Chemistry

The chemical classics — Lavoisier’s founding Elements, Priestley’s airs, Faraday’s candle, Marie Curie’s thesis on radium, Boyle and Davy and Liebig, alongside the great practical chemistries of food, colour, glass and leather. Each book a clean, beautifully formatted EPUB, free to download.

• A Brief Account of Radio-activity F. P. Venable
• A Century of Science, and Other Essays John Fiske
• A Manual of Photographic Chemistry T. Frederick Hardwich
• A New Light of Alchymie Michal Sedziwój and Paracelsus
• A Practical Manual of the Collodion Process S. D. Humphrey
• A Practical Treatise on Gas-light Friedrich Christian Accum
• A Text-book of Tanning H. R. Procter
• A Treatise on the Art of Making Good and Wholesome Bread Friedrich Christian Accum
• Acids, Alkalis and Salts George Henry Joseph Adlam
• Alchemy: Ancient and Modern H. Stanley Redgrove
• Alcoholic Fermentation Arthur Harden
• An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson
• An Introduction to Chemical Science Rufus P. Williams
• An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis Henry Paul Talbot
• Boys’ Second Book of Inventions Ray Stannard Baker
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele P. T. Cleve
• Chemistry for Beginners Hereward Carrington
• Chlorination of Water Joseph Race
• Coal, and What We Get from It Raphael Meldola
• Coffee and Chicory P. L. Simmonds
• Collotype and Photo-lithography Julius Schnauss
• Creative Chemistry Edwin E. Slosson
• Culinary Chemistry Friedrich Christian Accum
• Daedalus, or Science and the Future J. B. S. Haldane
• Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas Friedrich Christian Accum
• Detection of the Common Food Adulterants Edwin M. Bruce
• Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie Freiherr von Justus Liebig
• Dyes and Dyeing Viscount Exmouth Charles E. Pellew
• Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson
• Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology Jas. F. W. Johnston
• Elements of Chemistry Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
• Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry Pierre Joseph Macquer
• Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Joseph Priestley
• Experiments and Observations on Various Subjects Thomas Henry
• Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime and Other Alcaline Substances Joseph Black
• Familiar Letters on Chemistry Freiherr von Justus Liebig
• Field’s Chromatography George Field
• Five of Maxwell’s Papers James Clerk Maxwell
• Food Adulteration and Its Detection Jesse P. Battershall
• Foods and Their Adulteration Harvey Washington Wiley
• Forty Centuries of Ink David Nunes Carvalho
• Gas Burners Old and New Owen Merriman
• Glass and Glass Manufacture Percival Marson
• Glass Manufacture Walter Rosenhain
• Handbuch der chemischen Technologie Johannes Rudolf Wagner
• Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy Joseph Priestley
• Heroes of Science: Chemists M. M. Pattison Muir
• History of Phosphorus Eduard Farber
• Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher T. E. Thorpe
• Il Vino Various
• Industrial Poisoning from Fumes, Gases and Poisons Josef Rambousek
• Inorganic Plant Poisons and Stimulants Winifred Elsie Brenchley
• Joseph Priestley T. E. Thorpe
• Lead Poisoning and Lead Absorption Sir Thomas Morison Legge and Kenneth Weldon Goadby
• Lead Smelting and Refining Unknown
• Leather: From the Raw Material to the Finished Product K. J. Adcock
• Legal Chemistry Alfred Naquet
• Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley Joseph Priestley
• Modern Copper Smelting Donald M. Levy
• Naturgeschichte einer Kerze Michael Faraday
• Of Natural and Supernatural Things Basilius Valentinus
• On Digestive Proteolysis R. H. Chittenden
• On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art James Mactear
• Peat and Its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Samuel W. Johnson
• Perfumes and Their Preparation George William Askinson
• Pigments, Paint and Painting George Terry
• Poisons: Their Effects and Detection Alexander Wynter Blyth
• Porcelain Edward Dillon
• Priestley in America, 1794-1804 Edgar Fahs Smith
• Radio-Active Substances Marie Curie
• Recherches sur les substances radioactives Marie Curie
• Researches on Cellulose, 1895-1900 C. F. Cross and E. J. Bevan
• Researches, Chemical and Philosophical Sir Humphry Davy
• Robert Boyle: A Biography Flora Masson
• Roentgen Rays and Phenomena of the Anode and Cathode Edward P. Thompson
• Rollo’s Philosophy: Fire Jacob Abbott
• Salt and the Salt Industry Albert Frederick Calvert
• Science and the Criminal C. Ainsworth Mitchell
• Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Jr. Josiah P. Cooke
• Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe: A Biographical Sketch T. E. Thorpe
• Something About Sugar George M. Rolph
• Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
• The Art of Glass-Blowing T.-P. Danger
• The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances Nicolas Appert
• The Bread and Biscuit Baker’s Assistant Robert Wells
• The Chemical History of a Candle Michael Faraday
• The Chemistry of Cookery W. Mattieu Williams
• The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
• The Chemistry of Plant Life Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
• The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
• The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
• The Dyer’s Guide Thomas Packer
• The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis Frederick Hutton Getman
• The Growth of a Crystal Henry Alex Miers
• The History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry Hunt Snelling
• The History of Ink Thaddeus Davids
• The Manufacture of Earth Colours Josef Bersch
• The Manufacture of Mineral and Lake Pigments Josef Bersch
• The Mechanism of Life Stéphane Leduc
• The Mirror of Alchimy Roger Bacon
• The Molecular Tactics of a Crystal Baron William Thomson Kelvin
• The Nature of Animal Light E. Newton Harvey
• The Origin and Development of the Atomic Theory Maynard Shipley
• The Phase Rule and Its Applications Alexander Findlay
• The Platinum Metals Arthur Douglas Lumb
• The Practical Use of the Blowpipe Anonymous
• The Principles of Leather Manufacture H. R. Procter
• The Progress of the Marbling Art Josef Halfer
• The Puering, Bating & Drenching of Skins Joseph Turney Wood
• The Riddle of the Rhine Victor Lefebure
• The Romance of the Microscope C. A. Ealand
• The Stock-Feeder’s Manual Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
• The Story of a Piece of Coal Edward A. Martin
• The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
• The Story of the Living Machine H. W. Conn
• The Toxins and Venoms and Their Antibodies M. Emm. Pozzi-Escot
• The Wonders of Radium Maynard Shipley
• Untersuchungen über die radioaktiven Substanzen Marie Curie
• Vegetable Dyes Ethel Mairet
• Villkor och möjligheter för kemisk storindustri i Sverige Ernst Larsson
• Worlds in the Making Svante Arrhenius
• Yeast Thomas Henry Huxley