Lot 164
Mendeleev (Dmitrij Ivanovič ) Die periodische Gesetzmässigkeit der chemischen Elemente [The Periodic Table] in Annalen der chemie und pharmacie, 1872.
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Mendeleev (Dmitrij Ivanovi? ) Die periodische Gesetzmässigkeit der chemischen Elemente, [The Periodic Table], first edition in German, in Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, vol 8. pp.133-229, the Periodic table on p.149 and 151, ink stamp to upper corner of first page of paper and title, leather book-label of Haven O'More, contemporary half roan, 8vo, Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1872.
⁂ One of the landmark papers in the history of Chemistry. The first publication in a western language of Mendeleev's paper announcing the periodicity of elements - it was translated from the Russian by Felix Wreden, originally published in the Journal of the Russian Chemical Society, vol.3 pp.25-56. This was a more complete table than any previously compiled and the paper included descriptions and predictions of the properties of several undiscovered elements.
Description
Mendeleev (Dmitrij Ivanovi? ) Die periodische Gesetzmässigkeit der chemischen Elemente, [The Periodic Table], first edition in German, in Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, vol 8. pp.133-229, the Periodic table on p.149 and 151, ink stamp to upper corner of first page of paper and title, leather book-label of Haven O'More, contemporary half roan, 8vo, Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1872.
⁂ One of the landmark papers in the history of Chemistry. The first publication in a western language of Mendeleev's paper announcing the periodicity of elements - it was translated from the Russian by Felix Wreden, originally published in the Journal of the Russian Chemical Society, vol.3 pp.25-56. This was a more complete table than any previously compiled and the paper included descriptions and predictions of the properties of several undiscovered elements.