METEOROLOGY -- D'ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond (1717-1783). Reflexions sur la Cause Generale des Vents, Paris: chez David l'aîné, 1747, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title vignette and head-piece after Eisen, 2 folding engraved plates (library markings include perforation to title and first leaf of dedication, dampstaining to upper margins, occasional soiling), library cloth [Brunet II, 471; Honeyman 806; Norman 34; Sotheran I, 71] -- Jean André de LUC (1727-1817). Recherches sur les Modifications de l'Atmosphere. Contenant l'histoire critique de barometre et du thermometre, Geneva: 1772, 2 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 8 folding plates and tables (stamp on titles, some browning, plate I rather creased), library buckram [Brunet VI, 228; Honeyman 2053]; together with a first edition of Louis Cotte's Traité de Météorologie (Paris, 1774, 2 volumes), in non-uniform later cloth, and another copy of de Luc's Recherches, in contemporary boards, but lacking one folding plate. Provenance: I. JCL; II. Wm. Dilworth Howard, Tottenham (transferred bookplate); U.S. Weather Bureau (stamp on titles, booklabels); JCL (7)

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METEOROLOGY -- D'ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond (1717-1783). Reflexions sur la Cause Generale des Vents, Paris: chez David l'aîné, 1747, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title vignette and head-piece after Eisen, 2 folding engraved plates (library markings include perforation to title and first leaf of dedication, dampstaining to upper margins, occasional soiling), library cloth [Brunet II, 471; Honeyman 806; Norman 34; Sotheran I, 71] -- Jean André de LUC (1727-1817). Recherches sur les Modifications de l'Atmosphere. Contenant l'histoire critique de barometre et du thermometre, Geneva: 1772, 2 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 8 folding plates and tables (stamp on titles, some browning, plate I rather creased), library buckram [Brunet VI, 228; Honeyman 2053]; together with a first edition of Louis Cotte's Traité de Météorologie (Paris, 1774, 2 volumes), in non-uniform later cloth, and another copy of de Luc's Recherches, in contemporary boards, but lacking one folding plate. Provenance: I. JCL; II. Wm. Dilworth Howard, Tottenham (transferred bookplate); U.S. Weather Bureau (stamp on titles, booklabels); JCL (7)

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