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MENDELEEV, Dmitry Ivanovich (1834-1907). Organicheskaia khimiia [Organic chemistry], St. Petersburg: 1861. 8° (214 x 135mm.) (title stained and ink-stamped, title and following leaf detached from block, 1:2 with burn hole causing some loss, some general spotting, browning and staining, some scoring in pencil), contemporary roan-backed cloth (new lettering-piece); contemporary ink and pencil annotations. FIRST EDITION of the work which won the Demidov prize. DSB IX, p. 287.

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MENDELEEV, Dmitry Ivanovich (1834-1907). Organicheskaia khimiia [Organic chemistry], St. Petersburg: 1861. 8° (214 x 135mm.) (title stained and ink-stamped, title and following leaf detached from block, 1:2 with burn hole causing some loss, some general spotting, browning and staining, some scoring in pencil), contemporary roan-backed cloth (new lettering-piece); contemporary ink and pencil annotations. FIRST EDITION of the work which won the Demidov prize. DSB IX, p. 287.

MENDELEEV, D. I. O soedinenii spirta s vodoiu [On the compounds of alcohol with water], St. Petersburg: 1865. 4° (305 x 223mm.) (title browned, text waterstained in lower part of page, 9:2v and 9:3r soiled at lower corners), contemporary cloth-backed mottled boards, spine gilt-lettered; Provenance: autograph of Nikolai Kurnakov (1860-1941), Russian scientist and successor of Mendeleev on title. FIRST EDITION of Mendeleev's thesis for the doctorate in chemistry. DSB IX, p. 287; Bolton p. 664. (2)
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