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Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron: où l'on a joint des réfléxions philosophiques sur divers autres sujets
1745, chez Pierre Mortier.
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Edition Notes
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.
Landis, D.C. European Americana, 745/19.
Quérard, J.M. La France littéraire, 1:p. 286.
Jessop, T.E. A bib. of George Berkeley (2nd ed.), 150.
Keynes, G. A bib. of George Berkeley, 74.
John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Trust Fund of Lathrop C. Harper.

