Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture

DAVY, Sir Humphry

Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1813

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viii, 323, lxiii, [4] p. 28 cm. 10 b&w plates, including one fold-out. Diced calf leather binding with professional repairs to hinges, spine, and corners. Bookplate on front pastedown. Ink stamps on bookplate and title page for H. R. McLarty. Small stain on frontispiece. Some foxing and offsetting. Cornish chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was a popular character whose lectures and experiments drew enthusiastic crowds. He became well known in 1799 for his experiments with laughing gas (nitrous oxide), during which enthusiastic friends like Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge allowed themselves to be used as subjects. Even as a boy Davy was interested in chemistry experiments, prompting a friend to say,"This boy Humphry is incorrigible. He will blow us all." Sure enough, in later years, Davy damaged his eyesight in a laboratory accident with nitrogen trichloride. Seller Inventory # 121113

Bibliographic Details

Title: Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a ...

Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London

Publication Date: 1813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good