A TREATISE ON CHEMISTRY Volume I The Non-Metallic Elements

f/piece (Dalton engr.portraiyt with tissue-guard)+xi+888+(4, pub's science list), 374 text ills.; lib.plate on fr.pastedown 'The Guardians of the Standard of Wrought Plate in Birmingham' with anchor logo at top, innocuous small (15 mm) round stampd of Birmingham Assay Office Library bottom half-title, internally clean and unmarked otherwise, main problem is that text-block is quite shaken, due to gutter opening exposing netting after f/piece incipiently lifting gathering of front-endpaper, half-title and f/piece; brown cloth covers are clean but 3 cm split near top front joint, top spine rubbed and nicked and two very small splits to back joint. Scarce with numerous fascinating ills. of lab. equipment. Has a good 40+ pp. opening historical chapter inc.discussion of phlogiston theory. 1.4 kg weight so, when packed, likely to go over 1.5 incurring additional postage especially outside UK.