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Conversations on chemistry : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments
Title
Conversations on chemistry : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments.
Edition
From the 5th and latest English ed., rev., corr., and considerably enl. / to which are added, notes and observations, by an American gentleman. Second edition.
Published
Greenfield, Mass. : Denio & Phelps, 1820.
Physical Description
xxiv, 420 pages, 15 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Local Notes
LSF QD30 M37 1820 (LC): Autographs in ink on front flyleaf: Mary Rockwell. C. Rockwell. Baker, Dorchester. Other names (indecipherable) in pencil, and a motto in ink. On back flyleaf in ms. (in ink): "Instructions to be derived from this": a list of 8 statements, the first of which reads "Planets teach us activity," and the last of which begins: "Astronomy teaches us to praise God ..."
Notes
Published anonymously, London, 1806.
By Mrs. Jane Haldimand Marcet. Also attributed to Mrs. Margaret Bryan. A ms. annotation on the title page of the American Antiquarian Society copy identifies "an American gentleman" as John L. Comstock.
Plates signed: Drawn by the author, Engraved for Denio & Phelps, Rawdon sc.
Copyright April 27, 1818 by Denio & Phelps.
Includes index.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
1. On simple bodies
2. On compound bodies.
References
Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829, 2098
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 702
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Denio & Phelps, publisher.
United States Massachusetts Greenfield.
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