H a E Scheele (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Condition is good minus. Covers are detached but present. Spine of covers has a chip to the top end, two tears, and is browned. Covers and page edges are slightly browned. ; 142 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The book has a sound binding and does not suffer from spine-lean. All pages are moderately toned, clean, unmarked and undamaged. The exterior silver cloth with black lettering is completely clean. The upper right corner of the front cover and upper left corner of the back cover are bumped. Very little wear otherwise. The book will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "The American Philatelic Congress Officers and Council"; "The President's Message" by Dr. Robert L.D. Davidson; "Welcome Message" by Svend Yort; "Report of the 29th American Philatelic Congress" by Robert B. Brandeberry; "A New Home for the Smithsonian Philatelic and Postal History Collections" by Carl H. Scheele; "Dona Emilia Rivadeneira De Heguy, Engraver of Ecuador" by Leo John Harris; "French Colonial Stamps--Some Oddities of Postal Usage" by Robert G. Stone; "The Postage Stamps of Orchha" by Harrison D.S. Haverbeck; "Perforation Varieties in Current Japanese Regular Issues" by Dr. Yoshitsugu Mishima; "Monaco--The First Issue" by E.D. Warshauer; "Company Shops, C.S.A." by A. Earl Weatherly; "Kazerun and Kurdistan Overprints" by Eric P. Anderson; "Multiple Advertising on the First Postal Card of the U.S." by Charles A. Fricke; "Special Printings of the 1879 U.S. Postage Dues" by Rear Admiral W.V. Combs; "Philatelic Cartography" by Delf Norona; "The Three-Cent 'Stuart' Washington Canal Zone, No. 115" by Orville H. Milburn; "Greek Occupation Stamps of the Dodecanese" by P.J. Drossos; "The Norway Coat of Arms Issue" by Reidar Norby; plus "Cumulative Index, American Philatelic Congress Books Volumes #1 through #30"; "Chronological Chart of American Philatelic Congress Books"; "Recipients of Congressional Awards"; and "Cumulative Index of Authors, Volumes #1 through #30".

Condition: Very Good. FAST Despatch by First Class Royal Mail.

The annual edition of updates to the Badminton Association's officers, rules, regulations, tournaments, records and results, plus the laws of the game. 8vo. 136pp. Paperback. Very good condition.

Cricket handbook, with annual report, regulations and register of all affiliated clubs. Paperback. Small 8vo. 220pp. Covers held in place with neat tape. Contents are very good.

Helmstädt und Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Budhhandlung, 1785. Small 8vo. Orig. printed blue wrappers to both issues., no backstrip. In: "Chemische Annalen.von Lorenz Crell", 1785:1. Bd., 3. Stück. a. 1785: 1.Bd., Stück 4. ( 2 whole issues = Stück3-4). (2),196-288 a. (2),291-384 a. 1 engraved plate. - Scheele's papers: pp. 229-38 a. pp. 291-299. First appearance of these importent papers by the discoverer of oxygen. "In 1785, Scheele revised his views on the nature of air and fire (the papers offered) as a result of Lavoisier's observations on the increase in weight on burning phosphorus in air. He says he had also often observed the formation of water on the explosion of a mixture of inflammable air (hydrogen) and fire air in a bottle, but had thought that the moisture was in the gases (as Priestly had done in 1781.(Parkinson III:p.228). "It is only the exact observation of Lavoisier which had helped me out of the dream."(Scheele).