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SIGAUD DE LA FOND, JOSEPH-AIGNAN. Essai sur Différentes Especes d'Air, qu'on désigne sous le Nom d'Air Fixe,Pour servir de suite & de supplément aux Elémens de Physique du même Auteur. 5 folding engraved plates of laboratory apparatus. [8], xvi, 400 pages. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf gilt, cover corners worn through; restoration in outer margin of B5 not impairing legibility. Paris: P. Fr. Gueffier, 1779
First edition. "Important treatise in which are described the preparation, properties, and chemical reactions of several gases, including carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, hydrogen, oxygen, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, and ammonia . . . In 1776 Sigaud assisted Macquer in experiments showing that water is produced when hydrogen burns in air. Pages 227-284 describe these experiments, which greatly helped Cavendish, Lavoisier, and Monge in their later investigations on the composition of water"--Neville II, 475. DSB XII, 427; Duveen, page 550; Partington III, 105.
