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BERTHOLLET, Claude-Louis. Researches into the Laws of Chemical Affinity ... translated from the French by M. Farrell, M.D., London: John Murray, 1804. 8°, half title (title and one leaf torn without loss, occasional light spotting), original paper-backed boards (spine worn, ink stain on upper cover, lower cover torn). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.
[MARCET, Jane] Conversations on Chemistry ... to which are added, Some late Discoveries on the subject of the Fixed Alkalies, by H. Davy, Esq. ... A Description and Plate of the Pneumatic Cistern of Yale College. And a short account of Artificial Mineral Waters in the United States, [New Haven:] from Sidney's Press, 1814. 8°, engraved frontispiece and 11 plates (occasional browning and spotting, offsetting to plates, lacking one blank leaf at front), contemporary calf gilt (rubbed), early marginalia to 2 pages and one-page of annotation at end. cf. Duveen p. 389 (citing 1809 French edition): "... first published in 1805 ... Faraday, when a bookseller's errand boy, was first made familiar with chemistry through reading this book." (2)
[MARCET, Jane] Conversations on Chemistry ... to which are added, Some late Discoveries on the subject of the Fixed Alkalies, by H. Davy, Esq. ... A Description and Plate of the Pneumatic Cistern of Yale College. And a short account of Artificial Mineral Waters in the United States, [New Haven:] from Sidney's Press, 1814. 8°, engraved frontispiece and 11 plates (occasional browning and spotting, offsetting to plates, lacking one blank leaf at front), contemporary calf gilt (rubbed), early marginalia to 2 pages and one-page of annotation at end. cf. Duveen p. 389 (citing 1809 French edition): "... first published in 1805 ... Faraday, when a bookseller's errand boy, was first made familiar with chemistry through reading this book." (2)