Cantor Lectures on Gutta Percha
London: Printed by William Trounce, 1898. Original Cloth. 8vo. Good / No Jacket. Item #016204
Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. Custom commissioned binding for George Mitchell, his leather label to front board and embossed ownership stamp to first three pages. Half green calf, marbled paper boards, maroon leather title labels. 102 pp, extended to 284 pp. by interleaving blanks, with new pagination added to upper corners (original pagination is center-justified). Pages 251-284 remain blank. Obach's paper contains maps and illustrations. Armorial bookplate of The Mitchells-Nithsdale to front pastedown. Ex-libris of the Ronald A. Javitch Rare Book Collection to ffep. About fifty pages of blanks contain manuscript notes and extracts from various sources such as Encyclopedia Britannica. Binding is worn, chipping to marbled paper boards, joints starting. "The chief work of Dr. Obach was undoubtedly the study of gutta-percha, which extended over many years, and the results of his great experience and varied knowledge of this substance were embodied in a course of Cantor Lectures, which he delivered before the Society of Arts towards the close of 1897. These lectures, which were fully illustrated by numerous experiments and by a unique collection of rare and valuable specimens, have since appeared in the columns of several technical journals, and have been published in separate form, and translated into German and Dutch. The subject was dealt with in a very exhaustive and comprehensive manner, and the information given is generally considered to be the most important yet published on gutta-percha." (Grace's Guide to British Industrial History) A good, unique copy of a seminal work on a complex problem in chemical manufacturing.
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