PRIESTLEY Joseph

Expériences et observations sur différentes branches de la physique, avec une continuation des observations sur l'air

Chez Nyon, à Paris 1782, in-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 282pp. 1pl. (6) et (4) 312pp., 2 volumes reliés. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois par M. Gibelin. Edition originale française. Un troisième tome paraîtra en 1783 et un 4e en 1787. L'exemplaire de la bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève compte bien 2 volumes à la date de 1782. Reliures en plein veau brun marbré. Dos lisse orné. Pièces de titres et de tomaisons en maroquin rouge. Frottements. Un accroc avec un petit manque en queue du tome II. Tranches rouges. Chimiste et théologien anglais, qui a isolé de nombreux gaz, tels que l'oxygène. Il est considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de la chimie moderne par ses contributions à l'expérimentation. Priestley (1733-1804), pasteur, théologien et chimiste, fut encouragé à publier son Histoire de l'électricité par le scientifique et homme d'État Benjamin Franklin, qu'il avait rencontré en 1766. Priestley découvrit entre autres que le charbon de bois conduit l'électricité. En 1767, il se rendit compte que l'électrisation des conducteurs reste superficielle. La même année, il devint pasteur à Leeds, dans le Yorkshire, où il commença à s'intéresser à la recherche dans le domaine des gaz. Grâce à son travail expérimental novateur, il fut élu à l'Académie des sciences en 1772, année où il publia ses Observations sur différentes espèces d'air. Sa plus grande contribution est l'isolement de l'oxygène en 1774. - Chez Nyon, à Paris 1782, in-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 282pp. 1pl. (6) et (4) 312pp., 2 volumes reliés. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

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Book number: 17917

Catalogue: Livres Anciens (1455-1820) - Sciences

PRIESTLEY JOSEPH

Priestley's Navigable Rivers and Canals

London: David and Charles Reprints, 1969. Hardback. xiv +702pp +vii , folding map, reprint of Priestleys famous book first published in 1831. bound up in green cloth covers; Octavo. Very Good .

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Book number: 62211

Keywords: Waterways

PRICE (Richard) and PRIESTLEY (Joseph):

Sermons.

London: Printed in the Year 1791. FIRST EDITION of this collection. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [iv], [1] - 168, 167 - 214, with pp. 169 - 214 misnumbered, and p. 210 misnumbered 102, p. [115] fly-title to Priestley's Two Discourses, contemporary calf, gilt spine, black morocco label. A fine copy. The first three sermons are by Richard Price, the last four by Priestley. The work was reprinted in 1800, 1814, and 1830. Thomas, Stephens, and Jones, A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Price (1993), 36h. Crook, TR 215. ESTC locates 9 copies in British libraries and 7 in North American libraries (CaOTU, CtY, MH-AH, MH-H, NIC, PPL, ViRUT).

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Book number: 4826

Catalogue: Sermons

Keywords: sermons prose

Priestley,Joseph.

Autobiography of Joseph Priestley. Memoirs written by Himself. An Account of Further Discoveries in Air.

Bath, Adams & Dart, 1970. 159 pp. 1 portrait. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good. [143929]

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Book number: 143929

PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH (LINDSAY, JACK ED.)

Autobiography of Joseph Priestley: Memoirs Written by Himself; an Account of Further Discoveries in Air

Bath, Bath, Adams & Dart. 1970, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0239000471). Hardcover, with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 159pp hardback, white cloth gilt, in wrapper scattered spotting, good in a good wrapper. Good/Good.

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Keywords: 0239000471 biography

Priestley, Joseph; Maclean, John.

Considerations of the Doctrine of Phlogiston, and the Decomposition of Water by Joseph Priestley and Two Lectures on Combustion and an Examination of Doctor Priestley's Consideration on the Doctrine of Philogiston by John Maclean.

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), 1929. 1929. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), 1929. 1929. Very good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR WILLIAM FOSTER - Octavo, black cloth with a printed label on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. vi, [i], 115 & [1] pages. The book is lightly soiled. Very good.

First edition.

"Edited, with a Sketch of the Life and Letters of Doctor Maclean by William Foster, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University".

Inscribed in the year of publication by the editor and signed "with the warm regard of/ William Foster / Princeton / Sept. 28, 1929". Very good .

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Book number: 34278

Catalogue: Chemistry

Keywords: CHEMISTRY; COMBUSTION; CONSIDERATIONS OF THE DOCTRINE OF PHLOGISTON, AND THE DECOMPOSITION OF WATER; JOSEPH PRIESTLEY; TWO LECTURES ON COMBUSTION AND AN EXAMINATION OF DOCTOR PRIESTLEY'S CONSIDERATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF PHILOGISTON; JOHN MACLEAN; WILL

Priestley, Joseph & McLean, John [Foster, William, editor:]

Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston, and the Decomposition of Water and Two Lectures on Combustion and an Examination..

New York, Kraus Reprint, 1969. Reprint. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, viii,116 pp, A facsimile reprint of the edition.. Frontispiece; 2 portraits.. Minor rubbing, VG.
¶ Full title concludes... "of Doctor Priestley's Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston". With an introduction by Hugh S. Taylor.

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Book number: BOOKS009671I

Keywords: History of Science, Joseph Priestley, John McLean, Chemistry, Combustion, , , ,

PRIESTLEY JOSEPH

A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism 1777

England, The Scholartis Press. 1968. Cloth, Large 8vo. Book measures 26x21.cm. vi, [2], 313pp, 3pp booklist. Bound in original publishers green cloth, with gilt lettering and crest. Cloth very lightly marked, slight lean on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A good clean solid copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 011036

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: joseph priestley

PRIESTLEY (Joseph)

A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777. First edition, 4to, [4], vi, [4], 313, [3]pp., with half-title, errata leaf and 3pp., of advert at end, unobtrusive blind stamps in blank margins of first 4 and last 5 leaves, some light spotting, neat library label tipped-in on front paste-down, later green cloth. "Joseph Priestley, in his 'A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism,' developed a psychological theory of style. The 'Course' covers three main topics: traditional rhetorical arts of invention, arrangement, and style. Borrowing from the ideas of David Hartley, the association psychologist; Joseph Addison, the aesthetician; and Adam Smith, the moralist - all of whom offer Priestley a psychology of the human mind, Priestley contributed to discussions of style in 18th century rhetoric by synthesizing and expanding upon the thought of the best thinkers of his day and by using Lockean associationism to explain stylistic effects. Priestley's rhetoric is one of the most successful attempts to base a theory of style on association psychology. By doing so, Priestley rejected the classical concepts of high, middle, and low style and replaced them with a theory that emphasized the psychological impact language can have on readers and listeners. Language becomes the medium through which an individual mind can communicate with another, and style becomes the group of techniques writers and speakers use to gain assent, which Priestley conceived of as a psychological process." - Michael G. Moran. Crook, EP/330.

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Book number: 39207

Keywords: Psychology ORATORY CRITICISM

Priestley, Joseph:

A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism. Reprint from the 17777 edition

Scolar press Menston 1968. Leinen, 313 Seiten, dies ist ein ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, keine Markierungen/Anmerkungen, leichtes Fleckchen auf dem Vorderdeckel, das Buch ist in einem guten Zustand--- Linen, 313 pages, Lib. Ex., no marks, slightly dot on front cover, the book is in a good condition.

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Book number: 37370

Catalogue: Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaften

PRIESTLEY (Joseph):

Discourses on Various Subjects, including several on Particular Occasions.

Birmingham, Printed for the Author, by Pearson and Rollason..., 1787. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 212 x 129 mms., pp. xvi, 464 [465 - 468 adverts], recent full plum calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; some foxing of text. Inscribed on title-page, "The Author to / Bellas & Latitia / 1801", apparently in the hand of the first-named of the two recipients. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) published these discourses -- mostly sermons and essays on theological matters -- while living in Birmingham, and in them engaged in a certain amount of controversy about monotheism. He must have had a copy of the book with him in his home in the village of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, as it was there that he was in 1801. The first recipient named in the inscription is Priestley's young friend and sometime amanuensis Hugh Bellas (1780-1863), later in life an attorney-at-law, and the lawyer for the local Unitarian congregation. Bellas was also one of the earliest biographers of Joseph Priestley, as his vivid memoir of Priestley's life in America from 1796 to his death in 1804, printed by Dr Sprague in the mid-nineteenth century, is regarded as a valuable account of the last years of the great scientist's life (William B. Sprague, ed., Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit [1865], pp. 305-308). In it, Bellas refers in fact to the year in the inscription here, 1801, as follows: "In the autumn of 1801, Northumberland suffered severely from fevers; and Dr. Priestley, among others, was prostrated for some weeks. During his illness, I happened to reside in the same house with him, and heard his expressions of resignation to the Divine will, which were uttered in such a tone and so frequently as to be exceedingly affecting" (p. 306). Earlier in the memoir, Bellas speaks of the close relationship he had not only with Priestley but with Priestley's books: "In 1796, at the age of sixteen, I was employed as an apprentice in a store which the Doctor frequented. From the close of that year until the autumn of 1803, I was in the practise, with but little interruption, of borrowing from him miscellaneous books. As he perceived my ardour in acquiring knowledge, and was always on the alert to aid the improvement of young men, he uniformly treated me with great kindness and indulgence when I called upon him. During the period of about seven years, I saw and conversed with him, I suppose, upon an average, once every two weeks" (p. 305). Who is the second named recipient, "Latitia"? Did Priestley simply misremember the name of Hugh Bellas's wife? Her name was actually Esther. Another possibility is that Hugh's sister, or some other female relative known to Priestley, is referenced here. Crook TR/58. ESTC T32018 records no presentation copies at all (to anyone) of Priestley's Discourses on Various Subjects (1787). The ESTC records two presentation copies of other books Priestley gave to his young friend Hugh Bellas -- these are Letters to Mr. Volney (Philadelphia, 1797), 28 pages in length, and Observations on the Increase of Infidelity (Philadelphia, 1797), 179 pages in length -- both held by the Library Company of Philadelphia. The presentation volume on offer is by far the most substantial -- at nearly five hundred pages.

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Book number: 9597

Catalogue: Christianity

Keywords: Christianity religion prose

Priestley, Joseph; Scheele, Carl Wilhelm.

The Discovery of Oxygen: Part I: Experiments by Joseph Priestley 1775. Part II: Experiments by Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1777. (2 Volumes).

Edinburgh, U.K.: The Alembic Club, 1901 and 1923. 1901 and 1923. - Octavo, blue boards. The bindings are soiled with the spines darkened & their heads & tails lightly chipped. There are fragments of paper adhering to the rear cover of Part I and white staining to the front cover of Part II. 55 pages; and 46 pages plus two-page publisher's catalog. There is a full-page black-and-white illustration in Part II. There is foxing to the pastedowns & endpapers of Part I with occasional light foxing to its text pages. Good only.

Alembic Club Reprints Nos. 7 and 8. Fair .

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Book number: 36063

Catalogue: Chemistry

Keywords: CHEMISTRY; PNEUMATIC CHEMISTRY; THE DISCOVERY OF OXYGEN PARTS I AND 2; JOSEPH PRIESTLEY; CARL WILHELM SCHEELE; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CHEMISTS; ALEMBIC CLUB REPRINTS; ILLUSTRATION.

PRIESTLEY, Joseph

The discovery of oxygen, parts 1 & 2

Edingburgh , The Alembic Club , 1901. Used - Acceptable. Fair set of 2 hardbacks . Well used copies from the B.C.U.R.A library. Blue cloth boards worn and marked; library labels, notes and stamps on end papers. Binding tight. Photo:.

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Book number: BOOKS210567I

PRIESTLEY (Joseph)

The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated, being an Appendix to the Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is added an Answer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley's Theory of the Mind.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777. First edition, 8vo (210 x 125 mm), xxxiv, [2], 206, [2] pp., with half-title, errata leaf between the preliminaries and text, and a catalogue of Priestley's works at the end, blind-stamp on first 3 leaves, some occasional light browning of the text, cont. calf, rubbed and worn, upper cover detached. Crook, PM/360.

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Book number: 37869

Keywords: PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE CHEMISTRY

Priestley, Joseph:

An essay on a course of liberal education for civil and active life. Faksimile der Ausgabe von 1765. Zweite Auflage [Text Englisch]. (= History of British educational theory)

London: Routledge / Thoemmes. 1996. 4 Bl., III, 213 S., 5 Bl. Orig.-Leinwand mit vergold. Rückentitel (Bibliotheks-Exemplar mit gelöschtem Stempel verso Titelei und auf Seite 11, sonst ungelesen) Free shipping to Germany, shipping costs abroad 6,00 EUR.

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Book number: 27785

Catalogue: Pädagogik

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