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Exposé succint des travaux de MM. Harrison et Le Roy : dans la recherche des longitudes en mer & des épreuves faites de leurs ouvrages / par M. Le Roy, horloger du Roi.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1698 Def (b.w.) Af.396.3 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Roy, Pierre, 1717-1785 63234
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Harrison, John, 1693-1776--21812.
- Harrison, John.
- Le Roy, Pierre, 1717-1785--63234.
- Le Roy, Pierre.
- Longitude--Measurement--Early works to 1800.
- Longitude.
- Chronometers--Early works to 1800.
- Chronometers.
- Euro Tracts--1768.
- Local Subjects:
- Euro Tracts--1768.
- Physical Description:
- xvj, 51, [1] p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Nyon ... Jombert ... Prault père ..., 1768.
- Notes:
- Final p. blank.
- Signatures: n[superscript 2]a[superscript 2]b[superscript 4]A-F[superscript 4]G[superscript 2].
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Defoe, Brief reply, q.v.; item 3 in volume. A few minor corrections. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. Formerly with table of contents, now missing; first three items probably lost of misbound elsewhere, since old numbering is 4-11; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (23); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
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