A few additional practical observations on the wire-gauze safety-lamps for miners
Subtitle: with some evidence of their use
By: [by Sir Humphry Davy]
Contributors: Buddle, John, 1773-1843; Peile, John
Publisher: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's
Published: 1816
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Industrial Medicine; Mine safety; Safety lamps; Firedamp
Notes: Observations signed: H.D.

Includes a letter to Davy from John Buddle, a prominent mining engineer who assisted him in the lamps   development and another from John Peile, a colliery manager.

Very rare.  Intended for distribution amongst colliery owners and managers.  One of only a handful of early fire-damp eassays to be published separately.

Copy 1    Supplier: Pickering & Chatto    Note:  Inscription on t.p.: 'By Sir H. Davy.  For distribution amongst the coal owners & mines.  Not Published. For the Geological Society of P----.  From the Author.' Cropped close at head touching inscription.