VI. METEOROLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAHPY, continued: 2588 SCROPE (George Julius Poulett, M.P., F.R.S.) CONSIDERATIONS on VOLCANOS, the probable Causes of their Phenomena, the Laws which determine their March, the Disposition of their Products, and their Connexion with the present State and past History of the Globe; leading to the Establishment of a NEW THEORY of the EARTH, with 2 folding plates, 33 woodcuts, and map, Svo. calf, 10s 2589 2590 1825 'Full of accurate information, careful inductions, and suggestive inferences; it enunciates emphatically the doctrine afterwards developed by Lyell and called 'Uniformitarian,' but as it was necessarily controversial, was much in advance of its age, and had ventured into a cosmological speculation, it did not meet with a generally favourable reception.'Prof. Bonney, pr., F.R.S. The GEOLOGY and EXTINCT VOLCANOES of CENTRAL FRANCE; 2nd [last] Edition, enlarged, with folding panoramic views, woodcuts, and maps in pocket, 8vo. cl., uncut (SCARCE), 16s 6d 1858 The second edition is still carefully read by every geologist who visits Auvergne. Lyell, who reviewed the first edition in the Quarterly Review, justly called it the most able work which had appeared since Playfair's 'Illustration of the Huttonian Theory'.-Prof. Bonney. 'A monumental work, pleasantly but accurately written, and still the best guide to that very interesting region.'Dr. Tempest Anderson. VOLCANOES: their Phenomena, Share in the Structure and Composition of the Earth's Surface, and Relation to its Internal Forces, with CATALOGUE of all known VOLCANOES; 2nd [last] Edition, enlarged, with map, coloured frontispiece, and woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (scarce), 10s 1862 A new edition of the 'Considerations', designed to dispel that signal delusion, as to the mode of action of subtelluric forces, with which the elevation-crater theory had during the intervening period mystified the geological world.'-Dedication. 2591 SINCLAIR (George; Prof. Philosophy, Glasgow) ARS NOVA et MAGNA GRAVITATIS et LEVITATIS, sive Dialogorum Philosophicorum Libri VI de AERIS verâ ac reali GRAVITATE, etc., quibus accessere de Instrumentis Hydragogicis, de HYGROSCOPIO et Chronoscopio, seu Pendulo, nec non Palladis Gymnasium, cum Indicibus; with fine folding arms of George 4th Earl of Winton, 2 plates, and woodcuts, sm. 4to. contemporary calf extra, with arms of the Duc de Montosier in gold on sides (binding rubbed and back very slightly damaged, otherwise a FINE COPY); rare, £2. 2s Roterodami, 1669 Containing an early account of an hygrometer and of the barometer; also a description of the diving bell used by the author in an attempt to raise the ship Florida, a relic of the Armada, wrecked off the Isle of Mull. The plate of arms, which is contained in the above copy, is often missing. The HYDROSTATICKS (1672)—v. Nos. 2314-6. 2592 [SWAN (John)] SPECULUM MUNDI. Or a Glasse representing the Face of the World; shewing both that it did begin, and must also end; the manner how, and Time When, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an Hexameron, or a serious Discourse of the Causes, Continuance, and Qualities of things in Nature; 2nd Edition, enlarged, sm. 4to. contemporary calf (RARE), £1. 5s Cambridge, Roger Daniel, 1613 2593 2594 ANOTHER COPY, old calf (title mended), £1. 1s THIRD EDITION, much beautified and enlarged, sm. 4to. old calf, newly rebacked (slightly wormed); RARE, £1. ls R. Davenport, 1665 This very curious and interesting work, valuable for its METEOROLOGICAL PORTION, is divided into six parts, to represent the days of Creation. It is a kind of encyclopædia of natural and mythical history, interspersed with curious stories and quotations. In the chapter on Earthquakes is a curious reference to AMERICA, a conjecture how it came at the first to be unknown.' On page 443 we read In the Kingdom of Congo be certain great Dragons with wings, in bignesse like to rams, ... of blew and green colour.' 'An extremely interesting and popular treatise on meteorology. Some of the notions are very funny.'-G. J. Symons, F.R.S. SYDNEY METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS- -v. No. 141. SYMONS'S BRITISH RAINFALL-v. Nos. 201-3. MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL MAGAZINE-v. No. 204. 2595 TOALDO (Abate Giuseppe; Prof. Astronomy and Meteorology, Padua) ESSAI MÉTÉOROLOGIQUE sur la VÉRITABLE INFLUENCE des ASTRES, des Saisons et Changemens de Tems ; nouvelle Édition, rendue meilleure et beaucoup augmentée; traduit par JOSEPH DAQUIN, avec les PRONOSTICS d'ARATUS, Chambery, 1784: Saussure (Horace Bénédict de) ESSAIS sur l'HYGROMÉTRIE; with 2 copperplates, Neuchâtel, 1783: DEFENCE de l'HYGROMÉTRIE à CHEVEU; with_plate, Genève, 1788-3 vols. 4to. in 1, contemporary French calf extra, with old bookplate de Lamothe, médecin de Bordeaux', £1. 10s Chambery, 1783-8 'Les découvertes de Toaldo sur l'influence des astres et de la lune en particulier, sur les saissons, lui assurèrent un rang distingué parmi les physiciens. Ayant remarqué qu'au bout de 18 ans les phénomènes météorologiques se reproduisaient dans le même ordre, il dressa trois de ces périodes et leur donna le nom de Saros. Les astronomes les appelèrent depuis cycles toaldins.'-Biogr. Gen. 2596 VIERI [detto il VERINO II°] (Francesco di Giovambatista de', da Firenze) TRATTATO nel quale si contengono i Tre Primi Libri delle METHEORE, nuovamente ristampati, e da Lui ricorretti con l'Aggiunta del Quarto Libro, 12mo. fine copy in old vellum (rare), 15s Fiorenza, G. Marescotti, 1582 Second and last edition of this early treatise on meteorology, and the only one containing the fourth book. Besides meteorological subjects, it treats of comets, the tides, and the rainbow. Book IV (pp. 187-424) treats of Aristotelian meteorology and physics. The author is not noticed by Poggendorff. 2597 WALKER (Edward, Cheltenham Coll.) TERRESTRIAL and COSMICAL MAGNETISM (Adams Prize Essay, 1865), with 8 folding charts, besides diagrams, 8vo. cl. (scarce), 15s Cambridge, 1866 'Many instruments and methods of observation, now obsolete, have been treated of at considerable length, solely because they happened to be connected with the history of the science in its earlier stages.'-Preface. 2598 WALKER (George Walker, F.R.S.) MODERN SEISMOLOGY, with 14 plates, and diagrams, 8vo. cl., 3s 6d (p. 5s nett) 1913 WASHINGTON ́ ASTRONOMICAL and METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS— v. No. 210. VI. METEOROLOGY AND PHYSsical GeograpHY, continued: 2601 2602 2600 WELLS (William Charles, M.D., F.R.S.) An ESSAY on DEW, and several Appearances connected with it, first edition, 8vo. original boards, uncut (EXCESSIVELY SCARCE), £1. 15s printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1814 ANOTHER COPY, original boards, uncut, with author's inscr. to Dr. Stanger, £1. 178 6d SECOND [FINAL and slightly enlarged] EDITION, 8vo. original boards, uncut (VERY SCARCE), £1. 58 apud eosdem, 1815 He demonstrated after a series of well-arranged observations made in the garden in Surrey of his friend James Dunsmure, that dew is the result of a preceding cold in the substance in which it appears, and that the cold which produces dew is itself produced by the radiation of heat from those bodies upon which dew is deposited. For this, the first exact explanation of the phenomena of dew, he was awarded the Rumford medal of the Royal Society.'-D. N. B. 2603 REPRINT OF THE SECOND EDITION [with Dedication, Notice, and List of Contents], edited with Preface and Annotations by L. P. ČASELLA, F.R.A.S., and Appendix by R. STRACHAN, 8vo. cl. (scarce), 10s 1866 2604 2605 One of the classics of meteorology, termed by Prof. Tyndall 'a beautiful investigation, a model of wise enquiry and lucid exposition,' and by Sir John Herschel 'one of the most beautiful specimens of inductive experimental enquiry lying within a moderate compass'. The editor testifies in his preface to the extreme scarcity of coples of the original editions; meanwhile the reprint itself has become scarce. Two ESSAYS: one upon Single Vision with Two Eyes: the other on DEW; a Letter to LORD KENYON; and Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind, part of whose Skin resembles that of a Negro, with some Observations on the Causes of the Differences in Colour and Form between the White and Negro Races of Men, with MEMOIR by himself, 8vo. hf. calf (VERY SCARCE), with bookplate of Prof. Thomas Bell, F.R.S., P.L.S., £1. ls 1818 ANOTHER COPY, boards, uncut, £1. 2s 6d The only collected edition of the author's chief works, published by his friend Samuel Patrick. The 'Letter to Lord Kenyon' explains his differences with the College of Physicians. The memoir included is the chief authority on the author's life. He was born of keen Scottish parents, at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1753, was sent to school at Dumfries and to Edinburgh University, and went back to Charleston in 1771, and was apprenticed to Dr. Alexander Gordon there. He went to England at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, but returned for a short time in 1781, and even set up a press at St. Augustine, Florida, but soon settled for good in London as a physician. 2606 WHITNEY (Josiah Dwight; Prof. Geology, Harvard) The CLIMATIC CHANGES of LATER GEOLOGICAL TIMES: a Discussion based on Observations made in the Cordilleras of North America, 4to. hf. brown calf gilt, 10s Cambridge [Mass.], 1882 2607 ZURCHER (Frédéric), and Élie MARGOLLÉ: VOLCANOES and EARTHQUAKES, from the French by MRS. NORMAN LOCKYER, with 62 full-page and other woodcuts by E. Riou, post 8vo. cl. gilt, 3s 6d (p. 10s 6d) 1868 VII. CHEMISTRY. ANDREWS (Thomas, M.D., F.R.S.) On the GASEOUS STATE of MATTER, and another Memoir —v. Viscosity (PHYSICS), ante. ANNALEN der PHÝSIK und CHEMIE-v. No. 6. 2608 ARRHENIUS (Svante August; Director, Physico-Chemical Dept., Nobel Inst.) TEXT-BOOK of ELECTROCHEMISTRY, translated by JOHN MCCRAE, with 58 illustrations, 8vo. cl. (fresh copy); SCARCE, 12s 6d 1902 A classic work by the founder of the theory of electrolytic dissociation, on which the modern science of electrochemistry is based. 2609 ATOMIC WEIGHTS, COLLECTION of FORTY-TWO PAPERS on the, by THEODORE WILLIAM RICHARDS and GREGORY PAUL BAXTER, with the Collaboration of others, with illustrations, 42 parts in one thick vol. 8vo. buckram, with bookplate of, and notes and index by, N. GarrodThomas, £1. ls 1891-1908 An unusually full collection, 33 of the papers being by Prof. Richards, and 9 by Prof. Baxter. 2610 AUERBACH (G.) ANTHRACEN: its Constitution, Properties, Manufacture, and Derivatives, including A RTIFICIAL ALIZARIN, ANTHRAPURPURIN, etc., with their Applications in DYEING and PRINTING, translated and edited from the revised MS. by SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, P.R.S., 8vo. cl. (scarce), 7s 6d 1877 'Generally recognised both by manufacturers and scientific theorists as the authority. It presents us with a summary of all important researches on the subject.'-Sir William Crookes. 2611 AVOĜADRO (Amedeo; Prof. Physics, Turin) FISICA de' CORPI PONDERABILI, ossia TRATTATO della COSTITUZIONE GENERALE de' CORPI; with 18 folding plates, 4 thick vols. large 8vo. hf. calf gilt (SOUND AND CLEAN COPY), each vol. having the AUTHOR'S INSCR. to Henry Beaufoy, F.R.S. (VERY SCARCE), £3. 3s Torino, 1837-41 An enlargement of the author's memoir in Journal de Physique, first published in 1811, and first formulating what is now known as 'Avogadro's Law.' 'The recognition of the intimate connexion between the specific gravity of a gas and its molecular weight we owe to Avogadro, although it was a long time taking root in the science; this law of Avogadro', which expresses the above relation, still governs chemical research, and is an indispensable aid in the determination of the molecular weights of many chemical compounds.'-Prof. E. v. Meyer. 2612 BARCHUSEN [sive BARCKHAUSEN] (Johann Conrad; Prof. Chemistry, Utrecht) ELEMENTA CHEMIE, quibus subjuncta est CONFECTURA LAPIDIS PHILOSOPHICI Imaginibus representata; with numerous fine copperplates (including a folding one of the Utrecht Chemical Cabinet), 4to. fine copy in contemporary calf gilt (RARE), 17s 6d Lugduni Batavorum, 1718 La chimie est redevable à Barckhausen de plusieurs faits nouveaux. C'est lui qui a découvert l'acide succinique, et évalué aux ? la quantité d'eau contenu dans l'urine. Il était un adversaire de la théorie du phlogistique.'-Biogr. Gén. 2615 VII. CHEMISTRY, continued: 2614 BAUMÉ (Antoine, de l'Académie Royale) CHYMIE EXPERIMENTALE et RAISONNÉE; with fine portrait by St. Aubin after Cochin, and copperplates, 3 vols. 8vo. FINE COPY in contemporary English calf, 15s 1773 One of the latest-and of its kind one of the best--text-books based on the phlogiston theory. DISSERTATION sur l'ÆTHER, dans laquelle on examine les différens Produits du Mélange de l'Esprit de Vin avec les Acides Minéraux; with copperplate and folding table, 12mo. old calf, with auto. of Richard Watson, F.R.S., absentee Bp. of Llandaff (1737-1816); rare, 10s 6d 1757 Containing a large number of experiments made with sulphuric and nitric acids on alcohol and a variety of other substances. 'Il traça les préceptes de la science dont Lavoisier et Scheele jetèrent les bases, et le premier il établit une fabrique de sel ammoniac. . . Il inventa des procédés pour dorer les pièces d'horlogerie, teindre les draps de deux couleurs, blanchir la soie jaune sans l'écruer, purifier le salpêtre, et enlever à la fécule du marron d'Inde son principe amer.'-F. Hoefer. The above works belonged to Richard Watson, F.R.S., the unabashed absentee Bp. of Llandaff, bear his Calgarth Park booklabel, and were doubtless used by him when victoriously cramming for his chemistry professorship at Cambridge. 2616_BAUMERT (George, Univ. Halle), Max Eugen Hermann DENNSTEDT, Hamburg, und F. VOIGTLÄNDER: LEHRBUCH der GERICHTLICHEN CHEMIE, 2. gänzlich umgearbeitete Auflage; with 151 illustrations (some coloured), 2 vols. roy. 8vo. sewn, 12s (p. M. 21) Braunschweig, 1906-7 BAXTER (Gregory Paul, Prof. Chemistry, Harvard) PAPERS on the ATOMIC WEIGHTS-v. ATOMIC WEIGHTS, ante. 2617 BAYEN (Pierre, de l'Institut) OPUSCULES CHIMIQUES; with 2 folding tables, 2 vols. 8vo. contemporary hf. calf (fine copy); RARE, £1. ls An VI [1798] 'En analysant les eaux de Bagnères de Luchon, il découvrit la propriété fulminante du mercure dans quelques-unes de ses combinaisons, étudia les divers oxydes de ce métal, et constata d'une manière positive l'augmentation de poids qu'acquièrent les métaux par leur oxydation; découverte importante qui conduisit à celle de l'oxygène, et prépara lesvoies à la chimie moderne.'-Biographie Générale. 2618 BECCARI (Jacopo Bartolomeo; Prof. Medicine and Chemistry, Bologna; F.R.S.) COмMENTARII Duo de PHOSPHORIS NATURALIBUS et ARTIFICIALIBUS, ex Actis Bononiensibus excerpti, 8vo. original figured wrapper, with inscr. by Gottlieb Leopold Biwald, S.J., Prof. Physics, Graz (1734-1805); rare, 10s 6d Graecii, 1768 2619 BÉCHAMP (A.; Prof. Physiological Chemistry, Montpellier) MÉMOIRE sur les MATIÈRES ALBUMINOÏDES, 4to. (pp. 516), sewn, 6s [1884] Including an historical sketch of the history of albuminoids. 2620_BECHER (Johann Joachim) OPUSCULA CHYMICA RARIORA, addita nova Præfatione ac Indice locupletissimo a FRID. ROTH-SCHOLTZIO; with copperplates, 12mo. boards (RARE), £l. 1s Norimberga, 1719 'Becher attempted to revive the old ideas of Basil Valentine and Paracelsus in another form. In place of mercury, sulphur, and salt, he set up three earths of which all inorganic ('sub-terrestrial') bodies should consist, viz. the mercurial, the vitreous, and the combustible. The nature of any material depended upon the proportions in which these three fundamental earths were contained in it'.-Prof. E. v. Meyer. 2621 BECQUEREL (Alexandre Edmond, de l'Institut) [IX] MÉMOIRES sur les EFFETS CHIMIQUES produits dans les ESPACES CAPILLAIRES; with woodcuts, 4to. boards, uncut (loose in cover); scarce, 12s 6d 1867-72 'Depuis plus de 30 ans je cherchais la possibilité de mettre en évidence l'existence des couples électro-chimiques composés seulemente de liquides, de tubes capillaires ou de membranes; couples dont la chimie et la physiologie tireront parti un jour pour l'explication d'un grand nombre de phénomènes, non-seulement dans la nature inorganique, mais encore de la nature organique.'-Page 200 du 1er Mémoire. 2622 BERGMAN (Torbern Olof; Prof. Chemistry, Upsala) DISSERTATION on ELECTIVE ATTRAC- 2623 £1. 1s The publisher was the father of the great John Murray, born MacMurray, and himself a publisher of enterprise and note. 2624 TRAITÉ des AFFINITÉS CHYMIQUES, ou ATTRACTIONS ÉLECTIVES, traduit du Latin sur la dernière Edition, augmenté d'un Supplément et de Notes; with 4 folding plates and 3 folding tables, 8vo. contemporary hf. calf (RARE), £1. ls 1788. The author was the first to recognize the influence of warmth on chemical affinity, and in the above work gives tables of chemical affinities which are still recognized as the most correct and most complete. He also first introduced the theory of double affinity. 'Sa théorie des attractions électives eut à juste titre, un grand retentissement à l'époque ou elle parut. C'est un des premiers essais pour réduire la chimie en un corps de doctrine, et lui imprimer une marche scientifique. On y trouve des observations intéressantes sur les affinités, dont l'auteur a dressé les premières tables, et sur les doubles décompositions.' -Dr. Hoefer. 2625 ESSAY on the USEFULNESS of CHEMISTRY, and its APPLICATION to the various Occasions of LIFE, translated from the Original [by Edmund Cullen, M.D.], 8vo. contemporary mottled calf gilt (RARE), 12s 6d J. Murray, 1784 PHYSICAL and CHEMICAL ESSAYS, translated from the Latin, with Notes and Illustrations, by EDMUND CULLEN, M.D., Dublin, with 2 copperplates, and folding thermometric scales, 2 vols. 8vo. nice copy in hf. calf gilt (RARE), £1. 10s apud eundem, 1788 2626 2627 £1. 78 6d ANOTHER COPY, 2 vols. hf. russia (binding of one vol. cracked, but sound and clean copy), Containing the most important of the author's chemical works save 'Elective Attraction', and giving descriptions of how to reduce insoluble minerals by smelting with alkalies, besides suggesting improved methods in analytical chemistry. 'Bergman's chief services to chemistry were in the domain of analysis, which he treated systematically and enriched by valuable methods. He knew well how to make his chemical experiences useful for the definition and classification of minerals, and thereby laid the foundation of mineralogical chemistry and chemical geology.'-Professor E. v. Meyer. A supplementary volume was issued in Edinburgh in 1791. VII. CHEMISTRY, continued : BERICHTE der DEUTSCHEN CHEMISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT-v. ADDENDA, post. 2629 BERTHELOT (Pierre Eugène Marcellin, de l'Institut; F.R.S.) CHIMIE ORGANIQUE fondée sur la SYNTHÈSE, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. sewn (SCARCE), 18s 6d 1860 'Berthelot soon directed his attention to the synthesis of organic compounds, which at that time had been but little studied, and his comprehensive work, Chimie Organique fondée sur la Synthèse, gave a detailed account of the observations and discussions in this branch of the science.'-Prof. E. v. Meyer. 2630 ESSAI de MÉCANIQUE CHIMIQUE fondée sur la THERMOCHIMIE; with portrait and woodcuts, 2 thick vols. roy. 8vo. sewn, £1. ls (p. F. 45 nett) 2631 ANOTHER COPY, 2 vols. hf. crushed brown morocco, cl. sides, £1. 8s 6d 1879 2632 BERZELIUS (Jöns Jakob Baron; F.R.S.) TRAITÉ de CHIMIE minérale, végétale et animale, traduit par A. J. L. JOURDAN et ESSLINGER; with plates, 8 vols. 8vo. contemporary hf. morocco gilt, with bookplate of Henry B. H. Beaufoy, F.R.S., 12s 6d 1829-32 The last volume comprises Opérations et Appareils chimiques'. 'His multiplied and accurate analyses establish the laws of combination on an incontrovertible basis; and to him we owe the system of chemical symbols. He discovered the elements selenium, thorium and cerium, and first exhibited calcium, barium, strontium, columbium, silicium, and zirconium in the metallic form.' 2633 2634 2635 2636 2637 2638 2639 2640 2641 FINAL EDITION. SECONDE ÉDITION FRANÇAISE, traduite par MM. ESSLINGER et HOEFER; with plates and woodcuts, 6 thick vols. 8vo. hf. calf gilt, £1. 5s Didot, 1845-50 LEHRBUCH der CHEMIE, nach des Verfassers schwedischer Bearbeitung der BlödePalmstedt'schen Auflage übersetzt von F. WÖHLER; with copperplates, 4 thick vols. 8vo. hf. calf, Dresden, 1825-31 Along with the absolute thoroughness which we also admire in his experimental work, clearness of description is united in this book with precision of expression. He did not merely confine himself to the simple exposition of known facts, but criticised the experiments from which these were deduced with perfect impartiality. His text-book remained a pattern for others during the succeeding decades.'-Prof. E. v. Meyer. 10s 6d 2642 ANOTHER COPY, 4 vols. in 8, hf. calf gilt, 12s 6d The ANALYSIS of INORGANIC BODIES, translated from the French Edition by G. O. REES, with plate, post 8vo. boards (scarce), 7s 6d 1833 ATTEMPT to establish a PURE SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM of MINERALOGY, by the Application of the Electro-Chemical Theory and the Chemical Proportions, translated from the Swedish by JOHN BLACK, post 8vo. cl., or, boards (scarce), 10s 6d 1814 'The first attempt to work out the composition of minerals on the basis of the atomic theory, i.e., with the aid of the law of multiple proportions... His setting up of a chemical mineral system created a wonderful excitement.'—Prof. E. v. Meyer. JAHRESBERICHTE über die FORTSCHRITTE der PHYSISCHEN WISSENSCHAFTEN--V. No. 106, ante. LEHRBUCH der THIER-CHEMIE, aus dem Schwedischen übersetzt von F. WÖHLER, post 8vo. (pp. 711), hf: calf (back torn off), 4s Dresden, 1831 THEORIE des PROPORTIONS CHIMIQUES, et TABLE SYNOPTIQUE des POIDS ATOMIQUES, des Corps Simples, et de leurs Combinaisons les plus importantes, 2e Édition, augmentée, 8vo. hf. morocco gilt (scarce), 10s 6d 1835 The table appended (pp. 355), greatly enlarged in this edition, mentions the atomic weights of all elements then known, besides those of a large number of inorganic compounds, and forms the first attempt at giving a complete list of atomic weights. The USE of the BLOWPIPE in CHEMICAL ANALYSIS, and in the Examination of Minerals, translated from the French by JOHN George ChildREN, F.R.S., with 2 copperplates, and folding table, 8vo. boards, uncut, 6s 6d 1822 The first exhaustive treatise on the subject by the discoverer of the principle of blow-pipe analysis for minerals. De l'EMPLOI du CHALUMEAU dans les ANALYSES CHIMIQUES et les Déterminations minéralogiques, traduit par F. FRESNEL; with 4 folding copperplates, 8vo. hf. French morocco gilt (nice copy), 9s 1821 or '37 'An exceedingly useful and valuable book.'-Thomas Thomson. VIEW of the PROGRESS and PRESENT STATE of ANIMAL CHEMISTRY, translated by GUSTAVUS BRUNNMARK, D.D., 8vo. boards, uncut (scarce), 6s 1813 SJÄLFBIOGRAFISKA ANTECKNINGAR, utgifna af H. G. SÖDERBAUM; with fine portrait, 8vo. sewn, 3s 6d Stockholm [1901] 2644 BIEHRINGER (Joachim, Technische Hochschule, Braunschweig) EINFÜHRUNG in die STÖCHIOMETRIE, oder die Lehre von der quantitativen Zusammensetzung der Körper und ihren mit dieser zusammenhängenden Eigenschaften, mit Rechenbeispielen; with folding plate and 18 woodcuts, 8vo. buckram, és 6d (p. M. 9 sewn) Braunschweig, 1900 2643 BIOCHEMISCHES CENTRALBLATT-v. No. 24. 2645 BISCHOFF (C. A., Polytechnikum, Riga) MATERIALIEN der STEREOCHEMIE, in Form von Jahresberichten, 1894-1902, mit systematischem Inhaltsverzeichnis und alphabetischem Sachregister, 2 vols. large 8vo. sewn, unopened, £2. 5s (p. M. 90) Braunschweig, 1904 Intended as a supplement to Bischoff and Walden's Handbuch der Stereochemie,' the Chemisches Zentralblatt,' and to the 'Jahresberichte über die Fortschritte der Chemie.' 2646 BONI (Pietro Antonio): INTRODUCTIO in Divinam CHEMIÆ ARTEM Integra MAGISTRI BONI Lombardi Ferrariensis Physici, nunc primùm integra in Lucem edita, sm. 4to. old limp vellum (corner of title with imprint torn off); RARE, 18s 6d [? Argentorati, 1602] Including the author's best-known work, Margarita Preciosa, according to Mr. A. E. Waite an exceedingly comprehensive, conscientious treatise on the history, theory, and practice of alchemy, written after the manner of the scholastics, and naturally containing much irrelevant matter, but for all this very useful and even interesting. The difficulties of the art are manfully faced, the sophistications, deceptions, and contradictions of its professors are reproved, and the author attempts to show that alchemy is in reality a short art and a slight practice, though full of truth and nobility. VII. CHEMISTRY, continued: 2648 BLACK (Joseph, M.D., Prof. Chemistry, Univ. Edin.) EXPERIMENTS upon MAGNESIA ALBA, QUICK-LIME, and other ALCALINE SUBSTANCES; with ESSAY on the COLD produced by EVAPORATING FLUIDS, and of some other MEANS of PRODUCING COLD, by WILLIAM CULLEN, M.D., 12mo. contemporary calf (rare), £1. 10s Edin., William Creech, 1782 2649 2650 As a model for philosophical investigation this essay was, by Brougham and Robison, placed second only to the 'Optics' of Newton. Its importance in chemical history is twofold. By setting an example of the successful use of the balance, it laid the foundation of quantitative analysis; and by the distinction of qualities conveyed in it between 'fixed' and common air, it opened the door to pneumatic chemistry. Up to that time the causticity of alkalis after exposure to strong heat had been universally attributed to an acrid principle derived from fire. Black showed that they lost instead of gained by calcination; and that what they lost was a kind of 'air' previously fixed' in them, and neutralising by its acid qualities their native causticity. The effervescence of 'mild' and non-effervescence of 'caustic' alkalies when dissolved in acids were alleged in countenance of the new theory, which, nevertheless, encountered a vigorous though futile opposition in Germany. It was pointed out in the same remarkable treatise that magnesia, until then generally held to be a variety of lime, formed, with the same acids, wholly different salts, and was consequently to be regarded as a distinct substance.'-D. N. B. The second essay contains the author's great discovery of latent heat', and his theory of 'specific heat', which formed the basis of the discoveries of J. R. v. Mayer, Helmholtz, and Joule. v. EDINBURGH ESSAYS, Nos. 283-4. LECTURES on the ELEMENTS of CHEMISTRY, delivered in the University of Edinburgh, now published from his MSS. by JOHN ROBISON, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Edinburgh, with fine portrait on copper, and 3 plates, 2 vols. 4to. scored calf gilt (sound copy); VERY RARE, £2.5s Edin., 1803 'During above 30 years he inculcated the elements of chemistry upon enthusiastic and continually growing audiences. It could not be otherwise', Robison wrote in 1803. 'His personal appearance and manner were those of a gentleman, and peculiarly pleasing. His voice in lecturing was low, but fine; and his articulation so distinct that he was perfectly well heard by an audience consisting of several hundreds. His discourse was so plain and perspicuous, his illustrations by experiments so apposite, that his sentiments on any subject never could be mistaken, even by the most illiterate; and his instructions were so clear of all hypothesis or conjecture, that the hearer rested on his conclusions with a confidence scarcely exceeded in matters of his own experience.' His lectures had thus a powerful effect in popularising chemistry; and attendance upon them even came to be a fashionable amusement'.-D. N. B. [FORTY-FOUR LECTURES on] CHEMISTRY, containing Whatever is Essential to be Known in the Art thereof, delivered in the UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH, a contemporary Manuscript, neatly written on about 600 leaves, 2 vols. 4to. contemporary hf. calf, with Chippendale bookplate of William Herbert (bibliographer, 1718-95), £5. 5s [c. 1775] AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING MANUSCRIPT, possibly the one from which the printed work, edited by John Robison, F.R.S.E., was published in 1803, which latter itself has now become very rare. According to D. N. B. his lectures were published by Robison in 1803 from notes after his death, eked out by those of his hearers, in two quarto volumes.' If not actually the original MS., it may safely be said to be the ONLY MANUSCRIPT COPY THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED FOR SALE, and should be of great interest for comparison with the printed work. 2651 BLOUNT (Bertram, F.I.C.) PRACTICAL ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY, with 54 woodcuts, 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 6s (p. 15s nett) 1901 2652 SECOND [LATEST] EDITION, revised to date, with 69 woodcuts, 8vo. cl., 10s (p. 15s nett) 1906 2653 BOERHAAVE (Herman, M.D.; Prof. Chemistry, Leyden, F.R.S.) ELEMENTA CHEMIE: Historia, Artis Theoria, et Operationes Chemica; with fine folding portrait by Wandelaar (inserted), and 17 copperplates, 2 vols. 4to. old calf, 12s 6d Lugduni Bat., 1732 2654 2655 Added are the same author's 'Opuscula Omnia, quæ hactenus in Lucem prodierunt,' Hagae, 1738. NEW METHOD of CHEMISTRY, including the History, Theory, and Practice of the Art, laid down on Mechanical Principles, with a critical History of Chemistry and Chemists, translated by P. SHAW, M.D., and E. CHAMBERS, with 2 copperplates, thick 4to. fine copy in contemporary panelled calf (RARE), 15s J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship in Paternoster-Row, 1727 The first English Edition. THIRD EDITION, translated with Notes and Appendix, shewing the Necessity and Utility of ENLARGING the BOUNDS of CHEMISTRY, by PETER SHAW, M.D., with 25 copperplates, 2 vols. 4to. in 1, fine copy in contemporary calf (RARE), £1. 10s 1753 Intended to contain all the important work done in chemistry, which long remained by far the best guide to the study of the science. . . He studied the processes involved in calcination, and to him is due the valuable experimental contradiction of the view put forth by Boyle and others.'-Prof. E. v. Meyer. 'A compilation of practically all that was known up till that date, collected with great labour from a large variety of alchemical and other writings.'-Dr. Dobbin. The third edition is especially valuable for giving excellent illustrations of contemporary chemical apparatus. 2656 BUCHANAN (John Young, F.R.S.) EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES on the SPECIFIC GRAVITY and the DISPLACEMENT of some SALINE SOLUTIONS, with illustrations, roy. 4to. sewn, 5s (p. 7s 6d nett) Edin., 1912 2657 PHYSICAL and CHEMICAL NOTES [as published in the Antarctic Manual '], with woodcuts; printed on one side only, and interleaved, 8vo. buckram, 5s [c. 1900] 2658 BUNSEN (Robert Wilhelm v.; Prof. Chemistry, Heidelberg; F.R.S.) GASOMETRISCHE METHODEN, 2. [neueste] umgearbeitete Auflage; with 70 woodcuts, 8vo. hf. German calf gilt, with auto. of Prof. A. Macfadyen, M.D., 4s Braunschweig, 1877 2659 1857 GASOMETRY, comprising the leading Physical and Chemical Properties of Gases, translated by SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE, F.R.S., with 60 illustrations, 8vo. cl. (scarce), 8s Bunsen was the founder of the analysis of gases, the inventor of the burner and galvanic cell named after him, and the discoverer-with Kirchhoff-of spectrum analysis. 'For the best methods of collecting gases from mineral springs and waters, from volcanic lakes, geysers, or boiling springs, from openings in rocks, clefts of glaciers, furnaces, fissures in volcanic craters, etc., reference may be made to Bunsen's Gasometry, translated by Roscoe.'-Chambers's Ency. It is still a standard work on the science which it created. |