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Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich.
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Description
- Neftyanaya promyshlennost' v severo-amerikanskom shtate Pensilvanii i na Kavkaze [The Petroleum Industry in the North American State of Pennsylvania and in the Caucasus]. St Petersburg, 1877
8vo (245 x 160mm.), half-title, one folding map, modern half calf, map cropped with loss, some light spotting
Literature
DSB IX, p. 291
Catalogue Note
After a visit to the United States in 1876, Mendeleev published the present work in which he advanced a theory of the inorganic origin of petroleum.