Del calore animale e della combustione sperienze ed osservazioni di A. Crawford

First Italian edition translated by Giuseppe Venturoli of the work originally published in English under the title: "Experiments and Observations on Animal Heat". Illustrated with 3 folding plates at the end of the volume.
Contemporary half brown sheep binding. Smooth spine with 4 fleurons and multiple roulettes. Red morocco title label. A 1cm loss between the title label and the following compartment. Rubbing. Corners with paper loss.
Adair Crawford (1748-1795), chemist and physicist, was above all a pioneer of calorimetry, which measures quantities of heat. Crawford presents in his work new experiments proving that gas exchange in animal respiration is combustion.