CARL WILHELM SCHEELE'S LETTERS AND NOTES 1892 BEAUTIFULLY BOUND.

Nordenskild, A. E. , publisher. Carl Wulhelm Scheele. Letters and notes left behind. PA Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm, 1892. Large 4:oi a somewhat later well-bound half-French binding with gilt spine text on green label and rich gilt spine decoration. Marbled covers and sections and marbled endpapers. Front cover bound. Bound by CJ Påhlman's bookbindery in Stockholm. With a statue of Scheele as frontispiece, XXXVIII, 490 p. , 6 pp. facsimiles of letters and laboratory notes, (II). With a few illustrations in the text.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, born December 9, 1742 in Stralsund, Swedish Pomerania, died May 21, 1786 in Köping, was a pharmacist and one of the European 18th century's most prominent chemists. Source Wikipedia.