Edinburgh [Scotland]: The Alembic Club, 1905., 1905.. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth. The binding is rubbed & lightly bumped. There are some tiny white marks to the covers & their edges are darkened. The spine is darkened with its head & tail lightly chipped. 48 & [1] pages plus a 2-page publisher's catalog & colophon. The endpapers are darkened with light offsetting to the pastedowns. The fore-edge is foxed. Good. <p>Alembic Club Reprints No. 13. Papers by Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1774), C. L. Berthollet (1785), Guyton de Morveau (1787), J. L. Gay-Lussac and A. J. Thenard (1809).

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Bookseller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 35531
Title: THE EARLY HISTORY OF CHLORINE.
Author: Scheele, Carl Wilhelm; et al
Book Condition: Used - Good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh [Scotland]: The Alembic Club, 1905.
Date Published: 1905.
Keywords: SCIENCE; CHEMISTRY; 18TH CENTURY SCIENTIFIC PAPERS; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SCIENTIFIC PAPERS; THE EARLY HISTORY OF CHLORINE; CARL WILHELM SCHEELE; C. L. BERTHOLLET; GUYTON DE MORVEAU; J. L. GAY-LUSSAC; A. J. THENARD; ALEMBIC CLUB REPRINTS NO. 13.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.

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Colophon: The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....