Chemistry from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1967. Facsimile reprint of the third English edition, 1857, of Whewell's history, from ancient times, of the natural sciences, including astronomy, mechanics (physics), acoustics, optics, thermotics (heat), atmology (meteorology), electricity, magnetism, chemistry, mineralogy, scientific classification, anatomy, geology, geological dynamics. The reprint adds an index not found in the original. Hardcover set of three,… Read more about this item

Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2000. Comprehensive list for first responders of toxins, chemical warfare & biological agents, categorized; with general and specific notes on detection, containment, exposure methods, protection, treatment, progression of symptoms, emergency response, decontamination, markings on military equipment. Dated for modern responders, but of historic & research interest to writers of thrillers. Glossy hardcover, as pictured; the… Read more about this item

London: W. Gibson, 1824. Technical manual or formulary, containing sometimes vague recipes & formulas for drawing & painting, extracting lake, varnishes, gilding metals, dyeing & staining, dyeing silks, stuffs, cloths, threads of various colours, [leather], processes relative to iron, stationery [quills & ink], [spot removal], perfuming, "wash balls", angling, bird catching, books [cleaning, book-binder's paste], building [damp cure, wood preservatives],… Read more about this item

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons for the author , 1962. Biography of the French chemist, instrumental in popularizing Lavoisier's anti-phlogiston views, but also important in French scientific education, the French Revolution, and as a researcher & writer. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; price-clipped (both corners) jacket shows minor edgwear, lightly tanned spine, minor smudging, a few… Read more about this item

No Place: Squibb Corporation, 1988. Collected papers of the doctor who founded E. R. Squibb & Sons, a pharmaceutical firm later merged with Bristol-Myers. Most of the 150 papers, photomechanically reproduced from medical journals, concern drug preparation, use, or purity. Two volume set, hardcover, as pictured; no jackets, likely as issued. Light wear, bumping to corners & spine ends. Text… Read more about this item

London: Edward Arnold, 1936. Scholarly & technical account of the use of bitumen & asphalt mixtures in roadbuilding, primarily in Britain & Europe. Fifth of the publisher's series on the subject. Hardcover, as pictured. General wear, covers scuffed & bumped, foxing to endsheets & page edges. Text clean; x, 319 pages + 4 pages ads; index, bibliography, appendixes, b/w photos,… Read more about this item

New York: S. D. Humphrey, 1855. First American edition of this important early manual of photography, with sections on preparing & using salts of silver, development of the image by use of reducing agents, fixing the image, nature & properties of light, chemistry & photographic properties of the collodio-iodide of silver, positive & negative collodion photographs, theory of positive printing,… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books, 1984. Fourth (and final) revision of Asimov's popular overview of science, working inward, from the nature and structure of the universe to the structure & function of the brain, praised for its lucidity & readability. Stout hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing), with full number string. Light wear to book & jacket, jacket… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Monograph on "basic concepts of the statistical-thermodynamic theory of rubber elasticity", thoroughly revised in this second edition, in light of new research in swelling and cross-linking. University of Wisconsin professor R. Byron Bird's copy, with his ownership markings & colorful annotations. Hardcover, as pictured. General wear, jacket missing, ink notes & highlighting. [10], 342 pages… Read more about this item

Baltimore/London/Tokyo / Bratislava: University Park Press / Slovak Academy of Sciences, 1971. First of a series of monographs on the use of radionuclides and nuclear radiation in chemical analysis, this volume discussing basic principles of nuclear physics & nuclear chemistry, detection & recording of nuclear radiation, working with radioactive material, and the "principles of indicator analytical methods". Hardcover in jacket… Read more about this item

Basel: S. Karger, 1983. Monograph on physiology. Publisher's Frontiers of Hormone Research, Vol. 11. Hardcover, as pictured. Light wear, ink name. Text clean; [8], 215 pages; indexes, references, tables, figures.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

London: Chemical Society, 1980. Technical manual with articles discussing the preparation & purification of labelled compounds, the "determination of the degree and specificity of labelling by means of a suitable analytical technique", and applications. Paperback, as pictured. Light wear, spine fade, label(?) stain inside front cover. Text clean; xii, 400 pages; figures, tables, references.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 5¾" by… Read more about this item

Oxford: IRL Press Limited, 1987. Technical manual on various aspects of high-performance liquid chromatography, then a rapidly-developing analytic technique, and still important in several fields; intended "to provide detailed practical h.p.l.c. procedures for the analysis of small molecules in the life sciences" including amino acids, small peptides, biogenic amines, carbohydrates, lipids, bile acids, steroids, vitamins, nucleotides & nucleosides, porphyrins and… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1991. Bureaucratic study of programs and methods for detecting & studying environmental toxins. Paperback. Shows light wear, minor creasing, ink name & number, spine faded. Text clean; xi, 211 pages; appendixes, references, tables.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 6" by 9".

Santa Barbara, CA: Woodbridge Press, 1997. Later printing of the fifth edition of this standard manual, "For the Professional and Commercial Grower and the Advanced Home Hydroponics Gardener". Stout hardcover, no jacket, as pictured. Light wear, hint of fading to spine, text clean. 527 pages; index, bibliography, no-doubt dated lists of suppliers, tables, figures, b/w photos.. Later Printing. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1963. Stories, mostly in the discoverers' own words, of discoveries in chemistry & physics, including teflon, freon, penicillin, insulin, rayon, oxygen, ring structure of benzene, helium, safety glass; atomic models, radioactivity, isotopes, quantum theory, cathode rays, positron, argon, fission, et cetera; discoverers quoted include Goodyear, Fleming, Nobel, Roentgen, Becquerel, Dalton, Priestley, Lavoisier, Daguerre, Kekule, Mendel,… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: Instruments Publishing Company, 1951. Biography of this Wisconsin native and University of Wisconson electrochemist, founder of the UW's Chemical Engineering department and electrical battery entrepreneur. Hardcover. Light wear to book, endsheets a bit tanned; jacket shows some rubbing, edgewear including minor chips, couple of short tears. Text clean; [4], viii, 429 pages; index, bibliography & list of patents, b/w… Read more about this item

New York: American Baking Powder Association, 1904. Mammoth collection of documents & testimony related to the "Baking Powder War", which erupted not long after the invention of cream of tartar + baking soda as chemical leavening: the profits of a leading manufacturer, Royal Baking Powder, were threatened by a new mixture involving alum so they attempted to get alum-based powders… Read more about this item

Paris: L. Mulo, 1902. Two volume set, complete, part of the Manuels-Roret/Encyclopédie-Roret, these explaining how to extract oil from animals & vegetables, these oils' chemistry & properties, how to purify & store them, how they are faked. Text in French. Revised edition. Nicely bound in quarter pebbled morocco over patterned boards. Both volumes show some edgewar, a few scratches &… Read more about this item

Norwood NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1978. Study of differences in French and British chemists' acceptance of the role of oxygen in combustion, based in part on ideas expressed in Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions: more a sociological look at scientists than a history of science. Hardcover, full white cloth, red titling. Light wear to book; jacket shows light foxing, badly faded… Read more about this item