[4], 232 pages, V folded leaves of plates illustrations 21 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1777
Notes:
"De l'imprimerie de Chardon ... 1777" --Colophon
Head- and tail-pieces; vignette on title page; side-notes
Headpiece on p. 10 signed: Papillon
Plates signed: De la Gardette, sculp
Running title: Résistance des fluides
Signatures: pi² A-O⁸ P⁴
Copy 1 [barcode no. 39088000381913] has inscription in ink on recto of second free endpaper and on title page: Jno. M. Keasy
Copy 1 has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner
Copy 2 [barcode no. 39088007960180] has bookseller's stamp on front paste-down: Auguste Thomas, libraire ... Paris
Copy 2 bound in contemporary half-leather over brown paste-paper boards; red gilt-tooled binder's label with title: Résistance des fluides; re-backed
Copy 2 bound with: Bernard, Pons-Joseph. Considérations nouvelles, sur la maniere dont les rivieres établissent leur lit. A Marseille : Chez Jean Mossy ..., 1780 -- Venturi, Giovanni Battista. Recherches expérimentales sur le principe de la communication latérale du mouvement dans les fluides. A Paris : Chez Houel et Ducros ... ; Théophile Barrois ..., An VI (1797). Bound together subsequent to publication
Copy 2 has autograph on title page: Henry Harding
Copy 2 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from Special Collections Endowment
Copy 2 has red ink stamp on title page for a French academy [illegible]; also has a perforated stamp for Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
