PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. Catalogue of the Library of the late Dr. Joseph Priestley, Containing Many very scarce and valuable Books, For Sale by Thomas Dobson...Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1816. 96 pp., 8vo, disbound, title-page a little dust-soiled, advertisement leaf at end. Shaw & Shoemaker 38706 (2 locations: LC and Harvard).

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PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. Catalogue of the Library of the late Dr. Joseph Priestley, Containing Many very scarce and valuable Books, For Sale by Thomas Dobson...Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1816. 96 pp., 8vo, disbound, title-page a little dust-soiled, advertisement leaf at end. Shaw & Shoemaker 38706 (2 locations: LC and Harvard).

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The English scientist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) emigrated to America in 1794 and settled in Northumberland, Pennsylania; he died there ten years later. This rare bookseller's catalogue of his library has over 1800 entries in various classifications.