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The annual edition of updates to the Badminton Association's officers, rules, regulations, tournaments, records and results, plus the laws of the game. 8vo. 136pp. Paperback. Very good condition.

Cricket handbook, with annual report, regulations and register of all affiliated clubs. Paperback. Small 8vo. 220pp. Covers held in place with neat tape. Contents are very good.

Helmstädt und Leipzig, J.G. Müllerschen Budhhandlung, 1785. Small 8vo. Orig. printed blue wrappers to both issues., no backstrip. In: "Chemische Annalen.von Lorenz Crell", 1785:1. Bd., 3. Stück. a. 1785: 1.Bd., Stück 4. ( 2 whole issues = Stück3-4). (2),196-288 a. (2),291-384 a. 1 engraved plate. - Scheele's papers: pp. 229-38 a. pp. 291-299. First appearance of these importent papers by the discoverer of oxygen. "In 1785, Scheele revised his views on the nature of air and fire (the papers offered) as a result of Lavoisier's observations on the increase in weight on burning phosphorus in air. He says he had also often observed the formation of water on the explosion of a mixture of inflammable air (hydrogen) and fire air in a bottle, but had thought that the moisture was in the gases (as Priestly had done in 1781.(Parkinson III:p.228). "It is only the exact observation of Lavoisier which had helped me out of the dream."(Scheele).