‎Chemistry‎

‎GRIVEAUX, F.‎

‎Traité de Chimie a L'usage des èléves des Lycées et Colléges de Jeunes Filles des Écoles Normales Primaire et des Candidats au Brevet Superieur.‎

‎Paris, Garnier Frères, 1885. Nice contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine. (6),572 pp. Richly textillustrated in woodcut.‎

Bookseller reference : 53161

‎COCHRANE, THOMAS.‎

‎Notes from Doctor Black's lectures on Chemistry 1767/68. Edited with an Introduction by Douglas McKie. Foreword by Lord Todd of Trumpington.‎

‎Chesire, 1966. 4to. Orig. full cloth with d/j. XXVIII,190 pp., plates.‎

Bookseller reference : 53164

‎KARSTEN, C.J.B.‎

‎Philosophie der Chemie.‎

‎Berlin, G. Reimer, 1843. Uncut and unopened with backwrapper preserved. Some brownspots to the first 3 leaves. VIII,327 pp. A bit creased at end.‎

‎First edition. - Duveen, p. 15 - Bolton I,568.‎

Bookseller reference : 53256

‎"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.‎

Bookseller reference : 53393

‎"THOMSEN, JULIUS.‎

‎Systematisk gennemførte Termokemiske Undersøgelsers numeriske og teoretiske Resultater.‎

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

‎First edition by one of the founders of thermochemistry. Thomsen's collection of thermochemical data were collected in his famous ""Thermochemische Untersuchungen"" and were summarized in the offered work, which was translated into both German and English.‎

Bookseller reference : 53439

‎LIEBIG, J., J.C. POGGENDORFF, FR. WÖHLER. (HRSG.).‎

‎Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten Chemie. In Verbindung mit mehren Gelehrten herausgegeben. 1.-6. Bd. (A-Ru) + Supplementsband. (A-Bl).‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1842-54. 8vo. Bound in 7 contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines and with gilt lettering. A small paperlabel pasted on lower parts of spines. Stamp on verso of title-pages. Around 6.500 pp., 6 folded engraved plates and 9 folded tables. Richly textillustrated with woodcuts. Scattered brownspots, most in volume 1.‎

‎First edition. The work appeared in parts, beginning 1837 and it comprises 9 volumes plus Supplements.‎

Bookseller reference : 53626

‎"ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Ueber die Innere Reibung Verdünnter Wässeriger Lösungen. (i.e. English: ""On the dissociation of substances dissolved in water"")‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1887. 8vo. (215x145 mm). Uncut, partly unopened in the original printed wrappers. No. 5, Sec.1, Vol.13 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. Light miscolouring to margins of wrappers. A very fine and clean copy. 19 pp. + 1 plate.‎

‎First printing of Arrhenius's paper on on the dissociation of substances dissolved in water.Papers from this supplement series to the 'Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' are often mistakenly identified as offprints or 'first seperate edition' (indicating the existence of a jounal edition) because they have their own title page with the publishers named and their own pagination, but they are not - all publications from this series were printed seperatley in this way and issued with wrappers.‎

Bookseller reference : 54011

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Chemischen Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit.‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1898. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, in the original printed wrappers. No. 2, Sec.II, Vol.24 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. 23 pp.‎

‎First edition.Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was a prominent chemist and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the pioneering work which he had done in his famous dissertation on electrolytic conductivity ('Recherches sur la conductivité galvanique des électrolytes', 1884). However Arrhenius is becoming increasingly more known for his discovery of the greenhouse effect and its influence on global temperature.Papers from this supplement series to the 'Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' are often mistakenly identified as offprints or 'first seperate edition' (indicating the existence of a jounal edition) because they have their own title page with the publishers named and their own pagination, but they are not - all publications from this series were printed seperatley in this way and issued with wrappers.‎

Bookseller reference : 54019

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE (+) NILS EKHOLM‎

‎Ueber den Einfluss des Mondes auf den Elektrischen Zustand der Erde (+) Ueber den Einfluss des Mondes auf den Elektrischen Zustand der Erde II‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1894 & 1895. 8vo. Both works uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. No. 8, Vol.19 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar & No. 6, Vol.20 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlinga. Wrappers with a few nicks, otherwise two very fine and clean copies. 50 pp. + 4 plates 41 pp. + 4 plates.‎

‎First edition of Arrhenius' and Ekholm's two papers on the lunar influences on atmospheric electricity. Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was a prominent chemist and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the pioneering work which he had done in his famous dissertation on electrolytic conductivity ('Recherches sur la conductivité galvanique des électrolytes', 1884). However Arrhenius is becoming increasingly more known for his discovery of the greenhouse effect and its influence on global temperature.Papers from this supplement series to the 'Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' are often mistakenly identified as offprints or 'first seperate edition' (indicating the existence of a jounal edition) because they have their own title page with the publishers named and their own pagination, but they are not - all publications from this series were printed seperatley in this way and issued with wrappers.‎

Bookseller reference : 54021

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Om fluiditetens inverkan på elektrolyters galvaniska ledningsförmåga.‎

‎Stockholm, (P.A. Norstedt), 1885. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. No. 5, Vol.13 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. förandlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 121-131.‎

‎First edition.Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was a prominent chemist and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the pioneering work which he had done in his famous dissertation on electrolytic conductivity ('Recherches sur la conductivité galvanique des électrolytes', 1884). However Arrhenius is becoming increasingly more known for his discovery of the greenhouse effect and its influence on global temperature.Papers from this supplement series to the 'Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' are often mistakenly identified as offprints or 'first seperate edition' (indicating the existence of a jounal edition) because they have their own title page with the publishers named and their own pagination, but they are not - all publications from this series were printed seperatley in this way and issued with wrappers.‎

Bookseller reference : 54023

‎"ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Undersökning med rhetom öfver den Galvaniska Polarisationens Försvinnande i et Polarisationskärl, hvars plattor äro förbundna genom en metallisk ledning. - [ARRHENIUS FIRST PUBLISHED WORK]‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1883. 8vo. Uncut, unopened, without wrappers. No. 7, Vol. 7, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. 36 pp. + 1 plate.‎

‎First edition of Arrhenius very first published work. ""After attending the Cathedral School in Uppsala, Arrhenius entered the University of Uppsala at the age of seventeen. He studied mathematics, chemistry, and physics, and passed the candidate's examination in 1878. Arrhenius chose physics as the principal subject for his doctoral study, but he was not satisfied with his chief instructor, Tobias Robert Thalén, Although Thalén was an eminent and competent experimental physicist and lecturer, he was interested only in spectral analysis. Arrhenius went to Stockholm in 1881 with the intention of working under Erik Edlund, physicist of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The results of his first independent research, entitled ""The Disappearance of Galvanic Polarization in a Polarization Vessel, the Plates of Which Are Connected by Means of a Metallic Conductor"" [The present work]. (DSB)‎

Bookseller reference : 54026

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Über die Leitung von Elektricität durch Heisse Salzdämpfe‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1891. 8vo. Uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. No. 9, Vol.16 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. Light sunning to spine. A very fine and clean copy. 56 pp. + 1 plate.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 54028

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Über die Leitung von Elektricität durch Heisse Salzdämpfe.‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1891. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. No. 9, Vol.16 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. Light sunning to spine. A very fine and clean copy. 58 pp. + 1 folded plate.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 54030

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Über das Leitungsvermögen der Phosphorescirenden Luft.‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1888. 8vo. Uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. No. 7, Vol.13 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. Light sunning to spine. A very fine and clean copy. 29 pp. + 1 folded plate.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 54032

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Einfluss der Neutralsalze auf die Reactionsgeschwindigkeit der Verseifung von Aethylacetat.‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1887. 8vo. Uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. No. 2, Vol.13 of 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. Light sunning to spine. A very fine and clean copy. 30 pp.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 54034

‎"ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Ueber die Gleichgewichtsverhältnisse zwischen Elektrolyten.‎

‎(Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1892). 8vo. In the printed wrappers. No. 10, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. förhandlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 619-646.‎

‎First appearance of one of Arrhenius's most important papers on electrolytic dissociation. ""Among Arrhenius’ most important contributions to this theory are his publications [...] the condition of equilibrium between electrolytes [the present paper].‎

Bookseller reference : 54036

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Ueber die Ursache der Nordlichter.‎

‎(Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1900). 8vo. In the printed wrappers. No. 5, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. förhandlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 545-580‎

‎First printing of Arrhenius's paper on northern lights (aurora). he auroral theory was based on radiation pressure of electromagnetic waves and eruptions from the sun. He proposed that during great eruptions on the sun, large quantities of matter, in the form of droplets or dust, are ejected in a radial direction from the sunspots and are pushed out from the sun by radiation pressure. With this theory Arrhenius could explain the high correlation existing between occurence of the northern lights and sunspot activity.‎

Bookseller reference : 54038

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE.‎

‎Undersökning öfver den galvaniska ledningsförmågan hos alkohollösningar.‎

‎(Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1883). 8vo. In the printed wrappers. No. 10, 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. förhandlingar'. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 69-76.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 54041

‎"HERSCHEL, JOHN W.F.‎

‎On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and other Substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some Photographic Processes. Received and Read Febrauray 20, 1840. (+) Note I- (III).- On the Distribution ... - [INTRODUCING 'POSITIVE' AND 'NEGATIVE' IN PHOTOGRAPHY]‎

‎(London, Richard and John E., Taylor, 1840. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1840 - Part I. Pp. XII [including title-page of Philosophical Transactions"" 1840 - Part I), 59 pp. (Note I- III pp. 51-59) and 2 plates. (one showing Herschel's telescope, lithographed"" the other showing the heat spectrum of the sun in stipple engraving).‎

‎First appearance of an important pioneer-paper in the history of early photography, in which subject John Herschel was one of the main contributors. The paper deals with the dynamical interplay between photochemistry and photography and is of the greatest importence in applied photography. The later sections of the paper deals with the spectrum of the sun, Herschel's so-called thermographical representation of the spectrum of the sun (with description of the Actinograph, invented by him), rendering the heat radiation visible in the spectrum. This first importent spectrum is reproduced here on one of the plates (in stipple engraving). In this paper he introduces the photographical concepts 'positive' and 'negative' to express, respectively, pictures in which the lights and shades are the same as in nature, or as in the original model, and in which they are opposite.For this large paper John Herschel was awarded the Copley archives winners Prize for 1840.""The object which the author has in view in this memoir is to place on record a number of insulated facts and observations respecting the relations bothof white light, and of the differently refrangible rays, to various chemical agents whic have offered themselves to his notice in the course of his photographical experiments, suggested by the announcement of M. Daguerre's discovery.....The terms ""direct"" and ""reverse"" are also used to express pictures in which objects appear, as regards right and left, the same as in the original, and the contrary....The principal objects of inquiry in the present paper...are the following. First, the means of fixing photographs, the comparative merits of different chemical agents...The means of taking photographic copies and transfers.....The preparation of photographic paper....The chemical analysis of the solar spectrum forms the subjects of the next section in the paper...""(Abstract).‎

Bookseller reference : 54345

‎LENZ, JOHANN GEORG.‎

‎Mineralogisches Taschenbuch für Anfänger und Liebhaber. Zweytes Bändschen. Die Metalle.‎

‎Erfurt, Henningschen Buchhandlung, 1799. 12mo. Orig. engraved stiff wrappers. In custom made slipcase. (10),145,102,(14) pp. Scattered brownspots.‎

Bookseller reference : 55293

‎MEINECKE, JOHANN LUDWIG GEORG.‎

‎Über das Schiesspulver. Eine chemisch=technische Abhandlung.‎

‎Halle, Hendels Verlag, 1814. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. (4),84 pp., 2 folded tables.‎

‎(Neue Schriften der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle., 2. Bd., Heft III). - Poggendorff II,104.‎

Bookseller reference : 55694

‎PIOBERT, G. (GUIBERT).‎

‎Mémoires sur les Poudres de Guerre des Différents procédés de Fabrication. Avec Résumés des Épreuves faites sur ces Poudres a Esquerdes en 1831 et 1832, et en Metz en 1836 et 1837.‎

‎Paris, Rachelier, 1844. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spine. A paperlanel pasted on spine. Stamp on title-page. 104 pp., 3 folded tables, 1 folded plate. Internally clean.‎

‎Poggendorff II, 456.‎

Bookseller reference : 55708

‎ROSCOE, HENRY E.‎

‎Lessons in Elementary Chemistry: Inorganic And Organic. New Edition.‎

‎London, Macmillan and Co., 1878. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. VI,416 pp., richly textillustrated. 1 folded chromolithographed plate of spectra.‎

Bookseller reference : 55975

‎PAARMANN, SIEGFRIED.‎

‎Chemie des Waffen-und Maschinenwesens. Leitfaden der Stoffkunde für den Offiziernachwuchs der Kriegsmarine. Zweite, neubearbeitete Auflage.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1940. Orig. full cloth. V,266 pp., textillustrations.‎

Bookseller reference : 55978

‎LIEBETANZ, FR.‎

‎Calciumcarbid und Acetylen. Ihr Wesen, ihre Darstellung und Anwendung für die Bedürfnisse der Praxis. Mit 177 Abbildungen und 2 Tafeln.‎

‎Leipzig, Leiner, 1898. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. VI,274 pp., 2 folded plates, many textillustrations.‎

Bookseller reference : 56406