Author: BERZELIUS, J.J.
Title: A view of the progress and present state of animal chemistry. Transl. from the Swedish by G. Brunnmark, Chaplain to the SwedishLegation at the Court of St. James's.
Description: London, Printed by J. Skirven, Ratcliff Highway, and sold by John Hatchard, 190, Picadilly; J.Johnson and co. St. Paul's Church Yard; and T. Boosey, 4, Broad Street, 1813. 8vo. In a simple modern full brown mor., spine w. 5 gilttooled floral ornaments. (VIII, 115, I pp.) DSB II, 90: Pogg. I, 172: The English translation of a treatise that Berzelius wrote upon leaving the office of President of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm.: Wellcome II, 156 (1818 ed. only) : Not in Cole: Not in Ferguson: Not in Duveen: Partington IV, 146/7: Animal chemistry was in the early part of the 19th century next tot vegetable chemistry the component of what we now call organic chemistry (carbon chemistry). It included a.o. gelatin, urea blood, saliva, mosttly from the point of view of medicine or physiology. First English edition. Rare. Good copy.

Keywords: before 1850 Toon history W64