(Paris, Moutard, Panckoucke, 1780). 4to. Extract from ""Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome IX. Pp. 521-550 + pp. 551-562. Clean and fine.
Reference : 44933
First printing of Chaulne's memoir on carbon dioxyde to which Cavendish referred ""The Duc de Chaulnes, in a paper communicated in December 1775, described experiments on fixed air made 1771-73, including its acid reaction and the formation of a crystaline salt (potassium bicarbonate) by the action of fixed air on solutions of potassium carbonate and hydroxide."" (Partington III, p. 317).
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