Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal for June 1826...September 1826, Edinburgh, printed by D. Willison for Archibald Constable, iv, 530pp, volume 18, nos. 35+36, 1811. 8.25x5.5”. Rebound in modern cloth. Very tidy, in FINE condition. The Edinburgh Reivew was a sort of TLS and NYTBR for its day, with very long and penetrating articles reviewing books and reports on a very wide range of topics. It was also one of the most popular journals for the 1800-1830 period. $250
For example, for this volume we have:
DAVY, Sir Humphrey. “The Bakerian Lecture—On some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygene, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles to inflammable Bodies. “ And “On a Combination of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen Gas….from the Philosophical Transactions, 1811, Part I”. Pp 471-480. The new gas that Davy names in this paper is “chlorine or chlorine gas” which appears on p. 475. (In the August, 1811 issue, No. 36.)
“Gay-Lussac and Thenard had simultaneously been experimenting on this subject and had concluded that it would be possible to argue for the elementary nature of oxymuriatic acid; but they resisted Davy’s arguments when he put them forward. He declared that oxygen was never produced in reactions in which oxymuriatic acid was concerned unless water was present, and concluded that no substance had a better claim to be regarded as undecomposed. Applying Lavoisier’s criterion more rigidly than Lavoisier, he placed oxymuriatic acid among the elements as an analog of oxygen and gave it the theory-free name “chlorine.” With the demolition of the scaffolding of the oxygen theory of acids, the view that all exothermic reactions were oxidations, and the caloric theory, Lavoisier’s revolution was complete; and Davy’s chemical career, to all intents and purposes, was over.”--DSB online
With:
(Malthus, Thomas Robert, though written anonymously.) “Review of the Controversy respecting the High Price of Bullion; A short Investigation of the alleged superfluous Issue of Bank Notes, and the unſavourable State of Foreign Exchanges, London, 1811; The Theory of Money; or a Practical Inquiry into the present State of the Circulating Medium; Deſence of Abstract Currencies, in Reply to the Bullion Report, and Mr Huskisson; A Plain Statement of the Bullion Question, b Davis Giddy, Esq. M. P.; The Expediency and Practicability of the Resumption of Cash Payments by the Bank of England, by J. L. Tavers.”All reviewed on pp 448-470.
And with: Abraham Gottlob Werner, “New Theory of the Formation of Veins”; “Memoires sur le Grand Mastodonte…”;
Robert Wilson, “Brief Remarks on the Character and Composition of the Russian Army, and a Sketch of the Campaigns in Poland” (30pp);
“Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland” (30pp).
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