8vo. 254 leaves: A-Z, Aa-Hh
8, Ii
4, Kk
2, 4 engraved plates (1 folded) by Woodman & Mutlow.
This edition not in Poggendorff and not in Ferguson.
Catalogue of the Library of the Chemical Society, 46.
Original calf (the back slightly scorched). Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Sent to Jefferson by Benjamin Vaughan, who, in sending him a hygrometer on April 5, 1788, wrote from London: “. . . With the above hygrometers, I take the liberty to send Dr. Crawford’s book on Animal Heat & Combustion . . .”
Jefferson replied on July 23: “
. . . I will now recur to the subjects of your letter of Jan. 1787. and first of all accept my thanks for D
r. Crawford’s book which I had long desired . . .
”
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Adair Crawford, 1748-1795, British physician and chemist. This work which was first published in 1779, is dedicated to Richard Kirwan, q.v.
Adair Crawford’s brother, Dr. John Crawford, was living in Baltimore in 1811, and in correspondence with Jefferson.
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Dobson’s Commentary on fixed air.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 35. no. 9, as above.
DOBSON,
Matthew.
A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air . . . By Matthew Dobson, M.D. F.R.S.
Third Edition. With an Appendix on the Efficacy of the Solution of Fixed Alkaline Salts saturated with Fixible Air, in the Stone
and Gravel. With large Additions, and several new Cases. By William Falconer, M.D. F.R.S. and Physician to the General Hospital at Bath.
London: Printed for
T. Cadell,
1787.
RM676 .D63
8vo. 153 leaves; 63 leaves at the end for the Appendix, with separate pagination.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, iii, 863.
Not in Poggendorff.
Not in Lowndes.
Matthew Dobson, d. 1784, was a native of Liverpool, England. The first edition of his work was published in Chester, 1779.
William Falconer, 1744-1824, miscellaneous writer, edited this edition of Dobson’s work, and added the Appendix of which the dedication to
Benjamin Colborne is dated from Bath, May, 1787.
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Rouland de l’air.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 36. no. 10, as above.
ROULAND.
Tableau historique des propriétés et des phénomènes de l’air, considéré dans ses différens états et sous ses divers rapports;
par M. Rouland, Professeur de Physique Expérimentale, & Démonstrateur en l’Université de Paris.
A
Paris: chez
Gueffier,
M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784.]
QC19 .R85
First Edition. 8vo. 327 leaves; printer’s device on the title,
Fautes à corriger on the last leaf.
Quérard VIII, page 185.
Poggendorff II, 705.
Not in Ferguson.
Bound for Jefferson in French mottled calf, gilt back, marbled end papers, r.e., with Jefferson’s lettering slip for the binder,
Rouland de l’air, inserted on the title-page; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T; some passages marked in ink. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Entered without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Little seems to be known of the life of the author. He was a member of several learned societies, and held the posts named
in the title. This book is dedicated to Monsieur Sigaud de La Fond.
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