The first appearance of Mendeleev's periodic table in a western journal

MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich.

Versuch eines Systems der Elemente nach ihren Atomgewichten und chemischen Functionen.

1869.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #001718

In: Journal für praktische Chemie, vol. 106, p.251. 8vo (211 x 130 mm). Entire volume: xi [1], 508 pp., including two title pages and 1 engraved plate. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, gilt ruling and shelf mark paper label, marbled edges (extremities worn, leather scratched, corners scuffed and bumped). Text with light even browning mostly to outer edges. Provenance: J.G. Strobl, Buchbinderei Wien (ink stamp to rear pastedown). Very good and clean copy. ----

Sparrow 147 -FIRST EDITION and the first appearance of Mendeleev's periodic table in a western journal. Mendeleev's work on Osnovy khimii led him directly in March 1869 to his formulation of the periodic law and table, in which the elements were grouped by atomic weight and grouped according to their chemical and physical properties. He famously used his table to predict accurately the elements which later came to be called gallium, germanium and scandium.

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