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Essai d'une théorie sur la structure des crystaux : appliquée à plusieurs genres de substances crystallisées / par M. l'Abbé Haüy ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection QC516 .H32 1787
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haüy, René Just, 1743-1822.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Crystallography--Early works to 1800.
- Crystallography.
- Crystallography, Mathematical--Early works to 1800.
- Crystallography, Mathematical.
- Penn Provenance:
- Robison, John, 1739-1805 (autograph) (Smith copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 236 pages, VIII folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- a-nt net, onux deGe (3) 1784 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Gogué & Née de la Rochelle, libraires ..., MDCCLXXXIV [1784] ([Paris] : De l'Imprimerie de Demonville, rue Christine)
- Notes:
- Printer from colophon on leaf Q2v which reads: De l'Imprimerie de Demonville, rue Christine, 1783.
- Signatures: pi⁴ A-O⁸ P⁴ Q².
- Engraved plates signed: Fossier del., Sellier sculp.
- Woodcut title vignette, head-piece and tail-pieces.
- Type ornament head-piece.
- Errata on leaf pi4v.
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy imperfect: leaf pi1 wanting.
- Smith copy purchased for the Penn LIbraries in 2019 from Nigel Phillips Rare Books.
- Smith copy has dated 18th-century autograph ("CJ Robison 1787") at head of title leaf.
- Smith copy has a few early ms. notes, marks and underlines in text.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- Cited in:
- Poggendorff, J.C. Der exacten Wissenschaften, I, 1038
- Horblitt, H.D. Grolier 100 science books, no. 47
- OCLC:
- 3726012
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