Chemical Atlas: or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects: Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams

by Edward L. Youmans

$6,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Publisher's original gilt-and-blind-stamped brown cloth A striking American colour-plate book on chemistry and one of the most inventive scientific teaching books published in nineteenth-century United States. Youmans's Chemical Atlas is one of the most striking American educational books of the mid-nineteenth century. Designed for students and pupils in all schools where chemistry is taught, it presents chemistry through a series of coloured diagrams accompanied

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