Observations sur le travail des eaux-mères de salpêtre : et sur celui des eaux d'atelier / par les Régisseurs Généraux des Poudres & Salpêtres.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798, annotator.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

French

Physical Description:

39 p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : De l'impr. Royale, 1778.

Notes:

Title vignette; head and tail-pieces, initial.

Signatures: [A]-B[superscript 8]C[superscript 4].

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Both Historical Society copies: Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Historical Society copy Af.322.5: Bound with Gauthey, Expérience, q.v.; item 5 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary boards; bound with other items. Franklin listed among the subscribers. Gauthey to Franklin, 14 March 1783, hoping he had the kindness "de lire le prospectus sur la propagation du son dans des tuyaux que Monsieur Dufourni de Villers, eut la bonté de vous remettre au Mussée le 6 du présent" (P 39: u156); MS table of contents on flyleaf in B. F. Bache's hand; pencil number inside front cover: C71 N44; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (56); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Historical Society copy Af.317.4: Bound with Tilton, Dissertatio medica, q.v.; item 4 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary floral boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (119); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Retrospective conversion record: original entry.