‎Chemistry‎

‎MENDELEJEFF, (MENDELÉEV, MENDELEYEV, MENDELÉEFF), DIMITRY IVANOVICH. - A CLASSIC IN CHEMISTRY.‎

‎Die periodische Gesetzmässigkeit der chemischen Elemente" (Aus dem Russischen von Felix Wreden). (On the periodical law of the chemical elements).‎

‎Leipzig und Heidelberg, C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung, (1871) 1872. Recent marbled marbled boards. Spine gilt and with titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering: ""Annalen der Pharmacie VIII Suppl. Band. In ""Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. Hrsg. und Redigiert von Friedrich Wöhler, Justus Liebig und Hermann Kopp"", VIII. Supplementband. Pp. (4),392 pp. (entire volume offered). 2 small stamps on title-page. Mendelejeff's paper pp. 133-229, 2 (periodic) tables on p. 149 a. 151. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of the first German translation of this milestone paper, ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSICS OF CHEMISTRY, in which Mendelejeff first coined the word ""periodic"", and in which he, for the first time, presented his great discovery of the periodicity of the elements in its full and complete form. At the same time the paper is the first to present his discoveries in a western language. In the paper he described and predicted the properties of a number of undiscovered elements - three of them were discovered in his lifetime. His periodic table was more complete than any of the preceding ones, and more thoroughly founded on experiment. The periodicity of the elements he himself formulated as ""Elements placed according to the value of their atomic weights present a clear periodicity of properties.""The offered paper is the German translation of his paper which was issued in ""Journal of the Russian Chemical Society"", vol. 3, pp. 25-56, the same journal in which he first announced his discovery (vol. 1, pp.66-77 (1869) ).""In March 1871, two years after his discovery of the law, Mendeleev first named it ""periodic"". That summer he published in Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie his article ""Die periodische Gesetzmässigkeit der chemischen Elemente."" - the paper offered - which he later characterized as ""the best summary of my views and ideas on the periodicity of the elements and the original after which so much was written later about this system. This was the main reason for my scientific fame, because much was confirmed - much later.""""(DSB IX, p. 289-90)""Lothar Meyer and Dimitri Mendeleev independently discovered the periodic system, but ""Meyer did not publish this work until after the appearance of Mendeleev's first paper on the subject in 1869. His table was very similar to that of Mendeleev, but it contained some improvements and was, perhaps, influential in causing some of the revisions made by Mendeleev in the second version of his table, published in 1870. In general, Meyer was more impressed by the periodicity of the physical properties of the elements, while Medeleev saw more clearly the chemical consequences of the periodic law.""(Source Book in Chemistry, p. 434).Horblitt, ""100 Books famous in Science"" (the Russian paper 1869) No 74. - Dibner, ""Heralds of Science"" No 48 (only the later book of 1891) - Partington IV: pp. 891-897. - Source Book in Chemistry pp. 442 ff. - PMM: 407 (under Moseley). - Neville ""Historical Chemical Library"" II: p. 162 (only the French edition from 1879).‎

Bookseller reference : 50071

‎"CHRUSTSCHOFF, K. VON. [KONSTANTIN DMITRIEVICH KHRUSHCHOV].‎

‎Über Holokrystalline Makrovariolithische Gesteine.‎

‎St. Petersbourg, l'Academie Imperiale des sciences, 1894. Small folio. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. In ""Mémoires L'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg"", VII series, 1894. Warppers with several nicks (not affecting text) and soiling. Stamp to top right corner of front wrappers. Internally fine and clean. 244 pp. + 3 plates.‎

‎First edition.‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎"[BERZELIUS, J. J.], HAUSMANN.‎

‎Versuch, ein rein-wissenschaftliches System der Mineralogie auf die electro-chemische Theorie und die chemische Proportionslehre zu gründen.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1814. 8vo. Bound in a bit later half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, 1814. Entire volume offered. Library stamps to verso of title page. Fine and clean. Pp. 105-134. [Entire volume: 478 pp + 3 plates].‎

‎First German (abbreviated) translation/review of Berzelius landmark work published the same year as the original: the first system based on chemical formulae. The first complete German translation was not published untill 1815. The system was based, not on the crystallographic appearance of the minerals, but on knowledge of their chemical composition. Hausmann review [the present] was highly critical of the Berzelius work. This provoked Berzelius to publish the ""Försök till ett rent kemiskt Mineralsystem"" in 1815. ""With the addition of this supplemenentary monograph Berzelius' mineralogy no longer looked like an ""attempt"" but a fully developed mineralogy"". (Curtis Schuh).He was honoured in London by the Royal Society in 1836 for his new system by awarding him the Copley Medal in gold.""In accord with the interest that Swedish chemists had long shown in mineralogical studies, Berzelius had from time to time analyzed minerals that came into his hands. As was noted above, the discovery of cerium was the result of such an analysis. However, when he began his systematic studies to establish the law of constant proportions, he worked largely with simple salts. In 1812 he received a gift of a large number of minerals which he later decided to classify. The methods of mineral classification existing at that time were based on appearance and physical properties. These seemed highly unsystematic to Berzelius. He concluded from his analytical experience that a logical classification could be based only on chemical composition. In his original system, first published in 1814, he arranged the minerals in terms of their basic constituents, although he later revised this and placed chief emphasis on the acid component. Like many of Berzelius' innovations, his system of mineral classification was at first received with some hostility, but this was gradually overcome. During his visit to Paris in 1818 he won the approval of Haüy, the leading mineralogist of the day whose own system was based on physical properties.""(DSB).‎

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‎GREN, FRIEDRICH ALBRECHT CARL.‎

‎Grundriss der Naturlehre in seinem mathematischen und chemischen Theile neu bearbeitet. Mit dreyzen Kupfertafeln.‎

‎Halle, Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1793. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. (8),794,(18) pp. and 13 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎Poggendorff I, 951.‎

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‎FISCHER, ERNST GOTTFRIED.‎

‎Lehrbuch der mechanischen Naturlehre. Acht Kupfertafeln.‎

‎Berlin, G.C. Rauck, 1805. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on top of spine. Stamps on title-page. XVI,544 pp. and 8 folded engraved plates.‎

‎First edition. - Poggendorff I, 751.‎

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‎DUMAS, (JEAN BAPTISTE-ANDRE). - THE MAIN PAPER ON SUBSTITUTION AND THE THEORY OF TYPES.‎

‎Mémoire sur la loi des substitutions et la Theorie des types" Séance du Lundi 5 Février 1840.‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome X , No 5 (entire issue offered). Pp. (143-) 207. Dumas' paper: pp. 149-178. With half-title to Tome X.‎

‎First appearance of this paper, which was published the same year in 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique', is the most importent on the theory of structural types and the nomenclature of organic compounds, refuting the electrochemical theory of Berzelius. ""The development of this idea (type organique) into what is sometimes called the ""Older Type Theory"", as distinguished from Gerhardt's Type heory, is contained in Dumas' importent memoir on the substitution and the theory of types, presented on 3 February 1840.""(Partington IV, p. 365). ""Jean Baptiste Dumas advances a theory that the chemical properties of an organic compound are determined by its structure and not, as seems to be the case with inorganic compounds, by its electrical properties. he illustrates the concept with the example that the basic qualitative properties of acetic acid are retained even after replacing three fourths of the hydrogen by chlorine. As a consequence, he calls for a revision of chemical nomenclature for organic compounds, basing terms on common features, not on elemental composition.""(Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1840 C).‎

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‎ZEISE, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER.‎

‎Udførlig Fremstilling af Chemiens Hovedlærdomme saavel i theoretisk som practisk Henseende. 1. Bd.: 1.-2. Deel (alt som udkom).‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Fr. Brummer, 1829. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Papirsetiket øverst på ryg. Stempler på titelbladet. XX,866,(4) pp. samt 4 foldede kobberstukne plancher. Indvendig ren og frisk.‎

‎Originaludgaven. Værket blev straks oversat til tysk og blev den første lærebog i uorganisk kemi ved den nyoprettede Polytekniske Læreanstalt.‎

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‎PELOUZE, (EDMUND).‎

‎Die Beleuchtung mit Gas aus Stein- und Braunkohlen, Torf, Oel, Fett, mineralischen und vegetabilischen Harzen u.s.w. u.s.w. Mit vorgängigen Untersuchungen über den Gehalt dieser Brennmaterialen an Wasser= und Kohlenstoff, ihr Leuchtvermögen und ihre f...‎

‎Chemnitz, Gewerbeblattes für Sachsen, 1839. Modest contemp. hcloth. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamps on title-page. VIII,402 pp. and 24 mostly folded lithographed plates. Scattered brownspots throughout.‎

‎First German edition. A main work on Gas lighting, Gas chemistry, Gas production etc.‎

Bookseller reference : 51901

‎CHAPTAL, J.A. (JEAN ANTOINE).‎

‎Chimie appliquée aux Arts. 3 (of 4) Vols.‎

‎Paris, Deter Ville, 1807. Bound in 3 later hcloth. LXXIX,302VIII,544(4),VIII,534 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates (chemical apparatus). Mild foxing to half-titles and title-pages. Some scattered brownspots. 3 plates with some dampstains in upper part of plate.‎

‎First edition. But last volume missing.‎

Bookseller reference : 52742

‎PELLETIER, (JOSEPHE ?).‎

‎Nouveau manuel de Physique et de Chimie amusantes, contenant une Suite D'Experiences er de Récreations physiques et chimique a la portée des Gens du Monde. d'apres Fourcroy, Thenard, Chevalier et autres.‎

‎Paris, Dépot des Nouveau Manuels, n.d. (ca. 1820). 12mo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. A nich in leather at top of spine. Engraved frontispiece (Galvani with his pile, experimenting). 252 pp., textillustrations. Scattered brownspots, mainly in the first half of the book.‎

‎Scarce first edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 52747

‎HOME, FRANCIS.‎

‎Experiments on Bleaching. To which are added, I. An Experimental Essay on the Use of Leys and Sours in Bleaching. By James Ferguson. II. An Explanation of the Effect of Lime upon Alkaline Salts"... Safety and Advantage in Bleaching. By Joseph Black. I...‎

‎Dublin, T. Ewing, 1771. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. (4),295 pp. Clean and fine.‎

‎Scarce second edition of ""the first scientific study of chemical processes employing bleaching. Written at the request of the board of trustees for the Improvement of fisheries and mnufactures in North Britain, the text was read to and the 135 experiments described herin were performed before ""the bleachers of this country""."" ((Neville. Historical Chemical Library, I, p.653).‎

Bookseller reference : 52752

‎TROMMSDORFF, JOHANN BARTHOLMÄUS.‎

‎Chemische Untersuchung des Alexisbrunnens, eines neu entdeckten salinisch kohlensauren eisenhaltigen Mineralwassers im Selkethale am Harze und eine neue Analyse des Mineralwassers des Alexisbades. Nebst einigen Bemerkungen zu diesen Analysen von Dr. C...‎

‎Leipzig, Vogel, 1830. Small 8vo. Contemp. clothbacked marbled boards. IV,91 pp. Scattered brownspots.‎

Bookseller reference : 52755

‎TRAUG, C. CHR. u. FRIEDEMANN GOEBEL.‎

‎Das Seebad bei Pernau an der Ostsee in physikalisch-chemischer und topographisch-statistischer Beziehung, nebst einer vergleichenden chemischen Untersuchung des Ostsee-Wassers bei Reval, Hapsal und Pernau und allgemeinen Bemerkungen über die Seebäder.‎

‎Dorpat und Leipzig, Otto Model, 1845. Small8vo. Contemp. clothbacked marbled boards. X,77,(1) pp., 1 folded table. Scattered brownspots‎

Bookseller reference : 52757

‎WIEGLEB, JOHANN CHRISTIAN. - THE SHOWDOWN WITH ALCHEMISTRY.‎

‎Historisch=kritische Untersuchung der Alchemie, oder der eingebildeten Goldmacherkunst" von ihrem Ursprunge sowohl als Fortgange, und was nun von ihr zu halten sey.‎

‎Weimar, Carl Ludolf Hoffmann, 1777. Small 8vo. A bit later marbled boards. Spine gone. (22),437,(3) pp. Light toning to text and some scattered brownspots.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Wiegleb's most importent work and one of the most importent historical criticism of the alchymistic theories of transmutations. ""Wiegleb’s critical attitude in assessing scientific questions earned him high esteem in learned circles. After several years of work he published Historisch-kritische Untersuchung der Alchemie (1777), which went through a second edition. In this work he stated: ""The best accounts from the period when the name alchemy is encountered, . . . are examined, and it is thereby demonstrated that they are, taken together, incapable of confirming the reality of alchemy. Then, the strongest proof is adduced to show that the entire imaginary art of alchemy is impossible according to all known, certain natural laws of human art: thus [it is shown] that it has never truly been practiced by anyone."" Wiegleb carefully examined famous reports of the transformation of metals and pointed out their deficiencies: in a short time his work became widely known. His motto was ""To doubt is the beginning of knowledge,"" so it is all the more as tonishing that Wiegleb was a convinced proponent of Stal’s phlogiston theory throughout his life."" (DSB).Ferguson II, 546. - Duveen, 620.‎

Bookseller reference : 52761

‎HENRY, WILLIAM.‎

‎An Epitome of Chemistry, in Three parts. The Third Edition, corrected.‎

‎London, J. Johnson, 1803. Contemp. hcalf. Hinges weakening, wear to spine. XLIII,280 pp. Some pencil annotations and scattered brownspots.‎

‎Henry is well know from the law named after him.‎

Bookseller reference : 52766

‎"LEWIS, WILHELM.‎

‎Physikalisch=chymische Abhandlungen und Versuche, zur Beförderung der Künste, Handwerke und Manufakturen. Aus dem Englischen übersetzet, und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Johann Georg Krünitz. (Erster Theil).‎

‎Berlin, Arnold Wever, 1764. Later blank boards. A small paperlabel has been pasted over ""Erster Theil"" on titlepage. The spectacular, large folded engraved frontispiece by P.S. Cabot showing a chemical laboratory, well equipped). (16),576 pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎First German edition of Lewis classical work on applied chemistry ""Commercium Philosophico-Technicum"", published 1763 and 1767, and originally intended as a periodical. It deals with the history of gold, platinum, glass, porcelain etc.Poggendorff I, 1443. - Duveen, 355 (English ed.).‎

Bookseller reference : 52770

‎FRESENIUS, R. (CARL REMIGIUS) u. H. WILL.‎

‎Neue Verfahrungsweisen zur Prüfung der Pottasche und Soda, der Aschen, der Säuren, insbesondere des Essigs so wie des Braunsteins. auf ihren wahren Gehalt und Handelswerth. Für Chemiker, Pharmaceuten, techniker und Kaufleute lediglich nach eigenen Ver...‎

‎Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, 1843. Contemp. hcloth. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. X,142 pp., textillustrations. Clean and fine printed on heavy paper.‎

‎First edition. - Poggendorff I,799 and II,1329.‎

Bookseller reference : 52773

‎GORUP-BESANEZ, E.C.F. v.‎

‎Anleitung zur qualitativen und quantitativen zoochemischen Analyse, enthaltend die Lehre von den Eigenschaften und dem Verhalten der im Thierreich vorkommenden chemischen Verbindungen gegen Reagentien sowie systematische Verfahren zur qualitativen und...‎

‎Nürnberg, Shrag, 1850. Contemp. hcloth. Spine gilt, but gilding weak. Spine rubbed. Stamps on title-page. XXIV,363,(5) pp. and 2 folded engraved plates. Brownspotted throughout.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 52775

‎LUDWIG, HANS.‎

‎Die Algebra der Chimie. Eine ausführliche Bearbeitung der anorganischen Versetzungsgleichungen in übersichtlicher Form.‎

‎Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder'sche Verlagshandlung, 1876. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. XVI,310 pp., 2 large folded tables. Clean and fine.‎

Bookseller reference : 52777

‎VOGEL, HEINRICH AUGUST.‎

‎Lehrbuch der Chemie. Als Leitfaden bei seinen Vorlesungen fur die Studirenden an der Universitat und zum Selbstunterricht. 2 vols.‎

‎München, J. G. Cotta'schen, 1830-1832. 8vo. In two uniform contemporary half calf bindings with gilt letterig to spine. Small stamp to both title-pages. LIght wear to extremities and small white paper label pasted on to lower part of vol. 1. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. XX, 544 pp + 4 folded plates VI, 814 pp. 2 folded plates.‎

‎Rare first edition of Vogel's major work on chemistry. The chemist Heinrich August Vogel, trained in Paris, followed A. F. Gehlen, who died of arsenic poisoning, as head of Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften.‎

Bookseller reference : 52779

‎"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.‎

‎Seventh edition of Thenard's classic and influential text-book. ""Thenard was the author of a large and important chemistry textbook that went through six editions and was translated into German, Italian, and Spanish (the section on analysis was translated into English). Through this book he helped restore France to its traditional role as supplier of chemistry textbooks to the rest of the world"" his only serious rival was the British chemist Thomas Thomson, who during the first two decades of the nineteenth century produced successive editions of his own textbook."" (DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 52781

‎"[MACQUER, PHILIPPE].‎

‎Dictionnaire portatif des Arts et Métiers, contenant en abrégé l'Histoire, la Description la Police des Arts et Métiers, des Farbiques et Manufactures de France des Pays Etrangers.‎

‎Paris, Lacombe, 1766. 8vo. In two nice contemporary full calf bindings with richly gilt spines and royal coat of arms [""Honi soit qui mal y pense""] to front and back board of both volumes. Wear to extremities and front board of volume 1 party detached. Part of tome-label on both volumes missing. Internally fine. XXIII, (1), 588 pp."" (4), 715, (1) pp.‎

‎First edition of Marcquer's Dictionnaire in applied chemistry. ""In the avertissement Philippe states that his brother's dictionaire de chymie had recently appeared, and he suggests that the present work will form a logical sequelto the Dictionnaire raisonné d'histoire naturelle. Rare. Not in Blake, Collison, Watt, or the usual chemical bibliographies"". (Neville, vol. 2, p 110.)‎

Bookseller reference : 52783

‎"MACQUER, PETER JOSEPH.‎

‎Chemisches Wörterbuch, oder allgemeine Begrifft der Chymie nach alphabetischer Ordnung. Zweyte verbesserte und vermehrte Ausgabe. 6 vols [out of 7, missing vol. 5.]. - [""FIRST MODERN DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY""]‎

‎Leipzig, Weidmanns, 1788-1791. 8vo. In 6 contemporary blue card board bindings with paper title-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper on all volumes. Small stamp to front free end-paper end title-page. Otherwise fine. Vol 1: LXII, 806, (2 blanks) pp + frontiespiece" Vol 2: (2), 853, (1) pp. Vol 3: (2), 788 pp. Vol 4: (2), 754 pp. Vol 6: (2), 813, (1) pp." Vol 7: (2), 1030,‎

‎Third (second Leonhardi) German edition of this landmark work ""which may be regarded as the first scientific work of its class."" (Ferguson I:p.60) and is considered the ""first modern dictionary of chemistry"".""The second edition of the German translation of the second French edition of the Dictionnaire (Paris, 1778), revised by J. G. Leonhardi (1746-1823). Beginning his translation in 1780 while teaching medicine at Leipzig, he completed the work in 1783 after being appointed professor at Wittenberg . Leonhardi was a former pupil of Pörner, the title of whose translation he incorporated into his first edition (Leipzig, 1781-83"" 6 vols., 8vo). To the present edition Leonhardi added numerous notes of his own, plus some from Pörner's German and Keir's English translation and material from the Italian editions of Scopoli and Vairo."" (Neville vol. 2, P. 118).‎

Bookseller reference : 52785

‎GREN, FRIEDRICH ALBRECHT CARL.‎

‎Systematisches Handbuch der gesammten Chemie. 1.-2. Theil (of 4). Zweyte, ganz umgearbeitete, Auflage.‎

‎Halle, Waisenhaus=Buchhandlung, 1794. 2 contemp. hcalf. Spines gilt. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. XVIII,(4),560"(8),638 pp. Intenally clean.‎

‎Gren was the founder of ""Journal der Physik"", later to become ""Annalen der Physik"". - Partington I,951.‎

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