[MARCET, Jane].

Conversations on Chemistry, in which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained and illustrated by Experiments and Plates. To which are added, Some late Discoveries on the subject of the Fixed Alkalies, by H. Davy, Esq. of the Royal Society. A Description and plate of the Pneumatic Cistern of Yale College.— and a short Account of Artificial Mineral Waters in the United States. With an Appendix, consisting of Treatise on Dyeing, Tanning and Currying.

Engraved frontis. & 11 engraved plates. xi, 358, 17, [7] pp. 8vo, cont. American marbled sheep (joints slightly cracked but strong, some foxing due to the quality of the paper), flat spine gilt. New Haven: Sidney’s Press for I. Cooke, 1809. “The third American edition (first and second: Philadelphia, 1806, and 1809), to which the anonymous editor has added new material on mineral waters and the principles of dyeing, tanning, and currying. The recent isolation of the alkali metals, potassium and sodium, by Humphry Davy is described.”–Neville, II, pp. 141-42. E.F. Smith has suggested that the editor was Benjamin Silliman the elder (1779-1864), professor of chemistry at Yale. If that is correct, this edition might well proceed the Philadelphia edition of the same year. This was one of the most popular introductory chemical textbooks ever written. Some light dampstaining but a very good copy. Signature of “Ann Eliza Whitney, April 3d 1820” on recto of frontispiece and on title. ❧ Cole 912.

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