Black; Priestly; Smith; Watt | Four works in 6 volumes, 1738-1803

A collection, comprising:

James Watt. Description of a Pneumatic Apparatus, with Directions for procuring the Factitious Airs, Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1795, 8vo, second edition, modern boards

Robert Smith. A Compleat System of Opticks, Cambridge: printed for the Author, 1738, 4to, FIRST EDITION, manuscript shelf number to pastedown, contemporary calf, joints cracked, covers scratched

Joseph Black—John Robinson. Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, Edinburgh: Mundell and Son, 1803, 4to, 2 vols, FIRST EDITION, bookplate of George James Alexander, contemporary russia, rebacked, corners worn, covers scratched

Jonathan Priestly. The History and Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colours, London: printed for J. Johnson, 1772, 4to, 2 vols, FIRST EDITION, bookplate of Erasmus Hall Library, modern calf