[CHEMISTRY]. -- STRUTT, John William, third baron Rayleigh (1842-1919) and William RAMSAY (1852-1916). "Argon, a new consituent of the atmosphere," in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 186. Part I [-II]. London, 1895. 2 volumes, 4o. Original maroon cloth. FIRST EDITION, journal issue. A revised and expanded version of Strutt and Ramsay's memoir of their discovery of Argon which pre-dates the first separate edition (see following). Dibner, Heralds of Science 50; Norman 2028. -- STRUTT and RAMSAY. Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere. Washington, D.C., 1896. 4o. Original tan printed wrappers. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of Lord Rayleigh and Ramsay's memoir which was submitted in a competition for a Hodgkins Fund prize sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution in 1894. Norman 2029. -- RAMSAY, William (1852-1916). The Gases of the Atmosphere, the History of Their Discovery. London, 1896. 8o. Original blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. Norman 1779. -- MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907). Das spezifische Gewicht der Schwefelsure-Lsungen, offprint from: Zeitschrift fr physikalische Chemie, I (1887). Leipzig, 1887. 8o. Original gray printed wrappers (some chips and splits). FIRST EDITION, offprint issue, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper to "Herrn Professor Dr. Nicol ... von Verfasser." Norman 1492. -- MENDELEEV. "Ueber die Beziehungen der Eigenschaften zu den Atomgewichten der Elemente." In: Zeitschrift fr Chemie, new series 5 (1869), pp. 405-406. Leipzig: Quandt & Hndel, 1869. 8o. Contemporary half cloth, marbled boards. FIRST EDITION in German, journal issue. The first announcement in Western Europe of Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic table. Norman 1491. -- MENDELEEV. Grundlagen der Chemie. Translated from the Russian by Ludwig Jawein (b. 1854) and A. Thillot. St. Petersburg: Carl Ricker, 1891. Large 8o. Errata on recto of last leaf. Printed folding table, numerous text illustrations. Contemporary three-quarter morocco, cloth boards (back cover detached, extremities worn). FIRST EDITION in German, based on the fifth Russian edition. Including the periodic table, the arrangement of atomic weights and characters of elements which enabled Mendeleev to predict the existence of three as yet unknown elements. Dibner Heralds of Science 48; Norman 1493. -- GRAHAM, Thomas (1805-1869). On the Motion of Gases, offprint from: Philosophical Transactions (1846). London, 1846. 4o. Disbound. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the title-page to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow. Partington IV, pp. 268-70; Norman 930. -- GRAHAM. Chemical and Physical Researches. Edited by R. Angus Smith. Edinburgh, 1876. 8o. Original brown cloth (front hinge cracked). Provenance: Edward William Binney (1812-1881), geologist (printed presentation statement from James Young and Angus Smith on half-title, completed in ink: "to E.W. Binney..."). First Collected Edition. Norman 931. -- GAY-LUSSAC, JOSEPH LOUIS (1778-1850). Recherches sur l'acide prussique, offprint from: Annales de chimie 95 (1815). Paris, 1815. 8o. Contemporary quarter sheep. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "Mr. Guyton [presumably the chemist Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, 1737-1816] de la part de /l'auteur." Norman 885. -- VAN'T HOFF, Jacobus Henricus (1852-1911). tudes de dynamique chimique. Amsterdam, 1884. 8o. Contemporary half cloth. FIRST EDITION. Partington IV, pp. 658-60; Norman 2129. -- HANCOCK, Thomas (1786-1865). Personal narrative of the origin and progress of the caoutchouc or india-rubber manufacture in England. London: Longman & others, 1857. 8o. Original blind-stamped cloth (spine repaired). 24 pp. Longman's catalogue, dated November 1856, bound in at rear. Lithographed portrait frontispiece, 9 lithographed plates, (3 folding, 4 two-color), 10 engraved plates. Provenance: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (presentation inscription from Charles Macintosh & Co., dated February 7, 1857, stamps). FIRST EDITION. Hancock introduced the rubber trade to England, invented the masticator, a machine to process raw rubber into a malleable form, and in 1834 became a partner in the firm of Charles Macintosh and Co. Norman 988. -- Hans von EULER-CHELPIN (1873-1964). Chemie der Enzyme. II. Teil. Spezielle Chemie der Enzyme. 1. Abschnitt: Die hydrolysierenden Enzyme der Ester, Kohlehydrate und Glukoside. Munich & Wiesbaden: J.F. Bergmann, 1922. 8o. Interleaved. Contemporary half blue cloth, marbled boards. Second edition. Provenance: The author's copy, interleaved with blank sheets, with numerous clipped articles and catalogue entries, typed notes and letters tipped in, and occasional pencil notes. Euler-Chelpin was co-winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in chemistry, with the British chemist Arthur Harden, for his work on enzymes in fermentation. Norman 738. -- NEWLANDS, John Alexander Reina (1837-1898). On the discovery of the periodic law, and on relations among the atomic elements. London & New York: E. & F.N. Spon, 1884. 8o. 2 folding printed tables. 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated 1884 bound in at rear. Original blue cloth. Norman 1585. -- BUNSEN, Robert (1811-1899). Gasometrische Methoden. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1857. 8o. Numerous text illustrations. Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled boards. "This work brought gas analysis to a level of accuracy and simplicity reached earlier by gravimetric and titrimetric techniques." (DSB) Norman 373. -- LAURENT, Auguste (1807-1853). Mthode de chimie. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1854. 8o. (Minor foxing throughout). Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in cloth. Provenance: California Institute of Technology (embossed stamp on title). Printed posthumously, and including the author's system of nomenclature for the classification of compounds, his work on the classification of organic compounds according to structural type, and his substitution theory. Norman 1284. -- FRANKLAND, Edward. Experimental researches in pure, applied and physical chemistry. London: John van Voorst, 1877. 8o. Uncut and unopened. 2 folding chromolithographed plates, 4 lithographed plates. Provenance: Sir John Lubbock, M.P. (1834-1913), statesman and amateur scientist (presentation inscription on title "Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P. from the Author; bookplate (after he was created Lord Avebury). Original green cloth. FIRST EDITION. Norman 829. (17)