A Dictionary of Chemistry, exhibiting the present state of the Theory and Practice of that science, its applications to Natural Philosophy, the processes of Manufacture and Metallurgy . . . with a considerable number of tables . . . NICHOLSON, William (1753-1815).

2 volumes. 4to. VIII, 576; [II], 577-1132 pp. Errata, instructions to binder, 4 engraved plates (2 double page), index ; occasional foxing (including the inside corners of both titles, some browning or offsetting from the leather), pp. 567-576 increasingly wormed, affecting some ink letters and with a partial repair done to render the worst of it functional, in fact three leaves with similar toned paper mounted to make a correction. Modern dark brown half morocco, brown cloth over boards, spines tooled in blind with dual gilt-stamped dark red labels on each volume, new endleaves. AS IS. [318] First edition. "The first edition of a useful chemical dictionary. Preference was shown for the new chemistry but phlogistic alternatives are also presented. The new chemical nomenclature was not used but was discussed and a translation of the 1787 table was included." â " Cole. / "The first dictionary of chemistry by an Englishman, superseding the English translation of Macquer's Dictionary (London, 1771) by the Scot James Keir. Although preferring the antiphlogistic chemistry of Lavoisier, Nicholson also present the phlogistic alternative. This work is important for containing one of the earliest English versions of the table of the new chemical nomenclature from the Methode de nomenclature chimique (Paris, 1787) by Lavoisier et.al." â " Neville. / Two of the plates are of furnaces and apparatus; plates III & IV are each double-page and show chemical signs: Hassenfratz-Adet, "ancient" and Bergman. "Despite the note on p. [1111 â " instruction to binder] stating that there are five plates no copy seen or heard of has more than four. REFERENCES: Bolton (1893), 70; Cole 974; DSB, X, pp. 107-09; Duveen & Klickstein, Lavoisier, 137; Ferchl 381; Neu 2947; Neville II, p. 227; Partington IV, pp. 19-20, 32; Poggendorff II 280.