SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729-1799). Chimico Esame degli Esperimenti del Sig. Gottling Professore a Jena, sopra la luce del fosforo di Kunkel osservata nell' aria comune, ed in diversi fluidi aeriformi permanenti, Modena: Societa' Tipografica, 1796, 8°, FIRST EDITION, one folding engraved plate (this restored at outer margin, title with library perforation and stamp on verso, accession stamp at foot of dedication, I3 creased and repaired at lower margin), uncut in red library buckram. [Duveen p. 557: "the only purely chemical book by the great physiologist"; Prandi, Lazzaro Spallanzani, p. 59] Provenance: JCL