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Nouvelle construction d'alambic pour faire toute sorte de distillation en grand : avec le plus d'économie dans l'opération, et le plus d'avantage dans le résultat : en deux parties, la première contenant son application à la distillation des eaux-de-vie, et la seconde celle à la dessalaison de l'eau de la mer à bord des vaisseaux ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1780 Tur (b.w.) Af.395.5 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 2457
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Distillation--71024.
- Sea-water, Distillation of.
- Brandy--68768.
- Local Subjects:
- Distillation--71024.
- Sea-water, Distillation of.
- Brandy--68768.
- Physical Description:
- 43 p., IV folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- [Paris? : s.n.,] 1781.
- Notes:
- "Première edition, destinée à être distribuée gratis, dans les provinces de France. La seconde edition sera destinée à être vendue au bénéfice des hôpitaux."
- Plates "dessinés et gravés par de la Gardette."
- Also published in Rozier's Observations sur la Physique (1781), possibly before the separate edition. Cf. Duveen & Klickstein.
- Title-vignette, head- and tailpieces.
- Sometimes ascribed to J.H. Magellan. Cf. Cole.
- Signatures: [A]-E[superscript 4]F[superscript 2].
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Turini, Considerazioni, q.v.; number 6 in table of contents; item 5 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary boards; bound with other items. Turini to BF, 28 September 1780: "Vous trouverez Mr. dans le petit ouvrage cÿ joint" (P 33: 339); MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (15); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- 5 fold. plates.
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
- Cited in:
- Duveen, D.I. and Klickstein, H.S. Lavoisier 219.
- Cole. W.A. Chem. lit. no. 767.
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