Conversations of Chemistry: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained, and Illustrated by Experiments, and Thirty-Eight Engravings on Wood. The Fifteenth American, from the Last London Edition, with Additions and Corrections. To Which Are Now Added, Explanations of the Text -- Directions for Simplifying the Apparatus, and a Vocabulary of Terms.

Comstock, John Lee

Published by John Beach / Collins, Reese & Co, Hartford, [CT] / New York, 1836

About this Item

356pp. Figures 39 and 40 (relative to the steam engine) are bound in before the title page. Contemporary full marbled calf, spine with morocco label lettered in gold. Contemporary owner's name in pencil on front endpapers. Light scattered foxing throughout, more pronounced on endpapers; a few tiny tears to leather at rear joint. A very good+ copy. ; Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 37110

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conversations of Chemistry: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained, and Illustrated by Experiments, and Thirty-Eight Engravings on Wood. The Fifteenth American, from the Last London Edition, with Additions and Corrections. To Which Are Now Added, Explanations of the Text -- Directions for Simplifying the Apparatus, and a Vocabulary of Terms.
• Publisher: John Beach / Collins, Reese & Co, Hartford, [CT] / New York
• Publication Date: 1836
• Binding: Hardcover
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