Lot Essay
DSB: "Parmentier also evinced a strong interest in public health, reflected in his publications on the quality of the water from the Seine."
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PARMENTIER, Antoine Augustin (1737-1813). Dissertation sur la Nature des Eaux de la Seine, Paris: Buisson, 1787, 8°, (occasional spotting), later calf-backed boards (lightly rubbed, paper label pasted to front cover), partly uncut. [Blake, p. 339; Oberl/ae Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus, 452]