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The value of the practical interrogation of nature : a lecture, introductory to the course of chemistry applied to the arts, delivered at the Franklin Institute in November, 1832 / By John K. Mitchell, M.D. professor of chemistry in the Franklin Institute, &c.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection R708 .M58 1825 item 4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, John Kearsley, 1793-1858.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology and civilization--History.
- Technology and civilization.
- History.
- Science and the arts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Astley, Edna Lockhart, 1911-1996 (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 22 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : printed by J.R.A. Skerrett, 1834.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [1]⁴ 2⁴ 3³.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy is no. 4 in a volume of 11 works by John Kearsley Mitchell published between 1825 and 1857.
- RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 1976 by Mrs. Royden Astley of Newtown Square, Pa., once secretary of the Board of Managers of the Women's Hospital and member of the Women's Board, Clark Unit, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
- RBC copy: boards detached and backstrip wanting; textblock partially separated.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 25787.
- OCLC:
- 11217595
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