Nuremberg: Johann Zieger, 1695. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 17TH CENTURY TREATISE ON METALLURGY AND CHEMISTRY. Anonymous. "Treatise on the assaying of metallic ores. It gives an account of the reagents, apparatus, furnaces, precautions, lists of technical terms, and methods for analyzing ores in the dry way." (Ferguson I, 487). - "The.....
1812. 1st Edition. No Binding. (pp 39-62); Till ett rättfärdigande af de theoretiskt-chemiska äsigter, pä hvilka den systematiska uppställningen i mitt Försök till en förbättring af den chemiska nomenclaturen grunder sig (pp 175-215) Extracts from Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar (Proceedings Swedish Academy of Sciences), Vol. XXXIV (1813). These are.....
American Journal of Science and Arts, 1852. 1st Edition. Soft cover. An important mid-19th century study on the interaction between metals and mercury, with implications for metallurgy, corrosion science, and material permeability. First Edition 8vo, original plain wraps sewn: 14 pp (renumbered 1-14). Horsford (1818-1893) received his bachelor s degree.....
Nurimberg: Sumptibus Wolgangi Mauritii Endteri, 1690. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Emanuel König Latinized as Emanuelis König (1658 to 1731) was a Swiss physician and naturalist. He became a professor of medicine at the University of Basel and is best known for his three books Regnum animale (1682), Regnum minerals (1686), and.....
Apud Henricum Wilsonium & Consortes (London and Rotterdam), 1678. 1st Edition. Hardcover. BEAUTIFUL FIRST EDITION OF KUNCKEL'S ALCHEMICAL TREATISE IN LATIN. This book, whose title translates to Useful Observations by Johann Kunckel, Privy Chamberlain and Chemist to the Elector of Saxony, is a collection of chemical and alchemical experiments, practical.....
Printed by R.N. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop s-Head in S. Paul s Church-yard (London), 1686. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Nicolas Lémery was a 17th-century French chemist known for his chemistry theories on acids, pharmaceutical medicines, and his works medical drugs and chemistry. Perhaps his best and most important book.....
Apud Joannem Pictetum (Geneva), 1681. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Latin Edition 12mo. Contemp. vellum, handwritten title and date in ink on spine: Endpapers, 5 lvs, 3 blank lvs, 664 pp, 7 lvs (Index); some exterior soiling, occasionally light foxing throughout. Neville II p 45: This translation was important as it.....
Chez P. Fr. Didot jeune (Paris), 1777. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. FIRST MODERN CHEMICAL DICTIONARY. THIS BEAUTIFUL SET DISCLOSES WATER'S COMPOSITION. Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) was a leading 18th-century French chemist known for his contributions to both theoretical and practical chemistry. His Dictionnaire de Chymie was first published in 1766 and became.....
Paris: (J. Chardon for) Chez Durand & Pissot, 1752. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF NERI S FOUNDATIONAL TREATISE ON GLASS-MAKING. Neville II p 220: The most important collection of early works on glass-making and allied industries to appear in the eighteenth century, translated and edited by Baron d'Holbach.....
London: G.G. and J.J. Robinson, 1795. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SPECTACULAR BINDING ON AN IMPORTANT DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY FROM 18TH CENTURY. This was the first dictionary of chemistry by an Englishman, superseding the English translation of Macquer's dictionary (London, 1771) by the Scot James Keir. Although preferring the antiphlogistic theory of.....
Amsterdam: Apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1665. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in five compartments with floral tools, red morocco title label (“PREVOTIUS”), raised bands. Binding is worn but sound, with rubbing, small losses at head and tail, and a few surface abrasions. Joints tender but holding. A scarce Elzevir medical treatise.....
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1786. 1st Edition. Hardcover. "P. DE RIBAUCOURT (1739/1806) attended lectures of ROUELLE and BAUME, worked in latter's laboratory, apothecary, gave lectures on chemisty in his own laboratory, industrial chemist. The book is a manual of applied chemistry especially for workers in gold and silver. The author discuses.....
Jena: Samuel Krebs, 1662. 1st Edition. Hardcover. BEAUTIFUL COPY OF AN EARLY CHEMICAL TREATISE. An early iatrochemical book which adopted alchemical and Paracelsian views. Rolfinck earned his master's degree at the University of Wittenberg under Daniel Sennert, and his medical doctorate in 1625 at the University of Padua under the.....
À Leipsick, chez Arkstée & Merkus; Et se vend à Paris, Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, père, 1773. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of "Des métaux", a rare work, of considerable chemical interest. This book was supposedly translated from German and contains a "Preface to the German edition". However, no German edition.....
Milan: Dell Imp. Regia Stamperia, 1825. 1st Edition. No Binding. First Edition 8vo pamphlet, disbound, sewn spine: 64 pp including title page, huge folding plate at the end. Pages are stiff but bright and sharp. VG. Vismara was Professor of Physics, Mathematics and Natural History at Cremona (also Padua). This.....