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Description et usage Des Barometres, Thermometres, et autres Instrumens Métérologiques ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1778 Fon (b.w.) Af.381.2 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goubert.
- Language:
- French
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. ; cm. (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Chez l'Auteur, Et chez Jombert, jeune, 1781.
- Notes:
- One fold. table.
- Signatures: [A]-C[superscript 8]D[superscript 2].
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Fontanieu, Art, q.v.; item 2 in volume. On 15 June 1781, BF purchased "a Pamphlet on Barometers and Thermometers 1/4/- [l.t.]" (Account of Family Expenses); entered as "Description et usage des Barometres &c" in "Liste des Livres de Mr. Franklin," 8 January 1782 (P 36: 343). Modern half sheep over contemporary boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in B. F. Bache's hand; entered as "L'Art d'imiter les Pierres precieuses" in "Liste des Livres de Mr. Franklin," 8 January 1782 (P 36: 343); 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: original entry.
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