Drink Wright Alder (1 results)

Thick 8vo. xvi, 570 pp., plus 6 pp. publisher's ads. With 144 text woodcut engraved illustrations, diagrams. Maroon-coloured publisher's cloth, embossed borders on covers, gilt lettering on spine (minor sunning to spine, edgewear, dustsoiling to upper fore-edge, slightly shaken), still VG copy from the library of James Warne Chenhall (d. 1914), perhaps best remembered as the engineer who oversaw the construction and fabrication of the Anaconda Smelting Works in the Montana Territory in 1883 in the U.S., w/ ownership stamp on verso of ffep. First edition of this noted and exhaustive work on preparation and manufacturing of a variety of oils, fats, butters, and waxes from animals and vegetables, including explanations of a myriad of uses for beeswax, cooking oils, soaps for health & hygiene, a myriad of oils for uses in perfumes and cosmetics, and more. Wright (1844-1894) was the founder of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and perhaps best remembered as the first to synthesize heroin in 1874.