SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph Aignan (1730-1810). Essai sur différentes Especes d'Air, qu'on désigne sous le nom d'air fixe, Paris: P. Fr. Gueffier, 1779, 8°, FIRST EDITION, half title, 5 folding engraved plates (corner of half title torn away, small hole to inner margin of a5, light browning to first 12 leaves, occasional spotting), contemporary calf-backed boards, vellum corners, spine gilt (lower front joint split, lightly rubbed along joints). [Blake, p. 418; Duveen, p. 550]

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SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph Aignan (1730-1810). Essai sur différentes Especes d'Air, qu'on désigne sous le nom d'air fixe, Paris: P. Fr. Gueffier, 1779, 8°, FIRST EDITION, half title, 5 folding engraved plates (corner of half title torn away, small hole to inner margin of a5, light browning to first 12 leaves, occasional spotting), contemporary calf-backed boards, vellum corners, spine gilt (lower front joint split, lightly rubbed along joints). [Blake, p. 418; Duveen, p. 550]

Provenance

?Dupuy, inscription to title; J. Laissus, bookplate.

Lot Essay

"The author experimented with Macquer in 1776 and they found that on the combustion of hydrogen (air inflammable) water was produced, a discovery which greatly assisted Lavoisier and Cavendish in their later experiments." (Duveen)

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