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Posthumous edition, supplemented by the deceased s students based on the Nemet translation, reviewed by the author himself in 1868. With a portrait of the author. St. Petersburg: Tip. V. Demakova, 1887Second Russian Edition 8vo: Endpapers, Photographic print portrait of Butlerov with tissue protector (mostly separated), xvi (including, ½ title, titlepage), 719 (1, a paragraph with the date October 27, 1866) pp. Contemporary ¼ leather over speckled brown paper-covered boards. Raised bands on spine: in gold Butlerow , Organische Chemie , and A.G. Significant wear to edges, tips and corners, foxing throughout mostly on edges and largely missing the printed text. A most interesting point: the representations employed in this book are classical type-theory representations rather than line-bond representations similar to those introduced by Couper. Of interest, the only included line-bond representations are those for benzene and naphthalene consistent with those adopted by Kekule succeeding his original sausage representations. The extended title is consistent with this volume being a posthumous Russian translation of the 1868 German edition, itself a vastly expanded version of the original Russian edition (1864-6), (164, xxvi (6); G. Girolami, legendary rarityWorldCat lists two copies ). Interestingly, the two line-bond structures of benzene and naphthalene that appeared in the German edition on p. 725, appear in this volume on p. 172. Thus, beyond a straightforward translation, there was at least some rearrangement of topics. An old signature A.J. Goldsobel is at the top of the first endpaper. Below the signature: stud. chem. Consistent with his being a student in Germany in the 1890s. Dr. Greg Girolami provided excellent background on Goldsobel. Goldsobel, a Jewish family in Radom Poland, had a distinguished history in scientific, civic, and religious affairs. A.J. in Polish is Andrzej Jerzy. Thus, his publications in Polish are A.J. Goldsobel. In German, his name is Andreas Georg and his publications in German are A.G. Goldsobel. He studied at the Organic Laboratory of the Technische Hochschule in Berlin in the early 1890s, and his inaugural dissertation was approved by the University of Rostock in 1895. Around 1900 he was in Warsaw, from about 1905 until 1912 he was in St. Petersburg, and after that back in Warsaw. He published quite a few papers and patents (mostly but not exclusively on organic chemistry) from 1894 until 1915 or so. His determination of the structure of ricinoleic acid (12-hydroxyoctadec-9-enoic acid), major constituent in castor oil and ergot oil, was published under A.G. Goldsobel (Ber., Vol. 27, 1894, p 3121).
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