Author: DE MAIRAN, JEAN JACQUES DORTOUS:
Title: Dissertation sur la glace, ou explication physique de la formation de la glace, & de ses divers phénomènes. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1749.
Description: . 12mo. Pp. xl, 384, xx. With engraved frontispiece and 5 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt with five raised bands and title label, extremities rubbed. Orginially published in 1716, this is the first illustrated edition. Duveen p. 386. The Herbert Clark Hoover Collection, 554.

Keywords: Europe, ice, glace, exploration, travel,


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