Campbell Brown Books
15th-19th century texts on alchemy and chemistry (400+ vols).
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The collection was bequeathed by James Campbell Brown (1843-1910), Professor of Chemistry at the University from its beginning in 1881 until his death, and author of The first page of the history of University College, Liverpool (1892).
The collection includes such landmark texts in the history of chemistry as Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Traité élémentaire de chimie (1789) and John Dalton, New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808-1827). Incunables from the collection (kept separately with the Incunable collection) include works by Albertus Magnus and Vincent de Beauvais Speculum historiale.