acids and the discovery of ""mesotartaric"" acid.For his work on racemic acid and crystallography he received the prize of 1,500 francs from the Société de pharmacie (1853), membership in the Legion of Honor, and the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society (1856).""During this journey (travel to Vienna, Prag and Saxony) Pasteur met a German industrial chemist who claimed to have achieved what Pasteur then considered impossible - the chemical transformation of tartaric into racemic acid. Although he soon confirmed his belief that this particular claim was inaccurate, Pasteur unexpectedly achieved the transformation in May 1853 by heating cinchonine tartrate at 170°C. for five to six hours. This procedure also yielded a small amount of inactive ""mesotartaric"" acid, the existence of which Pasteur had predicted the year before and in search of which he had apparently undertaken the experiment. In the memoir (1 August 1853) in which he announced these two discoveries, Pasteur disclosed a new method for separating racemic acid into its left- and right- handed components. His original method, involving the manual separation of the crystals, was laborious and extremely limited in applicability. The central feature of the new method was the chemical combination of racemic acid with optically active bases. Under appropriate conditions they affected the solubility of the resulting paratartrates in such a way as to favor the crystallization of only one of the two forms that together compose the paratartrate. Although introduced by Pasteur only for the case of racemic acid, this new method clearly had wider applicability and was soon used to separate the left- and right- handed components in other ""racemic"" substances (substances inactive by compensation)."" (DSB)‎

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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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‎"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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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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‎"PELLETIER, PIERRE et JOSEPH CAVENTOU. - THE DISCOVERY OF STRYCHNINE.‎

‎Note sur un nouvel Alcali (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 10 août 1818. (+) Mémoire Sur un nouvel Alcali végétal (la Strychine) trouvé dans la fève de Saint-Ignace, la noix vomique, etc. (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 14 décembre 1818).‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1818,1819). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 8 (Cahier 3) a. 10 ( Cahier 2), pp. 225-336 and pp. 129-240. (Entire issues offered). Pelletier & Caventou's papers: pp. 323-324 (tome 8) and pp. 142-176 (tome 10). A few scattered brownspots.‎

‎First printing of these classic papers 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. The first small paper contains the announcement of the discovery and the second long memoir contains the elaborate exposition of the discovery.""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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‎"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.‎

‎In this paper the two famous French chemists announced the first isolation of, and the naming of the substance Chlorofyll, the green substance essential for photosynthesis.Chlorophyll is the molecule that absorbs sunlight and uses its energy to synthesise carbohydrates from CO2 and water. This process is known as photosynthesis and is the basis for sustaining the life processes of all plants. Since animals and humans obtain their food supply by eating plants, photosynthesis can be said to be the source of our life also.‎

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‎"PICTET, RAOUL. (RAOUL-PIERRE).- THE PROCESS OF LIQUEFACTION OF OXYGEN AND NITROGEN INVENTED.‎

‎Mémoire sur la liquéfaction de L'Oxygène. La Liquéfaction et la solidification de L'Hydrogéne, et sur les Théories des Changements d'état des Corps.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1878. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series - Tome 13. 576 pp. a. 2 large folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Pictet's paper: pp. 145-228. 1 full-page illustration in woodcut of his apparatus.‎

‎First appearance of a milestone paper in chemistry - issued at the same time in Geneva - in which Pictet announced and described his invention of the liquefaction-process of oxygen and nitrogen - the first liquefaction of an atmospheric gas.""It was Pictet's researches that led to a scientific achievement which at once made him internationally famous. In december of 1877, when Louis Paul Cailletet was about to report hisliquefaction of oxygen to the Paris Academy of Sciences, ictet cabled from Geneva that he hadachieved the same feat. Cailletet and Pictet had worked independently and by different methods. While Cailletet's method had been to compress, cool and expand the gas to be liquefied, Pictet had employed the ""cascade"" process, in which the refrigeration cycles of three different cooling media with successively lower critical temperatures were arranged in series, so that the gas liquefied in first would act as a cooolant in the liquefation of the next. ictet used sulphur dioxide in the first cycle, carbon dioxide in the second and oxygen in the last. Although Cailletet could establish a priority of a few weeks, Pictet has been allowed to share the credit for the first liquefaction of an atmospheric gas.""(DSB X, pp. 604-5).‎

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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.‎

‎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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‎"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].‎

‎First printing of Planck's paper on entropie and chemical constant.‎

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‎"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.‎

‎First printing.‎

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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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎First edition of Priestley's landmark paper on pneumatic chemistry. In this present work, which marked an new epoch in the history of chemistry, he announced the discovery of hydrochloric acid and nitric oxide, as well as the discovery that plants restored air that had been vitiated by combustion, putrefaction, and respiration. Priestley's 'contribution to the knowledge of gases were crucial. He improved the technique for studying them by collecting them over mercury instead of water, so that many more gases could be observed.His many chemical discoveries contributed to the ""chemical revolution""' (PMM)""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). PMM 217. Honeyman No. 2535 - Barchas 1718. Dibner 40 Norman 1749‎

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‎"PROUST, (JOSEPH LOUIS).‎

‎Faits pour servir à la l'Histoire des Prussiates. (+) Suite pour servir... (+) Faits pour l'histoire du cobalt et du nickel.‎

‎Paris, Chez Bernard, 1806. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spine.Slightly rubbed. Stamp to verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 60. 336 pp., 1 engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Proust's papers: pp. 185-224, 225-252, 260-279.‎

‎Also with papers by Vaguelin, Parmentier, humphrey Davy (transl. into French), Riffault etc.‎

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‎"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.‎

‎First printing of these 9 papers by the wellknown French chemist. Proust formulated the ""Law of constant proportion"" which lead to the controversy with Berthollet.‎

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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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‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"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.‎

‎"RAMSAY, WILLIAM & JOHN SHIELDS. - MOLECULAR SURFACE ENERGY SHOWN.‎

‎The Variation of Molecular Surface-Energy with Temperature. Received March 14, - Read March 23, 1893.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1894). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1893, Vol. 184. Pp. 647-673 a. 2 plates.‎