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DR. PRIESTLEY INVENTS SODA-WATER : 



3789 PRIESTLEY (Joseph, LL.D.,F.R.S.) DIRECTIONS for IMPREGNATING WATER with FIXED AIR, 

 in order to communicate to it the peculiar Spirit and Virtues of Pyrmont Water, and other Mineral 

 Waters of a similar Nature, front, (pp. 26) : EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS on DIFFERENT 

 KINDS of AIR, Vol. I, with 2 folding plates (name on title) 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, sound copies in old 

 calf (VERY RARE), 1. Is 1774-2 



In the first work Dr. Priestley appears as the benefactor of the Man about Town by discovering SODA-WATER. His 

 method was to produce carbon dioxide by pouring sulphuric acid over chalk, and then to agitate it in a vessel of water. He 

 gives directions for using it medically, and claims for it exceptional antiseptic properties. 



3790 - - EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS on different KINDS of AIR (Vols. I and III first edition, 

 and v. II 2nd Ed.), with copperplates, 3 vols. Svo. old calf gilt (binding slightly wormed, but a sound 

 copy) ; RARE, 1. 10s 1774-6-7 



3791 - ANOTHER COPY of the above Editions, with plates, 3 vols. Svo. hf. bound, uncut, 1. 7s Gd 



Dr. Priestley's most important publication, containing accounts of his discoveries of oxygen, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide, 

 sulphurous acid, carbon dioxide, hydrochloric acid, and ammonia gases. 



The above edition of v. II (with the dedication dated Nov. 1775) is especially interesting for stating on p. 320 that 

 Dr. Priestley while staying in Paris, Oct. 1774 mentioned to Lavoisier the experiments he made in connexion with his 

 discovery of oxygen, adding : ' He (Lavoisier) presently found what I have called dephlogisticated air, but without invest- 

 igating the nature of it.' This would settle the question of Lavoisier's claim to be an independent discoverer of oxygen. 



3792 EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS relating to various Branches of NATURAL HISTORY ; 



with a Continuation of the Observations on Air, 3 folding fronts, on copper, 3 vols. Svo. old hf. calf 

 (RARE), 1. 10s 1779 Birmingham, 1781-6 



3793 ANOTHER COPY, 3 vols. large Svo. hf. bound, wholly uncut, with bookplate of the 1st Lord 



Belper, F.R.S., 1. 15s 



Forming a supplement to the foregoing work. Vol. Ill (pp. 400-26) contains his general theoretical views on chemistry, 

 in which he still tenaciously clings to the phlogiston theory. Vol. II comprises an analysis of his researches to 1781, and 

 the whole work contains a number of important new researches and experiments. 



3794 - CONDENSED EDITION OF BOTH WORKS : being the former 6 Vols. abridged and methodized, 

 with many Additions, 9 copperplates, 3 vols. Svo. original boards, uncut, 1. 5s Birmingham, 1790 



3795 ANOTHER COPY, hf. bound, 1. Is 



'In the condensed edition of his works, published in 1790, he described interesting experiments on the thermal con- 

 ductibility of gases, which he found to be much the greatest in the case of hydrogen '. D. N. B. 



In this edition he also more fully describes his visit to Paris, and his communications to Lavoisier as to his discovery of 

 oxygen. (Vol. II, pp. 108-10). 



3796 - EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS relating to the PRINCIPLE of ACIDITY, the COMPOSITION 

 of WATER, and PHLOGISTON ; with additional Experiments, and Objections [by HENRY CAVEN- 

 DISH] considered 3 parts 4to. (pp. 11, IS, and 14), sewn, 7s Gd 1788 



3797 EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS relating to AIR and WATER, 4to. (pp. 31), sewn, 5s 1785 



Containing the account of ' an admirable series of quantitative experiments on the oxidation of iron and the reduction 

 of the oxide by hydrogen, with formation of water'. D. N. B. 



EXPERIMENTS on the PHLOGISTICATION of SPIRIT of NITRE, 4to. (pp. 12), sewn, 3s 1789 



EXPERIMENTS on the TRANSMISSION of the VAPOUR of ACIDS through an HOT EARTHEN 

 TUBE, and further Observations relating to PHLOGISTON, 4to. (pp. 11), sewn, 3s Gd 1789 



Added is : 'On the Production of Nitrous Acid and Nitrous Air ', by ISAAC MILNER, F.R.S., Dean of Carlisle (pp. 14). 



FURTHER EXPERIMENTS relating to the DECOMPOSITION of DEPHLOGISTICATED and 

 INFLAMMABLE AIR, 4to. (pp. 10), 2s Gd 1791 



3801 - - FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION to the THEORY and PRACTICE of PERSPECTIVE, 2nd Ed., 

 corrected, numerous folding plates, Svo. old sheep (joints cracked and somewhat foxed), 5s 1780 



With dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds. 



3802 The HISTORY and PRESENT STATE of ELECTRICITY, with original Experiments, first 



edition, with 1 copperplates, thick 4to. old calf, \5s 1767 



The proofs of this edition were corrected by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and JOHN CANTON. 



3S03 SECOND EDITION, corrected and enlarged, with 8 folding plates, 4to. old calf (bottom line 



of title cut of), 10s Gd 1769 



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

 senting a new type of an electrical machine. 



3804 FIFTH EDITION, corrected, with 8 folding plates (some foxed), 4to. hf. calf, 10s Gd 1794 



The last edition published of the work. 



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

 Franklin.' D. N. B. 



3805 - - The HISTORY and PRESENT STATE of DISCOVERIES relating to VISION, LIGHT, and 

 COLOURS, with biographical chart, and 24 folding plates, 2 vols. 4to. hf. russia (backs damaged), 

 with auto, of William White Cooper, ophthalmologist (1816-86) on flyleaf, 10s Gd 1772 



3806 - ANOTHER COPY, thick 4to. sound copy in hf. calf, 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 



3807 PBITCHABD (Charles; D.D., F.R.S., Savilian Prof. Astronomy, Oxon.) TREATISE on the 

 THEORY of COUPLES, with a Simple Method of investigating the Ellipticity of the Earth, considered 

 as a Heterogeneous Spheroid, folding plate, Svo. (pp. 47), sewn (scarce), 4s Gd Cambridge, 1831 



'Adopted in the teaching of the university.' Agnes M. ClerJcc. 



3808 , MEMOIRS of the LIFE of, compiled by his Daughter ADA PRITCHARD, with his 



Theological Work by J. J. S. PEROWNE, Bp. of Worcester, and his ASTRONOMICAL WORK by 

 H. H. TURNER, F.R.S., portrait, Svo. cl., 3s Gd (p. 10s Gd) 1897 



3809 PROJECTILES : EXPERIENCES faites a METZ en 1834, par Ordre du Ministre de Guerre, sur 

 les BATTERIES de BRECHE, sur la PENETRATION des PROJECTILES dans divers Milieux resistans, 

 et sur la Rupture des Corps par le Choc ; with plates, Svo. hf. calf gilt, 4s 1836 



