THE ELEMENTS OF EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY: THE FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE EIGHTH LONDON EDITION, COMPREHENDING ALL THE RECENT DISCOVERIES
Book Details + Condition: Robert Desilver (Philadelphia). First American Edition, 1819. Complete two-volume hardcover set with original leather boards. Pagination: 375pp, 440pp. Illustrated with numerous engravings of chemical apparatus and experiments. Early 19th-century signature text on Chemistry, and the most recent discoveries of the time. Author William Henry was a model preceptor of Chemistry, who created a coherent paradigm for the science in the early 19th century, which was based on the notion of Daltonian atoms. This work is his classic text on the subject, and was used throughout the world for more than 50 years, instructing everyone from Natural Philosophers to Pharmacists.
For both volumes: firm binding; wear to original leather boards, with rubbing to leather, as well as to corners and edges; binding tape to spines (boards were most likely re-attached at some point); heavy age-toning to pages (some with quite darkened pages); scraped remnants of a bookplate to the inside front boards, along with (very old) owner info present; interior texts are otherwise free of markings. In Vol I, the ffep is missing, and there is an inked name to the first text page. Vol II has name to dedication page, and old water stain to bottom corner, which appears in the first few pages.
