Romé de L'Isle, Jean Baptiste Louis de, 1736-1790.
L'action du feu central démontrée nulle a la surface du globe, : contre les assertions de MM. le comte de Buffon, Bailly, de Mairan, &c. / par M. de Romé de l'Isle, ...
A Stockholm, et se vend a Paris, : Chez P. Fr. Didot le jeune, libraire-imprimeur, ..., M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781].
"Fautes à corriger": p. 124.
Signatures: [n][superscript 2]a[superscript 4]A-G[superscript 8]H[superscript 6].
Includes "Table des auteurs cités dans cet ouvrage" (p. [122]-124).
HSP in LCP.
Benjamin Franklin's copy.
Bound with Fontanieu, Art, q.v.; item 3 in volume. Inscription on half-title: Pour le Docteur Franklin De la part de l’Auteur. Modern half sheep over contemporary boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in B. F. Bache’s hand; entered as “L’Art d’imiter les Pierres precieuses” in “Liste des Livres de Mr. Franklin,” 8 January 1782 (P 36: 343); pencil number inside front cover: C71 N40; purchased from Dufief, 1801– 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (53); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
Terrestrial heat flow.
Earth temperature.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner. Provenance
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798, annotator, Provenance
Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner. Provenance
Dufief, N. G. (Nicolas Gouin), 1776?-1834, bookseller. Provenance
Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner. Provenance
Imprint SWEDEN. Stockholm. 1781.
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