[MADAME ADELAIDE] - BRISSON. Elementary treatise or principles of physics. Based on the most certain knowledge, both ancient and modern, and confirmed by experience. Paris, Imprimerie de Moutard, 1789. 3 vol. in-8. Full contemporary red morocco, gilt coat of arms in the centre of the boards, triple gilt fillet in the frame, spine with ornamented faux-nerves, green morocco title and tomes, gilt edges. LXXXIV pp, 418 pp, 11 plates ; 551 pp, 18 plates ; 586 pp, 16 plates. This work includes 45 plates out of 46 folding ones : plate 10 is missing. Tear without missing plate 12. Two stains on the upper cover of volume III. >Copy of Madame Adélaïde de France, daughter of Louis XV and Marie Leczinska. Armorial bookplate pasted on the upper flyleaf, whose name has been scratched out. O.H.R. pl. 2514, n°9.

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