Treatise containing "practical knowledge" on dyeing for manufacturers, with sections on mordants, chemicals used in dyeing, wool scouring, extracting cotton from wool, and 253 dye recipes for wool, cotton, and shoddy…

This sample book begins with a selection of recipes for the preparation of dye vats. Each recipe lists the solvents and solutes necessary to mix large-volume solutions of indigo textile dye using Indigo M.L.B. brand…

Color plate illustrates an early method of bleaching cotton and linen goods on lawns. Two women stand amongst a vast landscape holding watering cans over strips of white cloth. Decorative frame is bordered by foliage…

Plate depicts the interior of a factory where the bleaching of pulp is being undertaken for the manufacturing of paper. Two workers stand amongst vats of bleach and machinery.

This plate is from John Howard Appleton's…

Chromolithographed frontispiece plate illustrates the solar spectrum in figure one with blood spectra as follows:

2: oxy haemogloben
3: haemoglobin (reduced haemoglobin)
4: methaemoglobin
5: acid haematin
6: alkaline…

This leather case, most likely a domestic kit designed for home use, appears to contain vials of powder China paint pigments, which are commonly used on porcelain/ceramic.

Folding black leather case that can be secured…

Chromo-lithograph of the Spectra of the Stars and Nebulae compared with the Solar Spectrum and the Spectra of some of the Non-Metallic Elements.

Chromo-lithograph of the Spectra of the Metals of the Alkalis and Alkaline Earths, from the Drawings of [Robert] Bunsen and [Gustav] Kirchhoff. With Scale of Wave-Lengths Added.

Through research conducted in the…