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Chemical Manipulation. Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry on the Methods of performing Experiments of Demonstration, or of Research, with Accuracy and Success. [Second Edition.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
by FARADAY Michael
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About This Item
John Murray,, 1829. 8vo., Second Edition, with small illustrations in the text, faint bookplate scar on front paste-down, [signature] erasure on front free endpaper leaving three-inch tear (but endpaper wholly sound); strongly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back with flat bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, crisp, copy. Dedicated to the Duke of Somerset, President of the Royal Institution, this is Faraday's only complete work in book form. First published two years earlier, it includes an extensive index. An unusually well-preserved copy. Bolton I, 434; Duveen p.207.
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- Title
- Chemical Manipulation. Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry on the Methods of performing Experiments of Demonstration, or of Research, with Accuracy and Success. [Second Edition.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
- Author
- FARADAY Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray,
- Date Published
- 1829
- Keywords
- science, faraday, michael faraday, chemistry, physics, electricity, experiments, experimentation
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