A Dictionary of Chemistry, Exhibiting the Present State of the Theory and Practice of That Science, Its Application to Natural Philosophy, the Processes of Manufactures, Metallurgy, and Numerous Other Arts Dependent on the Properties of Habitudes......
London: For G.G. And J. Robinson, 1795. First Edition. Quarto. Item #021983
(Con't)...of Bodies, in the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdom with a Considerable Number of Tables, Expressing the Elective Attractions, Specific Gravities, Comparable Heats, Component Parts, Combinations, and other Affections of the Objects of Chemical Research. Nicholson was an English chemist, inventor and translator which in the late 1780s he translated a series of Antoine Francois de Fourcroy's scientific works. He was also a scientific publicist who founded the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts. He was the first man to produce a chemical reaction by electricity among other things. In two volumes, 576pp., and 577-1132pp. Illustrated with two engraved plates and two folding chemical charts. This was his major work after his earlier work First Principles of Chemistry. Bound in full contemporary calf rebacked with some restoration to corners or edges done in the early 1980s, raised bands with light and dark brown spine labels gilt, no names or bookplates, off-setting from plates, some light toning to some page edges. A handsome clean set.
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