[Rarebooks] FS: 1868 Dictionary of Arts Manufactures Mines & Technology - 2 Volume Set

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines; containing a Clear 
Exposition of their Principles and Practice”

By Andrew Ure.
Published in New York by D. Appleton in 1868. Corrected and Greatly 
Enlarged edition.

One of the great compendiums of manufacture of the 19th century, first 
published in 1839 and enlarged and updated a number of times. From amber 
and alabaster through brass, brick and bread, calico printing, cutlery, 
gas-light, glass-making, gunpowder, ice production, leather, pickles, 
silver, soap and tea, to white lead, wheeled carriages and wine, almost 
everything you can think of, any many things you wouldn't have thought 
of, are here.

"Andrew Ure [1778-1857] was a Scottish doctor, scholar and chemist. He 
received an M.D. from Glasgow University in 1801, and served briefly as 
an army surgeon before settling in Glasgow, where he became a member of 
the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in 1803. He replaced Dr. George 
Birkbeck as Professor of Natural Philosophy (specializing in chemistry 
and physics) at the recently formed Andersonian Institution in 1804. His 
evening lectures on chemistry and mechanics enjoyed considerable success 
and inspired the foundation of a number of mechanical institutions in 
Britain and the École des Arts et Métiers in Paris. Ure founded the 
Garnet Hill observatory in 1808. He was put in charge and resided in it 
for several years, leaving it second only to Greenwich in reputation at 
that time. Whilst in residence he was visited by Sir William Herschel, 
the Astronomer Royal, who gave some lectures to the local Astronomical 
Society and helped him to install a fourteen-foot reflecting telescope 
of his own [Ure's] design and manufacture. He was elected Fellow of the 
Royal Astronomical Society in 1811. He [also] achieved considerable 
reputation for his practical chemistry. In 1821 he published his first 
major book, Dictionary of Chemistry, a replacement for William 
Nicholson's outdated Dictionary. In 1822 he was elected a Fellow of the 
Royal Society. "

"By 1830, Ure's outside interests led him to resign first from his chair 
and then from the Institution. He moved to London and set himself up as 
a consulting chemist (probably the first such in Britain). His work 
included acting as an expert witness, government commissions and 
industrial tours of England, Belgium and France. His visits to English 
textile mills led to his publication of The Philosophy of Manufactures 
(1835) and Account of the Cotton Industry (1836), dealing with the 
textile industry. In 1840 he helped found the Pharmaceutical Society. "

"The great Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, Ure's chief and 
most encyclopedic work, was published in 1837 for which he received 
1,000 guineas. Further enlarged editions were rapidly called for in 
1840, 1843 and 1853. After his death four further editions appeared, the 
last in 1878. This work was translated into almost every European 
language, including Russian and Spanish. The Times review said: 'This is 
a book of vast research, and the variety of subjects embraced in it may 
be estimated by the fact that on the French translation it was thought 
advisable to employ nineteen collaborators, all regarded as experts in 
their special subjects.' Ure died in 1857 in London. Michael Faraday's 
posthumous description of him was: 'His skill and accuracy were well 
known as well as the ingenuity of the methods employed in his 
researches… and it has been stated that no one of his results has ever 
been impugned. His extensive knowledge enabled him to arrive at 
conclusions, and to demonstrate facts considered impossible by his 
compeers in science'."

Hardcover. 2 volumes. 7.5"x10", xiv + 1,118 + 998 pages; "with nearly 
1600 engravings on wood"; publisher's pink pebbled cloth. Rebacked and 
with new endpapers; spines sunned; faint name stamps on the title pages; 
otherwise a nice, clean, tight and fresh set. [382/38761] $125 net

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