Klaproth h j (3 risultati)

Paperback. Some slight traces of use, still a very good copy. Text in French. Please see description or ask for photos.

A'dam, reprint of the edition 1834. Wrps. 138 pp. With 3 fold. plates. Reprinted from the scarce original edition. 'Perhaps the most remarkable work which has ever been devoted to the magnetic compass; many of his conclusions still stand today' (Needham, Science and Cicilisation IV, p.244).

Leather. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. A handsome example of the scarce first French language edition of the German chemistry dictionary of Friedrich Benjamin Wolff and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Complete in four volumes and handsomely bound in half calf. The scarce first French language edition of this work. Translated from the original German by E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange and H. A. Vogel. Complete in four volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated, complete. The first French edition of this first German chemical dictionary, the work of M. H. Klaproth and F. Wolff. With the bookplate of German-born British professor of chemistry Franz Sondheimer to each front pastedown. In 1960, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his contributions to science. In half calf bindings with paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Minor losses of calf to back strip heads of volumes II and IV. Front joint of volume IV starting, with board firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with instances of spotting. Very Good. None (illustratore). book.…