Description Of A Glass Apparatus For Making Mineral Waters Like Those Of Pyrmont Spa Seltzer C In A

by Joao Jacinto De Magalhaes Or Magellan

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First edition

Engraved frontis. viii, 47 pp. 8vo, later wrappers title a little browned , uncut. London: Printed for W. Parker…, 1777. First edition of “an important milestone in the early literature of gas analysis…Magellan 1722-90 , was an Augustinian prior who emigrated to England and Protestantism in 1764. Elected F.R.S. 1774 , he published this account of his researches on gases, addressed to Joseph Priestley. The glass apparatus for impregnating

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