Sir Torbern Bergman - Physical and Chemical Essays - 1784-1784
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Two-volume first English edition (1784) of Physical and Chemical Essays by Sir Torbern Bergman, translated by Edmund Cullen, in half-leather bindings with notes and illustrations.
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Physical and Chemical Essays;
In Two Volumes.
Translated from the Original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman.
By Edmund Cullen.
To which are added, Notes and Illustrations, by the Translator.
Date: 1784, First English Edition
London, Printed for J. Murray, et al
A two volume set of Bergman's Physical and Chemical Essays - to which are added notes and illustrations by the translator. Translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman by Edmund Cullen.
Torbern Olaf Bergman (1735 1784) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published.
Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species. With five fold-out plates and tables to volume one, including a Synoptical Table. Collated and Complete. Scarce,
Size: 21.5cm by 13cm
Pages: Vol. I - xl, 464pp, 2 folding tables, 2 folding plates.
Pages: Vol. I - xl, 464pp, 2 folding tables, 2 folding plates
Vol. II - xv, [1], 518pp
Lacking 2 folding plates in volume two.
Two volumes in half leather bindings with gilt titles to spines with some marks and scuffs to extremities. Both front pastedowns with bookplate of Macclesfield Library and a small binders label. Volume one is complete with two folding tables and two folding plates, volume two the text is complete. A few little marks here and there, otherwise pages are generally very clean as shown.
Physical and Chemical Essays;
In Two Volumes.
Translated from the Original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman.
By Edmund Cullen.
To which are added, Notes and Illustrations, by the Translator.
Date: 1784, First English Edition
London, Printed for J. Murray, et al
A two volume set of Bergman's Physical and Chemical Essays - to which are added notes and illustrations by the translator. Translated from the original Latin of Sir Torbern Bergman by Edmund Cullen.
Torbern Olaf Bergman (1735 1784) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published.
Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species. With five fold-out plates and tables to volume one, including a Synoptical Table. Collated and Complete. Scarce,
Size: 21.5cm by 13cm
Pages: Vol. I - xl, 464pp, 2 folding tables, 2 folding plates.
Pages: Vol. I - xl, 464pp, 2 folding tables, 2 folding plates
Vol. II - xv, [1], 518pp
Lacking 2 folding plates in volume two.
Two volumes in half leather bindings with gilt titles to spines with some marks and scuffs to extremities. Both front pastedowns with bookplate of Macclesfield Library and a small binders label. Volume one is complete with two folding tables and two folding plates, volume two the text is complete. A few little marks here and there, otherwise pages are generally very clean as shown.
Details
Number of Books
2
Subject
Chemistry
Book Title
Physical and Chemical Essays
Author/ Illustrator
Sir Torbern Bergman
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1784
Publication year youngest item
1784
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
London, Printed for J. Murray
Binding/ Material
Half leather
Number of pages
518
