Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration

London: J. Johnson, 1800.
First Edition.

21.5cm x 13.5cm. xvi, 580 pages, frontispiece. Quarter leather, gilt lettering.

Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. Published when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. A landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia. Provenance: Pencil signature of British crime writer and anaesthetist William Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) with three lines of pencil annotation to front free endpaper

Bound without the errata leaf. Marginal 1cm closed tear to fore-edge of frontispiece. Old repair to page 1/2, with minor soiling to the facing pages. Minor foxing, mostly confined to the title page and frontispiece. Good Condition.

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