DAVY, Humphrey Sir (1778-1829). Reseaches, Chemical and Philosophical; chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide, or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration , London: for J. Johnson by Biggs and Cottle, 1800. 8° (210 x 131mm). Engraved frontispiece (frontispiece lightly spotted and lower margin a little shorter, very light occasional spotting in text). Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (neatly rebacked with old spine relaid, corners bumped). Provenance : Haskell F Norman (bookplate), this copy sold at Christie's New York 15 June 1998, lot 401; Richard Prime (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK, the Norman copy, of this major work in the history on Anaesthesia. "Davy, apprenticed as a surgeon-apothecary, published the above at age 22. Two years earlier, he experimented with various gases at the Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, to determine their medical properties. He discovered that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) was respirable and himself breathed large quantities of it with exhilarating effect. He observed that 'it may probably be used with advantage in surgical operations.'" (Dibner). Dibner Heralds of Science 128; Garrison & Morton 5646; Norman 607; Osler 1382; Waller 11113; Wellcome II, p.436.
DAVY, Humphrey Sir (1778-1829). Reseaches, Chemical and Philosophical; chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide, or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration , London: for J. Johnson by Biggs and Cottle, 1800. 8° (210 x 131mm). Engraved frontispiece (frontispiece lightly spotted and lower margin a little shorter, very light occasional spotting in text). Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (neatly rebacked with old spine relaid, corners bumped). Provenance : Haskell F Norman (bookplate), this copy sold at Christie's New York 15 June 1998, lot 401; Richard Prime (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK, the Norman copy, of this major work in the history on Anaesthesia. "Davy, apprenticed as a surgeon-apothecary, published the above at age 22. Two years earlier, he experimented with various gases at the Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, to determine their medical properties. He discovered that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) was respirable and himself breathed large quantities of it with exhilarating effect. He observed that 'it may probably be used with advantage in surgical operations.'" (Dibner). Dibner Heralds of Science 128; Garrison & Morton 5646; Norman 607; Osler 1382; Waller 11113; Wellcome II, p.436.
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