‎Chimie‎

‎"RAMSAY, WILLIAM and MORRIS W. TRAVERS. - DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENT KRYPTON.‎

‎On a new Constituent of Atmospheric Air. Received June 8 - Read June 9, 1898.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1898) No wrappers. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London."", Vol.63, Nos. 399-400 (both issues offered).. Pp. 373-480 a. 5 plates. Ransay & Travers' paper: pp. 405-408.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Ramsay and Travers announced their discovery of a new element which they named ""krypton"" (meaning hidden).""Dr. William Hampson presented them (Ransay & Travers) with about a liter of liquid air, which they used, not for liquefying the argon, but for obstaining sufficient skill in manipulation so that they would not risk loosing their precious fifteen liter of argon......The residue left after most of the liquid air had boliled away consisted largly of oxygen and nitrogen, which Ramsay and Travers temoved with red-hot copper and magnesium. ....(they) then examined the twenty-five cibic centimeters of residual gas, and when they found it to be inerst, they immediately placedit in a Pl'ucker tube connected to and induction coil and observed its spectrum. There was a bright yelælow line with a greener tint than that of the helium line and a brilliant green line that did nor coincide with any line of argon, helium, mercury, or hydrogen. They discoverede this gas on 30 May, 1898, and named it 'krypton'....they found that it belonged between bromine and rubidium in the periodic table, and so great was their excitement that the younger chemist almost forgot about his examination for doctor of sciwence which had been schedules for the next day.""(Weeks, p. 267).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1898 C.‎

书商的参考编号 : 44238

‎"RAOULT, FRANCOIS MARIE.‎

‎Sur les Tensions de Vapeur des Dissolutions.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1890. Contemp. hcalf. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 6. Series - Tome XX. 576 pp. The entire volume offered. Raoult's paper: pp. 297-371. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in which Raoult gives further applications of his own discovery, ""Raoult's Law""""Raoult soon turned to the anomalous results with salts in water, which had puzzled previous investigators. He classified the salts he used according to the valence of the radicals and found that the lowering of the freezing point could be accounted for by assigning certain numbers to these radicals. He demonstrated that the freezing point lowering obtained with these salts was consistent with the hypothesis that the salt radicals themselves acted as if they existed independently in the solution, and that certain radicals were more effective than others in lowering the freezing point of water. With the statement that ""the neutral salts of mono and di-basic salts act as if the electropositive and electronegative radicals of these salts when dissolved in water solution do not combine, but remain as simple mixtures (in the paper offered), Raoult showed that he had come to accept much of Arrhenius’ work on ionization.""(DSB).‎

书商的参考编号 : 46033

‎"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.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in the history of physical chemistry in which the authors for the first time shows experimentally that ""the molecular surface energy decreases linearly with the temperature, and that the temperature coefficient of molecular surface energy is a colligative property. Determination of the temperature coefficient of molecular surface energy, therefore, were largely employed for the purpose of calculating the molecular weights, and therefrom the molecular complexity, of substances in the liquid state.""(Findley ""A Hundred years of Chemistry"", p. 79).‎

书商的参考编号 : 44170

‎"RAMSAY, WILLIAM and MORRIS W. TRAVERS. - DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENT KRYPTON.‎

‎On a new Constituent of Atmospheric Air. Received June 8 - Read June 9, 1898.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1898) No wrappers. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London."", Vol.63, Nos. 399-400 (both issues offered).. Pp. 373-480 a. 5 plates. Ransay & Travers' paper: pp. 405-408.‎

‎"RAOULT, FRANCOIS MARIE.‎

‎Methode universelle pour la Détermination des Poids moléculaires.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1886. Bound with the original printed wrappers to all 4 issues (8 wrappers) in contemp. hcalf. Wear to top of spine. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 6. Series - Tome VIII. 576 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. The entire volume offered. Raoult's paper: pp. 317-339.‎

‎"RAOULT, FRANCOIS MARIE.‎

‎Sur les Tensions de Vapeur des Dissolutions faites dans L'Éther.‎

‎Paris, G. Masson, 1888. Contemp. hcalf. Light wear along edges. Two small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 6. Series - Tome XV. 576 pp. and 2 folded engraved plates. The entire volume offered. Raoult's paper: pp. 375-407. lean and fine.‎

‎"RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT) and WILLIAM RAMSAY. - THE DISCOVERY OF ARGON.‎

‎Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere. Received and Read January 31, 1895.‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1895. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Blindtooled covers. First corner a bit bumped. In ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. XIV,(2),602,(4) pp. (Entire volume offered). The paper: p. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). The title-page with faint brownspots. Otherwise internally clean and fine.‎

‎"REGNAULT, V. (HENRI VICTOR) et J. REISET. - INSPIRING JULES VERNE - THE ""RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT""‎

‎Recherches chimiques sur la Respiration des Animaux des diverses Classes.‎

‎(Paris, Victor Masson, 1849). Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Troisieme Series - Tome 26. Cahier 3-4. Pp. 299-528 a. 2 folded engraved plates, showing apparatus used.(Entire issues offered). The joint paper takes up both issues. With half-title to tome 26.‎

‎"ROCKETRY - JACQUES-PHILIPPE MÉRIGON de MONTGÉRY.‎

‎Traité des Fusées de Guerre, nommées autrefois Rochettes et maintenant Fusées a la Congrève.‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),295,(1) pp., 6 folded engraved plates with many figures. A few faint scattered brownspots.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Montgéry's notable work on the mechanics, chemistry and useability of rockets in warfare.""Montgéry’s investigations of pyrotechnics led him to do research into the war rockets of William Congreve and to the production of what may be the first documented history of rocketry, Traité des fusées de guerre (1825). Known throughout Europe, it became the standard work on the subject, appeared in serial form in several official journals, and was republished in 1841. Montgéry’s coverage was exhaustive and analytical, particularly in his treatment of rocket physics.""(DSB).‎

书商的参考编号 : 57500

‎"ROSCOE, HENRY E. - THE ISOLATION OF VANADIUM.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - Researches on Vanadium. Received November 20, - Read December 19, 1867. (+) Researches on Vanadium. - Part II. Received June 16, - Read June 17, 1869.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1869-70). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1868 - Vol. 158. Pp. 1-27. A small tear to top of first leaf, no loss. (+) Vol. 159. Pp. 679-692.‎

‎"RUNGE, F.F. - THE DISCOVERY OF PHENOL.‎

‎Ueber einige Produkte der Steinkohlendestillation.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1834). Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 31, No 5. Pp. 65-80.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Runge discloses his discovery of carbolic acid or phenol, and how he prepared it by distilling coal.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1834 C. - Partington IV, pp. 183-84.‎

书商的参考编号 : 45159

‎"RUSCELLI, GIROLAMI (Pseud.f. ALESSIO PIEMONTESE, ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT, A. PEDEMONTANUS).‎

‎Kriegs und Archeley Kunst. Das ist, Gründliche unnd aussführliche Underweisung was nicht allein einem Capitain oder Hauptmann, sondern auch einem Archeley und Büchenmeister fürnemlich zu wissen von nöthen: Wie eine Vestung zu beschützen, unnd Gleicfal... - [THE PSEUDONYMOUS ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT]‎

‎Franckfurt, Jacobi di Zetter, 1620. Folio. Old full vellum made out of manuscript vellum leaves (from 15th century with letters in red and black, 1 coloured initial, 2 columns, a bible-commentary). Re-backed, 3/4 of the old vellum-back preserved. Remains of blue and yellow ties. Fine engraved pictorial title (canons, equipment etc.), (12),145,(3) pp. and 15 double-page engraved plates, 8 showing artillery in function, technical descriptions, and diving equipments shown on plate 14 !!) - Second Part with fine engraved title (showing bombs and fireworks),(8),71,(5) pp. and 9 double-page engraved plates showing different kinds of fireworks. A few, mainly marginal brownspots and some faint browning to leaves. With exlibris from ""Comit: Fuggeri 1630 (?)"" in old hand on title. On fol. 2 a later rubberstamp: ""Fürstliche Fuggersche Bibliothek in Augsburg"".‎

‎"RYDBERG, J.R. (JOHANNES ROBERT).‎

‎Om de kemiska grundämnenas periodiska system.‎

‎Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1885. 8vo. Uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. In ""K. Scenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar. Band 10. No. 2"". Fine and clean. 31 pp, + 2 plates.‎

‎"SALA, ANGELO (ANGELUS).‎

‎Spagyrische Schatzkammer. Darinnen unterschiedlichen, als Vorbereitenden, Erbrechtmachenden, Purgirenden, Harntreibenden, Schweiss erregenden, Schmertzstillenden, Stärckenden, Giftwiederstreichenden, und anderer... kräfftigenden Spagyrischen Medicamen...‎

‎Güstrow (Rostock), Johan Hallervords, 1634. Small 8vo. Later, modest clothbacked marbled boards. (16),223,(20) pp. Very light browning and a few scattered brownspots. One leaf (pp. 143/44) loosing part of margins, but no loss of text.‎

‎Scarce first edition of an importent work on the borderline of chemistry and medicine. Osler states that he ""was one of the founders of modern chemistry"".""Sala (following Paracelsus) defined the Spagyric Art as that part of chemistry which has for its subject the natural bodies, vegetable, animal, and mineral, and such operations as tend to the end of rendering them useful in medicine.... its principal operations are separation, subtilisation, and sublimation."" (Partington).""He was an able physician and an excellent chemist, an admirer and to some extent a follower of Paracelsus, an advocate of chemical remedies, an opponent of quackery, and he was able to judge fairly the merits both of the chemical and Galenic systems of medicine then in conflict. Concring calls him the first of the chemists who was free from triffling""... (Ferguson).""Considering his work as a whole, it is evident that Sala was above all a practitioner. In his view, demonstrations could be carried out only through manual operations (inventionibus manualibus), that is to say, only with the aid of experimental examples, which he clearly distinguished from argumentation. For him, chemistry was still a handicraft (ars).""(DSB).Ferguson II, p. 316. - Partington II, p. 277 (the second edition 1637). - Not in Neville, Not in Duveen.‎

书商的参考编号 : 53393

‎"SAUSSURE, THÉODORE de.‎

‎Observations sur la décomposition de l'amidon à la température athmospherique par l'action de l'air et de l'eau. Read December 17th, 1818.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1819. 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCXIX"", pp. 29-58.‎

‎"SCHEELE, (CARL WILHELM).‎

‎Ueber das wesentliche Galläpfelsalz.‎

‎(Helmstädt und Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Budhhandlung, 1787). Small 8vo. Orig. printed blue wrappers. In: ""Chemische Annalen...von Lorenz Crell"", 17867:1. Bd., 1. Stück. The whole issue Pp. 1-96 pp. Scheele's paper: pp. 3-7.‎

‎First appearance of Scheele's last paper.The issue contains also a long paper by Richard Kirwan ""Versuche mit hepatischer (schwefelartiger) Luft. Pp. 26-46.‎

书商的参考编号 : 44102

‎"SCHEELE, (CARL WILHELM).‎

‎Ueber das wesentliche Galläpfelsalz.‎

‎(Helmstädt und Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Budhhandlung, 1787). Small 8vo. Orig. printed blue wrappers. In: ""Chemische Annalen...von Lorenz Crell"", 17867:1. Bd., 1. Stück. The whole issue Pp. 1-96 pp. Scheele's paper: pp. 3-7.‎

‎"SEFSTRÖM, N.-G. (NILS GABRIEL). - THE DISCOVERY OF VANADIUM.‎

‎Sur le Vanadium, métal nouveau, trouvé dans du fer en barres de Eckersholm. forge qui tire sa mine de Taberg, dans le Smaland.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1831). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 1. Pp. 5-112. (Entire issue offered). Sefström's paper: pp. 105-111.‎

‎"SMOLUCHOWSKI, MARIAN.‎

‎Contributions to the theory of transpiration, diffusion and thermal conduction in rarified gases.‎

‎Cracovie, Imprimerie de L'Université, 1910. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Bulletin de L'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie"", Juillet 1910. Very fine and clean. Pp. (2), 295-312.‎

‎Scarce offprint of Smoluchowski early work on thermal transpiration in rarefied gases. Maxwell worked on the subject in the 1880ies but it was not until Danish Knudsen and Smoluchowski - with the present paper - the subject was reintroduced and created the whole field research in vacuum.‎

书商的参考编号 : 48712

‎"SMOLUCHOWSKI, MARIAN.‎

‎Über Wärmeleitung in verdünnten Gasen. - [AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE]‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1898. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper ""Überreicht vom Verfasser"" [i.e. ""Given by the author""]. Offprint from ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie"", Neue Folge, Band 64, 1898. Two stamp to top left corner of front wrapper. ""Habilitations-Schrift"" written in ink to top of front wrapper. A fine copy. Pp. 101-130.‎

‎First edition, in the scarce author's presentation offprint issue, of this important paper on the discontinuity of temperature widely regarded as being his first important contribution to science. The work is of seminal importance for by publishing it Smoluchowski joined the dispute on the validity of atomic conceptions. These were far from accepted at the end of the nineteenth century and their recognition was partly due to Smoluchowski.""In 1875 Warburg and A. Kundt, on the basis of the kinetic theory of gases, had predicted that if the temperature of a gas differed from that of the container wall, the former temperature would not pass continuously to the latter: there would be a discontinuity of temperature between the gas and the wall. Their experiments, successful in the case of the analogous phenomenon of the slipping of gases, had not been decisive for temperature discontinuity. Smoluchowski, observing the cooling time of a thermometer in a gas-filled container, demonstrated that an effect exists and reached significant values with rarefied gas in [The present paper].This work was of special importance. For by publishing it Smoluchowski joined the dispute on the validity of atomic conceptions. These, represented in physics mainly by the kinetic theory of gases developed by Boltzmann. were far from accepted at the end of the nineteenth century"" and their recognition was partly due to Smoluchowski. At that time only a few phenomena were predicted by the kinetic theory or required it for intelligibility. Among them was discontinuity of temperature, for its existence was wholly unexplained from a classical point of view. Moreover, in 1897 after his return to Vienna, Smoluchowski pointed out the quantitative agreement of his experimental results with the kinetic theory. In 1898 the University of Vienna admitted him veniam legendi."" (DSB).‎

书商的参考编号 : 48660

‎"SMOLUCHOWSKI, MARIAN.‎

‎Teoria kinetyczna opalescencji gazów w stanie krytycznym oraz innych zjawisk pokrewnych. - [AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION]‎

‎Krakowie, Nakladem Akademii Umiejetnosci, 1908. 8vo. Unopened, uncut in the original printed wrappers. With authors inscription.‎

‎"SOUBEIRAN, EUGÈNE - THE DISCOVERY OF CHLOROFORM.‎

‎Recherches sur quelques Combinaisons du Chlore.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2. Series, Tome 48. Titlepage to vol. 48. Pp. 113-157. A few brownspots, but fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry and medicine as it for the first time relates the finding of Chloroform, which some years later was proved to have anaesthetic effects and was introduced in chirurgy in 1848 by Simpson.Justus von Liebig, Souberain and Guthrie independently discovered Chloroform in 1831, but Souberain was the first to publish his results. - Garrison & Morton No. 1851. - Gedeon ""Science and Technology in Medicine"" 36.7.‎

书商的参考编号 : 43365

‎"SOBRERO, ASCAGNE. - THE DISCOVERY OF NITROGLYCERIN.‎

‎Sur plusieur composés détonants produits avec l'acide nitrique et le sucre, la dextrine, la lactine, la mannite et la glycérine.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier),1847. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XXIV, No. 7. Pp. (209-) 252. (Entire issue offered). Sobrero's paper: pp. 247-248. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Sobrero announced his discovery of nitroglycerin.""When I think of all the victims killed during nitroglycerine explosions, and the terrible havoc that has been wreaked, which in all probability will continue to occur in the future, I am almost ashamed to admit to be its discoverer."" (Sobrero)""Nitroglycerin was synthesized by the chemist Ascagne Sobrero in the middle of the nineteenth century. When he tasted it, as all good nineteenth century chemists did when they discovered a new compound, it gave him what he called a migraine, because of its vasodilatory effect, which was later harnessed in the treatment of angina by William Murrell (1879), following the experience of a distinguished British clinician, Lauder Brunton, using amyl nitrite (1867) Later in the nineteenth century, Alfred Nobel discovered how to stabilize nitroglycerin, using kieselguhr (diatomite) clay"" this led to highly successful industrial applications of dynamite and created the fortune that eventually funded the eponymous prizes. For medical purposes nitroglycerin was subsequently renamed glyceryl trinitrate, to hide the fact that it was literally dynamite as well as metaphorically.""‎

书商的参考编号 : 48815

‎"SOUBEIRAN, EUGÈNE - THE DISCOVERY OF CHLOROFORM.‎

‎Recherches sur quelques Combinaisons du Chlore.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2. Series, Tome 48. Titlepage to vol. 48. Pp. 113-157. A few brownspots, but fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.‎

‎"STAS, J.S. (JEAN-SERVAIS). - ATOMIC WEIGHTS OF THE ELEMENTS ARE INCOMMENSURABLE.‎

‎Nouvelles Recherches sur les Lois des Proportions chimiques, sur les Poids atomiques et leurs Rapports mutuels.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1866. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Wear to top of spine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 4ieme Series - Tome IX. 528 pp., 2 folded plates. (The entire volume offered). Stas' paper: pp. 215-243. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First French printing of Stas's importent (first) paper in which he demonstrates the incommensurability of the atomic weights, proving that atomic weights are not whole numbers or multiples of halv or a quarter of the atomic weight of hydrogen.""Stas demonstrated that the values of the atomic weights he had determined were neither multiples of unity, nor of one half, as Marignac believed, nor of one quarter, as Dumas maintained. This publication led Marignac to doubt the universality of the law of definite proportions. In three papers collectively entitled ""Nouvelles recherches sur les lois des proportions chimiques, sur les poids atomiques et leurs rapports mutuels"" (1865), Stas presented the results of an extensive series of experiments devoted to the new demonstration. By painstaking and accurate measurements he established that atomic weights were incommensurable, thereby disproving the facile conclusion that discrepancies with whole-number values were due merely to experimental errors. Prout’s hypothesis was thus discredited.""(DSB).‎

书商的参考编号 : 45026