‎Chemistry‎

‎"LIEBIG, JUSTUS.‎

‎Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie. [Organic Chemistry as applied to Physiology and Pathology]. - [THE CONCEPT OF METABOLISM INTRODUCED - PMM 310 (b)]‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1842. Bound in well-preserved cont. marbled boards with red gilt titlelabel on spine. A few insignificant scratches along hinges. XVI,342,(1) pp. Some scattered brownspots as usual, due to the paperquality. Old owners name on top of titlepage and front free endpaper.‎

‎The important first edition of the work that established the science of nutrition and presented the ""first classification of the organic food-stuffs and the process of nutrition"" (Garrison & Morton). In this work Liebig, ""unquestionably the greatest chemist of his time"" (Partington),""carried his chemical investigations into the realm of animal physiology. He showed like Lavoisier, that animal heat is not innate, but the result of combustion" introduced the concept of metabolism (Stoffwechsel)" and classified animal foodstuffs as fats, carbohydrates and proteins according to their function. He thus became the founder of the modern science of nutrition."" (Percy H. Muir). Garrison & Morton No. 677 - Waller: 5796 - Wellcome III:515 - Printing and the Mind of Man: 310 (b).‎

Bookseller reference : 34946

‎"PYROTECHNICS - FIREWORKS - LODEN, ARTHUR.‎

‎Der Lustfeuerwerker, oder gründliche Anweisung zur Lustfeuerwerkerei, als: Schwärmer, Raketen, Leuchtkugeln, bengalische Flammen, Frösche, Bienenkorb, Pfauenschwanz, feuerräder, Kanonschläge und viele andere Feuerwerkkünste. nebst einer Anweisung zur ...‎

‎Quedlinburg und Leipzig, Ernst'schen Buchhandlung, 1862. Small 8vo. Uncut in orig. printed wrappers. A small brownspot in upper part of frontwrapper and on the first 2 leaves. VI,138 pp., 1 folded lithographed plate, textillustrations in woodcut.‎

‎Fourth edition of this popular work ""The fireworker. Instruction for amateurs to make fireworks"" first published 1840. - Chris Philip L.100.5.‎

Bookseller reference : 34784

‎PYROTECHNICS - FIREWORKS - MALTHE, FRANCOIS de. (FRANCIS MALTHUS).‎

‎Traité des Fevx artificiels povr la Gverre, et povr la Recreation" Avec plusieurs belles obseruation, abregez de Geometrie, Fortifications, Horloges Solairs, & examples d'Arithmetique. De nouueau reueu, corrigé & augmenté par l'Autheur, Francois de ...‎

‎Paris, Pierre Gvillemot, 1632. 8vo. Cont. full limp vellum, remains of ties. Titlelabel in red leather on back, this with a small nick. Top of spine strenghtened with a strip of vellum. Engraved title with Neptun & Mars. (6),277,(10) pp., 28 half-page textengravings and 15 large wood-cut illustrations. A few scattered brownspots. A good copy.‎

‎Second enlaged edition of this scarce treatise of fireworks for war and recreation. The work is divided in five sections: the first 56 pp. to war, pp. 57-146 to 'recreation' and pp. 147-277 to sundials, fortification, geometry and arithmetics. Of the English edition of 1629, Cockle says ""This work, though in advance of anything so far written on the subject in English, does not attain to the standard of Thibourel and Appier. Yet it is with foreign treatises it must be weighed, for Malthus received his training in pyrotechnics abroad...It was Malthus who about the year 1634 introduced the mortar into the French service."" - Klaus Jordan: 2328 (ed. 1629) - Chris Philip: M 040.3 - Cockle Nos 118 a. 939.‎

Bookseller reference : 34728

‎"(SYLVIUS NIMROD, FRIEDRICH Hzg. zu WÜRTTEMBERG, TECK und ÖLS).‎

‎Vollkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer=Wasser=Sturm=Kugeln, Granaten, Pech=Sturm=Krantze, und allerhand Luft und Ernsthaffte Feuer=wercke zubereiten. Sampt gründlicher Anleitung zur Artillerie: als vom Mortier, von allerhand groben und kleinen G... - [GUNNERY AND PYROTECHNICS]‎

‎Osnabrück, J. G. Schwänders Tilman Bucholtz, 1660. Folio. Fine recent hvellum in old style made of old materials. Titlelabel in leather on spine with gilt lettering. The htitle reads: ""Praxis Artolloriae Pyrotechnicæ"". Htitle,(6),71,(1) pp.. and 51 engraved plates with 117 figs. (numb. 1-51 of which 2 are unnumb.). One leaf lacks (pp. 17/18) and p. 17 is present in cont. handwriting, but the whole leaf supplied in a fine facsimile on old paper. 2 plates a bit shaved and frayed in margin. Slight browning to htitle, a few minor brownspots. A good copy.‎

‎Scarce second edition. The publisher tells us in the postscript that the book, published 1657, was in much demand and that it was unobtainable, so he was requested by a gentleman (Einen vornehmen Herr) to republish it. This second edition came out without the authors name. It is divided in 2 parts. The first part mainly deals with all kinds of recreative fireworks but also with the making of rockets, fire-water-and storm balls, grenades, pitch, storm wheels and receipts for gunpowder. The second part deals with gunnery and artillery (Ander der Artollery). - Chris Philip S 310.2 - Not in Rumpf and Cockle.‎

Bookseller reference : 34427

‎PYROTECHNICS - WEBSKY, MARTIN.‎

‎Lustfeuerwerwerkkunst, oder leicht fassliche und bewährte Anleitung zur Verfertigung von Lustfeuerwerken. Für Alle, welche mit dieser Kunst in praktischer und theoretischer Beziehung sich beschäftigen, insbesondere für Dilettanten und Freunde der Lust...‎

‎Breslau, Ferdinand Hirt, 1858. Fine cont. haclf. Gilt back. Printed and xylographed title. (4),320 pp. Textillustrations. Fine and clean.‎

‎The work seems to be the first edition with this title, although it is an adaptation of the authors previously printed work under a slightly different title. Websky was without doubt the most influential and profilic German writer of the 19th century on the subject.(Chris Philip: W040.7)‎

Bookseller reference : 32278

‎SCHWARTZ, ERNST von.‎

‎Handbuch zur Erkennung, Beurtheilung und Verhütung der Feuer-u. Explosionsgefahr chemisch-technischer Stoffe und Betriebsanlagen. 2. Auflage.‎

‎Konstanz, Ernst Ackermann, 1907. Orig. full cloth. Very slightly rubbed. (8),488 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 32205

‎BARBOUR, RICHARD T.‎

‎Pyrotechnics in Industry.‎

‎N.Y., McGraw-Hill, (1981). Orig. full cloth. with dustjacket. VIII,190 pp. Richly textillustrated.‎

Bookseller reference : 32177

‎KENTISH, THOMAS.‎

‎The Pyrotechnist's Treasury" or the complete Art of making Fireworks. - [PYROTECHNICS - FIREWORKS]‎

‎London, Chatto & Windus, 1878. 8vo. Orig. full pictorial cloth, stamped in silver and black with silver lettering on back. Top of spine very slightly frayed, edges with very light wear, a small spot on frontcover. Halftitle. XII,200 pp., 16 plates with many figs. (numb. 1-15 a. 1 unnumb.). The halftitle with a rather faint brownspot in outer margin, otherwise clean.‎

‎First edition of this pyrotechnic classic. - ""Despite having first been printed over 100 years ago this remains one of the greatest classic how-to-do-pyrotechnic books that have ever been written."" (Chris Philip in A Bibliography of Firework Books, No K 010.1).The work has recently been printed again, and the publshers describe the work as ""The famous Kentish book, a best seller for over 100 years"".‎

Bookseller reference : 32154

‎"MARGGRAF, ANDREAS SIGISMUND & JOHANN HEINRICH POTT.‎

‎Mémoire sur la Maniere de dissoudre L'Etain dans les Acides des Vegetaux, et sur L'Arsenic, qui s'y trouve encore caché, avec les Experiences qui servent de Preuves. (+ Pott:) Experiences Pyrotechnique sur la Topaz de Saxe.‎

‎(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1749). 4to. As issued without wrappers in ""Memoires de L'Academie des Sciences et Belles Lettres"", tome III, pp. 33-56 (Marggraf: pp. 33-45, Pott: pp. 34-56).‎

‎Both works first editions. Marggraf's observations that commercial tin contains considerable amounts of arsenic, was erraneous and caused much trouble until refuted by Bayen. - Pott was commissioned by the King of Prussia to discover the secret of porcelain as made at Meissen in Saxony. - Partington II: p. 726 (Marggraf) and p. 720 (Pott).‎

Bookseller reference : 31915

‎BÖCHMANN, FR. (HRSG.).‎

‎Chemisch-technische Untersuchungsmethoden der Gross-Industrie, der Versuchsstationen und Handelslaboratorien. 2 Bde.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1888. 2 cont. hcalf. Gilt backs. VIII,1214 pp. Richly textillustrated.‎

Bookseller reference : 31765

‎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. Samt. hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Tab af skind på øverste del af ryg og revne i bagerste fals. Forgyldt skindtitel. XX,(2),866 pp. Brunplettet.‎

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

Bookseller reference : 31720

‎HERZ, W.‎

‎Grundzüge der Geschichte der Chemie. Richtlinien einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der allgemeinen Ansichten in der Chemie.‎

‎Stuttgart, Enke, 1916. Cont. hcloth. Orig. wrappers pasted on frontboard. With stamps. Lower part of back taped. VI,142 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 29824

‎SCHORLEMMER, C.‎

‎A Manual of the Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds or, Organic Chemistry.‎

‎London, Macmillan and Co., 1874. Orig. full cloth. Spine ends frayed, a little wear and fading. XII,512 pp. and a few textillustrations.‎

‎First edition. Schorlemmer was England's first professor in Organic Chemistry.‎

Bookseller reference : 29459

‎BERGMANN (BERGMAN), TORBERN.‎

‎Opuscula Physica et Chimica. 6 vols. (Vol. I Edition nova emandatior, 1788 - vol.II. 1792 - vol. III. Editio noua, correctior, 1786 and vol. IV-VI Editionis..post Auctoris Mortem gessit Ernestus B.G. Hebenstreit, 1787-90).‎

‎Leipzig, J.G. Müller, 1786-92. Bound in 6 fine uniform cont. mottled hcalf. Gilt backs, gilt title-and tomelabels on backs. Some browning and brownspots throughout. With 15 folded engraved plates (the last 2 in fine facsimile (in vol. VI)).‎

‎Scarce edition of Bergman's collected chemical and physical dissertations and memoirs. The publication of the work was initiated by Bergman himself and the first 3 volumes were published in Stockholm. After Bergman's death Hebenstreit reedited the work and reprinted the 3 first volumes in Leipzig together with volume 4-6. The copy here is the first Leipzig-edition and the most complete as vol. 1-3 were expanded and contains in all 72 dissertations and memoirs which hereby forms a collection of all the author's scientific papers. - Duveen p. 66 - Partington III:p. 183.‎

Bookseller reference : 29265

‎"PYROTECHNICS - FREZIER, (AMEDÉE FRANCOIS).‎

‎Traité des feux d'artifice, Ou l'on voit. I. La manière de préparer les Matières qui entrent dans la Composition des Feux d'Artifice. II. La Méthode de faire & de composer toutes fortes de Feux d'Artifice. III. Où l'on donne un idée de la Conduit...‎

‎Haye, Chez J. Neaulme, 1741. Small 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf w. five raised bands on back, back richly gilt. Small holes and lack of leather to lower capital and back-hinge, due to insect-bites. Bdg. somewhat worn. Internally a bit of brownspotting and occationally a little soiling, but overall fine. Engr. frontispiece (= engr. t-p. dated 1707), 8 full-page engr. plates and 3 about half-page engr. vignettes. (6), XVIII, 394, (6) pp.‎

‎This is the Dutch reprint (in French) (also called the ""pirated edition"") of the first edition from 1706/07, with the engraved title-page from this. The second edition appeared in 1747. ""In 1741 Neaulme issued a pirated edition which again, apart from variations on the title-page, is identical to the 1706 edition. Encouraged by this pirated edition Frezier wrote a second edition which appeared in 1747 in three differing versions."" (C. Philip, p. 59). Very important reference-work on firewirks. ""Frezier was probably one of the most important pyrotechnics in the mid 18th century..."" (C. Philip, p. 58). He borrows heavily from other authors, but his works are interesting, also as they scrupulously cite the sources. The plates show different kinds of fireworks, with many illustrations on each and the vignettes show displays of fireworks, as this work also deals much with the conduct and displaying of these.‎

Bookseller reference : 29138

‎"ALCHEMY - JUGEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED.‎

‎Freyentdeckte Experimental=Chymie, oder Versuch Den Grund natürlicher Geheimnisse durch die Anatomie und Zerlegungskunst, in dem astralischen, animalischen, vegetabilischen und mineralischen Reiche durch systematische Grundsätze, lehrsätze, beweise, g...‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Paul Krause, 1766. 8vo. Fine recent boards in old style. Engraved frontispiece. (14),368 pp. The first leaves with brownspots in upper margin, light browning to text. A few old annotations. Old owner's name inscribed in the cartouche of frontispiece:""Marcus Weisz parisiis 1788"".‎

‎Scarce first edition. - ""In diesem Buche versichert Jugel u. A. den Stein der Weisen selbst in Hände gehabt zu haben, wie auch dass er einmal von dem Silber ausgehend zu der Darstellung eines weissen Glases gelangt sei, welches von 100 Theilen Silber einem Theil in Gold verwandelt habe."" (H. Kopp ""Die Alchemie"" pp. 253-7).Duveen p. 313 (omitting 'Freyentdeckte') - Ferguson I:p. 441. - Poggendorff I: 1208.‎

Bookseller reference : 29075

‎FOURCROY, A.F.‎

‎Philosophique Chimique, ou vérités fondamentales de la Chimie Moderne, Disposées dans un nouvel Ordre‎

‎Paris, (Cl. Simon), L'An IV de la Liberté Francoise, 1792. Small 8vo. Cont. full mottled calf. Gilt back, titlelabel gilt in leather. Top and bottom of spine worn. Corners bumped. IV,(5-) 128 pp. First and last leaves faintly dampstained in upper margin. Printed on good paper.‎

‎First edition second issue(having some mispaginations) of this famous work, immidiately translated into 11 languages and based on the authors article in Encyclopedia Methodique, in which he tried to arrange the fundamental principles in a systematic order. In this work he classified the chief facts of Chemistry under twelve headings, and it proved to be a very popular summary of the new antiphlogistic chemistry. - Not in Duveen (having only the second edition) - Partington III:p. 538.‎

Bookseller reference : 28297

‎NERNST, WALTHER.‎

‎Theoretische Chemie vom Standpunkte der Avogadroschen Regel und der Thermodynamik. Siebente Aufl.‎

‎Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1913. Lex8vo. Orig. full cloth. Spine ends somewhat worn and top torn. XVI,838 pp., textillustr.‎

Bookseller reference : 28160

‎ROVERE, TITO.‎

‎Bogni e Sorgenti Termo-Minerali Nell' Isola d'Ischia. Considerrazioni cliniche e topografiche de Dottore...Medico Militare.‎

‎Napoli, Luigi Gargiuli, 1865. Bound with orig. green printed wrappers in a later full cloth. 45,(1) pp., 1 folded table and 1 large folded lithographed map.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 27869

‎BERZELIUS, J.J.‎

‎Lehrbuch der Chemie. Aus der schwedischen handschrift des Verfassers übers. von F. Woehler. Dritte (u. Vierte) Umgearb. Original-Auflage (Binde 1-7:3 Aufl., 8-10:4 AUfl.). 10 Bde.‎

‎Lpz., 1833-41. 10,cont.hcalf. Backs rubbed,and back loose on 4 vols. With 12 fold.engr.plts.,showing chemical apparatus.‎

Bookseller reference : 2747

‎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.‎

‎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 febriary 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).‎

Bookseller reference : 47109

‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF ""MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY""‎

‎Mémoire sur la relation qui peut exister entre la forme cristalline et la composition chimique, et sur la cause de la polarisation rotatoire"" (Extrait). (Séance du Lundi 22 Mai 1848).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1848. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 26, No 21. Pp. (529-) 548. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 535-538.‎

‎First appearance of the announcement of Pasteur's momentous and revolutionary discovery of ""molecular assymetry"" and founding the science of Polarimetry.The discovery was first announced by Pasteur in may 1848 by the printing of the preliminary report of only 4 short pages, in order to establish priority (the paper offered). A more full exposition was published the same year in ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome XXIV.""In 1848....Pasteur studied the crystals of tartrates (one of the substances that exhibited the now-clockwise, now-counterclockwise effect) under the microscope and found that the xcrystasls were mirror images of the others. The two crystals resemmbled each other as a right-hand glove resembles a left-hand glove....This was a revolutionary discovery and it took some courage to announce it. A few years before, the well-known chemist Mitscherlich had studies the same tartrate crystals and declared them all to be identical. Pasteur was only a twenty-sic-year-old unknown. neverthelless he announced his findings and went before Biot to repeat the separation ofthe crystals before the eyes of the aged authority in the field. Biot was convinced and Pasteur received the Rumford medal of the Royal Society for his work....Pasteur had thus founded the science of polarimetry in which the measurements of the manner in which the plane of polarized light was twisted could be used to help to determine the structure of organic substance, to follow various chemical reactions, and so on.""(Asimov). Leicester & Klickstein ""A Source Book of Chemistry"", p. 374-379).‎

Bookseller reference : 47149

‎"BECQUEREL, EDMOND (ALEXANDRE-EDMUND). - BECQUEREL'S ""CONTINUING RAYS"" OR THE ""BECQUEREL PHENOMENA""‎

‎Mémoire sur le rayonnement chimique qui accompagne la lumiere solaire et la lumiere électrique. (3e Mémoire.- Extrait par l'auteur).‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome XI (No.18). Pp. (667-) 716. (Entire issue offered). Becquerel's paper:pp. 702-703. Some marginal brownspots, margins slightly soiled, light browning an creasing.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in the history of photochemistry as he here discovered some effects of coloured rays of the solar spectrum.""Edmund Becquerel seems to be the first person to observe, in 1840 (in the paper offered), that the latent daguerreotype image which had been underexposed could be intensified if re-exposed to the yellow and red rays of the spectrum and then developed with mercury... Explaining this phenomenon, Becquerel called the yellow-red continuing rays (""rayon continuateurs"") in contrast to the primary rays, which exicited or produced the light image and which he called exiciting rays (""rayons excitateurs"").... They are dependent on the wave lenght of the light.""(Eder ""History of Photography"", pp. 265 ff.)""Becquerel was an early experimenter in photography. In 1840 he discovered that the silver halides, natively insensitive to red and yellow light, became sensitive to that part of the spectrum in proportion to their exposure to blue, violet and ultraviolet light, allowing Daguerreotypes and other photographic materials to be developed by bathing in strong red or yellow light rather than by chemical treatment. In practice this technique was rarely used."" (Wikipedia).‎

Bookseller reference : 47213

‎"NIEPCE DE SAINT-VICTOR, (CLAUDE FELIX ABEL). - THE INVENTION OF NIEPCEOTYPES OR ""GLASS PICTURES"".‎

‎Sur des propriétés particulières de l'iode, du phosphore, de l'acide azotique, etc. (Dépose en deux parties a l'Institut, le 22 juin 1846 et le 11 janvier 1847.) (Extrait). (+) Annexe au Mémoire précédent, présenté à l'Academie le 25 octobre 1847....‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1847. 4to. No wrappers. In ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. 25, No 17. Pp. (561-) 608. (Entire issue offered). Niepce de Saint-Victor's paper: pp. 579-589.‎

‎First appearance of this milestone paper in the histroy of photography in which Niepce de Saint-Victor describes his invention of photography on glass or ""glass negatives"".""Early in 1847 Niepce de Saint-Victor experienced with the use of starch paste on his glass plates as a binding substratum for the iodide coating, but he soon found that albumen was preferable"" he also tried gelatine, but laid it aside because it came off in the aceto-silver nitrate bath. By a mixture of honey, syrup, or whey with the albumen, he oncreased, later the sensivity. He published his process on October 25, 1847, in the Comp. rend. (the paper offered), and soon had many followers. He also made many modifications (Annexe to the memoir)."" (Eder ""History of Photography"", Dover Publ., pp. 338 ff.).‎

Bookseller reference : 47222

‎"BRAVAIS, (AUGUSTE). - INTRODUCING ""BRAVAIS LATTICE""‎

‎Sur les propriétés géométriques des assemblages de points régulièrement distribués dans l'éspace.‎

‎(Paris, Bachelier), 1848 4to. No wrappers. In ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. 27, No 24. Pp. (593-) 616. (Entire issue offered). Bravais' paper: pp. 601-604.‎

‎Frst appearance of a landmark paper in crystallography and mathematics as Bravais here begins his rechearches of the rotations and translations of crystals into themselves, and he thereby, in this process, advanced the studies of both crystalline structure and of group theory.""Bravais Lattice is a type of spatial crystal lattice first described by the French scientist A. Bravais in 1848. Bravais expressed the hypothesis that spatial crystal lattices are constructed of regularly spaced node-points (where the atoms are located) that can be obtained by repeating a given point by means of parallel transpositions (translations). When straight lines and planes are constructed through these points, the spatial lattice becomes divided into equal parallelepipeds (cells). There are a total of 14 types of such lattices, by which the structure of any crystal can be described in the first approximation.""(The Free Dictionary).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1848 C/M.‎

Bookseller reference : 47229