'A History of Chemistry' by Charles-Albert Reichen

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An illustrated history of chemistry, a snowball of experiments, wrong turns, apparatus, theories and weird upon weird ways of describing matter.

Reichen moves from alchemy and early metallurgy through the chemical revolution and into nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments, with figures such as Lavoisier, Dalton, Davy, Faraday and Kekulé appearing alongside the technologies that made their work possible.

It belongs to the New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention, designed and produced by the Swiss-American graphic designer Erik Nitsche, and combines photographs, diagrams, engravings, historical apparatus and vivid colour illustrations throughout. The result sits somewhere between science history, visual reference book and mid-century information design. This British edition was published in 1964 and runs to 112 pages.

Leisure Arts Limited, London, 1964. First British edition. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. Designed and produced by Erik Nitsche; illustrated throughout in colour and black-and-white. Jacket has light rubbing and edge wear, with some creasing and small surface marks; internally clean and bright, binding firm. Very good condition.