PATIN (Charles).

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PATIN (Charles).
Traité des tourbes combustibles. Paris, Jean du Bray & Pierre Variquet, 1663. In-4, brown calf, spine decorated, speckled edges (Binding of the period). First edition of the first treatise published in France exclusively devoted to peat (Ward & Carozzi, n°1741.) Dedicated to President Lamoignon, it is decorated with a beautiful portrait of the author engraved on copper by Le Febvre. Charles Patin, a Parisian physician 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 worked on this subject in our language: thus the novelty of which all the François are impassioned, will be able to make 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 to extract and exploit it, the different deposits existing in Europe and in France (in Picardy in particular). Binding skilfully restored.
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