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Lettres de mr. Alexandre Volta ... sur l'air inflammable des marais, auxquelles on a ajouté trois lettres du même auteur tirées du journal de Milan. Traduites de l'italien ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1778 Fon (b.w.) Af 381.4 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827 9146
- Standardized Title:
- Lettere ... sull' aria infiammabile nativa delle paludi. French
- Language:
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Campi, Carlo Giuseppe--31106.
- Campi, Carlo Giuseppe.
- Castelli, Francesco, marchese di Parabiago, 1739-1777--31107.
- Castelli, Francesco.
- Methane--Early works to 1800.
- Methane.
- Physical Description:
- 3 p.l., 191 p. fold. pl. 20 cm. (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Air inflammable des marais.
- Place of Publication:
- Strasbourg, Impr. de J.H. Heitz, 1778.
- Contents:
- Premiere[-septieme] lettre au p. Joseph Campi.
- Premiere[-troisieme] lettre a mr. le marquis Castelli.
- Notes:
- No. [5] in a volume lettered: Recueil s[ur] la chimie.
- Signatures: [n][superscript 3]A-M[superscript 8].
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Fontanieu, Art, q.v.; item 4 in volume. Pahin Champlain de la Blancherie to Franklin, 14 May 1778: "Je vous envoye, monsieur le docteur, la traduction de l'ouvrage de M. Volta sur l'air inflammable des marais" (P 26: 460). Modern half sheep over contemporary boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in B. F. Bache's hand; pencil number inside front cover: C71 N40; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (53); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Retrospective conversion record: MARC Link database.
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