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Nouvelles fontaines domestiques, approuvées par l'Academie royale des sciences.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amy, Joseph, 1697-1760.
- Language:
- French
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Water--Purification--France--Early works to 1800.
- Water.
- Filters and filtration--Early works to 1800.
- Filters and filtration.
- Drinking fountains--Early works to 1800.
- Drinking fountains.
- Water--Purification.
- France.
- Penn Provenance:
- Jeanbernat Barth'elemy de Ferrari Doria, Emmanuel (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 206, 72, 207-220, 24, 48 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez [brace] J.B. Coignard, imprimeur du roi, A. Boudet, libraire-imprimeur, 1750.
- Notes:
- By Joseph Amy; author's name appears in privilege, etc.
- Published in 1749 with title: Observations expérimentales sur les eaux des rivières de Seine, de Marne, d'Arcueil et de Puits ...
- Two editions appeared under present title in 1750. This is an expanded version of the "1re édition". Cf. BN.
- On 72 p. between p. 206 and p. 207: "Quaestio medica ... an ab omni re cibariâ vasa aenea prorsùs ableganda" (Camille Falconet, praeses; François Thi'ery, respondent; 20 Feb. 1749), in Latin and French on opposite pages; "Obseruations sur la these" [by Amy]; "Lettres patentes" [15 June 1749]; "Arrest d'enregistrement" [22 Apr. 1750]. The "Lettres patentes" and "Arrest" relate to the two machines invented by Amy.
- "Avis au public sur l'usage des nouvelles fontaines domestiques & de sant'e" [by Amy]: 24 p.
- "Second avis" [by Amy]: 48 p.
- Three folded leaves are inserted at beginning of first "avis": "Filtroirs militaires marins et domestiques"; "Instruction g'en'erale & sommaire, pour la conduite des nouvelles fontaines"; "Avis au public, sur le privil'ege exclusif de la machine à 'elever les eaux ..."; each advertises the "Nouvelles fontaines domestiques."
- Cited in:
- BN II 1087; CLXXXVI 748
- Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, III 573
- Qu'erard I 51
- Contains:
- Amy, Joseph, 1697-1760. Avis au public.
- Falconet, Camille, 1671-1762. Quaestio medica.
- OCLC:
- 187451220
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