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Éloge de François Quesnay.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1781 Noe (b.w.) Af.384.8 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romance, Germain-Hyacinthe de, marquis de Mesmon, 1745-1831 95575
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Quesnay, François, 1694-1774--2960.
- Quesnay, François.
- Philosophy, French--18th century--77925.
- Philosophy, French.
- Philosophers, French--Biography.
- Philosophers, French.
- Medicine--France--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Free enterprise--74965.
- Free enterprise.
- Physical Description:
- 102 p. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- A Londres [i.e. Paris?]; et se trouve à Paris, : Chez Didot le jeune, libraire, quai des Augustins., MDCCLXXV. [1775]
- Notes:
- Contains bibliographical references.
- Probably printed in Paris.
- With a half-title.
- Attributed to the marquis de Mesmon by Barbier.
- Local Notes:
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- HSP in LCP.
- Bound with Noël, Recherche, q.v.; number 7 in table of contents; item 8 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary boards. MS table of contents on flyleaf in contemporary hand; pencil number inside front cover: C71 N37; purchased from Dufief, 1801-1803, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (50); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Historical Society copy has inscription on verso of half-title: Illustrissimo, & optimo viro, Benja. Francklin; américanae libertatis ristauratori, Législatori, in physica & Ethica principi, qui in dicendo et agendo prae omnibushujus saeculi viris excellentem se praebuit hoc--a levissimum opus (sed ut superis vilia Thura) . Germanus hyacinthus De Romance Mesmon Eques, Gente Gallus, animo vere philadelphius, in praetoriarorum legionibus sub-tribuni munera agens, Dicat & Confecerat. 1777. ; entered as "Eloge de François Quesnay" in "Liste des Livres de Mr. Franklin."
- Cited in:
- ESTC T093983
- OCLC:
- 173401424
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