DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY . WITH ITS APPLICATIONS TO THE ARTS MANUFAC
1830875261830. VAUQUELIN Louis Nicolas & Mrs. Almira H. Lincoln trans. DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY CONTAINING THE PRINCIPLES AND MODERN THEORIES WITH ITS APPLICATIONS TO THE ARTS MANUFACTURES AND MEDICINE. For the use of Seminaries of Learning and Private Students. Translated from Le Dictionnaire de chimie approuve par Vauquelin . With Additions and Notes by Mrs. Almira H. Lincoln . New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill 1830. First edition. Engraved frontispiece xxviii 29-531 pp. Errata list printed on verso of p. 531. 19 x 12 cm. 7 1/2 by 4 5/8 in. 12mo. contemporary binding: dun paper boards/brown linen spine with remnants of a printed paper label edges untrimmed. Early possibly contemporary ink ownership on ffep. and again on p. xix and book label of Samuel A. D. Sheppard the first president of the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical Association 1882 on front pastedown. Ex library having only two ink stamps on the front pastedown over the book label and again on title-page and a shelf label on spine. Binding is spotted worn at spine and along edges but sound. Pastedowns are heavily foxed. Text leaves are lightly foxed. Like her older sister Emma Hart Willard Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps American 1793-1884 was a pioneering teacher. She helped to broaden the education of American women with her popularization of the sciences as fit subjects for girls and was the author of a series of popular textbooks that were used in both boys and girls schools. In her preface to this book pp. vii-x written while she was vice principal at the Troy Female Seminary she explains a bit more about her role as translator and editor of this dictionary: "The compilers of the original work are MM. Brismontier Le Coq and Boisduval . their work having been submitted to the great chemist Vauquelin appeared under the sanction of his illustrious name. The translator has made additions from Ure Webster Green Journal of science Silliman's chemistry and some of the latest French writers." DAB 7; NAW 3; Amer. Women Writers abr.ed. 2; Siegel & Finley Women in the Scientific Search p. 141. Scarce. unknown books
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