Scheele Charles William (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. Cloth binding. Facsimile reprint of the edition first published in 1786. Covers somewhat soiled but book is square and tight.

Condition: Good. Scott, Greenwood & Co., 1901. Translated from the Transaction pf the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm with additions. First published in english by J. Murray in 1786. Includes a sketch of the life of Karl Wilhelm Scheele by John Geddes M'Intosh. Ex libris. Some wear to boards. Binding tight, interior text clean and bright. hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition in French of Scheele's famous treatise describing his independent discovery of oxygen. The translator was Baron P.F. de Dietrich (1748-1793), a distinguished scientist who became mayor of Strasbourg at the outset of the French Revolution and was later executed. His notes are added at the end of the volume. Lavoisier submitted a favorable report to the Acadà mie des Sciences on this translation (see Duveen & Klickstein 61) and, with Berthollet, applied for the printing privilege. Partington calls the book "very rare," and it is even rarer with the supplement, published four years later, in which are incorporated the additions to the second German edition of 1782, viz. Leonhard's survey of the new discoveries on gases (with additions and notes by the translator), remarks by Kirwan, a letter by Priestley, Scheele's treatise on the amount of "air pur" (oxygen) in the atmosphere, and indexes. 2 small 8vo volumes bound as one in blue imitation leather, some wear to first title page, else VG lacks front endpaper in first volume; New Endpapers; 268 pp (i.e. xliv + 45-268),1 blank; 214 pp (i.e. xiv + 13-214) + 2 pp + blank (the 1785 supplement is said to be scarce - see Partington, Vol. III, p. 211); tipped-in folding plate following p 258 in facsimile on antiquarian paper. REFERENCES: Cole 1165 & 1166. Duveen p. 533(lacks Supplement). Neville II, p. 431. Partington III, p. 211, no. VII A and B. See Dibner, Heralds of Science, 41 and Horblit 92 for the first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SCHEELE, CHARLES-WILLIAM (1742-86). The chemical essays Translated from the Transactions of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. With Additions. London: J. Murray, 1786. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8 vo. Contemp. calf, rebacked. xiii, (1), ii, 406, (2, blank) pp. Woodcut bookplate giving borrowing times of the Royal Ordnance Medical Library dated January 10, 1815 and with their early rubberstamps on the title. A very good copy. "A monumental work containing a collection of essays on discoveries by Scheele, which had been published in Swedish in the Stockholm Academy transactions." (Neville II.429). The translation is due to F. X. Schwediauer and improved by Thomas Beddoes who also added notes. "Some of Scheele's most important memoirs are included: e.g., his discovery of hydrofluoric nitrosulphonic, molybdic, tungstic, arsenious and arsenic acids among inorganic compounds; and benzoic, citric, gallic, lactic, malic, oxalic, uric and other organic acids. Scheele also independently discovered or prepared chlorine baryta, oxygen, hydrogen sulphide, glycerol, lactose, and other compounds." (Neville). Other discoveries and methods are also included. Partington III.211. Sotheran/Zeitlinger, vol. 1, no.4229. Bolton I.802. Cole 1167. Duveen, p. 533.