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Chemistry


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Arsenic!


CASTELLO, Pietro. Chalcanthium Dodecaporion sive Duodecim Dubitationes in usu olei Vitrioli et defensio Antiquorum in Arsenici... ad Raymundum Minderum. Rome, Mascardi, 1629.

Rare first edition of this polemical work against the use of liquid salts and defending in their stead the controlled use of arsenic, bound with three other titles by the same author on 1)pharmacy, 2)a distilled vitriolic spirit, 3) the use of hellebore.
$3,450





Organic Chemistry On The Index


RASPAIL, Francois Vincent. Nouveau Systeme De Chimie Organique, Fondur Des Methodes Nouvelles D'Observation... Paris, J.B. Bailliere, 1833.

First edition of a pivotal book in organic chemistry and the most important and original scientific work of a self-taught, somewhat belligerent scientist-politician Raspail (1794-1878).
$875





The Discovery of Oxygen


SCHEELE, Carl Wilhelm. Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer. Nebst einem Vorbericht von Torbern Bergman... Upsala & Leipzig, Magn. Swederus... zu finden bey S.L. Crusius, 1777.

First edition of this extremely scarce and important book which contains the announcement of Scheele’s discovery of oxygen, made independently of, and two years prior to, Priestley.
$48,000





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