Volta, Alessandro.

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Memoria intorno al calore. [Pavia: Giuseppe Bianchi, 1783-1784]

8vo (208 x 135mm.), later marbled paper covers, original blue paper wrappers bound in

Catalogue Note

first edition (offprint) of Volta's essay on heat in chemical reactions, which discusses Lavoisier's work on oxygen. It was produced as a supplement to the Italian translation of Macquer's Dictionnaire de chymie (1766).