Conversations on chymistry, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments and plates, from the last London edition: the second American edition: enlarged by an appendix consisting of a description, with a plate, and the manner of using of the new hydro-pneumatic blow-pipe, invented by Mr. Joseph Cloud of the mint of the United States: also of three disquisitions, one on dyeing, one on tanning, and one on currying

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Title Conversations on chymistry, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments and plates, from the last London edition: the second American edition: enlarged by an appendix consisting of a description, with a plate, and the manner of using of the new hydro-pneumatic blow-pipe, invented by Mr. Joseph Cloud of the mint of the United States: also of three disquisitions, one on dyeing, one on tanning, and one on currying
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Volumes 1
Pagination xii, 427
Date of Publication 1809
Edition Statement From the last London edition: the second American edition.
Edition Number 2
Date of First Publication 1806
Imprint Printed for and sold by James Humphreys; Hopkins & Earle; Kimber & Conrad; B. & T. Kite; and Thomas Dobson; also, White, Burditt, & Co. Boston. 1809. J. Humphreys, printer
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Notes From AAS: By Mrs. Jane Haldimand Marcet. Also attributed to Mrs. Margaret Bryan.
Plates signed: Drawn by the author. Tanner sc.
"Humphreys, bookseller and stationer, on Change-Walk, the corner of Second and Walnut streets, Philadelphia, has for sale ..."--p. [429-430].
"Now in the press, printing by subscription, the following new, interesting, and entertaining work, viz. Struggles through life ..."--p. [431-432].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Rink, E. Technical Americana,
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Marcet, Jane. Conversations on chymistry, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments and plates, from the last London edition: the second American edition: enlarged by an appendix consisting of a description, with a plate, and the manner of using of the new hydro-pneumatic blow-pipe, invented by Mr. Joseph Cloud of the mint of the United States: also of three disquisitions, one on dyeing, one on tanning, and one on curryingThe Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 18383, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/18383. Accessed 2024-04-28. 

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