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

Sir Humphry Davy

Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh, London, 1813

About this Item

Pioneering work by the leading chemist of the day, Sir Humphry Davy of the Royal Institution in London. An early attempt to apply newly acquired knowledge from the emerging science of chemistry to the challenges of agriculture. Davy was already famous for his other great synthesis - that of chemical principles and the fledgling science of electricity, being one of the first to experiment with the battery developed in 1800 by Alessandro Volta. Book is 8.75" x 11" and beautifully bound in leather with gold border around the boards and delicately decorated spine in gold. The green leather spine label reads, "Davy's Agricultural Lectures." Internally, pages are very clean except for some foxing spots on plates and their adjacent pages and the first few preliminary pages (including the title page). Joints showing minimal leather splitting on the top 1.5 inches or so, otherwise the binding is very sound. A beautiful book, visually, on a significant subject, by an eminent scientist of the early nineteenth century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture
• Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh, London
• Publication Date: 1813
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good