The leaf of text bound in after p. 72 has an explanation of the plates

Includes plates numbered I through III (plates I and II are folded), plus an unnumbered folded table with data on categories such as "Chlor; Kohlenstoff; Schwefel; Stickstoff; Wasserstoff", etc

Plate II is signed: Guinand sc.; folded table is signed: "Lith. u. Druck von A. Wehrt in Braunschw[i]g."

Issued in a printed yellow paper cover with ornamental border

Prospectus for the Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten chemie (authors Liebig and Poggendorff, 1836) 4 p. at end

Publisher's advertisements on p. [2] and [3] of cover

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

Horblit, H.D. Grolier 100 science books

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SCDIRB copy 39088005664982 has bookplates: 1. Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans; 2. Herald of Science no. 46, in Grolier exhib. 1958, Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. An unidentified former owner's stamp or autograph appears to have been removed at the bottom of the t.p

SCDIRB copy has the publisher's printed yellow paper cover; housed in a later two-piece black cloth slipcase with gilt-tooled black leather spine label

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