‎Chimie‎

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCXXXVIII. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1740. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to top of spine. Engraved frontispiece. (8),116,410 pp., 7 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: de Mairan, Winslow, Nicole, Geoffroy, Cassini de Thury, Camus, Clairaut, Buffon, de Fouchy, le Monnier le Fils, de la Condamine, Lémery, Cassini, Hellot, Pitot, Godin, Reaumur.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 58999

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCXXXVI. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1739. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to spineends. Minor scratches to upper cover. Engraved frontispiece. (8),120,507 pp., 18 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: Clairaut, Hellot, Maraldi, du Hamel, Cassini de Thury, du Fay, Petit, de Mairan, Grosse, Pitot, Cassini, du Hamel, le Monnier, Lémery, Maupertuis (Sur la Figure de la Terre), de Fouchy, Morand, Reaumur, Geoffroy, Bouguer.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59001

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCXXIX. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1731. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),120,426, pp., 23 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: Maraldi, Cassini, Godin, Chevalier de Louville, de Lagny, Winslow, de Jussieu, de Mairan, Geoffroy le Cadet, Couplet, Senac, du Fay, Reaumur, Nicole, Petit, l'Abbé de Molières, Hunauld, Pitot, Boulduc, Maupertuis, Lémery, de Lagny, Lamorier.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59005

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCLXI. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1763. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. (8),188,504, pp., 13 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: de la Caille, Bertin, le Cardinal de Luynes, le Monnier, Maraldi, l'Abbé de la Caille, de la Lande, Pingré, de Fouchy, Tenon, Malouin, Guettard, Adanson, l'Abbé Nollet, du Hamel & Tillet, l'Abbé Chappe d'Auteroche, Cassini de Thury, de Ratte.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59007

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCLIII. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1757. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. (8),320,628, pp., 25 partly folded engraved plates. Textleaves clean and fine. Some plates with a faint dampstain.‎

‎With original papers by: Lietaud, le Gentil, Malouin, Cassini de thury, Guettard, le Francois de la Lande, de Lasône, le Monnier le Fils, Guettard, Boguer, Bourdelin, de l'isle, Baron, Hérissant, Geoffroy le Fils, de Thury, Bertin, Reaumur, Pingré, l'Abbé Nollet, le Roy, Maraldi, Morand, du Hamel, Buache, de Fouchy, Montet.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59009

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCL. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Physique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. (8),207,414 pp., 12 partly folded engraved plates, 1 table. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: du Hamel, de la Caille, Daubenton, de Parcieux, l'Abbé Nollet, le Chevalier d'Arcy, Morand, Maraldi, Rouelle, le Monnier, l'Abbé de la Caille, Guettard, de Thury, de Fouchy, d'Ons-en-Bray, de Thury & Maraldi, Malouin, Boguer, le Monnier le fils, de L'Isle, Montet.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59021

‎"L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS. - WITH FORARMEN WINSLOW, WINSLOW, J.B. ET AL.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCXV. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1718. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. Engraved frontispiece. (6),114,274 pp., 10 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: de la Hire, Maraldi, Lemery de Cadet, Cassini, Nicole, Saulmon, Delisle le Cadet, Chevalier de Louville, Rouhaut, Saulmon, Malezieu, Maraldi & Cassini, Petit, Malezieu, Reaumur, Varignon, Winslow (FIRST EDITION of the paper, describing ""forarmen Winslowii"": Nouvelles Observations anatomiques sur la Situation et la Conformation des plusieurs Visceres. pp. 226-235, Geoffroy le Cadet, Senés.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59024

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCXXXVI. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1739. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to spineends. Minor scratches to upper cover. Engraved frontispiece. (8),120,507 pp., 18 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: Clairaut, Hellot, Maraldi, du Hamel, Cassini de Thury, du Fay, Petit, de Mairan, Grosse, Pitot, Cassini, du Hamel, le Monnier, Lémery, Maupertuis (Sur la Figure de la Terre), de Fouchy, Morand, Reaumur, Geoffroy, Bouguer.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59027

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCXXIX. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1731. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (8),120,426, pp., 23 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: Maraldi, Cassini, Godin, Chevalier de Louville, de Lagny, Winslow, de Jussieu, de Mairan, Geoffroy le Cadet, Couplet, Senac, du Fay, Reaumur, Nicole, Petit, l'Abbé de Molières, Hunauld, Pitot, Boulduc, Maupertuis, Lémery, de Lagny, Lamorier.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59031

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCLXI. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1763. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. (8),188,504, pp., 13 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original papers by: de la Caille, Bertin, le Cardinal de Luynes, le Monnier, Maraldi, l'Abbé de la Caille, de la Lande, Pingré, de Fouchy, Tenon, Malouin, Guettard, Adanson, l'Abbé Nollet, du Hamel & Tillet, l'Abbé Chappe d'Auteroche, Cassini de Thury, de Ratte.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59033

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCLIII. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Phisique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1757. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Light wear to foot of spine. (8),320,628, pp., 25 partly folded engraved plates. Textleaves clean and fine. Some plates with a faint dampstain.‎

‎With original papers by: Lietaud, le Gentil, Malouin, Cassini de thury, Guettard, le Francois de la Lande, de Lasône, le Monnier le Fils, Guettard, Boguer, Bourdelin, de l'isle, Baron, Hérissant, Geoffroy le Fils, de Thury, Bertin, Reaumur, Pingré, l'Abbé Nollet, le Roy, Maraldi, Morand, du Hamel, Buache, de Fouchy, Montet.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59035

‎"FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN. - FORMULATING THE GENERAL LAW OF DOUBLE REFRACTION.‎

‎Extrait d'un Mémoire sur la double Réfraction. (Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 26 novembre 1821).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1825. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering on spine. A few scattered brownspots. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 28. 448 pp. Entire volume offered. Fresnel's paper: pp. 263-279‎

‎First appearance of this importent paper - the paper was only published in full in the Mémoires two years later - in which he applies the concept of transverse waves to double refraction and representing the final construction, in the form of an equation of the fourth degree.In the paper Fresnel also explained the fact, that in some cases of quartz the rotation of polarization is from left to right and in other cases from right to left.. He proposed the term 'helical' to denote the property of rotating the plane of polarization, exhibited by such bodies as quartz. The term 'natural rotatory polarisation' is however, generally used.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59046

‎"GERHARDT, CHARLES. - THE CHEMICAL ""THEORY OF RESIDUES"".‎

‎Sur la Constitution des Sels organiques à Acides complexes, et leurs Rapports avec les Sels ammoniacaux.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1839. Entire October-issue with original printed yellow wrappers (wrappers loose). In:""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 72, Series 2. (Entire volume octobre-issue offered). Pp. 113-(222). Gerhardt's paper: pp. 184-214.Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of a classic paper in organic chemistry in which Gerhardt breaks with the conceptions of dualism and pre-existing radicals, and sets forth his ""Theory of Residues"". The October-issue also contains Gerhards paper ""Recherches chimiques sur l'Hellénine"", pp. 163-183. (A subject for his doctoral thesis in 1840). ""A new aspect was given to the substitution-type theory by Gerhardt, who explained the formation of organic compounds as due to ""pairing"" or ""copulation"" of residues.""(Findlay ""A Hundred years of Chemistry"" p. 30 ff).‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59127

‎L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, PARIS.‎

‎Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCLXIV. Avec les Memoires de Mathematiquee & de Physique, pour la même Année. Tirés des Registres de cette Academie.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1767. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. Engraved frontispiece. (10),212,415, pp., 15 partly folded engraved plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎With original memoirs by: Clairaut (Sur quelques Principes qui donnent la Solution d'un grans nombre de Problèmes de Dynamique. pp. 1-52), Geoffroy, Cassini, Malouin, Winslow, Maraldi, de Jussieu, l'Abbé de la Caille, Bourdelin, Cassini de Thury, l'Abbé Nollet, Buffon, Petit, du Hamel, Maraldi, de Mairan, Monnier le fils, Buache, Sauvages de la Croix.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59134

‎WEICHELT, FRIEDRICH.‎

‎Handbuch der Sprengtechnik. 6. völlig überbearbeitete Auflage. Mit 517 Bildern und 79 Tabellen.‎

‎Leipzig, Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, 1969. Orig. full cloth. Inner hinge starting. Stamp on front free endpaper and title-page. 469 pp. Profusely illustrated. Internally clean and fine.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59681

‎DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE-ANDRE & J.S. STAS.‎

‎Premier Mémoire sur les Types Chimiques Par M. J. Dumas. (+) Second Mémoire sur les Types Chimiques" par MM. J. Dumas et J.-S. Stas. - [THE MAIN PAPER ON SUBSTITUTION AND THE THEORY OF TYPES.]‎

‎Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering spine and five raised bands. The original wrappers withbound in the back. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", tome 73. Entire volume offered. Paper label pasted on to top of spine. Two stamps to verso of title-page. A few light occassional brownspots, otherwise a fine copy. 73-103 (incl. Note de Liebig pp. 100-103) and pp. 113-166. [Entire volume: 448 pp. + 5 folded plates.‎

‎This paper, which was published at the same year in ""Comptes Rendues"" (3 Fevrier), 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 febriary 1840.""(Partington IV, p. 365). In the second paper Stas and Dumas record the first use of 'potash-lime', the precursor of soda-lime, an invaluable reagent in organic chemistry. ""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).‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59781

‎"DUTROCHET, RENÉ JOACHIM HENRI.‎

‎De l'Endosmose des Acides. - [ A CLASSIC WORK ON OSMOSIS]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1835. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", 2e Series, Tome 60. Entire volume offered. Some scattered brownspots, other fine with no institutional stamps. Dutrochet's paper: pp. 337-368. [Entire volume: 448 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of one of the classic papers in which Dutrochet investigated his discovery of osmosis. ""Dutrochet’s research on the phenomena of osmosis and diffusion (or endosmosis and exosmosis, as he not very aptly called them) and their applications to the study of previously unexplained vital phenomena attracted general attention. His chief observation was that certain organic membranes allow the passage of water but stop the molecules dissolved in it, so that between two solutions of different concentration, separated by such a membrane, water passes from the less concentrated to the more concentrated, even against gravity. Although the conditions of Dutrochet’s experiments were rather simple and did not allow of great accuracy, he made the first important steps toward the study of osmosis and diffusion.""(DSB). Garrison & Morton: 670.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59783

‎"DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE-ANDRE & PIERRE PELLETIER.‎

‎Recherches sur la Composition élémentaire et sur quelques propriétes caractéristiques des bases salifiables organiques. - [TOWARDS A CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS.]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1823. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering spine and five raised bands. The original wrappers withbound in the back. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", tome 24. Entire volume offered. Paper label pasted on to top of spine. Two stamps to verso of title-page and stamos to verso of all plates. A few light occassional brownspots, otherwise a fine copy. Pp. 163-191. [Entire volume: 448 pp. + 4 folded plates.‎

‎First appearance of Dumas and Pelletier's importent paper in which they analyzed nine alkaloids by combustion and found for the first time the number of atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in them. Dumas' name is still associated with the two procedures which he devised here, the determination of vapor density and combustion analysis. ""The most important problem with which Dumas was concerned throughout his career was the classification of chemical substances. He sought to devise comprehensive classificatory schemes for organic compounds and for the elements. Dumas’s earliest contribution to organic chemistry was his study of nine alkaloids, published in 1823, jointly with Pierre Pelletier.1 He analyzed the elemental constituents of these organic “bases” and attempted to prove that their relative proportions of oxygen followed Dalton’s law of multiple proportions. He had embraced the ideas of the two reigning theories in contemporary chemistry: dualism, with its division of substances into electronegative (acid) and electropositive (alkaline)"" and atomism, which Dalton had used to explain his law. Dumas spent the next few years attempting to create an adequate system of classification of organic compounds based upon these two theories.""(DSB). The Present volume also contain papers by Faraday, Becquerel and many other.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59785

‎"BERZELIUS, J. (JÖNS JACOB). - TABLE OF ATOMIC WEIGHTS‎

‎Des Changemens dans la système de Minéralogie chimique, qui doivent nécessairement résulter de la proprieté qur possèdent les corps isomorphes, de se remplacer mutuellement en proportions indéfinies. - [ATOMIC WEIGHT OF ELEMENTS]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1826. 8vo. In later full buckram with gilt lettering to spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 31. Entire volume offered. Stamp to verso of half title. Light occassional brownspotting. [Berzelius' paper:] Pp.5-37. [The entire issue:] 448 pp. + 3 plates.‎

‎First appearance of a milestone paper in chemistry. In this paper Berzelius drew up the table of atomic weights of the elements, which, with only a few exceptions are similar to those used today. He symbolizes the elements by the first or two letters of the Latin name of the element, and he symbolizes compounds by stting the element symbols together together with the number of atoms involved when grater that one. This is the importent revison of his system announced in 1818. ""In 1819 Mitscherlich showed that similarity in chemical structure is accompanied by identity of crystalline form (Mitscherlich's law of isomorphism). berzelius realized at once that Mitscherlich's findings called for importent changes in his own system. he accordingly published a new table of atomic weights in 1826 (the paper offered).""(Taton ""Science in the 19th Century"", p. 279). - Holmberg, Bibliografi öfver Berzelius, nr. 29. The present volume also contain the following important papers: Sur les Minéraux cristallisés qui se trouvent dans les aerolithes (Gustave Rose) Mémoire sur les Combinaisons du Phosphore, et particulièrement sur celles de ce corps avec l'hydrogène (Dumas) Seconde Lettre sur les Cavernes à ossemens de Lunel-Vieil, de Saint-Antoine et de Saint-Julien, près de Montpellier (Hérault) adressés à M. Gay-Lussac par M. Marcel de Serres " Nouveau Catalogue des cgutes de pierres ou de fer de poussières ou de substances molles, sèches ou humides, suivant l'ordre chronologique (E. F. F. Chladni) Note sur la Communication des mouvements vibratoires (Félix Savart) Recherches sur les Effets électriques de contact produits dans les changemens de temp‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59822

‎"LAURENT, AUGUSTE.‎

‎Analyse du Spodumène de l'Arriège et de la Wichtyne. (+) Sur de nouveaux Chlorures et Bromures d'Hydrogéne carboné. (+) Sur la Nitronaphtalase, la Nitronaphtalèse et la Naphtalase. (+) Sur le Benzoyle et la Benzimide. - [THE NUCLEUS THEORY OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1835. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", 2e Series, tome 59, Entire volume offered. Wear to extremities, internally very fine and clean. Laurent's papers: pp. 107-111" 196-220 376-397" 397-422. [Entire volume: 446,(2) pp.].‎

‎First printing of these importent papers in the history of organic chemistry explaining the differences to Dumas' law of substitutions, and introducing a ""new type"" and what he calls ""fundamental and derived radicals"". The introduction of the ""Nucleus Theory"" was the basis for the unitary theory formulated by Gerhardt.""While studying the reactions of naphthalene and its compounds with the halogens and nitric acid, Laurent was from the start characteristically concerned with the construction of an explanatory theory that would account for these phenomena. Like most creative scientists, he generalized his solution to a specific problem through the imaginative use of analogy, leading to the elaboration of the first comprehensive theory adequate for dealing with the whole domain of contemporaneous organic chemistry."" (DSB).""A founder of modern organic chemistry, Laurent was one of the most important chemists of the nineteenth century. He considered the behavior of matter to be a manifestation of its intimate internal structure, which one cannot determine with certainty but which one has to investigate if one wants to understand. Laurent’s preoccupation was to construct a method that could guide the chemist forward along this path, from facts to their causes. He was the first chemist to intimately associate crystallo-graphic data and chemical studies. Louis Pasteur and Charles Friedel later followed the way.""(DSB).‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59912

‎"BERZELIUS, J. (JÖNS JACOB). - TABLE OF ATOMIC WEIGHTS‎

‎Des Changemens dans la système de Minéralogie chimique, qui doivent nécessairement résulter de la proprieté qur possèdent les corps isomorphes, de se remplacer mutuellement en proportions indéfinies. - [ATOMIC WEIGHT OF ELEMENTS]‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1826. 8vo. In a bit later half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 31. Entire volume offered. No institutional stamps. [Berzelius' paper:] Pp.5-37. [The entire issue:] 448 pp. + 3 plates.‎

‎First appearance of a milestone paper in chemistry. In this paper Berzelius drew up the table of atomic weights of the elements, which, with only a few exceptions are similar to those used today. He symbolizes the elements by the first or two letters of the Latin name of the element, and he symbolizes compounds by stting the element symbols together together with the number of atoms involved when grater that one. This is the importent revison of his system announced in 1818. ""In 1819 Mitscherlich showed that similarity in chemical structure is accompanied by identity of crystalline form (Mitscherlich's law of isomorphism). berzelius realized at once that Mitscherlich's findings called for importent changes in his own system. he accordingly published a new table of atomic weights in 1826 (the paper offered).""(Taton ""Science in the 19th Century"", p. 279). - Holmberg, Bibliografi öfver Berzelius, nr. 29. The present volume also contain the following important papers: Sur les Minéraux cristallisés qui se trouvent dans les aerolithes (Gustave Rose)Mémoire sur les Combinaisons du Phosphore, et particulièrement sur celles de ce corps avec l'hydrogène (Dumas)Seconde Lettre sur les Cavernes à ossemens de Lunel-Vieil, de Saint-Antoine et de Saint-Julien, près de Montpellier (Hérault)adressés à M. Gay-Lussac par M. Marcel de Serres " Nouveau Catalogue des cgutes de pierres ou de fer de poussières ou de substances molles, sèches ou humides, suivant l'ordre chronologique (E. F. F. Chladni) Note sur la Communication des mouvements vibratoires (Félix Savart)Recherches sur les Effets électriques de contact produits dans les changemens de temp‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 60067

‎"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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‎[MENDELEEV, D.I.]‎

‎Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov [i.e. On the Relation of the Properties to the Atomic Weights of the Elements]. In: Zhurnal Russkogo khimicheskogo obshchestva [i.e. Journal of the Russian Chemical Society], vol.1, parts II-III. - [THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS]‎

‎St. Petersburg, 1869. 8vo. Extract in contemporary or slightly later blank blue paper wrappers. Wrappers with neat professional restorations from verso, barely noticeable. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 60-77.‎

‎Exceedingly scarce first printing of Mendeleev’s seminal Russian Chemical Society-paper of March 1869, presenting for the first time the periodical table of the elements. “His newly formulated law was announced before the Russian Chemical Society in March 1869 with the statement “elements arranged according to the value of their atomic weights present a clear periodicity of properties.” Mendeleev’s law allowed him to build up a systematic table of all the 70 elements then known.” (Encycl. Britt.) “Early in 1869, Russian chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev was in a predicament many people are familiar with—he was facing a deadline. He had delivered the first volume of his inorganic chemistry textbook to his publisher but was struggling with how to organize the second volume. This struggle would culminate in a remarkable discovery, a system that classified all of the chemical elements. In March 1869, Mendeleev delivered a full paper to the Russian Chemical Society spelling out the most significant aspect of his system, that characteristics of the elements recur at a periodic interval as a function of their atomic weight. This was the first iteration of the periodic law.” (OSU) Mendeleev’s system was not yet perfect when it appeared in 1869, but it would prove to be one of the most fundamental of scientific laws, one that would hold true through new discoveries and against all challenges. Mendeleev not only recognized that what seemed to be a randomness of the elements fitted into a system, he also suggested that the gaps in his system would later be filled with elements yet unknown to the scientific world. The discovery of new elements in the 1870s fulfilled several of Mendeleev’s predictions and brought increased interest to the periodic system, making it an invaluable tool for research. “He had such faith in the validity of the periodic law that he proposed changes to the generally accepted values for the atomic weight of a few elements and predicted the locations within the table of unknown elements together with their properties. At first the periodic system did not raise interest among chemists. However, with the discovery of the predicted elements, notably gallium in 1875, scandium in 1879, and germanium in 1886, it began to win wide acceptance. Gradually the periodic law and table became the framework for a great part of chemical theory. By the time Mendeleev died in 1907, he enjoyed international recognition and had received distinctions and awards from many countries.” (Encycl. Britt.) Horblit 74 Barchas 1412 [Dibner 48 - citing the German translation of 1891]‎

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‎"DAVY, HUMPHRY.‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture, on some chemical Agencies of Electricity. Read November 20, 1806. - [FOUNDATION OF ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY - OFF-PRINT, PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎London, Philosophical Transactions, 1807. 4to. Bound to style in recent plain blue wrappers. Offprint, with the separate printed title-page, from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1807 - Part I. With author's presentation to title-page: ""From the Author"". Occassional brownspotting throughout and a small tear, not affecting text, to lower margin of B4. (2), 56 pp. + 1 plate.‎

‎The exceedingly rare offprint, inscribed presentation copy, of Davy’s milestone paper in which he shows that electricity is capable of decomposing the most stable elements. The paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century and Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry, considered it ""one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry”. Davy early concluded that the production of electricity in simple electrolytic cells resulted from chemical action and that chemical combination occurred between substances of opposite charge. He therefore reasoned that electrolysis, the interactions of electric currents with chemical compounds, offered the most likely means of decomposing all substances to their elements. “These views were explained in 1806 in his lecture “On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity,” for which, despite the fact that England and France were at war, he received the Napoleon Prize from the Institut de France (1807). This work led directly to the isolation of sodium and potassium from their compounds (1807) and of the alkaline-earth metals magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium from their compounds (1808).” (Britannica). ""Humphry Davy was one of the most brilliant chemists of the early nineteenth century. His early study of nitrous oxide brought him his first reputation, but his later and most importent investigations were devoted to electrochemistry. Following Galvani's experiments and the discovery of the voltaic pile, interest in galvanic electricity had become widespread. The first electrolysis by means of the pile was carried out in 1800 by Nicholson and Carisle, who obtained oxygen and hydrogen from water. Davy began to examine the chemical effects of electricity in 1800, and his numerous discoveries were presented in his Bakerian lecture to the Royal Society on November 20, 1806 (the paper offered here). His experiments, along the lines stated in this paper, lead to his discoveries of potassum and sodium in 1807 and the year after to barium, calcium and boron.” (A Source Book in Chemistry p. 243). Sparrow: Milestones of Science No 52. Wheeler Gift: 2511. (PMM 255)‎

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‎NICOLS, THOMAS.‎

‎Edelgestein-Buchlein Oder Beschreibung der Edelgesteine, derer Gestalt, Kraffte und Tugenden, Eigenschafften, Preiss und Werth " samt beygefugten Warnungen fur Betrug an alle diejenigen, so mit Edel-Gesteinen handeln und umbgehen. - [“THE FIRST INDEPENDENT GEMOLOGICAL BOOK WRITTEN OR PUBLISHED BY A BRITISH AUTHOR""]‎

‎Hamburg, Naumann, 1675. 8vo. In a bit later full vellum. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine. Small wormtract to lower margin on last leaves, not affecting text. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. A fine copy. (16), 249, (7) pp.‎

‎Rare first German translation of Nicols' treatise on gemstones and minerals: “the first independent gemological book written or published by a British author. The text is distinctly in two parts, the first being a general treatise on gemstones, while the second... contains 89 numbered chapters, each describing a gemstone, stone, fossil... Nicols gives adulterations, nomenclature, varieties, sources, properties, and other useful information"" (Sinkankas). The treatise's content includes a definition of precious stones, their broad categorizations, the process of their formation, gemstones prevalent in ancient times, as well as explanations for attributes like transparency, color, and hardness. It delves into topics such as counterfeit gems, detailing artificially colored crystals, techniques for cutting, engraving, and polishing gems, and exploring their perceived supernatural properties. Ferguson II, p. 138‎

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