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19002111181591900-01-01. Paperback. New. From the Cincinnati Museum center Nov 2012 - April 2013 paperback
1856mon0000018903George Virtue and Co c. 1856. HardcoverLeatherSpineCorners. Like New. in x in x in. No DJ. Volume II only. Few pages with light foxing. No other marks in lightly read book. 36 b/w plates no foxing. Binding intact. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards with wear of leather. No publication date. George Virtue and Co hardcover
183443654Paris Crochard 1834. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" 2. Series Tome 56 Cahier 4 last issue of tome 56. Entire issue offered. Pp. 337-444. Peltier's paper: pp. 371-386. The text calls for a plate but not present here. <br/><br/><em>First printing of the paper in which Peltier describes his discovery of the "Peltier-Effect" the thermo-electric cooling and heating of an electrical junction dependent on the direction of the current."Stimulated by the work of Nobili Peltier constructed a sensitive galvanometer to measure the conductivities of antimony and bismuth for small currents. Peltier's use of small samples of these nonductile materials was fortunate because the anomalous behavior of these materials led him to construct a thermoelectric thermoscope and to measure the temperature distribution along a series of thermocouple circuits. He discovered that a cooling effect can take place at one junction and an excessive heating at the other. He then confirmed this discovery by using an air thermometer in place of the thermoscope. Peltier did not pursue the effect he had discovered and its importence was not fully recognized until after the thermodynamic work of William Thomson twenty years later."DSB X p. 500.Wheeler Gift no 2684. - Ronald's Library p. 389. - Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1834 P. </em> unknown
183445159Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1834. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 31 No 5. Pp. 65-80. <br/><br/><em>First printing of the paper in which Runge discloses his discovery of carbolic acid or phenol and how he prepared it by distilling coal.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1834 C. - Partington IV pp. 183-84. </em> unknown
1892043A45L. Friederichsen & Co. Hamburg: 1892. 1892 Two Volumes. I: pp. 54 132 90 256 22 Two folding maps "Caspar Vopell's Erdglobus von 1542" - Western & Southern Hemisphere; II: pp. 8 328 9 One folding map: "Sir Walter Ralegh's Karte von Guayana um 1595." Tall 8vo. 276 mm. Attractive full white linen cloth bindings decorated and lettered in red blue black and gilt. Bindings slightly soiled but still nice. The text includes: Neumayer G. Einleitung. Ruge S. Die entdeckungsgeschichte der Neuen welyt. Gelcich E. Die instrumente. der nautik zur zeit grossen lander-entdecking. Baasch E. Geschichte der handelsbeziehungen zwischen Hamburg und Amerika. Michow H. Caspar Volpell; Schumacher H.A. Die unternehmungen der Augsburger Welser in Venezuela und Juan de Castellanos. Friedrichsen L. Sir Walter Ralegh's karte von Guyana; Etc. Hardbound. Very good. W152 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good. L. Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg: 1892. hardcover
181545715London W. Bulmer and Co. 1815. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1815 - Part II. Pp. 203-213 a. pp. 214-219. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of two importent papers by davy. In the second paper offered he relates his discovery of chlorine dioxyd."By explosion over mercury he found that 2 vols. give from 2.7 to 2.9 of gas and this would probably be 3 vols. if no chlorine had been absorbed by the mercury. This gas contains 2 vols. of oxygen and the remainder chlorine hence the compound consists of 'two in volume of oxygen and one of chlorine condensed into the space of two volumes' ClO2. He found it to explode at about 100 deg. with more viollence than euchlorine."Partington III p. 57.Together with ROBERT PORRETT "Further analytical experiments relative to the constitution of the prussic; of the ferruretted chyazic and of the sulphuretted chyazic acids; and of their salts; together with the application of the atomic theory to the analysis of these bodies." pp. 220-230 a. 2 tables one folding. </em> unknown
189359360Copenhagen 1893. Folio. 51 x 45 cm. Orig. printed clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. 28 pp. "In the present reproduction only those few pages are printed which concerns the discovery of America by the Northmen in the first years of the 11th century.". Lower right corners damaged by insect-bites no loss of text. Old Norse text English and Danish translation. hardcover
184447225Paris Bachelier 1844. 4to. No wrappers. In "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences" Vol. 19 No 14. Pp. 621- 686. Entire issue offered. Balard's paper: pp. 634-641. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of an importent paper in pharmacology as Balard here described his discovery of amyl nitrite and its preparation.Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton a Scottish physician later famously pioneered the use of amyl nitrite to treat angina pectoris. Brunton reasoned that the pain and discomfort of angina could be reduced by administering amyl nitrite to dilate the coronary arteries of patients thus improving blood flow to the heart muscle.Garrison & Morton No 1859. </em> unknown
190047268Paris Gauthier-Villars 1900. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 130 No 20. Pp. 1285- 1344. Entire issue offered. Grignard's paper: pp. 1322-24. One leaf repaired in upper margin affecting the text on verso but without loss of letters. Light browning poor paperquality. <br/><br/><em>First apperance of an importent paper in which Grignard revealed the "Grignard Reagent" an important means of preparing organic compounds from smaller precursor molecules. For this work Grignard was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 jointly with fellow Frenchman Paul Sabatier."A large number of general synthetic methods had been developed by the end of the nineteenth century. However one of the most versatile and importent was first described as the new century opened. This was the Grignard synthesis." Leicester "A Source book in Chemistry 1900-1950" where this paper is translated "Some New Organometallic Compounds of Magnesium and Their Application to the Synthesis ofAlchohols and Hydrocarbons"."Grignard treated magnesium turnings in anhydrous ether with methyl iodide at room temperature preparing what came to be known as the Grignard reagent which could be used for reaction with a ketone or an aldehyde without first being isolated. On hydrolyzing with dilute acid the corresponding tertiary or secondary alcohol was produced in much better yield than Barbier had been able to obtain. Grignard’s discovery was reported in a short paper at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in May 1900 the paper offered." DSB. </em> unknown
184748815Paris Bachelier1847. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome XXIV No. 7. Pp. 209- 252. Entire issue offered. Sobrero's paper: pp. 247-248. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the paper in which Sobrero announced his discovery of nitroglycerin."When I think of all the victims killed during nitroglycerine explosions and the terrible havoc that has been wreaked which in all probability will continue to occur in the future I am almost ashamed to admit to be its discoverer." Sobrero"Nitroglycerin was synthesized by the chemist Ascagne Sobrero in the middle of the nineteenth century. When he tasted it as all good nineteenth century chemists did when they discovered a new compound it gave him what he called a migraine because of its vasodilatory effect which was later harnessed in the treatment of angina by William Murrell 1879 following the experience of a distinguished British clinician Lauder Brunton using amyl nitrite 1867 Later in the nineteenth century Alfred Nobel discovered how to stabilize nitroglycerin using kieselguhr diatomite clay; this led to highly successful industrial applications of dynamite and created the fortune that eventually funded the eponymous prizes. For medical purposes nitroglycerin was subsequently renamed glyceryl trinitrate to hide the fact that it was literally dynamite as well as metaphorically." </em> unknown
182044807Paris Crochard 1820. No wrappers as extracted fron 'Annales de Chimie et de Physique' Volume 15 2e Series. Pp. 93-102. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this importent paper in which Arago gives an account of his discovery of how iron and steel could be magnetized by the action of the voltaic current THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. "Arago . made several important contributions to electromagnetism on his own. On 20 September 1820 he announced the discovery of the temporary magnetization of soft iron by an electric current which suggested to Ampère a theory about the nature of magnetic "currents" and provided the technological key to the electric telegraph. Ampère calculated that the magnetic power could be multiplied by twisting the current-carrying wire into a helix and with Arago he carried out the first experiments on primitive solenoids. In his historical articles Arago was always careful to credit Ampère with the major share of this discovery which ultimately depended upon Ampère’s mathematical theory."DSB.Arago formed a close freinship with Fresnelwhose views on the nature of light he ardently supported. He assisted Fresnel in some of his most importent work and made original discoveries in the same field.Magie "A Source Book in Physics" p. 443 ff. </em> unknown
189847409Paris Gauthier-Villars 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 129 No 16. Pp. 567- 626. Entire issue offered. Debierne's paper: pp. 593-595. Paperquality rather poor a bit fragile. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the paper in which Debierne announced his discovery of a new radioactive element found in uranium residues."In 1906 Professor Hahn discovered radioactinium between actinium an actinium X. Actinium emanation or "action" like radon is an inert gas was discovered independently by F. Giesel and André Debierne." Weeks "Discovery of the Elements" p. 307.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1899 C. </em> unknown
184259217Paris Bachelier 1842. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 14 No. 10. Pp. 349- 378. Entire issue offered. Donné's paper: pp. 366-368. <br/><br/><em>First printing of the paper announcing the discovery of blood-platelets THE THIRD CORPUSCLES OF THE BLOOD. Platelets or thrombocytes or yellow blood cells are very small irregularly shaped clear cell fragments i.e. cells that do not have a nucleus containing DNA 2-3 µm in diameter which derive from fragmentation of precursor megakaryocytes. The average lifespan of a platelet is normally just 5 to 9 days. Platelets are a natural source of growth factors. They circulate in the blood of mammals and are involved in hemostasis leading to the formation of blood clots. Platelets release thread-like fibers to form these clots.Garrison & Morton 864. </em> unknown
188648205Paris Gauthier-Villars 1886. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 102 No 18. Pp. 991- 1041. Entire issue offered. The papers: pp. 1003-1004 a. 1005-1006. <br/><br/><em>First apperance of the papers in which Lecoc de Boisbaudran described how he separated Holmium into two kinds of earths and naming them."He accomplished this by fractional prepicitation first with ammonium hydroxide and then with a saturated solution of potassium sulfate and found that the constituents of pure holmium solutions precipitate in the folloeing order: terbium dysprosium holmium and erbium. Lecog de Boisbaudran never had an abundant supply of raw materials for his remarkable researches on the rare earths and he once confided to professor Urbain that most of his fractionations had been carried on on the marble slab of his fireplace."Weeks "Discovery of the Eelements".Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1886 C. </em> unknown
184147143Paris Bachelier 1841. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome XIII No. 10. Pp. 487- 558. Entire issue offered. Matteucci's paper: pp. 540-41. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a main paper in the history of electro-physiology."The discovery by Volta of means for producing galvanic currents led to the construction of a galvanometer for measuring currents and later to its refinement. In 1841 Matteucci presented. a paper which showed that a galvanometer indicates a curring flowing whenh it is connected from the surface of a muscle to a wound in the muscle a current that was later called the "current of injury" and also the "current of rest" since it flowed without observable muscular contraction. Johannes Müller showed tis paper to his brilliant pupil du Bois-reymond. Du Bois interest was caught at once. He published his first paper on "thierische Electricität" in 1843 and his two-volumes on the subject - soon to become the classic - in 1848-49."Boring "History of Experimental Psychology" p. 40. </em> unknown
188249173Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences" Vol 94 No 4 15 17. Pp. 149- 184 pp. 997-- 1068 a. pp. 1139- 1214. 3 entire issues offered. Poincare's papers: pp. 163-168 1038-1042 a. 1166-67. <br/><br/><em>First appearance in print of the discovery of the automorphic forms which Poincaré named Fuchsian functions."One of Poincaré's first discoveries in mathematics dating to the 1880s was automorphic forms. He named them Fuchsian functions after the mathematician Lazarus Fuchs because Fuchs was known for being a good teacher and had researched on differential equations and the theory of functions. Poincaré actually developed the concept of these functions as part of his doctoral thesis. Under Poincaré's definition an automorphic function is one which is analytic in its domain and is invariant under a discrete infinite group of linear fractional transformations. Automorphic functions then generalize both trigonometric and elliptic functions." Wikipedia. </em> unknown
180645517Paris Chez Bernard 1806. No wrappers. Ectracts from "Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires." Vol. 57. Pp. 131-174 a. pp. 225-272. With the titlepage to volume 57. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a classic paper in which Proust describes his discovery of Grape.Sugar and the identificationof this with glucose. He investigated the varieties of sugar that occur in sweet vegetable juices distinguishing three kinds and he showed that the sugar in grapes of which he announced the existence to his classes at Madrid is identical with that obtained from honey by the Russian chemist J. T. Lowitz.Proust is famous for his work on the steadiness of composition of chemical compounds."In chemistry the law of definite proportions sometimes called Proust's Law states that a chemical compound always contains exactly the same proportion of elements by mass. An equivalent statement is the law of constant composition which states that all samples of a given chemical compound have the same elemental composition. For example oxygen makes up 8/9 of the mass of any sample of pure water while hydrogen makes up the remaining 1/9 of the mass. Along with the law of multiple proportions the law of definite proportions forms the basis of stoichiometry."Wikipedia. </em> unknown
183149631Paris Crochard 1831. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 46 Cahier 1. Pp. 5-112. Entire issue offered. Sefström's paper: pp. 105-111. <br/><br/><em>First printing of the paper in which Sefström announced his discovery of a new element in iron from the Taberg mine in Småland. He named it Vanadium from the goddess Vanadis.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1831 C.The discovery and isolation of Vanadium has a long story to tell. In reality it was found by del Rio in 1801 he named it Erythronium but upon further study he decided that he was mistaken as his further studies showed that it was made up of a basic lead chromate. </em> unknown
185649036Paris Mallet-Bachelier 1856. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 43 No 13. Pp. 637- 672. Entire issue offered. Vulpian's paper: pp. 663-665. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the paper in which Vulpian described his discovery of adrenaline in the adrenal medulla. Vulpian established that the medulla synthesised a substance that was liberated into the blood circulation. This substance was later identified as adrenaline.Garrison & Morton No. 1141. </em> unknown
189843857Berlin J.A. Barth 1898. No wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik" Neue Folge Band 65 No 5. Pp. 1-240. Entire issue offered No.5. Titlepage to vol. 65. Stamp on titlepage. Schmidt's paper: pp. 141-151 textillustr. A tear to inner lower corners of pp. 24-32. not affecting Schmidt's paper. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Schmidt's full exposition in which he describes his discovery of the radioactivity of Thorium. Schmidt and Marie Curie independently demonstrated the radioactive quality but Schmidt's demonstration took place a few months before Curie's. The discovery was announced but not described in full in a short message published in "Verhandl. d. Phys. Gesellsch. zu Berlin 1898."Schmidt made his discovery while examining "many elements and compounds" in an effeort to determine whether any of the rays that were emitted bore a resemblance to those that Henri becquerel had found emerging from uranium and uranium compounds. He located only one such element thorium and immediately conducted absorption ionization reflection refradction and poklarization studies to determine the characteristics of its rays. Having combined a misinterpretation of Becquerel's with one of his own Schmidt concluded that thorium rays most resembled Röntgen rays - a conclusion that soon required revisoln in view of the researches of Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford."DSB XII p. 191. </em> unknown
182949248Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1829. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 16 Siebentes Stück. 2 pp. 1 folded engraved plate. Entire issue offered with titlepage to volume 16. Berzelius's paper: pp. 387-415. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First German printing - printed simultaneously with the English and Swedish version - of the paper in which Berzelius described his discovery of Thorium the first element after Uranium to be identified as such. In 1829 Jöns Jakob Berzelius of the Royal Karolinska Institute Stockholm extracted thorium from a rock specimen sent to him by an amateur mineralogist who had discovered it near Brevig and realised that it had not previously been reported. The mineral turned out to be thorium silicate and it is now known as thorite. Berzelius even produced a sample of metallic thorium by heating thorium fluoride with potassium and confirmed it as a new metal. He called the black mineral thorite in honor of the Scandinavian god Thor.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1829 C. </em> unknown
183248329Paris Crochard 1832. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" 2e Series vol. 51 Cahier 4. Pp. 337-444 Entire issue offered. Faraday's letter: pp. 404-434 a. 1 engraved plate. Some brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Faraday's famous letter to Gay-Lussac in which he claim to be the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction analysed the results of the Italian philosophers pointing out their errors and defending himself from what he regarded as imputations on his character. The style of this letter is unexceptionable for Faraday could not write otherwise than as a gentleman; but the letter shows that had he willed it he could have hit hard. The letter was later translated into English and published in "Philosophical Magazine" in 1840 under the title "On Magneto-electric Induction"."In 1831 seemingly out of nowhere came the discovery of electromagnetic induction and the beginning of the experimental researches in electricity which were to lead Faraday to the discovery of the laws of electrochemistry specific inductive capacity the Faraday effect and the foundations of classical field theory." DSB. </em> unknown
187947275Paris Gauthier-Villars 1879. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 88 No 7. Pp. 313- 352. Entire issue offered. Boisbaudran's paper: pp. 322-324. <br/><br/><em>First apperance of the paper in which Boisbaudran revealed his discovery of a new earth that precipitated had a unique spectrum. De Boisbaudran named it samaria after the mineral from which it was derived. The mineral samarskite is named for a Russian mining engineer and Chief of Staff - Corps of Mining Engineers Colonel Vasili Evgrafovich Samarsky-Bykhovets."Samarium was discovered by French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1879. He noticed in his research that impure didymium praseodymium and neodymium with other impurities seemed to contain more than just didymium based on spectroscopic work on various rare-earth minerals. When Lecoq de Boisbaudran added ammonium hydroxide to a concentrate prepared from the mineral samarskite he observed a precipitate that formed before the didymium Weeks and Leicester 1968 p. 685. Partington "Breakthroughs" 1879 C. </em> unknown
187848210Paris Gauthier-Villars 1878. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 87 No 17. Pp. 570- 616. Entire issue offered. Marignac's paper: pp. 578-581. <br/><br/><em>First apperance of the paper relating Marignac's discovery of the rare earth Ytterbium Ytterbia."He began his study of the rare earths in 1840 when he was barely twenty-three years old. According to P.T. Cleve "Marignac's work on the rare earths is undoubtedly the most importent in this particular department of chemistry". In 1878 marignac heated some erbium nitrate obtained from gadolinite until it decomposed. When he extracted the resulting mass with water he obtained two oxides: a red one for which he retained the name Erbia and a colorless one which he named Ytterbia." Weeks "The Discovery of the Elements".Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1878 C </em> unknown
183351493Paris Crochard 1833. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to spine. Stamps to verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Series 2 tome 53. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. Payen & Persoz's paper: pp. 73-92. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a pioneering paper in industrial chemistry and microbiology being the discovery of the first Enzyme Diastase. It catalyses the breakdown of starch into maltose. </em> hardcover