Vegetable Staticks: Or, and Account of Some Statical Experiments on The Sap in Vegetables: Being an Essay Towards a Natural History of Vegetation &c.

HALES Stephen.

Published by London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; and T. Woodward, over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1727

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First edition, the work being reprinted in 1731 under the title of Statical Essays, to which was appended in 1733 a further volume dealing primarily with animal circulation. 'The first complete account of the physiology of plants including the reaction with air and movement of the sap'- Grolier Science. pp. [vii],vii,[2],376. With 19 copper plates. 1791 dated ownership on title of Hugh Davies, Welsh botanist & fellow of the Linnaean Society. Contemporary signature of C. Branfill to fep. A loose fragment of an 18th C MS leaf of notes, inserted. Small neat modern bookplate to front endpaper. Bound in contemporary panelled calf, the spine in panels with label, very neatly re-hinged. A small ink mark to inner-margin of title, otherwise a clean & fresh copy. VG. [Norman 970; PMM 189; Grolier Science 45a; Dibner 26; Henrey 777; Cleveland 362; Pritzel 3700; Osler 1080; Wellcome III,194].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vegetable Staticks: Or, and Account of Some Statical Experiments on The Sap in Vegetables: Being an Essay Towards a Natural History of Vegetation &c.
• Publisher: London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's; and T. Woodward, over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet
• Publication Date: 1727