Alembic Club Reprints Nos 1-9, 12, 14

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No. 1: Experiments upon Magnesia Alba (1755) by Joseph Black; No. 2: Foundations of the Atomic Theory (1802-1808) by John Dalton, W.H. Wollaston & T. Thomson; No. 3: Experiments on Air (1784-1785) by Henry Cavendish; No. 4: Foundations of the Molecular Theory (1808-1811) by John Dalton, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, and Amadeo Avogadro; No. 5: Extracts from Micrographia (1665) by R. Hooke; No. 6: The Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalies and Alkaline Earths (1807-1808) by H. Davy; No. 7: The Discovery of Oxygen, Part 1 (1775) by J. Priestley; No. 8: The Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 (1777) by C.W. Scheele; No. 9: The Elementary Nature of Chlorine (1809-1818) H. Davy; No. 12: The Liquefaction of Gases (1805-1806) by Michael Faraday; No. 14: Researches on the Molecular Asymmetry of Natural Organic Products (1860) by Louis Pasteur.

The Alembic Club was founded in Edinburgh in 1889, by a small circle of chemists, in the University. L. Dobbin (1926) states in ‘The Alembic Club and the History of Chemistry’ (J. Chem Educ.), that the club played ‘a useful part in bringing important historical material connected with chemistry within the reach of interested readers’.

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11 vols, sm. 8vo, orig. cloth. Bookplate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford. All with ownership signature of Bowman (1874-1942), Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy and Crystallography.