Strecker Adolph Editor (2 results)

Thick 8vo. XXXVII, [1], 1372 pp. Index; rather heavily foxed. Contemporary quarter calf, marron cloth, marbled endleaves; inner joints reinforced with cloth and the exterior upper joint with kozo. Ownership rubber-stamp of Rijks Hoogere Burgerschool Willem II. Good. [439] Adolph Strecker was a student of Justus von Liebig (1803â"1873), he edited this journal from 1870-74. The journal was published from 1849-1888. / For this issue the board of editors were: Dr. August Laubenheimer (1848-1904) on inorganic chemistry, Prof. Alexander Nikolaus Franz Naumann (1837-1922) on general and physical chemistry, Dr. F. Nies on mineralogy and chemical geology, Dr. F. Rose on analytical and technical chemistry. Laubenheimer and Naumann both taught chemistry at the University of Giessen. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL APPLY.

Series: Regnault-Strecker's kurzes Lehrbuch der Chemie. In zwei Theilen. Erster Band. Anorganische Chemie und Abriss der organischen Chemie. Small 8vo. [4], VIII, 837, [1], [IX]-XXVIII, [2] pp. 180 numbered figures, 1 large folding table (p. 311), index. Contemporary quarter dark green gilt-stamped calf, marbled boards. Small ownership sticker of Dr. Luigi Gobbi. Near fine. [387] Fifth revised edition of this 'Short Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry'. This is one of the two volumes issued in the series, complete in itself. The other part was on Organic Chemistry. / Henri Victor Regnault FRS was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1830, then the Ecole des Mines. He worked as Gay-Lussac's repetiteur in 1836, and succeeded Gay-Lussac in 1840 as Professor of Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique. He was an early proponent of thermodynamics and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s. He became a member of the Academie des Sciences. In 1841 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the College de France. In 1847 he was promoted to Chief Mining Engineer. In 1852 Regnault took a new position as Director of manufacturing at Sevres, which he held until 1871. He also became a noted photographer. After studying Louis Desire Blanquart-Evrard's modifications to William Henry Fox Talbot's positive/negative calotype paper process, Regnault probably began to photograph around 1847. He photographed landscapes, architecture, portraits, and genre scenes. A founding member of the Societe heliographique in 1851, he also served as the founding president of the Societe Francaise de Photographie in 1854. He never used his first given name and was known throughout his lifetime as Victor Regnault. PROVENANCE: Dr. Luigi Gobbi lived in Airolo, Switzerland.