De l'Emploi du Chalumeau dans les Analyses chimiques et les Déterminations minéralogiques…Traduit du Suédois par...
Four folding engraved plates. 2 p.l., vi, 396, [2] pp., one leaf of errata. 8vo, orig. wrappers (some fraying & some wear to spine), uncut. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 1821.
First edition in French (1st ed., in Swedish: 1820) of this very scarce and famous work in which Berzelius describes the use of the blowpipe in chemistry and mineralogy. “The scientific apparatus and reagents available in Sweden when Berzelius began his work were very inadequate…The new forms of apparatus that he built were described in the various editions of his textbook and became standard pieces of equipment in laboratories all over the... More