Scheele charles william (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Scott, Greenwood & Co., 1901. Translated from the Transaction pf the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm with additions. First published in english by J. Murray in 1786. Includes a sketch of the life of Karl Wilhelm Scheele by John Geddes M'Intosh. Ex libris. Some wear to boards. Binding tight, interior text clean and bright. hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SCHEELE, CHARLES-WILLIAM (1742-86). The chemical essays Translated from the Transactions of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. With Additions. London: J. Murray, 1786. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8 vo. Contemp. calf, rebacked. xiii, (1), ii, 406, (2, blank) pp. Woodcut bookplate giving borrowing times of the Royal Ordnance Medical Library dated January 10, 1815 and with their early rubberstamps on the title. A very good copy. "A monumental work containing a collection of essays on discoveries by Scheele, which had been published in Swedish in the Stockholm Academy transactions." (Neville II.429). The translation is due to F. X. Schwediauer and improved by Thomas Beddoes who also added notes. "Some of Scheele's most important memoirs are included: e.g., his discovery of hydrofluoric nitrosulphonic, molybdic, tungstic, arsenious and arsenic acids among inorganic compounds; and benzoic, citric, gallic, lactic, malic, oxalic, uric and other organic acids. Scheele also independently discovered or prepared chlorine baryta, oxygen, hydrogen sulphide, glycerol, lactose, and other compounds." (Neville). Other discoveries and methods are also included. Partington III.211. Sotheran/Zeitlinger, vol. 1, no.4229. Bolton I.802. Cole 1167. Duveen, p. 533. …