Text-Book for Students of Chemistry: containing A Condensed View of the Facts and Principles of the Science.

Reid, D.B.:

Published by Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart second edition enlarged and revised 1836.

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xvi+190pp. black boards and spine, worn but professionally repaired, original spine label. The book is autographed by Master John McNeill Belfast, Monday 2nd Nov. 1857. It was obviously used by him as a College/University textbook and is extensively annotated largely on the blank pages included for just that purpose in the book, as well as on edge margins, some in pencil most in ink, some very neat others a bit of a scrawl. Dr. Andrews and Dr Carlisle are mentioned as Examiners, the former in chemistry. This was almost certainly Thomas Andrews who taught at the collegiate department of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, but moved in 1848 to the new Queens College, Belfast now Queens University, as Professor of Chemistry until his retirement in 1879. His most famous experiments were on the isothermals of carbon dioxide. The annotations add to the interest of the book giving a glimpse into a University course in Queens in the late 1850's. Seller Inventory # 8965

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Title: Text-Book for Students of Chemistry: ...

Publisher: Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart second edition enlarged and revised 1836.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good