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Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving, 1823.

Sir Humphry Davy. Line engraving by R. Newton, 1830, after Sir T. Lawrence, 1810/11.

Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving by Roffe after H. Howard.

A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.

Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving by R. Hicks, 1829, after T. Phillips.

A chemical lecture at the Surrey Institution. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after his drawing, 1809.

The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ... / edited by his brother, John Davy.

Sir Humphry Davy. Mezzotint by C. Turner, 1835, after H. Howard.

Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving by W. Holl.

The seven ages of science. 3/7 Age of opportunity.

Design for a monument to be erected on Leskudjack Hill, Penzance, to the memory of Sir Humphry Davy. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley.

Science and the sons of genius : studies on Humphry Davy / edited by Sophie Forgan.

Elements of agricultural chemistry, in a course of lectures for the Board of Agriculture / By Sir Humphry Davy.

Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration / By Humphry Davy.

The house and birthplace of Sir Humphry Davy in Penzance, Cornwall. Pencil drawing.

Researches, chemical and philosophical : chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or diphlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration / by Humphry Davy.

The chemical pocket book, or Memoranda chemica, arranged in a compendium of chemistry / By James Parkinson, Hoxton.

Salmonia: or days of fly fishing. In a series of conversations. With some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo / By an angler [i.e. Sir H. Davy].

The Bakerian Lecture, on some chemical agencies of electricity ... From the Philosophical Transactions / By Humphrey Davy.

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Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829

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The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ... / edited by his brother, John Davy.

Researches, chemical and philosophical : chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or diphlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration / by Humphry Davy.

The chemical pocket book, or Memoranda chemica, arranged in a compendium of chemistry / By James Parkinson, Hoxton.

Salmonia: or days of fly fishing. In a series of conversations. With some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo / By an angler [i.e. Sir H. Davy].

The Bakerian Lecture, on some chemical agencies of electricity ... From the Philosophical Transactions / By Humphrey Davy.