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Auction archive: Lot number 17

HALES, STEPHEN | Vegetable Staticks: Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the sap in vegetables: Being an Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation. Also, a specimen of An Attempt to Analyse the Air, By a great Variety of Chymio-Statica...

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US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 17

HALES, STEPHEN | Vegetable Staticks: Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the sap in vegetables: Being an Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation. Also, a specimen of An Attempt to Analyse the Air, By a great Variety of Chymio-Statica...

Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson HALES, STEPHEN Vegetable Staticks: Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the sap in vegetables: Being an Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation. Also, a specimen of An Attempt to Analyse the Air, By a great Variety of Chymio-Statical Experiments; Which were read at several Meetings before the Royal Society. London, W. & J. Innys and T. Woodward, 1727 8vo (7 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 195 x 125 mm). 19 engraved plates by Simon Gribelin; Gilmanton Theological Library label to dedication leaf, minor soiling and foxing. Contemporary brown calf; overall worn, upper cover perished. Half brown morocco over cloth covered board clamshell case. First edition. Joseph Seccombe's copy. The "first complete account of the physiology of plants, including the reaction with air and movement of the sap" (Horblit). Hales measured the amount of water lost by plants through evaporation and related this to the amount of water present in a given area of soil in which plants were growing. He was the first to realize that plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air, and that it forms a vital part of their food supply. REFERENCE: Dibner 26; Horblit 45a; Norman 970; PMM 189a; Waller 11526; Wellcome III:194 PROVENANCE: Joseph Seccombe (signature to title-page). Seccombe is best remembered as the author of the first American work on fishing.

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
18 Dec 2019
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson HALES, STEPHEN Vegetable Staticks: Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the sap in vegetables: Being an Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation. Also, a specimen of An Attempt to Analyse the Air, By a great Variety of Chymio-Statical Experiments; Which were read at several Meetings before the Royal Society. London, W. & J. Innys and T. Woodward, 1727 8vo (7 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 195 x 125 mm). 19 engraved plates by Simon Gribelin; Gilmanton Theological Library label to dedication leaf, minor soiling and foxing. Contemporary brown calf; overall worn, upper cover perished. Half brown morocco over cloth covered board clamshell case. First edition. Joseph Seccombe's copy. The "first complete account of the physiology of plants, including the reaction with air and movement of the sap" (Horblit). Hales measured the amount of water lost by plants through evaporation and related this to the amount of water present in a given area of soil in which plants were growing. He was the first to realize that plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air, and that it forms a vital part of their food supply. REFERENCE: Dibner 26; Horblit 45a; Norman 970; PMM 189a; Waller 11526; Wellcome III:194 PROVENANCE: Joseph Seccombe (signature to title-page). Seccombe is best remembered as the author of the first American work on fishing.

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
18 Dec 2019
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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