‎Chemistry‎

‎"STROMEYER (STROHMEYER), FRIEDRICH. - THE DISCOVERY OF CADMIUM.‎

‎Ueber das Kadmium. (Eine Darstellung der Resultate des ersten Theils seiner Untersuchungen über dieses, vo ihm in dem Zink und den Zinkoxyden entdeckte, neue Metall.).‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1819. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 60 Heft 2 (= Jahrgang 1818, zehntes Stück). Pp. 113-218 a. 1 engraved plate (map). The entire issue offered (Heft 2). Stromeyer's paper pp. 193-210. Clean and fine.‎

‎"THENARD, L.-J.‎

‎Traité de Chemie Élémentaire, Théorique et Pratique. Septièmè Édition. 2 vols.‎

‎Bruxelles, Canongette et Compagnie, 1829. 4to. Uncut in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Front hindge a bit loose and internally with occassional brownspotting. Previous owner's name to half title. (8), 532, (4), 429 pp. + 34 folded plates.‎

‎"THENARD, L.-J. (LOUIS JACQUES).‎

‎Traité de Chimie élémentaire, théorique et pratique. Troisième Édition, revue et corrigée. 4 Vols.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1821. Clothbacked with blank wrappers. Ca. 2.700 pp., 3 folded tables and 33 engraved plates. Some scattered brownspots. Lower right corners on the first leaves in volume 4 with a dampstain.‎

‎"THOMSEN, JULIUS.‎

‎Bidrag til et thermochemisk System [Contributions to a Thermochemical System]. (Særskilt aftrykt af det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, 5te Række, naturvidenskabelig og Matematisk Afdeling, 3die Bind.). - [THE THERMOCHEMICAL AFFINITY PRINCIPLE]‎

‎Kjöbenhavn (Copenhagen), 1852. 4to. Uncut and unopened in the original blue boards (""hollanderet""). A very fine, fresh, and clean copy - near mint, with only a bit of minor sunning to boards. 51 pp.‎

‎"THOMSEN, JULIUS.‎

‎Den electromotoriske Kraft udtrykt i Varmeenheder. (Extract from: Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, 5te Række, naturvidensk. og Matem. Afdeling, 5te. Bind.).‎

‎(København, 1861). 4to. No wrappers. Uncut and unopened. Nice and clean. (3) pp. + pp. 156-175.‎

‎"THOMSEN, JULIUS.‎

‎Systematisk gennemførte Termokemiske Undersøgelsers numeriske og teoretiske Resultater.‎

‎København, Videnskabernes Selskabs Forlag, 1905. Orig. full cloth. XII,472 pp. Clean and fine.‎

‎"THOMSEN, JULIUS.‎

‎Thermochemiske Undersøgelser over Affinitetsforholdene imellem Syrer og Baser i vandig Opløsning. I-XII (in 7 Parts, all).‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, 1869-73. 4to. Bound i one cont. hcalf. Back a little rubbed. Around 300 pp. and 3 folded plates. Together with the authors: Bidrag til et thermochemisk System. Kbhvn., (1852). 4to. (48) pp. All issued in Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter.‎

‎"THOMSEN, JULIUS.‎

‎Thermochemiske Undersøgelser over Affinitetsforholdene imellem Syrer og Baser i vandig Opløsning. I-XII (in 7 Parts, all).‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, 1869-73. 4to. Bound i one cont. hcalf. Back a little rubbed. Around 300 pp. and 3 folded plates. Together with the authors: Bidrag til et thermochemisk System. Kbhvn., (1852). 4to. (48) pp. All issued in Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter.‎

‎First edition of Thomsens main contributions in thermochemistry, undoubtly the most importent contribution from a Dane in chemistry in the 19th century. - The paper from 1852 ""Contribution to a Thermochemical System"" is famous as it is the first statement of a new nomenclatura and the paper contains the first enunciation of the thermochemical affinity principle, which states that chemical affinity, or the attraction between substances, can be measured by the heat evolved when body combine. His fundamental thought was that the evolution of heat accompanying a chemical reaction (which he called varmetoning, equivalent to enthalpy change) is an exact expression of the chemical affinity of the reaction.‎

Bookseller reference : 25824

‎"THOMSON, THOMAS & WILLIAM HYDE WOLLASTON. - THE LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS CONFIRMED - THE FOUNDATIONS OF ATOMIC THEORY.‎

‎On Oxalic Acid. Read January 14th, 1808. (Thomson) (+) On Super-acid and Sub-acid Salts. Read January 28, 1808. (Wollaston). 2 Papers.‎

‎London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1808. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1808 - Part I. Pp. 63-95 (Thomson) and pp. 96-102 (Wollaston:). Clean and fine. With titlepage to 1808, Part I.‎

‎"THOMSON, THOMAS.‎

‎On some of the compounds of chromium. Read March 29, 1827.‎

‎(London, W. Nicol, 1827). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1827 - Part II. Pp. 159-230. Clean and fine.‎

‎"THOUVENEL (BROTHERS).‎

‎Précis Chimique sur les Principes de la Formation de L'Acide Nitreux ouvrage qui a remporté le prix proposé par La Societe Roïale des Sciences de Copenhague en MDCCLXXVI.‎

‎A Copenhague, Höecke, 1784. 4to. Uncut in blank wrappers. Unopened on fine paper. 32 pp.‎

‎"TURING, A. M.‎

‎The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis. - [FIRST EXPLANATION OF MORPHOGENESIS THROUGH CHEMISTRY]‎

‎London & New York, Cambridge University Press, 1954. 4to. In publisher's original full red cloth with gilt letter- and numbering to spine. Corner's bumped and light wear to extremities. Small white embossed [Starfield, Crowborough, Sussex] label measuring 2x5 cm pasted on to lower right corner of p. 41. In ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Volume 237, Biological Sciences"". Entire volume offered. A fine and clean copy without institutional stamps.[Turing's paper:] Pp. 37-72. [Entire volume:] (6), 605 pp. + 40 photographic plates.‎

‎"TURNER, EDWARD. - ATOMIC WEIGHTS REVISED.‎

‎Experimental Researches on Atomic Weights. Received April 25, - Read ay 16, 1833.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor, 1833). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1833 - Part II. Pp. 523-544.‎

‎First edition of the paper in whichTurner revised the atomic weights stipulated by Prout and Thomson and thus confirming the values of Berzelius.""In 1828 Turner decided to place himself in the delicate position of ""umpire between two of the greatest of living chemists"" by investigating the discrepancies between Thomson’s and Berzelius’ atomic weights. He found immediately that Berzelius’ criticism of Thomson’s careless use of the reagent barium chloride was justified. From 1829 to 1833 he gradually showed that the remarkable edifice raised by Thomson’s Principles was a house of cards. At the meeting of the British Association for Advancement of Science held at Oxford in 1832, and at the Royal Society in 1833, Turner demonstrated by careful analyses (in the paper offered) that Thomson’s atomic weights for chlorine, nitrogen, sulfur, lead, and mercury were in serious error, that his own values confirmed those of Berzelius, and, consequently, that although integral atomic weights might be used as convenient approximations by ""medical men, students, and manufactures,"" the true values were inconsistent with Prout’s original hypothesis.""(DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 46010

‎"TYNDALL, JOHN.‎

‎Spontaneous Generation I (+) Spontaneous Generation II (+) A Combat with an Infective Atmosphere. - [THE FINAL REJECTION OF ""SPONTANEOUS GENERATION""]‎

‎8vo. In contemporary black half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. in ""Popular Science monthly"", no 8. Extremities with light wear, otherwise fine. [Entire volume: Pp. 641-778, 128, 641-777, 386-648].‎

‎First printing of Tyndall's famous two-paper series on Spontaneous Generation. The idea was that certain forms such as fleas could arise from inanimate matter such as dust, or that maggots could arise from dead flesh. This idea had been the dominating though for two millenniums until Pasteur in 1859 and Tyndall with the present publication finally laid this theory to rest. ""One might think, then, that the question of spontaneous generation had to be resolved before germ theory could triumphed. It comes as a surprise to discover that germ theory triumphed while the issue of spontaneous generation was still subject to a lively debate. The whole question was only finally solved resolved in 1877, when John Tyndall showed that the outcome of experiments on sealed and heated environments, or on heated environments containing only heated air, depended not on the honesty and good faith, or technical competence and skill, of the experimenter, but on where he happened to conduct the experiment.Since Tyndall, and only since Tyndall, spontaneous generation experiments can be made to work reliably - but Pasteur and Lister had already brought about a revolution in medicine by claiming (mistakenly as it happens) that spontaneous generation had already been disproved."" (Wootton, Bad Medicine).‎

Bookseller reference : 50962

‎"UNVERDORBEN, OTTO. - THE DISCOVERY OF ANILINE.‎

‎Ueber das Verhalten der organischen Körper in höheren Temperaturen.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1826. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. A few scratches to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff"", Bd. 8. (10),526 pp. and 3 folded engraved plates. Small stamps onverso of titlepage. (Entire volume offered). Unverdorben's paper: pp. 253-265, 397-410, 477-487. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Unverdorben describes the method by which he discovered Aniline, which became so importent in the manufacture of dyes, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. ""Aniline (from the Portugese anil, applied to indigo, and derived from the Arabic an-nil, the blue substance), was first obtained by Unverdorben by heating indigo, and was given the name 'crystalline'. In 1841 Carl Julius von Fritzsche (1807-71), an assistant to Mitscherlich and, later, a member of the Academy of Sciences in St. petersburg, obtained the same compound from anthranilic acid, which was produced by the action of caustioc alkalis on indigo, and called it 'aniline'... in 1843 Hofmann showed that the three substances, crystalline, aniline and benzidam, were identical with the base isolated from coal tar.""(Findlay ""A Hundred years of Chemistry"", p. 134).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1826 C.The volume contains other importent papers Antoine Jerome Balard ""Ueber eine besondere Substanz im Meereswasser"" in which he describes his discovery of the element BROMINE, first German edition, pp. 114-124 a. pp. 319-336. (Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1826 C.). And Eilhard Mitscherlich ""Ueber eine neue Klasse von Krystallformen"", pp. 427-442.‎

Bookseller reference : 46031

‎"VAN'T HOFF, J.H.‎

‎Lois de L'Équilibre chimique dans L'État dilué, gazeaux ou dissous. (+) Une propriété générale de la matière diluée (+) Conditions électriques de l'équilibre chimique.‎

‎Stockholm, Kongl. Boktryckeriet, 1886. 4to. Orig. blank wrappers with printed title on top of frontwrapper. Wrapper a bit frayed. In: ""Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar"" Bd. 21, No. 17. Separately printed. 58 pp.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry in which van't Hoff showed that dilute solutions follow the same mathematical properties describing gases.Hoff was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901 for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.‎

Bookseller reference : 50947

‎"VAN'T HOFF, J.H. (HOFF VAN'T).‎

‎Vorlesungen über Bildung und Spaltung von Doppelsalzen. Deutsch bearbeitet von Theodor Paul. Mit 54 Figuren im Text.‎

‎Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1897. Contemp. hcalf., raised bands, gilt spine. Spine a bit worn. Stamps on titlepage. IV,95 pp., textillustrations. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First edition of Van't Hoff's - the founder of stereochemistry - importent work on double salts in which he outlines the theoretical and practical treatment of the formation, separation, and conversion of many double salts, especially the tartrates of sodium, ammonium, and potassium. - . He was the first to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1901) for his work on chemical solutions.""Chemistry is idepted to van't Hoff for his funamental contributions to the unification of chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and physical measurements. He was instrumental in founding physical chemistry as an independent discipline.""(DSB XIII, p. 580).‎

Bookseller reference : 44331

‎"VAN'T HOFF, J.H. - FOUNDING STEREOCHEMISTRY.‎

‎Die Lagerung der Atome in Raume. Nach des verfassers Broschüre ""La chimie dans l'espace"" deutsch bearbeitet von F. Herrmann. Nebst einem Vorwort von Johannes Wislicenus. Mit in dem text eingedruckten Holzstichen. (1877). (+) Die Lagerung der Atom...‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1877 u. 1894. Leipzig und Wien, Franz Deuticke, 1892. 8vo. Bound in one well-preserved contemp. hcloth with gilt lettering to spine. X,(2),53 pp. + XII,147 pp. + VIII,128 pp. Halftitle and titlepage to the first work with some brownspots in upper right corners. A few scattered brownspots and a few underlinings, otherwise internally fine and clean. From the library of Hans Rupe (with his exlibris on inside frontcover). Rupe became extraordinary professor for organic chemistry at the University of Basel. In 1912 , he was promoted to ordinary professor for organic chemistry.‎

‎First German edition (in the adaptation of Wislicenus) of van't Hoff's epoch making work ""La chimie dans l'espace"", published 1875 (a French expanded translation of his dissertation of 1874), and in which he established the fact that optically active substances contain at least one ""asymmetric"" carbon atom, that is, a carbon atom linked with four different kinds of atoms or radicals. Together here with the second, much expanded version and also WITH THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF OF ""Dix Années..."", which includes nearly three times as much material as the first edition (""La Chimie dans l'Espace""). ""His revolutionary ideas on the theory of the asymmetric carbon atom did not attract the attention of chemists, however, until Wislicenus asked van’t Hoff’s permission for a German translation by one of his pupils, Felix Herrmann.""(DSB).""In 1874, at the age of twenty-two, and with his Ph.D., as yet a few months in the future, he published a startling paper on the structure of organic compounds. Chemists had been puzzling for more than half a centurt over the fact that some organic compounds were optically active while others were not. As long ago as Biot there had been suggestion that this was due to some sort of assymetry, but the nature and location of that asymmetry remained a mystery. Pasteur had located the asymmetry in crystals, but that did not help with respect to the optical activity of subsatnces in soolution.Van't Hoff suggested that the symmetry exisyted in the molecules themselves. He drew four valences of the carbon atom (each represented as a short line or ""bond""), not two-dimensionally toward the four angles of a square, as Couper had done, but three-dimensionally toward the four angles of a tetrahedron. When the tetrahedral arrangement was considered, matters cleared up..."" (Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia..).Van't Hoff was the first to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1901.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1874 C.‎

Bookseller reference : 49034

‎"VAN'T HOFF, J.H. - FOUNDING STEREOCHEMISTRY.‎

‎Die Lagerung der Atome in Raume. Nach des verfassers Broschüre ""La chimie dans l'espace"" deutsch bearbeitet von F. Herrmann. Nebst einem Vorwort von Johannes Wislicenus. Mit in dem text eingedruckten Holzstichen. (1877). (+) Die Lagerung der Atom...‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1877 u. 1894. Leipzig und Wien, Franz Deuticke, 1892. 8vo. Bound in one well-preserved contemp. hcloth with gilt lettering to spine. X,(2),53 pp. + XII,147 pp. + VIII,128 pp. Halftitle and titlepage to the first work with some brownspots in upper right corners. A few scattered brownspots and a few underlinings, otherwise internally fine and clean. From the library of Hans Rupe (with his exlibris on inside frontcover). Rupe became extraordinary professor for organic chemistry at the University of Basel. In 1912 , he was promoted to ordinary professor for organic chemistry.‎

‎"VAUQUELIN et ROBIQUET - THE FIRST AMINO ACID TO BE ISOLATED‎

‎Découverte d'un nouveau principe végétal dans les Asperges (asparagus sativus. LINN.).‎

‎Paris, Bernard, 1806. Without wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires...Par MM. Guyton, Monge et. al."" Tome 57, Issue (Cahier) 1. Halftitle to vol. 57. Pp. 5-112. Vaugelin & Robiquet's paper: pp. 88-93. A few scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of this founding paper in which the authors announced their isolation of the first amino acid, the fundamental bricks of protein, from asparagus.‎

Bookseller reference : 43597

‎"VENEL, (GABRIEL FRANCOIS). - THE ANALYSIS OF SELTZER-WATER.‎

‎Mémoire sur L'Analyse des Eaux de Selters ou de Seltz. Première - (Seconde) Partie. (2 Mai 1750).‎

‎(Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1755). 4to. Extracts from ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome II. Pp. 53-112. Clean and fine, wide-margined.‎

‎In these two memoirs Venel attempted to prove that effervescent mineral waters contain a quantity of common air in solution, thus seperating carbon dioxyde (he called it air surabondante) without knowing what it really was, thus beeing ""so close to making a discovery without actually making it..."" (Fourcroy). ""In 1750 Venel described his analysis of the effervescent mineral water of Selz, in Germany. Evaporation yielded only common salt and a little lime, and he was more interested in the effervescence, which was, he thought, caused by the escape of common air. All water contained a small amount of dissolved air, but Selzer and other effervescent waters contained superabundant air, as Venel called it. He made artificial Selzer water by adding the correct amounts of marine (hydrochloric) acid and soda to pure water, and he called the product aerated water, a term that is still in use. Stephen Hales had thought that effervescent mineral waters contained “sulphurous spirit"""" Venel’s experiments proved the absence of the gas now called sulfur dioxide, but he failed to notice that the ""superabundant air"" differed in any way from common air. It was, of course, carbon dioxide, characterized in 1754 by Joseph Black, who called it fixed air. Fourcroy later commented that no one had ever been so close to making a discovery without actually making it as was Venel.""(DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 44935

‎"VRIES, HUGO DE. - DISCOVERING PLASMOLYSIS.‎

‎Sur la perméabilité du Protoplasma des Betteraves rouges.‎

‎La Haye, Nijhoff, 1871. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Frontwrapper frayed at edges and with some nicks. In ""Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles."", Tome 6. II,VIII,483,(1) pp. a. 10 lithographed plates, some in colour. De Vries' paper: pp. 117-126. Internally clean and fine, partly unopened.‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper on osmosis, in which De Vries gave the name of 'PLASMOLYSIS"" to a chemical concentration of the cytoplasm and linked it with the increased osmotic pressure outside the cell. he also introduces the concept ""isotronic"", denoting the ration of concentrations, the 'isotronic coefficient'.""In 1871 he was studying the changes induced in fragments of beetroot immersed in various solutions. The sugar and the cytoplasmic pigment never entered the bath. In contrast, if the concentration of cane sugar or sodium chloride in the external liquid were raised, the cytoplasm contracted, returning to its normal volume when exposed to pure ayer. The impermeability of the cell wall to cane sugar and sodium chloride and the ready passage of water through it was thus established. De Vries gave the name of plasmolysis to this concentration..""‎

Bookseller reference : 45566

‎"WILDE, HENRY.‎

‎On the Multiple Proportions of the Atomic Weights of Elementary Substances in relation to the unit of Hydrogen.‎

‎Manchester, The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1895. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from ""Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society"", Ninth [9] volume, Fourth series. With author's presentation inscription to top of front wrapper: ""With the Author's Compliments."". Front wrapper loose and back wrapper detached, light miscolouring to wrappers. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 67-85 + 1 folded plate.‎

‎Scarce offprint issue, with author's presentation inscription, of Wilde's contribution to helium and its place in the natural classification. Henry Wilde (1833 - 1919) a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.‎

Bookseller reference : 48037

‎"WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE.‎

‎On Platina and native Palladium from Brasil. Read March 22, 1809.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1809 - Part II. Pp. 189-194. Clean and fine.‎

‎"WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE.‎

‎On the Identity of Columbium and Tantalum. Read June 8, 1809.‎

‎(London, Bulwer and Co., 1809). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London."" Year 1809 - Part II. Pp. 246-252‎