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First edition.
Tall narrow octavo half period calf and marbled boards.
Cooper (1759 - 1840), born in London, studied law, anatomy and medicine at Oxford, was admitted to the bar, became involved in politics, spent four months in France with James Watt, during which time he learned how to make chlorine from common salt, after which he became a bleacher and calico printer in Manchester, but his business failed.
He next emigrated to the United States, where he practiced law, actively opposing the administration of John Adams.
He next occupied the chair of Chemistry at Carlisle (later Dickinson) College.
In 1816 he was appointed Professor of Minerology and Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, and 1819, he became, first, professor of Chemistry and then in 1820 President of the South Carolina College, Columbia, retiring in 1834.
He was eminent for the versatility of his talent, the extent of his knowledge, and his conversational powers.
President Adams referred to him, in his old age, as a 'learned, ingenious scientific and talented madcap'.
(Dictionary of National Biography, volume 12, pp151 -152).
Light wear to the spine tips and boards; scattered light foxing.
A very good, sound copy of this important treatise.
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