1787 Meteorology & Electricity Experiments SCIENCE Swiss Deluc + RARE PROVENANCE

1787 Meteorology & Electricity Experiments SCIENCE Swiss Deluc + RARE PROVENANCE

Jean Andre Deluc was an 18^th-century Swiss naturalist who is primarily remembered for his studies in meteorology. His treatise “Ideas of Meteorology” covers a wide variety of topics relating to weather including hygrometry, fire and heat, fluids and electricity, atmospheric pressure, and much more. This fine, two-volume set includes two folding plates that demonstrate various electricity experiments!

Item number: #23013

Price: $950

LUC, Jean Andre de

Idées sur la météorologie

A Paris: chez la veuve Duchesne, 1787.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 1 – [10], 320, [5], 320*-543, [2], 486-516
    • In two parts, each with separate title page
    • Inconsistent pagination expected
  • 2 – [4], 478
• Provenance: Label – Monsieur Fournier de Varenne, Chevalier de Saint Louis, en son Hôtel, à Saint Malo.
  • Jean-Jacques Fournier de Varennes (1739-1794), marquis de Bellevue, French military officer, planter and slaver owner from Saint-Malo, whose family helped to establish a French colony in Saint-Domingue by holding several successful sugar cane plantations. He was guillotined with several other aristocrats in 1794 as part of the French Revolution.
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8in X 5.25in (20.5cm x 13.5cm)
• rare and desirable

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