HAUY, Rene Just, Abbe (1743-1822)]. Instruction Abregee sur les Mesures Deduites de la Grandeur de la Terre, Uniformes pour toute la Republique, et sur les Calculs Relatifs a leur Division Decimale; par la Commission temporaire des Poids [et] Mesures Republicaines, en execution des Decrets de la Convention Nationale. Paris: "Chez Marchant ... Prault et Rondonneau ... Prault ... Bertaut ... Montgela," "An II, de la Republique Francaise une et indivisible" [1793-94]. 8vo (187 x 118mm). Tables, 3 engraved plates, 3-pages of errata (title torn, repaired and laid down with slight loss to a few letters, variable mainly light spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary cat's-paw calf wallet with suede ties, modern protective box, with modern printed pamphlet about this copy [?for an exhibition] loosely-inserted. Dibner 113; Goldsmiths 16266. The beginnings of the establishment of the metric system which was officially ratified in France in 1801.
HAUY, Rene Just, Abbe (1743-1822)]. Instruction Abregee sur les Mesures Deduites de la Grandeur de la Terre, Uniformes pour toute la Republique, et sur les Calculs Relatifs a leur Division Decimale; par la Commission temporaire des Poids [et] Mesures Republicaines, en execution des Decrets de la Convention Nationale. Paris: "Chez Marchant ... Prault et Rondonneau ... Prault ... Bertaut ... Montgela," "An II, de la Republique Francaise une et indivisible" [1793-94]. 8vo (187 x 118mm). Tables, 3 engraved plates, 3-pages of errata (title torn, repaired and laid down with slight loss to a few letters, variable mainly light spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary cat's-paw calf wallet with suede ties, modern protective box, with modern printed pamphlet about this copy [?for an exhibition] loosely-inserted. Dibner 113; Goldsmiths 16266. The beginnings of the establishment of the metric system which was officially ratified in France in 1801.
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