Issuing body:

Académie royale des sciences (France)  Search this

Publisher:

Desaint & Saillant  Search this

Former owner:

United States Patent Office Scientific Library DSI  Search this

Physical description:

45 volumes, leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm (folio)

Type:

Early works to 1800

Dictionaries

Early works to 1900

Early works

Place:

France

Date:

1761

1789

18th century

Notes:

Half-titles.

Woodcut title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces.

"Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roi" (below imprint).

SCDIRB copy (39088016469207, -249, -280, -322, -363, -405, -447, -488, -520, -561, -603, -645, -215, -256, -298, -330, -371, -413, -454, -496, -538, -579, -611, -652, -223, -264, -306, -348, -389, -421, -462, -504, -546, -587, -629, -660, -231, -314, -355, -397, -439, -470, -512, -553) incomplete: title pages with imprint dates up to 1780; parts not bound sequentially, lacking many full title pages; volumes made-up with some of the descriptions lacking and bound out of order?

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Scientific Library, United States Patent Office (stamped 'cancelled').

SCDIRB copy bound in old blue library buckram, title in gilt on spine, typescript paper spine label containing the content of each volume.

Topic:

Manufactures  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Technology  Search this

Occupations  Search this

Call number:

T7 .D44 1761

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1092523