Cours de Chimie Generale. Atlas.

Paris :: Victor Masson, 1850., 1850. 8vo. 32 pp. 49 engraved double-page plates (some folding). Contemporary green cloth-backed marbled boards, black gilt-stamped spine label; bound upside down, front hinge reinforced. Very good. [351] The Atlas volume with 49 double-page (and some folding) plates. issued to accompany a 4-volume text. / Theophile-Jules Pelouze was a French chemist. "Though Pelouze made no discovery of outstanding importance, he was a busy investigator, his work including researches on salicin, on beetroot sugar, on various organic acids (gallic, malic, tartaric, butyric, lactic, etc.), on oenanthic ether (with Liebig), on the nitrosulphates, on guncotton, and on the composition and manufacture of glass." (Inventory #: S14251)