The Life of the Honble. Henry Cavendish, including abstracts of his more important scientific papers, and a critical inquiry into the claims of all the alleged discoveries of the composition of water

London: Cavendish Society, 1851. Very Good-. London: Cavendish Society, 1851. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); publisher's green cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; xiv,478pp.; portrait frontispiece. Ex-Army Medical School Library with their extensive contemporary rubber-stamps and small paper spine label, cloth rather worn with exposure at corners, front joint splitting, old pencil markings to front pastedown messily (and only partly) erased, preliminaries foxed; overall a Good or better example.

The first biography of the English chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), best remembered for discovering hydrogen. Provenance: 19th century ownership rubber-stamps of the Army Medical School Library and 20th century ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.