This work by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is widely considered the first of its kind in modern chemical literature. Select digitized content includes front cover, frontismatter, woodcut vignettes, as well as thirteen…

Elizabeth Fulhame was an early British chemist who invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction. Fulhame’s interest was in the reduction reaction that led to the deposition of metals. As she notes in…

Conversations on Chemistry is an introductory chemical textbook. To this third American edition (the first and second: Philadelphia, 1806, and 1809), the anonymous editor has added new material on mineral waters and the…

Hand-colored lithograph of common holly, Ilex aquifolium. Class Tetrandria, order Tetragynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of common mezereon, Daphne mezereum. Class Octandria, order Monogynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of corn cockle, Agrostemma githago. Class Decandria, order Pentagynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of germander speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys. Class Diandria, order Monogynia.

Hand-colored lithograph illustrating the parts of a flower, using the example of the common wallflower. Included parts are the flower, cup, corolla or blossom, stamen, pistil, seed-vessel, and receptacle.

Hand-colored lithograph of tutsan, Hypericum androsaemum. Class Polyadelphia, order Polyandria.

Hand-colored lithograph illustrating the class Cryptogamia, containing a fern, moss, lichen, seaweed, and mushroom.

Hand-colored lithograph of water mouse ear, Myosotis palustris, now known as the water forget-me-not. Class Pentandria, order Monogynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of flowering rush, Butomus umbellatus. Class Enneandria, order Hexagynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis. Class Hexandria, order Monogynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of ground ivy, Glechoma hederacea. Class Didynamia, order Gymnospermia.

Hand-colored lithograph of common houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum. Class Dodecandria, order Dodecagynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of the common red poppy, Papaver rhoeas. Class Polyandria, order Monogynia.

Illustrated with 20 hand-colored plates, Conversations on Botany is composed as a series of conversations between a mother and son about the principles of the Linnaean system of classification and elements of useful…

Hand-colored lithograph of common dog rose, Rosa canina. Class Icosandria, order Polygynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of birdsfoot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus. Class Diadelphia, order Decandria.

Hand-colored lithograph of spring crocus, Crocus vernus. Class Triandria, order Monogynia.

Hand-colored lithograph of the common daisy, Bellis perennis. Class Syngenesia, order Polygamia superflua.

Hand-colored lithograph of common wallflower, Cheiranthus cheiri. Class Tetradynamia, order Siliquosa.

Hand-colored lithograph of common mallow, Malva sylvestris. Class Monadelphia, order Polyandria.

Hand-colored lithograph with examples of the 24 botanical taxonomic classes: Monandria, Diandria, Triandria, Tetrandria, Pentandria, Hexandria, Heptandria, Octandria, Enneandria, Decandria, Dodecandria, Icosandria,…

Frontispiece illustration depicts a woman holding passion flowers with the caption "The passion flower belongs to the class monadelphia and order pentandria. See page 165." The flower she holds is painted yellow…