PATIN (Charles).

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PATIN (Charles).
Treatment of combustible peat. Paris, Jean du Bray & Pierre Variquet, 1663. In-4, brown calf, decorated spine, speckled edges (contemporary binding). Ward & Carozzi, no. 1741. Original edition of the first treatise published in France exclusively devoted to peat. Dedicated to President Lamoignon, it is decorated with a beautiful portrait of the author engraved on copper by Le Febvre. Charles Patin, a Parisian doctor born in 1633 and died in Padua in 1693, presents here peat as an economical alternative to firewood and coal. According to him, he is the first in France to be interested in the subject: Nobody has worked on this subject in our language: so the novelty of which all François are passionate, will be able to give some esteem to my Work (preface). The author studies the origin of this fossil organic matter, its chemical nature, its properties as a fuel, the way of extracting and exploiting it, the different deposits existing in Europe and in France (in Picardy in particular). The end of the volume is occupied by a report by Sieur de Chambré, Treasurer of the Gens-d'armes, on the exploitation of Tourbes à brusler in the vicinity of Paris, and the transcription of the patent and letters patent granted to him in 1658 for a period of thirty years. Skillfully restored binding.
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