Description: Elements of Mineralogy. Third Edition. In Two Volumes. Vol.I. Earth and Stones. Vol.II. Salts, Inflammables, and Metallic Substances Author: Kirwan, Richard (1 August 1733 - 22 June 1812) 8vo.(5" x 8.125") 1810. Kirwan, Richard. London. Printed for J. Mackinlay. 2 volumes. Quarter brown leather with small corners over marbled boards. Spines with six compartments, gilt title to second compartment, gilt vol# to both the fourth and fifth compartments, all over fancy gilt rule to other compartments (see pic). Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, covers scuffed and rubbe with loss of color to marbling. Armorial bookplate of William Norris to front pastedowns. Heavily foxed to first and last few pages of each volume, moderate foxing throughout, most to fore-edges of pages. Vol.I front cover separating at foot. Vol.II with three folding tables, as called for. From Wiki: Richard Kirwan, LL.D, FRS, FRSE MRIA (1 August 1733 - 22 June 1812) was an Irish geologist and chemist. He was one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston. Kirwan was active in the fields of chemistry, meteorology, and geology. He was widely known in his day, corresponding and meeting with Lavoisier, Black, Priestley, and Cavendish. In 1766, having conformed to the established religion (Church of Ireland) two years previously, Kirwan was called to the Irish Bar, but in 1768 abandoned practice in favour of scientific pursuits. During the next nineteen years, he resided chiefly in London, enjoying the society of the scientific men living there and corresponding with many savants on the continent of Europe, as his wide knowledge of languages enabled him to do with ease. His experiments on the specific gravities and attractive powers of various saline substances formed a substantial contribution to the methods of analytical chemistry and in 1782 gained him the Copley medal from the Royal Society, of which he was elected a fellow in 1780. In 1784, he was engaged in a controversy with Henry Cavendish in regard to the latter's experiments about air. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1784 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1786. In 1787, Kirwan moved to Dublin, where, in 1799, he became president of the Royal Irish Academy until his death. To its proceedings, he contributed some thirty-eight memoirs dealing with meteorology, pure and applied chemistry, geology, magnetism and philology. One of these, on the primitive state of the globe and its subsequent catastrophe, involved him in a lively dispute with the upholders of the Huttonian theory. His geological work was marred by an implicit belief in the universal deluge and through finding fossils associated with the trap rocks near Portrush that he maintained basalt was of aqueous origin. Kirwan was one of the last supporters in Britain and Ireland of the theory of phlogiston, for which he contended in his Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids (1787), identifying phlogiston with hydrogen. This work, translated by Marie-Anne Pierette Paulze, was published in French with critical notes by Lavoisier and some of his associates. Kirwan attempted to refute their arguments, but they proved too strong for him, and he acknowledged himself a convert in 1791. There is evidence to suggest that Kirwan was a member of the Society of the United Irishmen, a revolutionary republican organisation in 18th century Ireland.
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