first edition A smooth linen cloth of the period with a small blindstamp along the bottom edge of the front endpaper: Bound by the University
1907, 1910, 1913 · Leipzig
by Nef, John Ulrich - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Leipzig: Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie - Besonderer Abdruck, 1907, 1910, 1913. First Edition (only). OFFPRINTS.. A smooth linen cloth of the period with a small blindstamp along the bottom edge of the front endpaper: Bound by the University of Chicago Press. Most likely as a handful of presentation copies for Nef to distribute.. Very good.. 8vo, I - [214] - 312 pagination; II - [1] - 120 pp.; III - 204 - 383 pagination. Original printed wrappers bound in place. Occasional marginal notes throughout by Dr. Oscar Hedenburg (Mellon Inst.), a co-worker of Nef at the time, with an unidentified presentation (but most likely from Nef, given the awkward scrawl that is indicative of his hand) to him on the front wrapper of Part III. Hedenburg's signature is on the front free endpaper as well.
A landmark in analytical organic chemistry. Nef (1862-1915) has three chemical reaction sequences named after him. The last of the three - dealing with the fermentation of sugars - is presented in this series of offprints. The extensive and difficult multi-year research embodied in these results began with his examination of the multi-valency of carbon atoms and developed into the study of the mechanisms of dissociation of sugars and the basis of the modern concept of polymerization. Nef spent almost his entire career at the Univ. of Chicago. All of his publications appeared in German as articles in the Annalen der Chemie (his editor, writing to him in 1899, complimented Nef by stating that his published work in the journal was an "adornment" [... eine Zierde der Annalen] to the publication). It is particularly difficult to find any of his printed work since it all appeared only as articles or offprints. Complete "sets" of offprints comprising a body of work are especially difficult; more so if spread over a decade. See Wolfram's biographical entry for Nef in Great Chemists (Farber ed.), pp. 1129-1143 or Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences, XXXIV, pp. 204-227; DSB X, pp. 14-15; nothing in OCLC. (Inventory #: 20154)
A landmark in analytical organic chemistry. Nef (1862-1915) has three chemical reaction sequences named after him. The last of the three - dealing with the fermentation of sugars - is presented in this series of offprints. The extensive and difficult multi-year research embodied in these results began with his examination of the multi-valency of carbon atoms and developed into the study of the mechanisms of dissociation of sugars and the basis of the modern concept of polymerization. Nef spent almost his entire career at the Univ. of Chicago. All of his publications appeared in German as articles in the Annalen der Chemie (his editor, writing to him in 1899, complimented Nef by stating that his published work in the journal was an "adornment" [... eine Zierde der Annalen] to the publication). It is particularly difficult to find any of his printed work since it all appeared only as articles or offprints. Complete "sets" of offprints comprising a body of work are especially difficult; more so if spread over a decade. See Wolfram's biographical entry for Nef in Great Chemists (Farber ed.), pp. 1129-1143 or Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences, XXXIV, pp. 204-227; DSB X, pp. 14-15; nothing in OCLC. (Inventory #: 20154)