DAVY, Sir Humphry (1778-1829). Elements of Chemical Philosophy . London: J. Johnson and Co., 1812. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper (‘H. Davy’) and inscribed in autograph on the title ‘Mr J.E. Berard / from the Author’, THE COPY EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED AND REVISED IN THE HAND OF MICHAEL FARADAY, evidently under Davy's dictation, apparently in preparation for a second edition, comprising a new introductory 'Advertisement', 6½ pages , dated Paris, 31 October [1813], and cancellations, emendations and additions to approx. 75 pages , including 9 full added pages tipped or pasted in, and a further 15 smaller pasted slips (the presentation inscription cropped by the binder). 20th-century morocco-backed boards. Provenance : presented by Davy to the French chemist Jacques-Etienne-Bérard (1789-1869), who records the gift below Davy’s signature on the front endpaper, ‘Cet exemplaire m’a été donné par Sir Humphry Davy en 1813 [in fact in 1814]. Les nombreuses notes qui y sont ajoutées sont écrites de sa main ou de celle de Mr Faraday qui l’accompagnait dans le voyage qu’il a fait à Montpellier’. A relic of the legendary collaboration between Davy and Faraday. Faraday had become Chemical Assistant to Davy at the Royal Institution on 1 March 1813, and was to accompany Davy and his wife as both personal secretary and valet when they travelled to France in October 1813 to collect a medal awarded to Davy (in spite of the continuing war between France and Britain) by Napoleon; their subsequent tour of France, Italy and Germany, which lasted until 1815, was to include a stay of several months in Montpellier with the young French chemist Jacques-Etienne-Bérard, who is several times cited in the annotations to this volume. It is curious that having laboriously completed this programme of emendations, rendering the book apparently ready to be sent to the printers for a second edition, Davy should have immediately given it to Berard (early in 1814). In the event, no second edition of the work was to be issued.
DAVY, Sir Humphry (1778-1829). Elements of Chemical Philosophy . London: J. Johnson and Co., 1812. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper (‘H. Davy’) and inscribed in autograph on the title ‘Mr J.E. Berard / from the Author’, THE COPY EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED AND REVISED IN THE HAND OF MICHAEL FARADAY
DAVY, Sir Humphry (1778-1829). Elements of Chemical Philosophy . London: J. Johnson and Co., 1812. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper (‘H. Davy’) and inscribed in autograph on the title ‘Mr J.E. Berard / from the Author’, THE COPY EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED AND REVISED IN THE HAND OF MICHAEL FARADAY, evidently under Davy's dictation, apparently in preparation for a second edition, comprising a new introductory 'Advertisement', 6½ pages , dated Paris, 31 October [1813], and cancellations, emendations and additions to approx. 75 pages , including 9 full added pages tipped or pasted in, and a further 15 smaller pasted slips (the presentation inscription cropped by the binder). 20th-century morocco-backed boards. Provenance : presented by Davy to the French chemist Jacques-Etienne-Bérard (1789-1869), who records the gift below Davy’s signature on the front endpaper, ‘Cet exemplaire m’a été donné par Sir Humphry Davy en 1813 [in fact in 1814]. Les nombreuses notes qui y sont ajoutées sont écrites de sa main ou de celle de Mr Faraday qui l’accompagnait dans le voyage qu’il a fait à Montpellier’. A relic of the legendary collaboration between Davy and Faraday. Faraday had become Chemical Assistant to Davy at the Royal Institution on 1 March 1813, and was to accompany Davy and his wife as both personal secretary and valet when they travelled to France in October 1813 to collect a medal awarded to Davy (in spite of the continuing war between France and Britain) by Napoleon; their subsequent tour of France, Italy and Germany, which lasted until 1815, was to include a stay of several months in Montpellier with the young French chemist Jacques-Etienne-Bérard, who is several times cited in the annotations to this volume. It is curious that having laboriously completed this programme of emendations, rendering the book apparently ready to be sent to the printers for a second edition, Davy should have immediately given it to Berard (early in 1814). In the event, no second edition of the work was to be issued.
DAVY, Sir Humphry (1778-1829). Elements of Chemical Philosophy . London: J. Johnson and Co., 1812. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper (‘H. Davy’) and inscribed in autograph on the title ‘Mr J.E. Berard / from the Author’, THE COPY EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED AND REVISED IN THE HAND OF MICHAEL FARADAY
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