Early revised edition of this attractive illustrated chemistry textbook first published in 1873, one of J. Dorman Steele's famed series of standard texts for the classroom.
Very good plus.
Price: $125.00
FOURTEEN WEEKS IN CHEMISTRY is an example of efforts to standardize science education in the US, and it proved to be quite timely. Steele reflects on its "constantly increasing sale" in his preface to this expanded edition, and observes that "hundreds of schools where science had never been taught before" were using his text. Among the illustrations is one depicting a young woman inspecting an experiment.
Despite its 19th-century popularity, FOURTEEN WEEKS IN CHEMISTRY is scarce on the market, particularly in such bright condition — a common fate for Victorian textbooks, perhaps especially those kept next to scientific experiments.
New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, [1879]. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Publisher's red cloth pictorial boards. All edges marbled. Illustrated with color frontispiece and smaller black-and-white woodcuts throughout. 312 pages including index, with [4] pages of ads to rear. Seller's stamp to front flyleaf "Chushing & White, / dealers in / Drugs and Medicines, / Books, stationary & / Fancy Goods, / Water St., Skowhegan, ME." Owner names in pencil to second blank, dated No. 9 1881. Binding with a hint of soil, mild edgewear. Leaves with occasional small spots of toning; title page with light offsetting from frontispiece. Sound and bright.
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