CONVERSATIONS ON CHEMISTRY, IN WHICH THE ELEMENTS OF THAT SCIENCE ARE FAMILIARLY EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED.

by Jane Marcet, Mrs Marcet

Second American edition Shaw & Shoemaker 17980 . Preface, table of contents, three appendices with treatises on dyeing, tanning, and currying. Index. Publisher's advertisement follows index. Frontispiece and plates in text. Also includes a description of a pneumatic cistern developed at Yale College and an account of artificial mineral waters. Front cover detached Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Front free endpapers lacking. Previous owners' names on front pastedown and title. xii, 13-427, 5 pages. contemporary leather, gilt-stamped label on spine. 16mo..

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1809