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Berzelius, Jons Jacob; Die Anwendung des Lothrohrs in der Chemie und Mineralogie. Nurnberg, 1844. Octavo, pp. xxiii, 284, 4, 4 folded plates.
In recent tooled half calf, raised spine bands, gold gilt spine titles, near fine.
A Swedish chemist; Berzelius (1779-1848) made major contributions to the determination of the atomic weight of elements. the use of the blowpipe to determine the composition of minerals.His classic treatise on the use of the blowpipe in chemical analysis and for the examination of minerals was first published in Swedish in 1820.