Conversations on chemistry : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments and plates : to which are added, some late discoveries on the subject of the fixed alkalies / by H. Davy ... ; a description and plate of the pneumatic cistern of Yale College ; and, a short account of artificial mineral waters in the United States ; with an appendix, consisting of treatises on dyeing, tanning, and currying.

  • Marcet, Mrs. (Jane Haldimand), 1769-1858.
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1809
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Conversations on chemistry : in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments and plates : to which are added, some late discoveries on the subject of the fixed alkalies / by H. Davy ... ; a description and plate of the pneumatic cistern of Yale College ; and, a short account of artificial mineral waters in the United States ; with an appendix, consisting of treatises on dyeing, tanning, and currying. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Mrs. Bryan's Conversations

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[New Haven, Conn.] : From Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke & Co., book-sellers, N. Haven, 1809.

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2 volumes in 1 (xi, 358, 17 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

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Vol. 2 has half-title only
NLM copy imperfect: frontispiece and plate 11 wanting.
Conversations between Mrs. Bryan (here designated Mrs. B) and her pupils. Popularly known under title: Mrs. Bryan's conversations
Benjamin Silliman was probably responsible for this edition. Cf. E. F. Smith. Old chemistries, 1927, p. 67
"An abridgement of the Bakerian Lecture on the decomposition of the fixed alkalies and the exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases: by Humphrey Davy": p. 338-351
The main work was first published anonymously in London in 1806. It was also published in Philadelphia in 1809 with different additions
Engraved plates signed Doolittle sc
Includes index

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Shaw & Shoemaker 17979

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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