‎Chimie‎

‎"NIEPCE DE SAINT-VICTOR. - PIONEERING COLOR-PHOTOGRAPHY.‎

‎Extrait d'un Mémoire sur une relation existent entre la couleur de certaines flammes colorées et les images héliographiques colorées par la lumière. (+) Supplement au Mémoir déposé à l'Academie le 24 mars 1851‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1851. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Some scratches to spine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3e Series - Tome 32. - 512 pp. a. 2 folded plate. (The entire volume offered). Niepce de Saint-Victor's paper: pp. 373-381 a. 381-383. Some brownspots.‎

‎First printing of this paper in which he described his invention of the so-called ""HELIOCROMS"", a pioneer paper in the development of colour-photography. Niepce de Saint Victor discovered there was a connection between the color that chloride salt produced in a flame with the color light produced on a chloride salt-treated plate. Heliochrome was the name of this process, which enabled Mr. Niepce de Saint Victor to produce copies of color engravings and landscapes. He did not produce daguerreotypes, and soon learned that the images he produced using the heliochrome process were not fixed and began turning gray with increased light exposure. Applying transparent coatings did not prove effective, and therefore Mr. Niepce de Saint Victor soon abandoned this unfeasible method. However, his experiments with heliochrome did lead to the successful daguerreotype color process developed by a New York Baptist minister named Levi L. Hill (1816-1865).‎

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‎"GRAHAM, THOMAS. - THE FOUNDATION OF COLLOID CHEMISTRY.‎

‎Liquid Diffusion applied to Analysis.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1854). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1861, Vol. 151 - Part I. Pp. 183-224, textillustrations.‎

‎First printing of a groundbreaking paper in biochemistry and physiology, as Graham here introduced the distinction between colloidal and crystalloid substances by his method of separating animal and other fluids.""Although some isolated investigations on colloids had been carried out before Graham, his publications in this field laid the foundations of colloid chemistry. In ""On the Diffusion of Liquids,"" Graham applied to liquids the exact method of inquiry he had applied to gases twenty years before, and he succeeded in placing the subject of liquid diffusion on about the same footing as that to which he had raised the subject of gaseous diffusion prior to the discovery of his numerical law. He showed that the rate of diffusion was approximately proportional to the concentration of the original solution, increased with rise in temperature, and was almost constant for groups of chemically similar salts at equal absolute (not molecular) concentrations and different with different groups.""(DSB).Garrison & Morton: 688.‎

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‎"ARAGO, FRANCOIS - LOUIS DAGUERRE. - THE DAGUERREOTYPE.‎

‎Le Daguerréotype. (Seance du Lundi 19 Aout 1839). (+ Daguerre:) Des procédés photogéniques comme moyens de gravure - Lettre de M. Daguerre à M. Arago. (Séance du Lundi 20 Septembre 1839).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome IX, No. 8 a. 14. Pp. (249-) 282 a. pp. (417-) 436. Arago's rapport: Pp. 250-267 - Daguerre's letter: pp. 423-429. Both issues clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of the first official and complete report of the invention of the ""daguerreotype"", the photographic process invented by Louis Daguerre. The presentation by Arago preceeded Daguerre's own publication ""Historique de description des procédés du daguerreotype et du diorama"", (1839). Together with Daguerre's letter to Arago in which he relates the process of heliography and describes his contract with Niépce to exploit the heliogrphis process. The Heliogravure was invented by Niépce‎

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‎"MENDELÉEFF, D. (MENDELÉEV, MENDELEYEV, MENDELÉEFF). - THE DECISIVE CONFIRMATION OF MENDELEEV'S PERIODIC TABLE OFTHE ELEMENTS.‎

‎Remarque à propos de la découverte du gallium.‎

‎Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1875. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 81, No 21. Pp. (909-) 992. With titlepage to vol. 81. Mendelejeff's paper: pp. 969-972. Titlepage lightly browned and with a punched stamp in lower margin. Otherwise clean and fine.‎

‎First apperance of this importent paper which established that Gallium is identical with Eka-aluminum (the missing element between Aluminum and Indium) in Mendelejeff's periodic table. The properties of the new element corresponded well with those predicted. A bitter contorversy was raised between the discoverer of Gallium, Lecog de Boisbaudran and Mendelejeff. ""The discovery of the three elements predicted by Mendeleev was, however, of decisive importance in the acceptance of his law. In 1875 Lecoq de Boisbaudran, knowing nothing of Mendeleev’s work, discovered by spectroscopic methods a new metal, which he named gallium. Both in the nature of its discovery and in a number of its properties gallium coincided with Mendeleev’s prediction for eka-aluminum, but its specific weight at first seemed to be less than predicted. Hearing of the discovery, Mendeleev sent to France ""Zametka po povodu otkrytia gallia"" (the paper offered) (""Note on the Occasion of the Discovery of Gallium""), in which he insisted that gallium was in fact his eka-aluminum. Although Lecoq de Boisbaudran objected to this interpretation, he made a second determination of the specific weight of gallium and confirmed that such was indeed the case. From that moment the periodic law was no longer a mere hypothesis, and the scientific world was astounded to note that Mendeleev, the theorist, had seen the properties of a new element more clearly than the chemist who had empirically discovered it. From this time, too, Mendeleev’s work came to be more widely known""(DSB).Parkinson Breakthroughs"" 1875 C.‎

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‎"WÖHLER, FRIEDRICH - THE PREPATORY WORK OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.‎

‎Bildung der Cyansäure auf neuem Wege, und fernere Untersuchungen über die Cyansäure und deren Salze.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1823. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine and with gilt lettering. Some scratches to spine. In: ""Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie. Hrsg. Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 13 (= Bd. 73 der Reihe). (12),444 pp., 1 folded table and 5 engraved plates. Small stamp to verso of titlepages. Internally clean and fine. Wöhler's paper: pp. 157-172.‎

‎First printing of Wöhler's importent paper in which he in reality for the first time synthezised an organic substance, leading to his historic preparation of ""artificial"" urea in 1828 ""Ueber künstliche Bildung des Harnstoffs"". This broke down the old distinction between organic and inorganic substances. ""This was the first synthesis of an organic compound, and this accomplishment is generally regarded as the beginning of organic chemistry.""(Sparrow ""Milestones of Science"", p.37, the 1828 paper).""In his published paper (the 1828 paper) Wöhler referred to his work of 1823 (the offered paper), in which he had shown that cyanogen and aqueous ammonia yielded oxalic acid and a white crystalline solid that he now realized was urea. This, and his new method, he considered to be remarkable examples of the preparation ""by art"" of a substance of animal origin from inorganic materials.""(DSB).The volume contains other notable papers BECQUEREL: ""Ueber die Electricitäts-Erregung durc Druck, nach versuchen des herrn becquerel"" ein bericht abgestatt.... von Biot. Frei übersetzt von Gilbert"", pp. 117-129. A pioneer paper on Piezoelectricity. SEEBECK ""Notiz von neuen electrisch-magnetischen Versuchen des Herrn Seebeck... mitgeteilt von Hrn Oersted."", pp. 430-32. Also papers by Heinr. Rose, Döbereiner, Lampadius, Sertürner etc. etc.‎

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‎"SOUBEIRAN, EUGÈNE - THE DISCOVERY OF CHLOROFORM.‎

‎Recherches sur quelques Combinaisons du Chlore. (Communiqué par l'auteur).‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1831. Contemp. hcloth. Some scattered brownspots. ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 2. Series, Tome 48. 448 pp., 1 engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Soubeiran's paper: pp. 113-157. Scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry and medicine as it for the first time relates the finding of Chloroform, which some years later was proved to have anaesthetic effects and was introduced in chirurgy in 1848 by Simpson.Justus von Liebig, Souberain and Guthrie independently discovered Chloroform in 1831, but Souberain was the first to publish his results. Garrison & Morton No. 1851. - Gedeon ""Science and Technology in Medicine"", 36.7.The volume contains other notable papers by LIEBIG, DUMAS, DUTROCHET, WÖHLER, LECANU, BECQUEREL etc.‎

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‎"LIEBIG, JUSTUS von. - THE ETHER THEORY OF LIEBIG.‎

‎Mémoire sur la Constitution de l'Ether et de ses Combinaisons.‎

‎Paris, Crochard, 1833. No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", 2 Séries, Tome 55, Cahier 2. pp. 113-224. Entire issue offered. Liebig's paper: pp. 113-156. Scattered brownspots.‎

‎First appearance in French - the paper was published at the same time in ""Annalen der Pharmacie"" and in""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff""- of an importent paper on Radicals in which he regards alcohol as a hydrate of the ethyl radical and ether as the oxide of the ethyl radical. The paper is also relevant for the discovery and development of ether as an anaesthesia.‎

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‎"SEFSTRÖM, N.-G. (NILS GABRIEL). - THE DISCOVERY OF VANADIUM.‎

‎Sur le Vanadium, métal nouveau, trouvé dans du fer en barres de Eckersholm. forge qui tire sa mine de Taberg, dans le Smaland.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1831). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 46, Cahier 1. Pp. 5-112. (Entire issue offered). Sefström's paper: pp. 105-111.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Sefström announced his discovery of a new element in iron from the Taberg mine in Småland. He named it Vanadium from the goddess Vanadis.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1831 C.The discovery and isolation of Vanadium has a long story to tell. In reality it was found by del Rio in 1801, he named it Erythronium, but upon further study he decided that he was mistaken as his further studies showed that it was made up of a basic lead chromate.‎

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‎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).‎

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‎"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.‎

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‎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.‎

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‎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.‎

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‎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).‎

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‎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.‎

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‎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

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‎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.‎

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‎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.‎

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‎"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.).‎

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