Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 93

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DORTOUS DE MAIRAN, JEAN-JACQUES. Dissertation sur la Glace; ou, Explication Physique de la Formation de la Glace, & de ses Divers Phénomènes.<> Engraved frontispiece and 5 folding plates. xxix, [11], 384, xx pages. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine ends chipped. Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale, 1749

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Second edition, and first with illustrations, of a work originally published in 1716 on the formation of ice and the phenomena of cold and heat. Duveen, page 386; Partington III, 153.<