RETZ, Noël - Traité d'un nouvel hygromètre comparable, imité de celui de M. de Luc, contenant la description de cet instrument [...].
Description: 8vo: [2]-iv-50-x-[1-1 bl.] pp. (usual min. browning). - Rare treatise on the goose-quill hygrometer by the French royal physician N. Retz (1758-1810). - Ref. BnF. - BL. - Not in Blake, Wellcome. - Bound after: Id. - Météorologie appliquée à la médecine et à l'agriculture, ouvrage qui a remporté le prix au jugement de l'Académie Impériale [...] de Bruxelles, le 12 octobre 1778 [...]. Ibid., 1779, 242 pp. Treatise on the influence of meteorological conditions on public health and on agriculture. On p. 19 a sm. engr. map of a part of the Low Countries. Ref. Blake 379. - BnF. - BL. - Not in Wellcome.
Artist Name: RETZ, Noël Circa: 1779
Condition: Contemp. mottled calf (sl. rubbed), richly gilt spine (joints splitting at tail), gilt sides, marbl. endpapers, red polished edges.
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Description: 8vo: [2]-iv-50-x-[1-1 bl.] pp. (usual min. browning). - Rare treatise on the goose-quill hygrometer by the French royal physician N. Retz (1758-1810). - Ref. BnF. - BL. - Not in Blake, Wellcome. - Bound after: Id. - Météorologie appliquée à la médecine et à l'agriculture, ouvrage qui a remporté le prix au jugement de l'Académie Impériale [...] de Bruxelles, le 12 octobre 1778 [...]. Ibid., 1779, 242 pp. Treatise on the influence of meteorological conditions on public health and on agriculture. On p. 19 a sm. engr. map of a part of the Low Countries. Ref. Blake 379. - BnF. - BL. - Not in Wellcome.
Artist Name: RETZ, Noël Circa: 1779
Condition: Contemp. mottled calf (sl. rubbed), richly gilt spine (joints splitting at tail), gilt sides, marbl. endpapers, red polished edges.