BUNSEN, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-99). Gasometrische Methoden.

BUNSEN, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-99).   Gasometrische Methoden. Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1857. 8vo (208 x 135mm). Half title, 60 wood-engraved illustrations, tables, errata leaf, with the publisher’s yellow printed slip [often lacking] announcing the availability of copies on heavier paper for laboratory use (occasional light spotting and staining). [?]Original publisher’s cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (rubbed, slight wear to lower joints). Provenance: “Chem. Institut der Universitaet Graz” (stamps on half title and title); a further unidentified stamp on title; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of a work into which the author "... compiled his research on the phenomena of gases into his only book ... This work brought gas analysis to a level of accuracy and simplicity reached earlier by gravimetric and titrimetric techniques. Dividing the book into six parts, Bunsen presented methods of collecting, preserving, and measuring gases; techniques of eudiometric analysis; new process for determining the specific gravities of gases; results of investigations on the absorption of gases in water and alcohol using an 'absorptiometer' he himself devised; and results of experiments on gaseous diffusion and combustion" (DSB). Norman 373; Partington IV, p.286; Sparrow Milestones of Science 33 (citing the first English edition published in the same year as the present copy).