MUSPRATT, JAMES SHERIDAN.
Chemistry Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to The Arts and Manufactures.
2 Vols. Glasgow, William Mackenzie, no date (Preface dated 1860). 4to. (4)+836+10; (4)+1186+10 p. Text printed in double columns, With 1108 illustr. in the text + 2 steel engr. frontisp., 2 steel engr. portr. of James Sheridan Muspratt and 30 steel engr. portraits, with facsimile signatures underneath, of noted chemists. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt and with green and black titlelabels. Binding a little worn.
¶ An important and comprehensive work, which includes articles on bleaching, dyeing and calico-printing, silk culture, alcohol, arsenic, beer, electro-metallurgy. enamels, fuell, gas, glass, gunpowder, gutta-percha, ink, iron, lead, leather, mercury, opium, paper, perfumery, photography, potassium, silver, soap, sodium, sugar, water, wine, zinc and other substances. The engraved portraits include Jac. Berzelius, William Tho. Brande, Robert W. Bunsen, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, E. Chevreul, Robert Christison, John Dalton, Humphrey Davy, George Fownes, Prof. Gay-Lussac, Leopold Gmelin, Tho. Graham, William Gregory, A. W. Hoffman, Eben Norton Horsford, Robert Kane, Antoine Laurent Lavosier, Justus Liebig, Joseph Priestley, Andrew Ure, and other famous scientists of the time.
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