Chemistry.- Mendelejeff (Dimitri) Grundlagen der Chemie, first German edition, 2 plates (of which 1 folding), black and white illustrations, ink annotations and stamps to title, the same to front endpaper (erased with black ink), title and pp.870-881 foxed, occasional faint spotting, half leather, upper joint foot beginning to crack, corners and extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, St Petersburg, 1891.

⁂ Mendelejeff's milestone text book, 'The Principles of Chemistry' first published in Russian 1869. In this work Mendeleev first published his great discovery that the elements exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties when arranged by their atomic mass, leading him to create the framework that became the modern Periodic Table.