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A treatise of artificial magnets; in which is shewn an easy and expeditious method of making them, superior to the best natural ones : ... By J. Michell, ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1746 Wal (b.w.) Af.370.4 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michell, John, 1724?-1793 19287
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [2],78p.,plate ; 8°.
- Edition:
- The second edition, corrected and improved.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : printed by Joseph Bentham; and sold by W. and J. Mount, and T. Page, J. & P. Knapton, C. Bathurst, J. Beecroft, London; W. Thurlbourn, and T. Merrill, in Cambridge; J. Fletcher, at Oxford; and J. Hildyard, at York, 1751.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Watson, Sequel, q.v.; number 3 in table of contents; item 4 in volume; with upper right corner of title torn away; leaves B2-B3 and A2-A3 interchanged. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; brief marginalia by Franklin in pencil on pp. 35, 51, and 64, badly shaved; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (91); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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