"On the Change of Vegetable Colours as an Alkaline Property", and much else, in The Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts

Faraday, Berezelius, and Olbers, and many others. "On the Change of Vegetable Colours as an Alkaline Property", and much else, in The Quarterly Journal of Science and the Arts, 1822, volume XIII, London, John Murray, 1822. iii,iii, 454pp, with five engravings, one folding. [++] Modern library cloth, nicely done, with reinforced hinges this is a very sturdy and workable copy. Provenance: Norwich (England) Public Library, with their bookplate and small rubber stamp on the rear of the plates. Evidence of old dampstaining, and foxing. Nice, crisp, copy for all of that. Very good copy. [++] Michael Faraday, "On the Change of Vegetable Colours as an Alkaline Property", pp 315-317; J.J. Berzelius, "The Use of the Blow-pipe in Chemical Analysis, and the Examination of Minerals, translated from the French of M. Fresnel, by J.G. Children", pp 319-333; William Olbers, "An Easy on the Easiest and Most Convenient Method of Calculating the Orbit of a Comet from Observations", pp 366-386. "On the Neglect of the Bath Waters in the Cure of Disease", pp 28-36; A.P.W. Philip, "A Review of Some of the General Principles of Physiology, with the Practical Inferences to Which They are Led", pp 96-113; (Oersted) "Extract of a Letter from Professor Oersted" (on the barometer), pp 219. M. Thomas, on the Arithmometer, being a short paragraph on the introduction of the calculating machine on p 220. Samuel Parkes, "An Account of the Periodical Literary Journals which were Published in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Year 1681 to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century", pp 36-58 and 289-312 (concluded).…