Lampadius, Wilhelm August | First edition of an early Freiberg work on applied and analytical chemistry

Lampadius, Wilhelm August

Beyträge zur Erweiterung der Chemie, und deren Anwendung auf Hüttenwesen, Fabriken und Ackerbau… Freiberg: Craz und Gerlach, 1804

8vo (200 x 127 mm). Engraved title-page vignette depicting a chemistry laboratory at Freiberg, one folding plate of amalgam apparatus; light browning. Contemporary German grey pastepaper boards, black spine label, red edges; extremities a little worn, front board edge shaved.

First edition by Wilhelm August Lampadius, professor of chemistry and metallurgy at the Freiberg Academy. A pioneer of analytical chemistry in Germany, Lampadius was responsible for several key innovations in mineralogy, electrochemistry, and applied chemical technology, and is credited with the discovery of carbon disulfide.

PROVENANCE

“Mr. Posem” (early nineteenth-century inscription on title-page) — Joseph A. Freilich (booklabel; Sotheby’s New York, 10 January 2001, lot 330)