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SCHEELE, CARL WILHELM. The Chemical Essays . . . Translated from the Transactions of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. xiii, [1], ii, 406, [2] pages, including final blank. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, spine rubbed, chipped at bottom, front cover detached; institutional stamp on title; bookplate. London: J. Murray et al., 1786
"A collection of some of the author's most important memoirs, edited by Thomas Beddoes. It contains accounts of his discovery of hydrofluoric, tartaric, benzoic, arsenious, molybdic, lactic, citric, malic, oxalic, gallic, and other acids. He also separated independently chlorine, baryta, oxygen, glycerine, H2S, and obtained the salts of manganese and showed how the latter coloured glass"--Duveen, page 533.
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