Mendeleev Dmitri: First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Xxxi, 654 Pp. Blue Cloth. Second Printing Stated. Fine, No Wear, No Marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large 8vo. First Edition of Mendeleev s translation of Charles Gerhardt and Gustave Chancel's book Prà cis d'Analyse Chimique Qualitative (Second Edition, Paris, 1862; see Bolton p 476). Original ½ leather over textured cloth boards, very worn, printed spine title faded but clearly visible: vi, 547 pp, includes 149 woodcuts as well as tables; first blank, title page and first leaf of contents table missing small section upper right corner from scorching but not affecting text. From Gregory S. Girolami and Vera V. Mainz Collection of Rare Books in Science: Although through most of the book figures and figure numbers correspond to those in the 1862 French edition, there are departures (e.g. Figures 41a-e after Figure 41 and Figure 42 matching the 1862 edition). There are more departures toward the end. Most striking is that the Mendeleev translation ends without the Appendix on spectrometry in the 1862 French edition. In its place the Mendeleev translation expands the crystallography section including extra woodcuts. RARITY: This book is extremely rare. Unfortunately, many Russian books did not survive in the country after the 1917 Revolution. Worldcat and KVK list three copies of this book: National Library of Israel, Helsinki University, and National Research Council of Canada in addition to copies in the Giralomi/Mainz collection and this one (from the Arthur C. Greenberg History of Chemistry Library). Light foxing but overall G. Vera Mainz (Preceptors in Chemistry, ACS, 2018): "Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) is best known for his discovery in 1869 of the periodic law of the chemical elements, leading to the concept of the periodic table. Many, including Mendeleev, ascribe this discovery to his work in writing a general chemistry textbook for the Russian student, Osnovy khimii or The Principles of Chemistry. What is less well known is that the Principles was one of several chemistry textbooks Mendeleev wrote for a Russian audience. Among these were Organicheskaia Khimiia (1861), an organic chemistry textbook, and Analiticheskaia Khimii (1864), a translation of Charles Gerhardt and Gustave Chancel's Prà cis d'analyse chimique qualitative (1862), both of which appeared prior to the publication of the Principles. More than anyone else, Mendeleev brought the modern chemistry textbook written in the Russian language to Russia." (DOI: 10.1021/bk-2018-1273.ch008). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2 leaves [half-title, title page for Volume I], 2 [contents for Volume I], 1-212, Heft 4, pp. [153]-212, is duplicated, [213]-242, 245-274 pp [despite the pagination gap, no text is missing], 1 leaf [errata]. Contemporary 3/4-leather and cloth. Top of spine repaired with new leather. Xlib: ink stamp of Gmelin Institut, Frankfurt/Main on verso of title page. Ink name stamp of Russian chemist Nicolas de Kolossowsky (1886-1935) on front pastedown and his signature, dated 1912, on front blank leaf. Good. First Edition. An English translation of the Russian title is: "The Relationship of Properties to the Atomic Weight of Elements". Volume I also contains a second paper by Mendeleev relating to his periodic law, with this title in English translation: "On the Correlation between the Properties of the Elements and Their Atomic Weights", Zhurnal Russkoe Fiziko-Khimicheskoe Obshchestvo, Vol. 1, pp. 229-30. There were 5 issues in volume I, numbered 1, 2/3, 4/5, 6/7, 8/9. Each issue was published with a title page, with the contents for that issue printed on the verso of the title page. In addition there was a leaf with publisher's ads at the end of each issue. IMPORTANT NOTE: This copy of volume I does have the title page for the entire volume, as well as a separate contents leaf for the entire volume, and the index and errata leaf for the entire volume. But the title pages and ad leaves for the individual issues were discarded when the issues were bound up into this volume. Mendeleev's first publication of his periodic law was a single-page flyer with the title, in English translation, "An Attempted System of the Elements Based on Their Atomic Weights and Chemical Analogies". There were 150 copies printed in Russian and 50 copies in French. Mendeleev's paper offered here was read to the March 1869 meeting of the recently founded Russian Chemical Society. I use the passive voice because Mendeleev himself did not read his paper. Contrary to the frequently-encountered statement that he did not do so because he was ill, Mendeleev was away on an inspection of cheese-making operations. The paper was read for him by his friend Nikolai Menshutkin. The paper was then published in April 1869 in volume I of the journal of the Russian Chemical Society. Mendeleev's textbook of inorganic chemistry, "Osnovy knimii", was published in 2 volumes in 1869 and 1871. His extensive discussion of the periodic law is in volume II. However in the Preface to volume I, dated March 1869, Mendeleev's periodic table is printed. This table is the same as the one in Mendeleev's flyer. The periodic table in the paper offered here is slightly revised from its original version in the flyer and in the Preface to volume I of the textbook. I do not know if volume I of the textbook was available before or after the April 1869 issue of the Journal of the Russian Chemical Society. An offprint of the paper offered here does exist and is dated St. Petersburg, March 23, 1869 (this is according to Jonathan Hill's cataloguing of a copy of the offprint). The offprint has a drop-title on page [1] stating that the article appeared in the Journal of the Russian Chemical Society, pp. 60-77. 47 members of the Russian Chemical Society are listed on pp. 4-5 of volume I. Mendeleev is included on p. 4. It has been stated that only 80 copies of volume I were published. With only 47 members in the Society, that number seems reasonable, although I cannot confirm it. Mendeleev's paper is Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Science (Horblit) 74. NOTE about photos: I can supply more photos of the binding upon request.…

1 Bl., 160, 80 S. 12 mehtrfach gefalt. lithograph. Tafeln. Erste Ausgabe dieses seltenen Klassikers der Luftfahrtsgeschichte welches die Grundlage für die frühe russische Luftfahrt bildet und auch den Wegbereiter der russischen Raumfahrt Konstantin Tsiolkovsky beeinflusste. - "A large contribution to the development of aviation was made by D.I. Mendeleev, who conceived of a stratospheric balloon and devised plans for its construction in 1875. The first foreigner to construct a stratospheric balloon was Picard in 1931. In 1887, Mendeleev ascended 3,350 meters in the balloon to observe a solar eclipse. Mendeleev defined the future significance of aviation with great foresight. His "On the Resistance of Liquids and Aeronautics" (1880) served as one of the fundamental guides for work in shipbuilding, aeronautics, airplane construction, and ballistics" (Geldern & Stites: Mass Culture in Soviet Russia, p. 480). - Durchgehend etw. gebräunt, stellenw. etw. fleckig. *** *** Copyright: Matthaeus TRUPPE Buchhandlung & Antiquariat - Stubenberggasse 7 - A-8010 Graz - ++43 (0)316 - 829552 *** *** Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 Gr.-8°. Mod. Lwd. mit eingebundenem OU (vorderer Deckel mit Eckabriss, hinterer Deckel gestempelt mit Randläsuren und hs. Notizen).…

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OF MENDELEEV'S PREDICTED ELEMENTS TO BE IDENTIFIED, thereby confirming "the validity of the periodic system of elements" Mendeleev had designed (Niaz, Critical Appraisal of Physical Science, 62). "The confirmation of this prediction may certainly be called the culminating point in the history of the periodic system" (ibid). In 1869 "Mendeleev published a periodic table. Mendeleev also arranged the elements known at the time in order of relative atomic mass, but he did some other things that made his table much more successful. He realised that the physical and chemical properties of elements were related to their atomic mass in a 'periodic' way, and arranged them so that groups of elements with similar properties fell into vertical columns in his table. "Sometimes this method of arranging elements meant there were gaps in his horizontal rows or 'periods'. But instead of seeing this as a problem, Mendeleev thought it simply meant that the elements which belonged in the gaps had not yet been discovered. He was also able to work out the atomic mass of the missing elements, and so predict their properties. And when they were discovered, Mendeleev turned out to be right. "The discovery of the three elements predicted by Mendeleev was of decisive importance in the acceptance of his law. In 1875 Lecoq de Boisbaudran, knowing nothing of Mendeleev's work, discovered by spectroscopic methods a new metal, which he named gallium. Both in the nature of its discovery and in a number of its properties gallium coincided with Mendeleev's prediction for eka-aluminum, but its specific weight at first seemed to be less than predicted. "Although Lecoq de Boisbaudran objected to this interpretation, he made a second determination of the specific weight of gallium and confirmed that such was indeed the case. From that moment the periodic law was no longer a mere hypothesis, and the scientific world was astounded to note that Mendeleev, the theorist, had seen the properties of a new element more clearly than the chemist who had empirically discovered it. From this time, too, Mendeleev's work came to be more widely known" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). CONDITION & DETAILS: Complete volume. Ex-libris bearing only a deaccessioned stamp on the back of the title page and slight ghosting at the spine where a spine level has been removed. 4to (11 x 8 inches; 275 x 200mm). [6], 1450, [2]. Bound in clean full blue cloth, gilt-lettered at the spine. Solidly and tightly bound. Very occasional toning, otherwise clean and bright throughout.…