Dictionnaire de physique [...].

Avignon, L. Chambeau, 1761

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3 vol., 4to: xvi-l-620, [2]-xlviii-921 [= 621], xxiv-528-[2] pp.; 16 pl. (vol. 2: some min. marg. soiling in quires 4D and 4E).

19th-c. half mottled sheep, marbled paper boards, titled spines with raised bands, sp. edges (heads sl. damaged, joints and boards rubbed, corners bumped).

Early reissue (1st 1758) of this dictionnary by the jesuit Paulian (1722-1801), professor of physics at the universities of Avignon and Aix-en-Provence. Engr. ill. (complete): 3 title-vignettes and 16 pl.
Ref. DBS VI:377:3. - Blake 340. - Cp. Wellcome IV:317.