A Life of Sir William Ramsay

A Life of Sir William Ramsay

Travers, Morris W. London: Edward Arnold, 1956.

Royal 8vo., viii, 308 pp. including index. Frontis portrait plus 9 photo plates, text diagrams and facsimiles of chemical notes. Dark blue cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Original pale blue photo-illustrated dust jacket, lettered in blue.

Book near fine. Dust jacket has chips and loss to head of spine and, less so, to edges and corners. The pale blue paper jacket has faded with some light soil to outer edges at folds and more so towards and on spine. INSCRIBED, SIGNED and dated, 1956 by Travers on front free endpaper.

Ramsay (1852 – 1916), Scottish chemist, winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of “the inert gaseous elements in air”. After isolating, and naming, argon, he worked with Morris William Travers (1872 – 1961), English chemist and pioneer in cryogenics, in the discovery of neon, krypton and xenon. Ramsay also isolated helium and made radon.

1st edition. With rare signature of the author.

$185.00 CDN