CAVALLO, TIBERIUS. 1749-1809.
A Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Air, and other Permanantly Elastic Fluids. London: for the Author, 1781. xii, 835, [9] pp. Illustrated with 3 engraved folding plates. 4to (265 x 207 mm). Modern brown calf over contemporary marbled boards, gilt armorial stamp to upper cover, NOBILIS IRA above a lion, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Small repaired tear to title-page, infrequent faint foxing, bookplates to front endpapers, covers with some general wear to corners and extremities.
First edition. Cavallo was an Anglo-Italian physicist and natural philosopher.