Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1774, 1775 & 1777.

First edition, three octavo volumes, illustrated with two folding plates in the first volume; second volume illustrated with three full page plates; third volume with one folding plate opposite the title; each with errata and publisher's ads at end; bound in uniform contemporary sheepskin; red labels to spines, some headcaps chipped with loss and cracking joints, all boards attached, older paper labels to lower panels of spine on all three; ex library with some old inobtrusive stamps; 8 1/8 x 5 in. (3)

Duveen p. 484; Horblit 85; Norman 1750.