‎PRIESTLEY (J.)‎
‎Expériences et observations sur différentes espèces d'air ; ouvrage traduit de l'anglais par M. Gibelin. P., Nyon 1777/1780, 5 VOLUMES in 12 ---- Expériences et observations sur différentes branches de la physique avec une continuation des observations sur l'air traduit de l'anglais par M. Gibelin. P., Nyon, 1782/1783, 3 VOLUMES in 12 ---- Soit 8 VOLUMES in 12 en reliures uniformes (reliures de l'époque) -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE -- COMPLETE SET‎

‎P., Nyon, 1777/1783, 8 VOLUMES in 12 reliés en pleine basane, dos ornés de fers dorés, filets dorés sur les plats, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), (accrocs sans gravité aux coiffes, un mors fendu mais solide) -- Expériences et observations sur différentes d'air : T.1 : 36pp., 434pp., (3), T.2 : (2), 62pp., 297pp., 1 planche dépliante, T.3 : (2), 4pp., 352pp., 5 planches dépliantes, T.4 : 52pp., 404pp., T.5 : (2), 404pp., 4 planches dépliantes -- Expériences et observatons sur différentes branches de la physique : (les ff. 9 à 16 ont été reliés par erreur entre les pp. XVI et XVII de la préface), T.1 : 24pp., 288pp., 1 planche dépliante, T.2 : (2), 312pp., T.3 : 24pp., 527pp., (1pp.), 1 planche dépliante‎

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‎---- LES DEUX OUVRAGES SONT EN PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE EN RELIURES DE L'EPOQUE UNIFORME ---- 1. Expériences et observations sur différentes ESPECES D'AIR : "According to Hoefer "cette traduction fut faite en quelque sorte sous les yeux de l'auteur". It also contains a reprint of a letter to the translator from Priestley in which he says : "Je viens de m'assurer que l'air fixe est une modification de l'acide nitreux. The nature of nitrogen as an element was not recognised until Lavoisier... "Jacques Gibelin's approved translation of the three volumes of Priestley's Experiments and Observations on different kinds of Air. The translator has added letters from Priestley in vols I and III and a translation of Priestley's paper read at the Royal Society Jan. 25, 1776, Observations on respiration in vol. II. The essay presented to the Academie of Sciences by the Duc De Chaulnes on 15 May 1776, Description d'un appareil nouveau (for preparation and collection of gases) is reprinted in vol. III with three plates. The editor has added a few notes, divided a few paragraphs differently and corrected the errata. The list of subscribers in vol. II is interesting, Lavoisier asked for 8 sets". (Cole N° 1067) ---- 2. Expériences et observations sur différentes BRANCHES DE LA PHYSIQUE : "The experimental work of the author is reported in these three volumes... Gibelin's translation of the first and second volumes of Priestley's Experiments and observations relating to various branches of natural philosophy...". (Cole N ° 1064 english ed. & 1068 french translation) ---- "C'est en 1772 que Priestley publia ses premières observations sur différentes espèces d'air. Recueillant les gaz sur la cuve à mercure (1773) il put isoler un grand nombre d'entre eux... Il découvrit aussi l'hydrogène sulfuré, l'oxyde azotique, l'éthylène... Il étudia le gaz carbonique, découvrit la respiration des végétaux. Sa principale découverte fut celle de l'oxygène..." ---- "Dr. Priestley's most important scientific publication, containing accounts of his discoveries of nitric oxide, nitrous oxide (laughing gas, the anaesthetic properties of which were only recognised 28 years later by Sir Humphry Davy), sulphurous acid, carbon dioxide, hydrochloric acid, silicon tetrafluoride, and ammonia gas, while he was the first to collect gases over mercury in his pneumatic trough. It contains moreover his important investigations on the absorption of gases by liquids, and describes his preparation of pure nitrogen ('phlogisticated air') ; but it is most important for his discovery of oxigen ('dephlogisticated air'), a discovery also made, independently of Priestley, by Scheele, and also claimed by Lavoisier...". (Sotheran supp. 2 Tome 1 N° 11805 & 11793) ---- DSB XI pp. 139/147 - Partington III pp. 236/301**4322/ARM4‎

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