SCHEELE, Karl Wilhelm (1742-86). Traité Chimique de l'Air et du Feu, Paris: Rue et Hôtel Serpente, 1781, 12°, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, folding engraved plate by Sellier (blind-stamp on title repeated on L9, ink stamps on verso of title, accession number written in fountain pen at head of A2, some slight greying of paper), modern buckram [Duveen p. 533; Ferguson II, 331] -- Joseph PRIESTLEY (1733-1804). Experiments and Observations on different kinds of Air, London: for J. Johnson, 1784, volume I only, 8°, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece and one folding plate (lacking c1 or c2, some preliminaries a little wormed at outer margin, contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed). [Duveen, p. 484; Honeyman 2536; Horblitt 85; Norman 1750] Provenance: II. JCL (2)

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SCHEELE, Karl Wilhelm (1742-86). Traité Chimique de l'Air et du Feu, Paris: Rue et Hôtel Serpente, 1781, 12°, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, folding engraved plate by Sellier (blind-stamp on title repeated on L9, ink stamps on verso of title, accession number written in fountain pen at head of A2, some slight greying of paper), modern buckram [Duveen p. 533; Ferguson II, 331] -- Joseph PRIESTLEY (1733-1804). Experiments and Observations on different kinds of Air, London: for J. Johnson, 1784, volume I only, 8°, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece and one folding plate (lacking c1 or c2, some preliminaries a little wormed at outer margin, contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed). [Duveen, p. 484; Honeyman 2536; Horblitt 85; Norman 1750] Provenance: II. JCL (2)

拍品專文

Scheele's most renowned work, first published in German in 1777, containing his account of the discovery of oxygen, which had been made independently of Priestley.