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Hints of important uses, to be derived from aerostatic globes. With a print of an aerostatic globe, and its appendages. Originally designed in 1783. By Thomas Martyn.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1774 Cou (b.w.) Af.411.7 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martyn, Thomas, fl. 1760-1816. 48429
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 16p.,plate ; 4°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for the author; and sold by Mr. White; Mr. Payne; Mr. Robson; Mr. Johnson; Mr. Debrett; and Mr. Becket, 1784.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Court de Gébelin, Lettre, q.v.; item 7 in volume; leaves shaved at right. 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; sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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