louis joseph dalbert (3 Ergebnisse)

2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo (20,5x13,5 cm). Contemporary halfcalf, spine nicely gilt in compartments, with ribbons; covers marbled paper, marbled endpapers. viii,224;(ii),114 pp. - Inner-margin title small spot and repair, otherwise nice copy, complete in 2 parts (see: Barbier II,813). 450g.

Unbound. Zustand: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). A vanishingly scarce monograph on a monument in Egypt, a tomb for animals, a French work illustrated with a folding map. A vanishingly scarce work.In the original French.The second edition, first published in 1777, as an extract from 'Journal de Physique'.Illustrated with a folding map, and one plate. Collated, complete.This work details the monument known as the Well of Birds, in Saqqara, which was used as a tomb for sacred animals.The author, Louis Joseph d'Albert, 6th Duke of Chaulnes, travelled to Egypt in 1763, on a trip to try and produce accurate drawings of monuments which had previously been undescribed or poorly described. In this work, he details his attempts to make plaster casts of the hieroglyphs, though his attempts were fruitless. Disbound, with a small amount of paper retained to the backstrip. Internally, firmly bound, the folding map is working loose. Pages are age-toned and generally clean, with scattered spots and handling marks. Light edge wear and spots to the folding map. Good Only. book.

(Paris, Moutard, Panckoucke, 1780). 4to. Extract from "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome IX. Pp. 521-550 + pp. 551-562. Clean and fine. First printing of Chaulne's memoir on carbon dioxyde to which Cavendish referred "The Duc de Chaulnes, in a paper communicated in December 1775, described experiments on fixed air made 1771-73, including its acid reaction and the formation of a crystaline salt (potassium bicarbonate) by the action of fixed air on solutions of potassium carbonate and hydroxide." (Partington III, p. 317).