Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry: Delivered in the University of Edinburgh (3 volumes)

Joseph Black; John Robison

Philadelphia : Printed for Mathew Carey, 1806

[An important early work on Chemistry] 3 volume set. Bound in contemporary leather.  Shelf worn.  Rebacked with new spine labels.  Vol. 1: 8, [iii]-iv, lix, [1], 394 p., [1], 3 folding plates; v. 2: 436 p.; v. 3: 453, [15] p. Refs: Rink 656; Shaw and Shoemaker 12157; Cole 159. Reprint of the Edinburgh 1803 edition.  Black was a Scottish scientist best known for the discovery of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide.  "A founder of modern quantitative chemistry and discoverer of latent and specific heats " - DSB.