Amsterdam, Weytingh & Van der Haart, 1855. 8vo (19.2 x 11.8 cm). 78 pp.; 30 text engravings [AND] 86 pp.; 25 text engravings. Slightly later pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Paper label with handwritten title on the spine.

Two rare works on chemistry by the French chemist and agriculturist Jean Pierre Louis Girardin (1803-1884), translated, expanded and updated by Frederik Hendrik van Moorsel (1831-1901), a Dutch chemist, who was an assistant at the Scheikundig Laboratorium in Amsterdam. Girardin was the successor of Louis Pasteur at the university of Lille. OCLC reports only four copies, all in Dutch libraries. Small label of a former seminary on the front free endpaper recto; otherwise very good, unmarked. Poggendorff I, p. 905.