[THORPE, EDWARD (ed.)]. Essays in Historical Chemistry. London: Macmillan and Co., 1911.
THIRD EDITION; leather bound, hardcover, octavo (22 x 14 x 5 cm), pp. xii, 601. English text. Handsome school prize binding of full calf gilt, marbled page edges and endpapers, prize plate to front pastedown, half-title. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Trivial shelf wear to covers. Interior very well-preserved. An excellent copy.
Notes: Third edition in a handsome binding. A series of lectures and addresses by famous figures in modern chemistry covering developments in the field during the 19th century. Contents:- I. Robert Boyle, II. Joseph Priestly, III. Carl Wilhelm Scheele, IV. Henry Cavendish, V. James Watt, VI. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, VII. Priestley, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and La Révolution Chimique, VIII. Michael Faraday, IX. Thomas Graham, X. Friedrich Wöhler, XI. Jean Baptiste André Dumas, XII. Hermann Kopp. XIII. Victor Meyer, XIV. Dmitri Ivanowitsh Mendeleeff, XV. Stanislao Cannizzaro, XVI. Julius Thomsen, XVII. The Rise and Development of Synthetical Chemistry, XVIII. On the Progress of Chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland During the Nineteenth Century, XIX. On the Development of the Chemical Arts During the Reign of Queen Victoria. Best known for his textbooks and histories of chemistry, Thorpe was also "an important figure in inorganic chemical research." DSB 13 389.
