Champion, Paul (“professor of chemistry”). De la Spectrometrie Spectronatrometre.
Paris: Librarie Polytechnique de J. Baudry, 1873. 1st edition. 15pp. Original printed wrappers. Good condition.Provenance: Library of Congress, with their surplus stamp on the front wrapper.
This rare pamphlet–only one copy (in the British Library) located in OCLC/WorldCat–was written by Paul Champion with Henri Pellet and Charles Grenier, and is illustrated with a full-page original photograph of the apparatus. There is one old rubber stamp from the former owner (The Library of Congress) and a few bends here and there in the wrappers; otherwise this is quite a nice pamphlet. $150 (Interestingly, one of the very few references that I can find for this work online is for volume 16 of Foote’s The Naturalists’ Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin: Science … where the pamphlet was offered for sale for 35 cents. There were other, rarer, and more sumptuous books offered for sale in this journal as well, so it makes for a curious browse.)