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Idées sur la météorologie
by LUC, Jean Andre de
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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1787 Meteorology & Electricity Experiments SCIENCE Swiss Deluc + RARE PROVENANCE
Jean Andre Deluc was an 18th-century Swiss naturalist who is primarily remembered for his studies in meteorology. His treatise "Ideas of Meteorology" covers a wide variety of topics relating to weather including hygrometry, fire and heat, fluids and electricity, atmospheric pressure, and much more. This fine, two-volume set includes two folding plates that demonstrate various electricity experiments!
Item number: #23013
Price: $950
LUC, Jean Andre de
Idées sur la météorologie
A Paris: chez la veuve Duchesne, 1787.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o Vol. 1 – [10], 320, [5], 320*-543, [2], 486-516
In two parts, each with separate title page
Inconsistent pagination expected
o Vol. 2 – [4], 478
· Provenance: Label – Monsieur Fournier de Varenne, Chevalier de Saint Louis, en son Hôtel, à Saint Malo.
o Jean-Jacques Fournier de Varennes (1739-1794), marquis de Bellevue, French military officer, planter and slaver owner from Saint-Malo, whose family helped to establish a French colony in Saint-Domingue by holding several successful sugar cane plantations. He was guillotined with several other aristocrats in 1794 as part of the French Revolution.
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~8in X 5.25in (20.5cm x 13.5cm)
· rare and desirable
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23013
- Title
- Idées sur la météorologie
- Author
- LUC, Jean Andre de
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- chez la veuve Duchesne
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1787
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1787 Meteorology & Electricity Experiments SCIENCE Swiss Deluc + RARE PROVENANCE, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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