Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, avec des Planches en Taille-Douce... Tome XC
Paris: Courcier, 1820. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 480 pp. plus three leaves of plates (two folding). Original plain blue wrappers. Textblock separated at several points between signatures. Numerical ink inscription, '90', on front wrapper. Wrappers chipped, some foxing, dampstain in plates. Good plus, largely unopened. Volume 90 of Blainville's 'Journal,' in six monthly issues between January and June, 1820. The journal contains numerous reports of recent developments in science and technology and essays by various authors. The plates in the present volume relate to a method for measuring frost and cold (accompanying Honoré Flaugergues' 'Mémoire sur un moyen très-simple pour déterminer l'intensité de la Gelée et du Froid'), the height of a meteor over Charsonville, France, on November 23, 1810, at which it burst into meteorites (accompanying an essay by Henri Dutrochet; a printer's error records this as 'Charsouville'; the plate includes Dutrochet's diagrams over a map of Lake Geneva), and the anatomy of porcupine quills (for G. A. Gautier's essay, 'Description Anatomique du Système Cutané du Porc-Épic (Hyxtrix cristata)'). Good +. Item #z07271
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