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Dissertatio philosophica inauguralis de aëre fixo ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1774 Cou (b.w.) Af.411.3 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Smeth, Didericus de.
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- 101 p. : plate. ; 22 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- Trajecti ad Rhenum, Ex officina Abrahami van Paddenburg, 1772.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [*][superscript 2]A-N[superscript 4].
- Diss. - Utrecht.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Court de Gébelin, Lettre, q.v.; item 3 in volume. Discussed in a letter from Franklin to Johann David Hahn, 1774, cf. Hayes and Wolf, The library of Benjamin Franklin, p. 733. Inscription on title: Benjamino Franklin[o] viro clarissimo omnique laudis genere excellen[te] amicitiae caussa mittit J. D. Hahn, shaved. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. 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 (4); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
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