[Rarebooks] fa: ROYAL INSTITUTION JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & ARTS 1820 - Technology & Inventions, Chemistry, Galvanism &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other antiquarian science & mathematics, auction ending Sunday, September 29. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts. Edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Vol. VI. London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. Tall 8vo (22 cm) bound in period tree calf, spine tooled in gilt; 412 pp. With five plates (one folding, one colored) and in-text illustrations and diagrams
With significant articles on…

ANATOMY & MEDICINE:

	  Observations on the Medico-Chemical Treatment of Calculus Disorders. Section 2: On the Production of Calculi in the Kidneys: their Nature and Treatment. By W. T. Brande. (2 parts)
	  Some Observations relating to the Agency of Galvanism in the Animal Economy. By A. P. Wilson Philip.
ARCHAEOLOGY:

	  Journal of the Proceedings of Mr. Burckhardt, in Egypt and Nubia.
ASTRONOMY:

	  Investigation of the Corrections of the Places of the Stars for Aberration and Nutation (with in-text diagrams).
BOTANY:

	  Select Orchideae from the Cape of Good Hope [contin. from vol. vi] (with a PARTIALLY COLORED FOLDING PLATE).
CHEMISTRY:

	  On the Preparation of Oxygenated Water. By M. Thenard.
	  Descriptive Account of the several Processes which are pursued in the Manufacture of the Article known in Commerce by the name of Tin Plate (with a diagram). By Samuel Parkes.
NATURAL HISTORY:

	  On the Mammoth, or Fossil Elephant, found in the Ice at the mouth of the River Lena, in Siberia (with a full-page woodcut).
	  Journal of a Trip from St. Thome de Angostura, in Spanish Guayana, to the Capuchin Missions of the Caroni (in-text illus.)
PHYSICS:

	  On the Floatage of small Heavy Bodies in Air, and certain Atmospheric Phenomena dependent thereon. By G. W. Jordan.
TECHNOLOGY & INVENTIONS:

	  On the Manufacture of British Opium (in-text illus.)
	  Description of Messrs. Taylors and Martineau's Patent Apparatus for the Production of Gas from Oil (with 2 PLATES, 1 folding).
	  Biographical Memoir of the late Mr. James Watt.
	  A Letter relating to Mr. Watt's Remarks on Captain Kater's Experiments, &c.
	  Description of a Differential Thermometer (in-text illus.) By W. Howard.
	  Account of a Portable Gas Lamp (in-text illus.)
	  On the Progress of Steam Navigation in Britain.
	  On a New Hygrometer which Measures the Force and Weight of Aqueous Vapour in the Atmosphere, and the corresponding Degree of Evaporation. By J .F. Daniell (with tables + 2 PLATES, 1 folding).

Some rubbing and creasing to the spine, scuffing to the boards; some separating at the gutter between pp. ii and iii; scattered light foxing to the plates, title-page with offsetting to the edges from the original binder's glue, a few occasional small spots to the leaves, but generally very clean and bright, firmly bound.