Continued as the author's Experiments and observations relating to various branches of natural philosophy, with a continuation of the Observations on air, v. 1-3, 1779-1786; an abridgement of the six vols. was published in 1790 in three vols. under the title: Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject.
Vol. 1: [2], xxiii, [5], 324, [4] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: xliv, 399, [21] p., III leaves of plates; v. 3: xxxiv, [6], 411, [13] p., [1] folded leaf of plates.
Signatures: v. 1: pi1 a8 b4 c2 B-X8 Y4; v. 2: a-b8 c4 d2 B-2D8 chi2; v. 3: a-b8 c4 B-2D8 2E4.
Errata: v. 1, p. [325]; v. 2, p. 400; v. 3, p. [420].
Advertisements: v. 1, p. [326]-[328]; v. 2, p. [417]-[420]; v. 3, p. [421]-[424].
References: Crook, R.E. Priestley, S/451-453; ESTC T033832.
Vols. 2 and 3 filmed on reel 77-8 no. 1.