‎Chemistry‎

‎ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY.‎

‎Reports of the Royal College of Chemistry and Researches conducted in the Laboratories in the Years 1845-6-7.‎

‎London, 1849. Orig. blindstamped full cloth, rebacked. LXIII,270 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 35194

‎PASCAL, PAUL.‎

‎Explosifs, Poudres, Gaz de Combat. Lecons professées a la Faculté des Sciences de Lille.‎

‎Paris, J. Hermann, 1925. Royal8vo. Contemporary hcloth. Gilt titlelabel. Stamps on title. VIII,296 pp., textillustrations.‎

Bookseller reference : 35274

‎GODY, LEON.‎

‎Traité theoretique et pratique des Matières Explosives (Arts Militaire - Industrie).‎

‎Paris, Wesmael-Charlier, 1893. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. Some tears to wrappers and back repaired. VIII,480 pp. Signed by the author.‎

Bookseller reference : 35281

‎PYROTECHNICS - LUSTFEUERWERKEREY - BLÜMEL, JOHANN DANIEL.‎

‎Deutliche und Gründliche Anweisung zur Lust=Feuerwerkerey, besonders in denjenigen Stücken, die das Auge der Zuschauer am meisten erlustigen, und in Verwunderung setzen Aus kunstreicher Erfahrung beschrieben und mit Kupfern erläutert.‎

‎Strassburg, Amand König, 1765. 4to. Contemporary hcalf, raised bands richly gilt back. (4),140,(4) pp. 9 folded engraved plates with many figs. The first leaves somewhat brownspotted, otherwise mostly marginal brownspots.‎

‎Scarce first edition. The text gives clear and basic instructiuons for recreative fireworks with receipts, and the engravings shows in details their construction. - Chris Philip B 130.1‎

Bookseller reference : 35360

‎"GADOLIN, JOHAN (Præs.) - ÅBO-IMPRINT.‎

‎Commentatio de Gemmis arte procreandis. Cujus partem Primam(-Tertiam). Pro Gradu Philosophica Andr. August von Pfaler (et Georgius de Besche, Bened. Olav. Lille). (3 Parts).‎

‎Aboæ (Åbo), Frenckell, 1828. 8vo. Ubeskåret uden omslag. (2),37 pp.‎

‎Originaltrykket. Johan Gadolin, opdager af ""Yttrium"" (Gadolinea), udlært hos Torbern Bergman i Uppsala, blev grundlægger af den Finske skole i kemien.‎

Bookseller reference : 35634

‎ARRHENIUS, SVANTE AUGUST.‎

‎Recherches sur la Conductibilité Galvanique des Électrolytes. I: La conductibilté des solutions aqueuses extrêmement diluées déterminée au moyen du dépolarisateur. II: Théorie chimique des électrolytes. - [ELECTROLYTIC THEORY OF DISSOCIATION]‎

‎Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1884. 8vo. (224x145 mm). Offprint in origianal printed wrappers. Exlibrary stamps and sticker on front wrapper. (Journal version printed in 'Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.Akad. Handlingar'. 63,(1)"89,(1) pp. and 1 lithographed plate. Fine and clean. Uncut and unopened. A fine copy.‎

‎First edition, offprint issue of Arrhenius' famous dissertation, in which he first presented his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903 ""in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation"". A German translation was published in 'Ostwald's Klassiker'. See Dictionary of Scientific Biography, I:p.296-302 and Partington, IV:p.672-81.‎

Bookseller reference : 35680

‎"LIEBIG, JUSTUS.‎

‎Handbuch der Organischen Chemie mit Rücksicht auf Pharmacie. Aus der neuen Bearbeitung des ersten Bandes von Geiger's Handbuch der Pharmacie.‎

‎Heidelberg, C.F. Winter, 1843. Contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Edges slightly rubbed. Corners bumped. XII,820 pp. Faint dampstains to margins of first 10 leaves. Light scattered brownspots.‎

‎Scarce first edition of this separately printed part of Liebig's praparation of Geiger's ""Handbuch der Pharmacie..."" - Duveen p. 359 - Bolton I:630.‎

Bookseller reference : 36369

‎HANNEMANN, JOHANN LUDWIG.(Præs.)‎

‎Dissertatio Physica Fridericiana Naturae Phoenicem...publice defendet Johannes Michael Eccardus.‎

‎Kiel, Reuther, 1710. 4to. No wrappers. (16),48 pp.‎

‎Hannemann was professor of physics at the University of Kiel. He published several works on alchemy.‎

Bookseller reference : 36781

‎HEIBERG, C.B.‎

‎Pharmaceutisk Chemie med særligt Hensyn til den danske Pharmacopoe.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Buurskovs Forlag, 1857. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. (4),717,(2) pp., tekstillustrationer i træsnit. Forrest lidt spredte brunpletter.‎

Bookseller reference : 37000

‎OSTWALD, WILHELM.‎

‎Die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Analytischen Chemie elementar dargestellt. Sechste Aufl.‎

‎Dresden u. Leipzig, Steinkopff, 1917. Orig. printed boards. XII,238 pp. First and last leaves with a few brownspots.‎

Bookseller reference : 37108

‎"ANONYMOUS.‎

‎Instruction sur les Moyens D'Introduire un Mode uniforme et régulier de comptabilité dans les Établissemens de la Direction´Générale des Poudres.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1820(-31). Contemp. hcalf. Gilt back. A paperlabel pasted om lower part of back. Stamps on titlepage. 323 pp. and a handwritten ""Table des matieres"" bound at end. Last leaf with a tear repaired, no loss. Clean and fine.‎

Bookseller reference : 37551

‎CRELL, LORENZ.‎

‎Neues Chemisches Archiv. Dritter Band. Mit einem Kupfer, nebst einem Register über die sämlichen Theile des Chemisches Archiv.‎

‎Leipzig, Müllerschen Buchh., 1785. Uncut with orig. blue blank wrappers. (12),366 pp., 1 engraved plate. Light browning to leaves.‎

Bookseller reference : 37953

‎KIRCHHOFF, GUSTAV. & ROBERT WILHELM BUNSEN.‎

‎Chemische Analyse durch Spectralbeobachtungen. (In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie, vol. 110, pp.161-189). - [BEGINNING OF SPECTRUM ANALYSIS]‎

‎Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1860. 8vo. (207x124mm). Entire volume offered here in contemporary card board binding with hand written paper label to spine. A fine copy.‎

‎First edition of the paper which marks the beginning of spectrum analysis. In this work Kirchhoff and Bunsen announced their discovery of the two alkali metals, cesium and rubidium, with the aid of the spectroscope they had invented the year before. These discoveries inaugurated a new era in the means used to find new elements.‎

Bookseller reference : 38037

‎PYROTECHNICS - (FREZIER, AMEDÉE FRANCOIS). - LARGE PAPER COPY.‎

‎Traité des Feux D'Artifice pour le Spectacle. Nouvelle Edition, Toute changée, & considérablement augmentée. Par M. F*** D.D.F.D.B.‎

‎Paris, Nyon Fils, 1747. 4to. Bound in a fine contemp. full mottled calf. 5 raised bands, richly gilt back. Marbled edges. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartment. Titlepage with a stamp and a small hole after erasing an old name, no loos of text. Engraved frontispiece. LIV,(2),496 pp.13 engraved plates and 3 fine textengravings. Printed on good paper, internally clean and fine with very broad margins so that this work normally have 8vo- size now appears in 4to size (25,5x20 cm.).‎

‎Second edition of this treatise of fireworks for celebration, the first edition issued in 1706. There was a pirated edition in 1741. Frezier was encouraged by this pirated edition and he issued his second edition, which appeared in 1747 in three different versions by different printers. (Chris Philip F 110.5).‎

Bookseller reference : 38386

‎"LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH.‎

‎Experiences sur le Poid du sel et gravité spécifique des saumures faites et analysées.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XVIII, pp. 27-65., 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎First edition. Lambert describes his experiences on solutions of salt in water. Solutions of minerals in water and the behaviour of this solution under increased heat seems to have been an importent theme for Lambert during years.‎

Bookseller reference : 38579

‎"BARBA, ALBARO (ALVARO) ALONSO.‎

‎Eines Spanischen Priesters und hocherfahrnen Naturkündigers Berg=Büchlein, Darinnen von der Metallen und Mineralien Generation und Ursprung, wie auch von derselben Natur und Eigenschafft, Mannigfaltigkeit, Scheidung und Feinmachung, ingleichen allerha...‎

‎Franckfurt am Mayn, Johann Friedrich Fleischer, 1739. Small 8vo. Recent hvellum. 2 old names on titlepage. (4),198,(3) pp., some textillustr. in woodcut showing chemical apparatus.‎

‎Scarce fourth German edition. The first part of the book deals with the generation of metals...the second with the extraction of silver by mercury. He cites alchemical literature on the origin of the earth, minerals, salts, adding clear descriptions. He excelled in the ""Treatment of silver ores by amalgation, using processes that he himself had discovered and that were in large measure responsible for the wealth of the province."" (DSB).""Barba was a native of the village of Lepe in Andalusia. He entered the church and became pastor of St. bernards at Potosi, in South America. While there he had the opportunity of studying minerals and mining, extraction of silver and assaying, and became very skilful in these branches of science. He embodied his knowledge and experience in the treatise ""El arte de los metallos"", published in Madrid in 1640 in 4to, with illustrations. It was kept as secret as possible by the Spaniards, but when Edw. Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, was ambassador extraordinary to Spain, he obtained a copy and translated two of the five books into English in 1669. The first book appeared at London in 1670, and the two together in 1674. Two German translations followed, one from the English, and long after, another from the French"" and two in French from the Spanish."" (Ferguson I: p.70-71). - Duveen p.42-43 (but not this edition). Thorndike VII: pp. 257-61.‎

Bookseller reference : 38585

‎MARCET, ALEXANDER.‎

‎On the specific gravity, and temperature of Sea Waters, in different parts of the Ocean, and in particular seas" with some account of their saline contents. Read May 20, 1819.‎

‎(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1819). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCXIX"", pp. 161-208 and 2 engraved plates, showing his invention of the samplin bottle aimed at getting samples from the depth of the oceans.‎

‎First edition. The periodical printing. Marcet undertook some of the first measurements of the concentration of different salts in sea water. He was an early marine chemist and a allround scientist and performed some of the first measures of the concentrations of the major salts in sea water. He found that all sea water contains the same salts in nearly the same concentrations. He invented the ""Sampling Bottle""‎

Bookseller reference : 38656

‎"BERZELIUS, J. (JACOB).‎

‎Des Recherches sur la Composition des prussiates ou des hydro-cyanates ferrugineux. III-VII.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1820). Without wrappers as issued in ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", tome XV, pp. 225-264. A small tear to one leaf.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 38728

‎"THOMSEN, JULIUS.‎

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

‎Kjøbenhavn, Bianco Luno, 1869-73. 4to. Bound in one contemp. hcloth. Around 300 pp., plates. Some brownspots.‎

‎First edition of Thomsens main contributions in thermochemistry, undoubtly the most importent contribution from a Dane in chemistry in the 19th century. - The construction of a complete and quantitative system of thermochemistry required an extensive and accurate collection of thermochemical data over and above the observations upon which the principle was based. The amount of data which he amassed was so great that it enabled him the calculation of heats of reaction for practically speaking every fairly common inorganic reaction. The results, which are based between three and four thousand measurements, were later collected in his famous work ""Thermochemische Untersuchungen"" (The Danish original oferred here).‎

Bookseller reference : 38916

‎"PROUST, L.J.‎

‎Sur la Poudre a Canon. 1.-9. Mémoire. (The first memoir with the title: Faits pour servir a L'Étude de la Poudre a Canon).‎

‎Paris, 1811-14. 4to. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. The second leaf with stamps. These 9 papers from ""Journal de Physique, de Chimie et D'Histoire Naturelle"", Tome 70-78, pp. 320-340, pp. 113-126, pp. 266-281, pp.14-36, pp. 376-400, pp. 203-220, pp. 362-392, pp. 334-352 and pp. 169-206. Widemargined, a few scattered brownspots. Some leaves in lower right corner with a wormtract, no loss of letters.‎

‎First printing of these 9 papers by the wellknown French chemist. Proust formulated the ""Law of constant proportion"" which lead to the controversy with Berthollet.‎

Bookseller reference : 40239

‎"BERZELIUS, JAC.‎

‎Recherches sur un nouveau corps minéral trouvé dans le soufre fabrique à Fahlun (+) Suite Des Recherches sur un nouveau corps mineral trouvé dans le soufre fabrique à Fahlun (+) Suite Des Recherches...(3 papers). - [THE DISCOVERY OF SELENIUM]‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1818). Without wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Par Guay-Lussac et Arago"", Tome 9, pp. 160-80, pp. 225--267 and pp. 337-365.‎

‎First printing of these 3 papers which represents Berzelius's discovery of Selenium. Berzelius ""became a partner together with his friends Gahn and Palmstedt in the ownership of a factory near Gripsholm castle, manufacturing sulforic acid, vinegar, soap and white lead.During the summer of 1817 Berzelius spent an entire month supervising the manufacture. This lead to the discovery of a new elemen, Selenium, which he found in the form of a golden-brown sediment in the mud from the bottom of the lead chamber. This was an era when new elements could still be ""scrabed of the walls....what had previously been known as ""Swedish tellurium ore"" was now found to be selenide of copper and silver with a 26 per cent selenium content."" (Jorpes in ""Jac. Berzelius. His Life and Works.p. 61-62)..‎

Bookseller reference : 40474

‎VALLIER, E.‎

‎Balistique des Nouvelles Poudres.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, n.d. ca. 1890. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with a paperlabel on lower part of spine. Stamps on titlepage. 180 pp.‎

‎(Encyclopedie Scientifique des Aide-Mémoire...publiee de M. Leauté).‎

Bookseller reference : 40598

‎"OMODEI, FRANCESCO.‎

‎Dell' Origine della Polvere da Guerra e del primo uso delle Artiglerie a Fuoco. Dissertazione.‎

‎Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1835. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt. Titlelabel with gilt letteringon frontcover. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on titlepage. From ""Memoire della Reallle Accademia delle Scienze di Torino"", Tomo XXXVIII, pp. 143-224. Wide margins, clean and printed on good paper.‎

Bookseller reference : 40888

‎"MARGGRAF, (ANDREAS SIGISMUND).‎

‎Examen Chymique de L'Eau. (Traduit de Latin).‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1768). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in ""Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Science et Belles Lettres"", tome VII, pp. (131-)157.‎

‎First edition, the periodical form. ""Contemporaries recognized Marggraf as a materful experimental chemist because of the extraordinary range of his interests and the painstaking nature of his procedures.""(DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 41246

‎"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.‎

‎First edition, off-print, of the seminal paper that contains the first enunciation of the thermochemical affinity principle and the introduction of the term ""varmetoning"". The present paper represents Thomsen's main work as well as the ""(to use Oswald's words) scientific creed of the chemist for the next half-century. It constituted the only method by which chemists could predict the course of chemical reactions, and Thomsen himself employed the theory in various ways to carry out calculations of this kind."" (Brøndsted in: Meisen edt., Prominent Danish Scientists Through the Ages, p. 143). This breakthrough work, which contains the first statement of a thermochemical nomenclatura and the first definition and presentation of the thermochemical affinity principle, inaugurated a several decades long period of thermochemical studies, during which Thomsen personally carried out more than 3,500 calorimetric measurements in a room kept at 18 degrees celcius. His fundamental thought was that the evolution of heat accompanying a chemical reaction (""varmetoning"") is an exact expression of the chemical affinity of the reaction. Bethelot reached many of the same conclusions a bit later and advanced a theory that in essence was the same as Thomsen's. This led to heated discussions that continued for several years between the two scientists. Thomsen's principle is now usually known as the Thomsen-Berthelot-Principle. In 1883, the Davy Medal was awarded in duplicate, to ""M. Marcellin Berthelot, Member of the Institute of France, and Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and Prof. Julius Thomsen, of Copenhagen"", although Berthelot was obviously preceded by Thomsen. ""The importance of Thomsen's scientific work was rapidly recognized in both Denmark and abroad. In 1860 he was elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Nine years later he was nominated as professor of physical chemistry at the University of Leipzig, but he refused the offer. Many foreign scientists asked to work under his guidance, but he was afraid that the comparability of the results obtained would be endangered when more than one person performed such measurements and therefore refused all such requests. Thus no school was formed around him. Thomsen was a foreign member of various academies and honorary member of learned societies, and held honorary doctorates from several universities (but not in France, because of the conflict with Berthelot)."" (D.S.B. XIII:359).""Julius Thomsen's international reputation is due largely to his thermochemical studies. He began to work on thermochemical problems in 1850, and in 1852 he published in the ""Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter"" a paper entitled ""Bidrag til et thermochemisk System"" [""Contributions to a thermochemical System""], in which he outlined the scheme of his subsequent thorough investigations in this field. This 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 they combine.Ideas as to the nature and laws of chemical affinity were by no means lacking at this period, but the prevalent views were vague, hypothetical and mutually irreconcilable. The great importance of Julius Thomsen's principle when compared with earlier speculations lies not only in its fundamental theoretical ideas, which associate chemical and mechanical phenomena, but also in the fact that the conception of affinity is related to a measurable quantity, the ""Varmetoning"" - a term which Julius Thomsen introduced to include both evolution and absorption of heat - and thus is easily accessible to experimental investigation."" (Brøndsted in: Meisen edt., Prominent Danish Scientists Through the Ages, p. 143).‎

Bookseller reference : 41483