ACCUM, Friedrich (1769-1838). Accum's Amusement.

London: printed for Thomas Boys, 3, Paternoster Row, near Cheapside, 1817.

Chemical amusement, comprising a series of curious and instructive experiments in chemistry: which are easily performed, and unattended by danger, by Fredrick Accum.
xxv, 191, 59 pages.

With, “A descriptive catalogue of the apparatus & instruments employed in experimental and operative chemistry, in analytical mineralogy and in the pursuits of the recent discoveries of voltaic electricity. Manufactured and sold by Fredrick Accum. London [G. Hayden], 1817"; 59 p. Bound in at end of text.

Bound in ¾ leather, marbled boards, speckled edges, gilt bands at spine head and tail, red leather spine label, gilt spine title.


H: 7 W: 4 1/2 in.

With bookplate, “Fronti nula fide,” and “J. Bursford" (?) in ink on front free endpaper. Good, covers rubbed and soiled, corners rubbed.