MENDELEEV, DMITRI IVANOVICH. Po Neftjanym Delam. Stat'ja Pervaja [Vtoraja]. 2 offprints from Vestnik Promyshlennosti, bound in one volume. Large 8vo, contemporary .25 sheep gilt, spine badly worn, original wrappers bound in. Contemporary stamp of the

MENDELEEV, DMITRI IVANOVICH. Po Neftjanym Delam. Stat'ja Pervaja [Vtoraja]. 2 offprints from Vestnik Promyshlennosti, bound in one volume. Large 8vo, contemporary .25 sheep gilt, spine badly worn, original wrappers bound in. Contemporary stamp of the Russian Naval Library at Kronstadt. Moscow, 1885 E1500-2500 During the 1870s-80s Mendeleev, discoverer of the periodic law, did extensive work on petroleum production. The first of the present two papers on the oil industry concerns kerosene; the second, foreign distribution. Both are INSCRIBED BY MENDELEEV to Konstantin Nikolaevich Pos'et, a high- ranking official of the Ministry of Transportation, on the front wrappers (first inscription slightly cropped). DSB IX, 291.