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RECHERCHES SUR L'ORIGINE DES DECOUVERTES ATTRIBUEES AUX MODERNES.
by Dutens, Louis, 1730-1812
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good with no dust jacket
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London: De L'Imprimere De W. & C. Spilsbury, Snow Hill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1796. Third Edition. Hardcover. Science; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 362, [3] pages; Contemporary calf leather. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilding and a red morocco spine label. Ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. A nice copy. A very few pages with light spotting. A celebrated work, casting doubts on the priority of discoveries, with much on Descartes, Locke, Leibnitz, Buffon, Needham, Newton, Copernicus, the circulation of the blood, surgery, animalcules, sexual system of plants, squaring the circle, etc. Worm holes to lower rt corner of last half of book- not into text. .
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- Title
- RECHERCHES SUR L'ORIGINE DES DECOUVERTES ATTRIBUEES AUX MODERNES.
- Author
- Dutens, Louis, 1730-1812
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- De L'Imprimere De W. & C. Spilsbury, Snow Hill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1796
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- Science;
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- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Gilt
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