Kent, J. Emerson. First Lessons in Chemistry and Geology, as applied to Agriculture. Designed for the Use of Schools. Boston: Dayton & Wentworth, 1855. [12011]
Brown leather spine with printed paper boards, titles to front, adverts on back, 6 x 4 inches, some edge-wear. 6, [1]-xii, [13]-108 pp., tight, scattered foxing; about 30 b/w text illustrations. Good. Hardcover.
"Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, New England Type and Stereograph Foundery, Boston" on the copyright page. The copyright date is 1854.
"The writer of this work has made this important, yet heretofore uncommon and neglected, subject both interesting and instructive. It has been supposed that the principles of chemistry as applied to agriculture were too complicated to be understood by any but those who had a knowledge of inorganic chemistry; yet we feel assured, that, following out the instructions of this work of an hundred pages, even children may early and effectively be instructed in the elementary principles of chemistry as they are applicable to agriculture. This work should be at once introduced into all our schools." - The School and Family Gazette.
John Emerson Kent (1810-1889), Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Penn Medical University of Philadelphia.
