Essais sur l'hygrometrie; with Defense de l'hygrometre a cheveu, pour servir de supplement aux essais sur ll'hygrometrie

by Horace-Benedict de Saussure

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First edition

Neuchatel; Geneva: Samuel Fauche; Barde, Manget & Co., 1783; 1788. 2 vols. 8vo. xii, 524 pp., including half-title; 4 , 84 pp. FIRST EDITIONS. I: With folding tables and engravings, title vignette, headpieces. Library stamp on title; II: marbled paper, foxing throughout. Item #2380 First editions of both works. Saussure 1740-99 conducted extensive investigations on the vapor

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