Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, and other Branches of Natural Philosophy, Connected with the Subject, in Three Volumes ...
New York, Kraus Reprint Co., 1970 (facsimile edition)/ 1790.
Octavo, three volumes, lii, 411; viii, 472; and viii, 574, [6] (catalogue) pages plus 9 plates (3 folding).
Cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; covers slightly rubbed; edges a little marked; an excellent set.
A facsimile edition of the 1790 edition in three volumes, 'Being the former Six Volumes [1774-86] abridged and methodized, with many Additions'. The experiments on gases described here include Priestley's discovery of 'dephlogisticated air' (oxygen).
Item #144327
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$300.00
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