Lavoisier and gunpowder manufacture : selected manuscripts, [17--].

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Lavoisier and gunpowder manufacture : selected manuscripts, [17--].

Manuscripts and documents, mainly in French. Included are manuscript notes and essays on saltpeter and gunpowder, documents on the printing of assignats by Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, and documents concerning Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, including his death sentence and documents on the confiscation of his property.

[150] leaves.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7897511

Cornell University Library

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