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Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LLD. F.R.S., late president of the American Philosophical Society, &c. : interspersed with various notices of many distinguished men : with an appendix, containing sundry philosophical and other papers, most of which have not hitherto been published / by William Barton.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Barton, William, 1754-1817.
Contributor:
Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.
Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.
Rittenhouse, David.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Lenox, D. (autograph) (RBC copy 4)
Rittenhouse, David (autograph) (RBC copy 4)
Lamborn, Robert H. (donor) (RBC copy 3)
Culin, Stewart (donor) (RBC copy 4)
Hall, W. A. (donor) (RBC copy 5)
Pepper, William (bookplate) (RBC copy 8)
Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (RBC copy 8)
Atlantic City Free Public Library (bookplate, 1902) (Dechert copy)
White, Barclay (autograph, Springfield, N.J., May 1840) (Dechert copy)
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, lxxviii pages, 79 unnumbered pages-614 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : portrait, facsimile ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Edward Parker, 1813.
Notes:
Includes (p. [543]-577): An oration, delivered February 24, 1775, before the American Philosophical Society ... / by David Rittenhouse.
Local Notes:
Dechert Coll. copy imperfect: dampstaining on front and final pages.
Dechert Coll. copy with some leaves unopened.
Dechert Collection copy in original boards with printed spine label.
RBC copy 4 has ms. letter of David Rittenhouse bound in.
Cited in:
Shaw & Shoemaker 27835
OCLC:
123197420

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