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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 182 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Dr. Sidney M. Edelstein was the founder in 1945 of the Dexter Chemical Corporation in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City. His multi-faceted interests were apparent in his profession and hobbies as a research chemist, inventor, industrialist, historian, and bibliophile. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. Hannaway was the author of a number of books: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations ofModern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996). …

RARE catalog of the Sidney M. Edelstein Collection, one of the few archives dedicated entirely to the history of chemistry in general, and the largest collection on dyeing (chemical technology) in particular. Sidney M. Edelstein (1912-1994), who collected and developed the collection and donated it to The Jewish National and University Library was a businessman and a successful lecturer and author of a number of papers and books on the history of chemistry, alchemy and dyeing. Contains b&w illustrations. 335x250mm. 182 pages. Beige cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Spine slightly yellowing and faded. Rear endpaper and several last pages bottom corner water-stained - NO damage to text/plates. Pages yellowing. This extremely rare comprehensive catalog of one of the most illustrious collections ever assembled by a single person in any subject, is in very good condition. The book is in : English.…