Sowerby Catalogue Volume I : page 383

ii. Priestley on Phlogiston.

PRIESTLEY, Joseph.

The Doctrine of Phlogiston established, and that of the Composition of Water refuted. The second edition with additions. By Joseph Priestley L.L.D. F.R.S. &c . . . Northumberland: Printed for P. Byrne, Philadelphia, by Andrew Kennedy, 1803.

8vo. 72 leaves; a ⁸, b ⁴, A-G ⁸, H ⁴, errata on b ₄; the last leaf has a list of books By the Author of this Tract, consisting of 15 numbered titles, of which no. 10-15 are headed Published in America. Corrections in pencil in a later hand occur.

Not in Sabin.

Fulton and Peters, page 8.

The dedication to Samuel Galton is dated from Northumberland on October 20, 1803. The first edition was published in Northumberland in 1800.

Presentation copy from the author, who wrote to Jefferson from Northumberland, Pennsylvania, on December 12, 1803: “. . . I directed a copy of the tract on phlogiston to be sent to you from Philadelphia . . .”

The book was sent to Jefferson on December 20 from Philadelphia by John Vaughan: “By desire of Dr. Priestley I have sent per Post for your acceptance, the New Edition of his pamphlet on Phlogiston . . .”

Jefferson wrote to Priestley from Washington on January 29, 1804: “ Your favor of Dec. 12 came duly to hand, as did . . . the treatise on Phlogiston, for which I pray you to accept my thanks . . . ”

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J.14

Conversations in chemistry. 2. v. 12 ^mo.

1815 Catalogue, page 35. no. 5, as above.

[MARCET, Jane.]

Conversations on chemistry; in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments. In two volumes. The second edition, revised and corrected. Vol. I. On simple bodies. [Vol. II. On compound bodies.] London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme [vol. I. by E. Blackader, vol. II, by J. and E. Hodson], 1807.

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2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 182 leaves; vol. II, 162 leaves; plates by Lowry after the Author, numbered I-XI; printer’s imprint at the end of each volume and on the back of the half-title and the title respectively.

Halkett and Laing I, page 429.

This edition not in Lowndes.

A Catalogue of the Library of the Chemical Society, page 123.

Originally bound for Jefferson by Milligan in 1809. Rebound in half morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in each volume. by Jane Marcet is written in ink on both title-pages, and a few text corrections occur in the same hand; pencil scribblings also occur; on the back of plate v is written in pencil: Sarah Maria Watterston eleve a Madame Annin et une tres belle dame, jeune dame.

Purchased from Milligan in January 1809, price $ 5.00. The binding was done in March the same year, cost $1.50.

Jefferson had tried to buy a copy of this work from Duane in 1807, writing to him on October 14, for a “ decent English edition in 8 ^vo. or 12 ^mo. ” Duane replied on the 16th that the book was not to be had, and again reported in December of the same year that “ Neither is there an English copy of M ^rs. Bryan’s Chemical Conversations to be had. ”

Jane Marcet (née Haldimand), 1769-1858, Swiss-English writer for the young, and particularly, as she explains in her Introduction, for the female sex. This book was first issued in 1806, and was the author’s earliest publication. It was published anonymously, and was at one time ascribed to Mrs. Margaret Bryan, as in Duane’s report above.

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