684 HE^RY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., and 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



13663 PRIESTLEY (Joseph, ll.d., f.r.s. ; Birminghatn Unitarian) Heads of Lectures on a 

 Course of Experimental Philosophy, particularly including Chemistry, delivered at the 

 New College, Hackney, 8vo. sewn, IQs M 1794 



13664 The History and Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and 



Colours, with biographical charts and 24 folding plates., 2 vols. 4to. contemporary tree-calf gilt 

 {nice copy), 15s 1772 



13665 Another Copy, in 1 vol. thick 4to. old hf. calf gilt {one joint cracked), or, boards, uncut, 12s 



' In the ' History of Light ' (pp. 390 et seq.) he announced his adherence to Boscowich's theory of points of force.' — D. N. B. 



It was translated into German by G. S. Klligel in 1775-G, and was the most complete work then published on the history 

 of optics. It is still quoted as an authority by historians of optics. 



13666 The History and Present State of Electricity, Avith original Experiments, first 



edition, with 1 folding copperplates {linen-mounted), thick 4to. old calf, newly and neatly rebacked 

 (RARE), £1. Is 1767 



13667 Another Copy {wanting Plates I and III), old hf. calf {joints cracked and bach 



damaged), Is 6d 



The proofs of this edition were corrected by John Canton and Benjamin Franklin. 



13668 Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, laith 8 folding plates and 2 fine portraits 



(inserted), 4to. old calf, newly and neatly rebacked, £1. Is 1769 



This edition contains numerous additions, chiefly from the works of German authors, and an additional plate, repre- 

 senting a new type of electrical machine. 



' Priestley's electrical work is mostly sound, and much of it is brilliant. It shows him at his best. The ' Hi.story of 

 Electricity' supplies an excellent account of previous work both treated historically and summarised systematically, and 

 his own reflexions and experiments. ... He anticipated therein Henry Cavendish and C. A. de Coulomb in the important 

 suggestion that the law of electric attraction is that of the inverse square, deducing this from an experiment su??gested by 

 Franklin.'— D. N. B, 



This work contains not only the most copious history of the subject written at the time, but many vakiable original 

 experiments of the author's. Of special interest are the chapters 'Theories of Electricity' (pp. 441-U6 of Ist Ed.), and 

 'New Experiments in Electricity, made in 1766' (pp. 573-733 of the iirst Edition). Among the latter the second Edition 

 first contains three new ones : ' Experiments in which rings, consisting of all the prismatic colours, were made by electrical 

 explosions on the surfaces of metals {contmning the discovery of ' Priestley's rings ')' : ' Experiments on the lateral force of 

 electrical explosions' (shoiuing the oscillatory nature of tlie electric discharge — a discovrry erroneously mentioned in D. X. IS. as 

 having been made in 1770, and anticipating one by Sir Oliver Lodge), and 'Various Experiments on the force of Electrical 

 Explosions '. 



13669 Observations on Different Kinds of Air, with folding coppe^ylate by J. Basire, 4to. 



(pp. 120), se%m (very rare), £1. 10s W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 



13670 Another Copy, sewn, uncut (fresh copy), with author's inscr. {as below), £2. 2s 



'Son Altesse Sw. Mons'". Le Due d'Aramberg.' — Inscr. on cover. 



' He was led to study gases by watching the process of fennentation in a brewery next his house ; and in March 1772 

 he read the first paper, ' On Different Kinds of Air '. It was inspired by the work of Stephen Hales, Joseph Black, and 

 Cavendish. This essay marked an epoch in the history of the science. In the first place, Priestley set forth improvements 

 in the methods of collecting gases, and especially the use of mercury in the pneumatic trough, which enabled him to deal 

 for the first time with gases soluble in water. He announced the discovery of marine acid air (hydrochloric acid) and 

 nitrous air (nitric oxide), and showed the feasibility of substituting the latter for living mice as a means of measuring the 

 goodness of air, a suggestion which led, in the hands of Fontana, Landriani, Cavendish, and others, to exact eudiometry. 

 He showed that in air exposed over water, one-fifth disappears in processes of combustion, respiration, and putrefaction, 

 and that plants restore air vitiated by these processes ; and that no knoAvn gas conducted electricity. The paper also 

 contained a proposal to saturate water with carbonic acid under either atmospheric or increased pressure, which led to the 

 creation of the mineral-water industry. In the same dissertation Priestley noted, without comment, that he had produced 

 two other gases, which were designated respectively carbonic oxide and nitrous oxide, and that he had disengaged from 

 nitre a gas which further examination would have i»roved to be identical M'ith the as yet undiscovered oxygen. The ]mper 

 was awarded the Copley medal of the Royal Society, and was at once abstracted at length by Lavoisier and criticised by 

 him.'— 7J>. N. B. The above work was unknown to Poggeudorll'. 



13671 Observations on Respiration, and the Use of the Blood, 4to. (pp. 25), seum (rare), 



10s 6rf 1776 



• Priestley's memoir on respiration, in which he regards it as ' a true phlogistic process ', was acknowledged by Lavoisier 

 as the starting-point of his own work on the subject.'— D. N. B. 



1.3672 Philosophical Empiricism : containing Remarks on a Charge of Plagiarism respecting 



Dr. H s, interspersed with various Observations relating to Different Kinds of Air, 



12mo. sewn (rare), 10s 6c? 1775 



Written in 'reply to Bryan Higgins, m.d. [v. Nos. 9261-9 ante'], who accused him of plagiarising liis experiments on air.' 

 — D. N. B. 



13673 , Memoirs of, to the Year 1795, written by himself, with a Continuation to his Decease, 



by his Son Joseph Priestley, and Observations on his Writings by Thomas Cooper, President 

 Judge of the 4th District of Pennsylvania, and William Christie, with fine portrait on copper, 

 8vo. new hf. brown calf gilt (scarce), 17s 6c? 1806 



"Priestley's Memoirs to 17S7 were written by himself in Birmingham, and survived the destruction of his papers [by 

 the Tory mob] in 1791 ; at Northumberland [Pennsylvania] he added a brief continuation to :.'4 March 1793 ; the work was 

 edited, with a supplementary narrative, by his son Joseph, in ISO j ; the best edition is by Cooper and Christie, 1806.'— D. K.B. 



13674 PB.INCE (Charles Leeson, m.r.c.s., f.r.a.s.) Observations on the Climate of Uckfield, 

 Sussex, and its Neighbourhood, 1843-70; 2nd Edition, a\ ith additional Observations, and Statistics 

 of Rainfall to 1885, plates, 8vo. cl., 5s privately printed, Lewes, 1886 



13675 Observations on the late Great Comet and Transit of Venus, made at Crow- 

 borough, Sussex, in 1882, with view of Crowborough Observatory, and 7 plates, 8vo. boards, 3s 



ibidem, 1883 



13676 PRING (James H., m.d., Bath General Hospital) Observations and Experiments on the 

 NocTiLucA MiLiARis, the Animalcular Source of the Phosphorescence of the British Seas ; 

 with Remarks on the Phainomena of Vital Phosphorescence, plate, 8vo. (pp. 23), sewn, with 

 author^ s inscr., 'As 6d 1850 



13677 PRING (John Norman, Univ. Manchester) Some Electro-Chemical [Industrla.l] 

 Centres : a Pveport, toy. 8vo. cL, 3s Univ. Press, Manchester, 1908 



