[Rarebooks] FS - 1820 Millar/Chemistry

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MILLAR, JAMES, M.D.  * ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY, with its Application to 
Explain the Phenomena of Nature and the Processes of Arts and Manufactures*

Edinburgh, W. & C. Tait 1820, 1st edition, hb. Folding plate at end of 
book. In original printer's boards, detached (but present) and lacking 
spine. 8vo, pp. xiii, 466. Faint college stamp on front free endpaper, 
and title page - no other markings. Many pages uncut.

Millar (1762-1827) was a physician and classical scholar. He was 
educated in Glasgow and took his MD, and became a member of the Fellow 
of the Royal College of Physicians, whilst teaching in Edinburgh. He 
edited the fourth, and part of the fifth, editions of the /Encyclopaedia 
Britannica/. This book was written "to hold a kind of middle station 
between the more superficial and profounder treatises - and to form an 
introduction to the larger and more systematic Works". (from the 
Preface). A rather scarce title in the history of chemistry; difficult 
today to locate a copy. Notwithstanding the debilitated state of the 
binding, the contents are clean and unmarked (except as noted). Priced 
with a suitable re-bind in mind.

Price: $250.00  (#30595)

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