Rapport des Commissaires chargés par le Roi, de l'examen du magnétisme animal, imprimé par ordre du Roi. Sur la Copie imprimée au Louvre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal.

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.

Moutard, Nicolas-Léger, 1742?-, bookseller.

Académie des sciences (France)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Animal magnetism--Early works to 1800.

Animal magnetism.

Mesmerism--Early works to 1800.

Mesmerism.

Mesmer, Franz Anton, 1734-1815.

Mesmer, Franz Anton.

Penn Provenance:

Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 80 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

dei- cer- a-i- hote (3) 1784 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Moutard, Imprimeur-Libraire de la Reine, & de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, rue des Mathurins, Hôtel de Cluni, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Notes:

Signatures: chi1; A-E⁸.

Title vignette (French royal arms).

Printed marginalia.

Report of the committee, of which Franklin was a member, appointed to investigage Friedrich Mesmer.

Lavoisier was a member of the commission and played a major role in its work. Cf. Duveen-Klickstein.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is gift of Prof. W. R. Newbold, with library's bookplate on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Duveen & Klickstein. Lavoisier, 224

Martin & Walter, 1, 1181

OCLC:

23626488