Experiments on air. By Henry Cavendish, ... Read at The Royal Society, June 2, 1785.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810 32010

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823, annotator.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

15,[1]p.,plate ; 4°.

Place of Publication:

London : printed by J. Nichols, 1785.

Notes:

Reprinted from the 'Philosophical Transactions'.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Both copies: Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Both copies bound with Biddle, Oration, q.v. Historical Society copy Af.404.15 not in table of contents; item 15 in volume. Historical Society copy Af.404.18 number 14 in table of contents; item 18 in volume.

Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; inscription on title: For Doctor Benjam[in . . . ], shaved; and long notes and minor corrections in the author's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (3); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1855, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.