At the end of the first volume the printer's errata ask the reader to correct page 389: read Lavoisier instead of Levoisier. Lavoisier had been dead twenty-four years, his system had conquered European chemistry, and the compositors at Halle still could not spell his name. That is the flavor of this book. Its corrections and additions record a rapidly changing science.
Look at the back of the second volume. The appendix carries an entry on Jodin, iodine, discovered by a French saltpeter-maker in 1811 and still so new that it arrives here as an afterthought. Below it stands a printed retraction: the salts described in the first volume as euchlorine salts are nothing of the kind, but true compounds of chlorine acid with salt bases, and ought to be called chloric salts instead, "an error which I kindly ask to have corrected." A textbook that takes back a chapter in its own appendix is a textbook written during a revolution.This edition appeared twenty years after Gren’s death and in the year of Bucholz’s death. Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren, professor at Halle and founder of the Annalen der Physik, wrote the Grundriß and died in 1798 at thirty-eight. The revision passed to Christian Friedrich Bucholz, court apothecary at Erfurt and one of the busiest analysts in Germany. He revised the book for this fourth edition and died in 1818, the year this one appeared. The imprint belongs to the bookshop of the Halle Orphanage, the publishing house of the Pietist foundations that August Hermann Francke built, which by this date had been printing Bibles and schoolbooks for more than a century, but was equally happy to print the new chemistry.
The set is a working one in a handsome dress: contemporary half calf over brown paper sides, the spines richly gilt with decorative rolls, red and green lettering-pieces, the volume numbers in gilt on the green. The endpapers are blue vermicular pattern-paper, printed in fine loops, and the edges are stained yellow. Each volume carries the round violet stamp of the Baugartner Library of the city of Olomouc in Moravia, with its manuscript shelf numbers. The text is clean throughout and free of annotation; the corners are bumped and the spine ends chipped.
Provenance: Round violet stamp of the Baugartner Library of the city of Olomouc ("Baugartnerova knihovna hlavn. města Olomouce") to the title of each volume, with manuscript shelf numbers č. 425 and 426.
GREN, Friedrich Albrecht Carl (1760–1798) and Christian Friedrich BUCHOLZ (1770–1818). Grundriß der Chemie. Nach den neuesten Entdeckungen entworfen, und zum Gebrauch akademischer Vorlesungen und zum Selbstunterricht eingerichtet… als Besorger der vierten verbesserten und umgeänderten Ausgabe. Two volumes. Halle and Berlin: in der Buchhandlung des Hallischen Waisenhauses, 1818.
Physical Description: 8vo. Vol. I: 670 pp., 1 leaf of errata. Vol. II: 867 pp., the Anhang concluding with a printed Berichtigung to the first volume. One blank at front and rear in each volume. Edges stained yellow; endpapers of blue vermicular pattern-paper.
Binding: Contemporary half calf, brown paper sides, spines gilt in compartments with decorative rolls, red and green morocco lettering-pieces, volume numerals gilt. Rubbed, corners bumped, spine ends chipped.
Condition: Text clean and sound throughout, without annotation; light spotting in places. Library stamps as below. A solid, attractive working set.
At the end of the first volume the printer's errata ask the reader to correct page 389: read Lavoisier instead of Levoisier. Lavoisier had been dead twenty-four years, his system had conquered European chemistry, and the compositors at Halle still could not spell his name. That is the flavor of this book. Its corrections and additions record a rapidly changing science.
Look at the back of the second volume. The appendix carries an entry on Jodin, iodine, discovered by a French saltpeter-maker in 1811 and still so new that it arrives here as an afterthought. Below it stands a printed retraction: the salts described in the first volume as euchlorine salts are nothing of the kind, but true compounds of chlorine acid with salt bases, and ought to be called chloric salts instead, "an error which I kindly ask to have corrected." A textbook that takes back a chapter in its own appendix is a textbook written during a revolution.This edition appeared twenty years after Gren’s death and in the year of Bucholz’s death. Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren, professor at Halle and founder of the Annalen der Physik, wrote the Grundriß and died in 1798 at thirty-eight. The revision passed to Christian Friedrich Bucholz, court apothecary at Erfurt and one of the busiest analysts in Germany. He revised the book for this fourth edition and died in 1818, the year this one appeared. The imprint belongs to the bookshop of the Halle Orphanage, the publishing house of the Pietist foundations that August Hermann Francke built, which by this date had been printing Bibles and schoolbooks for more than a century, but was equally happy to print the new chemistry.
The set is a working one in a handsome dress: contemporary half calf over brown paper sides, the spines richly gilt with decorative rolls, red and green lettering-pieces, the volume numbers in gilt on the green. The endpapers are blue vermicular pattern-paper, printed in fine loops, and the edges are stained yellow. Each volume carries the round violet stamp of the Baugartner Library of the city of Olomouc in Moravia, with its manuscript shelf numbers. The text is clean throughout and free of annotation; the corners are bumped and the spine ends chipped.
Provenance: Round violet stamp of the Baugartner Library of the city of Olomouc ("Baugartnerova knihovna hlavn. města Olomouce") to the title of each volume, with manuscript shelf numbers č. 425 and 426.
GREN, Friedrich Albrecht Carl (1760–1798) and Christian Friedrich BUCHOLZ (1770–1818). Grundriß der Chemie. Nach den neuesten Entdeckungen entworfen, und zum Gebrauch akademischer Vorlesungen und zum Selbstunterricht eingerichtet… als Besorger der vierten verbesserten und umgeänderten Ausgabe. Two volumes. Halle and Berlin: in der Buchhandlung des Hallischen Waisenhauses, 1818.
Physical Description: 8vo. Vol. I: 670 pp., 1 leaf of errata. Vol. II: 867 pp., the Anhang concluding with a printed Berichtigung to the first volume. One blank at front and rear in each volume. Edges stained yellow; endpapers of blue vermicular pattern-paper.
Binding: Contemporary half calf, brown paper sides, spines gilt in compartments with decorative rolls, red and green morocco lettering-pieces, volume numerals gilt. Rubbed, corners bumped, spine ends chipped.
Condition: Text clean and sound throughout, without annotation; light spotting in places. Library stamps as below. A solid, attractive working set.
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