LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent.

Essays Physical and Chemical...Volume the First

[all published]. Translated from the French, with Notes, and an Appendix, by Thomas Henry. Three folding engraved plates. xxxii, [2], 475 pp., one leaf of ads. 8vo, cont. speckled calf (carefully rebacked), flat spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: J. Johnson, 1776. First edition in English of the Opuscules Physiques et Chymiques. “Dedicated to the president of the Royal Society, Sir John Pringle, this translation...was carried out by Thomas Henry with the assistance of John Aikin. A close version of the French original, omitting only the Rapport, it contains a laudatory preface by Henry and footnotes he added throughout the text. The important appendix (pp. 405-428) is the first English edition of the first version of Lavoisier’s famous 1775 memoir, in which he correctly explained the composition of the atmosphere and the role of oxygen in the calcination of metals and respiration (see Garrison-Morton, 922). It is followed by Henry’s account of Priestley’s opinions on his discovery of oxygen and its reaction with metals to form cakes. Although the title states that this is the first volume, no others appeared.”–Neville, II, p. 19. A very good and pretty copy with the leaf of ads at end. ❧ Cole 771. Duveen & Klickstein 124.

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