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SCIENCE AND MEDICINE (LOTS 58-80)
JOHN DALTON (1766-1844)
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JOHN DALTON (1766-1844)
A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Manchester: R. Bickerstaff [vol.1], and G. Wilson [vol.2], 1808, 1810, 1827. 3 parts in 2 volumes, small 4º (210 x 125 mm). Dedication leaf in all three volumes. 8 engraved plates. (Vol. 2 possibly lacking half-title, light spotting in the first title and some margins, spotting in some plates, some leaves faintly yellowed, vol. 2 with spotting in some text leaves.) Contemporary half calf by J. Carss and Co. with label in each volume (rebacked to style, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Walter Crum (perhaps the Coptic scholar, 1865-1944; signature).
FIRST EDITION OF DALTON'S CLASSIC WORK ON THE ATOMIC THEORY OF MATTER. Dalton maintained that all matter was composed of indestructible and indivisible atoms of various weights, each weight corresponding to one of the chemical elements. These atoms remained unchanged during chemical processes, and their particular weight determined their identity. His New System presented the first chemical atomic theory giving significance to the relative weights of the ultimate particles of all known compounds. It also provided a quantitative explanation of the phenomena of chemical reaction. Dibner Heralds of Science 44; Duveen, p. 156; Grolier/Horblit 22; Norman 575; Partington III, pp. 799-813; PMM 261.
A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Manchester: R. Bickerstaff [vol.1], and G. Wilson [vol.2], 1808, 1810, 1827. 3 parts in 2 volumes, small 4º (210 x 125 mm). Dedication leaf in all three volumes. 8 engraved plates. (Vol. 2 possibly lacking half-title, light spotting in the first title and some margins, spotting in some plates, some leaves faintly yellowed, vol. 2 with spotting in some text leaves.) Contemporary half calf by J. Carss and Co. with label in each volume (rebacked to style, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Walter Crum (perhaps the Coptic scholar, 1865-1944; signature).
FIRST EDITION OF DALTON'S CLASSIC WORK ON THE ATOMIC THEORY OF MATTER. Dalton maintained that all matter was composed of indestructible and indivisible atoms of various weights, each weight corresponding to one of the chemical elements. These atoms remained unchanged during chemical processes, and their particular weight determined their identity. His New System presented the first chemical atomic theory giving significance to the relative weights of the ultimate particles of all known compounds. It also provided a quantitative explanation of the phenomena of chemical reaction. Dibner Heralds of Science 44; Duveen, p. 156; Grolier/Horblit 22; Norman 575; Partington III, pp. 799-813; PMM 261.