MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907). Autograph letter signed ('D. Mendeleef / Prof[e]s[seu]r à l'Univers[ité] de St Petersb[ourg]') to an unidentified recipient ('Monsieur'), St Petersburg, 25 November / 7 December 1885, in French, thanking him for sending [Ira] Remsen's Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, and commenting cautiously that it expounds the principles of organic chemistry in such a new and unusual way that he prefers to wait for its translation ('Les éléments de chimie organique sont exposée dans cette [sic] livre à la manière tellement nouvelle et distinctive(?), que je me permete [sic] d'attendre de les voir d'être traduit sur les autres langues'), one page, large 4to (281 x 219mm) (worn atmargins, a few tape repairs to verso).
The American chemist Ira Remsen (1846-1927) was the co-discoverer of saccharin.
MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907). Autograph letter signed ('D. Mendeleef / Prof[e]s[seu]r à l'Univers[ité] de St Petersb[ourg]') to an unidentified recipient ('Monsieur'), St Petersburg, 25 November / 7 December 1885, in French, thanking him for sending [Ira] Remsen's Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, and commenting cautiously that it expounds the principles of organic chemistry in such a new and unusual way that he prefers to wait for its translation ('Les éléments de chimie organique sont exposée dans cette [sic] livre à la manière tellement nouvelle et distinctive(?), que je me permete [sic] d'attendre de les voir d'être traduit sur les autres langues'), one page, large 4to (281 x 219mm) (worn atmargins, a few tape repairs to verso).
The American chemist Ira Remsen (1846-1927) was the co-discoverer of saccharin.
![MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907). Autograph letter signed ('D. Mendeleef / Prof[e]s[seu]r à l'Univers[ité] de St Petersb[ourg]') to an unidentified recipient ('Monsieur'), St Petersburg, 25 November / 7 December 1885, in French, thanking him for sending [Ira] Remsen's Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, and commenting cautiously that it expounds the principles of organic chemistry in such a new and unusual way that he prefers to wait for its translation ('Les éléments de chimie organique sont exposée dans cette [sic] livre à la manière tellement nouvelle et distinctive(?), que je me permete [sic] d'attendre de les voir d'être traduit sur les autres langues'), one page, large 4to (281 x 219mm) (worn atmargins, a few tape repairs to verso).](https://devapim.christies.com/uat/lot-images/5749322/2013/CKS/2013_CKS_01160_0068_000(mendeleev_dmitri_ivanovich_autograph_letter_signed_to_an_unidentified033910).jpg?maxwidth=3840)