Dissertation Elective Attractions by Bergmann Torbern (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BERGMANN, TORBERN (1735-84). A dissertation on elective attractions. London: J. Murray, 1785. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8 vo. Full antique style calf. xiv, (2), 382, (2) pp. Four folding engraved plates + 3 folding tables. William Cole (the late important chemistry collector) bookplate, two library bookplates including the Royal College of Physicians, early engraved armorial bookplate, and dated ownerships in the 19th and 20th centuries. Plate I clipped by the binder's knife (probably during its first binding) affecting the last line of figures of the lower row of affinity diagrams. Translated by Thomas Beddoes, the Swedish chemist "… published his important tables of chemical reactions and advanced a simplified version of Macquer's classification of types of reactions. Fourcroy considered this to be one of Bergman's most important contributions." (Neville Lib. I. 123). D.S.B. 2: 7. Partington III. 184. Bolton I. 302. Cole 97.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition in English. Facsimile reprint of the first English translation of Bergman's monumental work, with a new introduction by A. M. Duncan. Duncan considers this to be "the highest level of chemical thought immediately before the coming of Lavoisier's New Chemistry, and the end of the phlogiston theory", published some 75 years before Mendeleev & Meyer published their periodic tables of the chemical elements. Not to be confused with the modern translation published in 1968, this 1785 translation is based on Bergren's revision of 1783. In his introduction Duncan discusses Bergman's work, inspirations, and influence, while noting that the original translator's extensive notes on Bergman's method require no modern augmentation. Hardcover, as pictured. Light wear, corners bumped, spine faded; no jacket, likely as issued; minor mis-creasing to folding plates. Text clean, no names or marks; xxxviii, [2], xiv, [2], [383], blank, [16] pages; 7 folding figures & tables, index, appendixes on the identity of the translator and chemical names in Latin. Size: Octavo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First english edition. xiv, (1), 382, (2, emendanda) pp. + 7 folding plates. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full calf. The title page supplied in facsimile; gift inscription on the pastedown; a few closed tears to the plates; joints partially cracked.

Condition: Good. London 1785 1st English J. Murray and Charles Elliot. Translated from the Latin by the Translator of Spallanzani's Dissertations (Thomas Beddoes). Torbern, a noted Swedish chemist, published his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions in 1775. It contained the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Octavo, (xv), 382pp., emandanda page, five foldout plates (chemical charts), original leather boards, inner hinges cracked, new paper spine. Title page professionally repaired. Near Good. Scarce.…