Traite d'analyse chimique.

Paris :: G. Masson, 1891., 1891. 8vo. [III]-XVI, 624 pp. 110 figures, folding table, index, errata ; lacks half-title. Contemporary quarter dark brown morocco-backed marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine title. Ownership signature (title). Very good +. Scarce. [428] First edition, issued posthumously, edited by Engel. Preface by Charles Friedel. / Roberto Duarte Silva was professor at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures. "He began at the age of 14 as an apprentice in a pharmacy. Later he came to Lisbon to work in the Farmacia Azevedo, and studied at the School of Pharmacy (Escola de Farmacia) of the University of Lisbon, there, he also received his alma mater. For some years he lived in Macau and Hong Kong, where he founded his own pharmacy. He studied the compounds of amyl bases and propylamine at the laboratory of Charles Adolphe Wurtz, and achieved total synthesis of glycerin at a laboratory of Charles Friedel. In 1863 he went to Paris, and taught analytical chemistry at the Ecole des Mines de Paris (now the Mines Paris Tech), the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (now the Ecole Centrale Paris), and the Ecole superieure de physique et de Chimie industrial de la ville de Paris from 1882 until his death. Through these years he taught and was active in research, especially in the field of organic chemistry. Duarte Silva was presented with the Jecker Prize (Prix Jecker) by the French Academy of Sciences in 1885. In 1887 he became president of the Societe Chimique de France." / Charles Rodolphe Engel (1850-1916) served here as editor of Silva's work. Engel studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg where he was a chemistry assistant when war was declared in 1870. He was taken prisoner, escaped, joining the French army. Engel graduated with a degree in physical sciences in 1872, defended his medical thesis on February 8, 1873 and obtained the first doctor of medicine degree granted by the new Faculty of Medicine.