COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
Author (contributor):
French Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Title:
Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron, : où l'on a joint des réfléxions philosophiques sur divers autres sujets. /
Publisher:
chez Pierre Mortier
Begin Publication Date:
1745
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991009071869706966
Permanent Call Number:
D745 .B512r
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 90-48
Subjects:
Tar.
Subjects:
Therapeutics.
Subjects:
Immaterialism (Philosophy)
General Note:
Translation, by David Renaud Bouillier, of: Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water. 2nd ed. Dublin, 1744.; Another edition, also published at Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier in 1745, is known, with identical paging, but different typography.; Title ornament.; Signatures: *¹² A-O¹² P⁶ (-P5, -P6; *1 verso, *2 verso, P4 verso blank); Includes index.; "Lettre de de [sic] l'auteur des Recherches philosophiques à Mr. T[homas] P[rior]" (p. [317]-340).--"Autre lettre de l'auteur a Mr. L[inden]" (p. 341-343); Mentions method of making tar water in America.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Trust Fund of Lathrop C. Harper.