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A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Morton, President of the Royal Society. Containing experiments and observations on the agreement between the specific gravities of the several metals, and their colours when united to glass, ... By Edward Delaval, ... Read at the Royal Society Jan.24, 1765.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1753 Jon (bw) Af.359.5 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delaval, Edward Hussey, 1729-1814 23836
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [2],29,[1]p. ; 4°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed in the year, 1765.
- Notes:
- The 'Letter' was reprinted as part of 'An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies', London, 1777.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Jones, Pancrometer, q.v.; number 6 in table of contents; item 5 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items; numbers 1-2 in table of contents; With three leaves of MS preface, and a table, addressed: To the Reader, signed: Hugh Jones, and dated: Maryland Ap. 12the 1754., shaved and silked; minor corrections by Jones; 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 (29); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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