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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Hardcover Very Good Pfizer Labs 1981 hardcover Facsimile reprinting of Hale's 1733 classic Cover shows very minor wear Contents clean Binding tight Almost like new.
Edité par Napoli [Naples]: Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Raimondi, 1756., 1756
Vendeur : Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB, Chilbolton, Royaume-Uni
8vo, pp. (viii), 368, 20 engraved plates by G. Aloja. Contemporary Italian mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A few small wormholes in spines and short wormtracks on endpapers, some foxing, generally a very good copy. FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Hales? founding work on plant physiology. He studied the movement of sap in plants, and discovered what is now known as root pressure. He studied the amounts of water that plants used, and the influence of light and air on them. In that respect he discovered that plants take carbon dioxide from the air as an essential nutrient. ?His work was so great an advance that it stands alone in its time, and deserves close attention? (Morton, History of Botanical Science, pp. 246?254). In the long chapter on the analysis of the air, Hales also recounts his experiments with a closed-circuit rebreathing apparatus, with which he tried with various filters to remove the ?noxious vapours? (i.e. carbon dioxide) from the air. This work led to his invention of artificial ventilation, and facilitated the work and discoveries of Black, Lavoisier, and Priestley. The dedication is signed by the translator, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, who also translated Hales?s Haemataticks into Italian. See Printing and the Mind of Man 189(a); Dibner 26; Horblit 45a; and Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1727. Foster, Lectures on the history of physiology, pp. 231?232. Neville I, p. 580?581.
Edité par London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby?and T. Woodward? 1739., 1739
Vendeur : Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB, Chilbolton, Royaume-Uni
8vo, 2 leaves, pp. xxx, 1 leaf (errata), pp. 163, 3 leaves (index), 1 engraved plate. Half-title. In this copy the final advertisement leaf M6 has been cancelled and replaced with Innys & Manby?s 16-page catalogue dated 1738. Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments (compartment below the label with a defunct volume number), brown morocco label. Upper joint rubbed but a fine copy. FIRST EDITION. The experiments that Hales describes in this book are principally concerned with the health and welfare of sailors, and how the food and water on a ship, which on a long voyage were notoriously bad, may be preserved in an edible state. Hales also published a proposal for improving the ventilation on board ships. Neville I, p. 576.
Edité par A Paris: Chez Debure l?aîné,? 1735., 1735
Vendeur : Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB, Chilbolton, Royaume-Uni
4to, pp. xviii, (vi), 1 leaf (errata), pp. 408, (2) privilege, and 20 numbered plates by Maisonneuve on 10 sheets. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, marbled endpapers. Paper very slightly browned, old library stamp on title with a small piece of paper pasted over it, tiny chip in foot of spine, generally a very nice copy. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Hales? founding work on plant physiology, translated by Buffon, and published as a handsome quarto volume, ?an influential French translation which has the famous ?Préface du traducteur?, in which Buffon praises the experimental method, and includes Hales? appendix of 1733? (DSB). It was Buffon?s first literary production. Hales studied the movement of sap in plants, and discovered what is now known as root pressure. He studied the amounts of water that plants used, and the influence of light and air on them. In that respect he discovered that plants take carbon dioxide from the air as an essential nutrient. ?His work was so great an advance that it stands alone in its time, and deserves close attention? (Morton, History of Botanical Science, pp. 246?254). Hales? work on the analysis of the air led to his invention of artificial ventilation, and facilitated the work and discoveries of Black, Lavoisier, and Priestley. See Printing and the Mind of Man 189(a); Dibner 26; Horblit 45a; and Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1727. Foster, Lectures on the history of physiology, pp. 231?232. Cole 585. Neville I, p. 579. This copy has a cancel title with the imprint of Debure l?aîné.
Edité par W. Innys, R. Manby, T. Woodward, London, 1743
Vendeur : Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australie
Edition originale
Two volumes, octavo, five folding plates, contemporary speckled calf. First edition: Hales' ventilators became known as "ship's lungs", and were so appreciated by eighteenth-century sailors, and contributed so significantly to an improvement in seaboard conditions, that captains reported the crews needed little encouragement to work the machines. After a leisurely twelve years in residence at Cambridge, Hales (1677-1761) took up a parish and became heavily involved in local affairs, but this did not preclude him from a long and productive scientific career. His continuing fame was assured with these two books, which effectively invented artificial ventilation. Designed to draw fresh air into confined spaces, his machines were installed in His Majesty's ships, merchant vessels, slave ships, in hospitals, even at the court of King's Bench, the Drury Lane Theatre and Newgate Prison. As a result, there was a marked improvement in mortality rates, even among French prisoners-of-war held in English gaols, which led Hales to quip that he hoped none would accuse him of corresponding with the enemy. He was a pioneer in public health, a role that he apparently considered a vocation: his friend Gilbert White commented that Hales could barely be restrained from offering unsolicited advice to friends and acquaintances, his wide-ranging mind capable of discoursing endlessly on the perils of encrusted tea-kettles or on the best methods of maintaining the keels of boats to passing ferrymen. White records one particularly endearing act of benevolence, commenting that he once spotted Hales busy painting white the 'tops of the foot-path posts, that his neighbours might not be injured by running against them in the dark' (DNB). Hales was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1718. The second volume in this set, uniformly bound, was published in 1758, and details the various applications and improvements his ventilators had found in the intervening years. . Some very light browning and two plates bound in upside down; spines rubbed, hinges starting but firm.