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FARADAY, Michael.

Chemical Manipulation: Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry.

London: John Murray, 1842.

3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003304

8vo (215 x 136 mm). xiii [1], 664 pp., including half-title, several illustrations in text. Bound in contemporary full polished calf, spine with elaborate gilt decoration and black morocco label lettered in gilt, boards, board edges and leather turn-ins with gilt tooling, marbled edges and endpapers (just a little bumping and wear to corners). Text with very minor even age-toning, half-title with a few faint spots, but in all a crisp and bright. Provenance: Edward Cunard (bookplate to front-pastedown; James Small Brechin (bookplate to first flyleaf), collation notes on rear flyleaf, loosely attached is a photograph of Faraday's home at Hampton Court. An exceptional copy in fine prize binding. ----

DSB IV; Lowndes p. 778; Poggendorff p. 719. - THIRD EDITION, Revised. This is the only separate book published by Faraday. All other books that bear his name were collections of published papers or edited reports of his lectures. The purpose of this work was to make the general methods of chemistry, as distinguished from its results, the subject of special study and popular exposition. As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers, and popularised terminology such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion. Faraday ultimately became the first and foremost Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a lifetime position. (Wikisource) - Visit our website to see more images!

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