Tratado elementar de physica
By: pelo Abbade Haüy, conego honorario da Igreja metropolitana de Paris, membro da Legião de honra, do Instituto das Sciencias e Artes; professor de mineralogia no Museo de Historia natural; da Academia real das sciencias, e da Sociedade dos Indagadores da natureza, de Berlin, da Universidade imperial d'Wilna; da Sociedade de Mineralogia de Jena; da Sociedade italiana das sciencias; da Sociedade batava das sciencias de Harlem, etc
Contributors: Vasconcellos, R.
Edition: Segunda edição. / Revista e consideravelmente augmentada. Traduzida em vulgar.
Publisher: na impressão regia. Per ordem superior
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: por
Subjects: Electricity; Light; Magnetism; Physics
Work titles: Traité elementaire de physique
Notes: Date of publication appears before printer on title pages.

Translation of: Traité elementaire de physique, second edition, first printed Paris, 1806; first edition printed Paris, 1803.

Pagination: v. 1: xxv, [1], 27-416 p., 4 folded leaves of plates; v. 2: 402, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates.

Signatures: v. 1: A-2C⁸ (A1, B5, 2C7 versos blank); v. 2: A-2B⁸ (Z7 verso blank) chi² (chi2 blank)

Errata for second volume: v. 2, foot of p. 402.

Includes general index: v. 2, p. 367-402.

Woodcut printer's ornaments on title pages.

Plates following p. 416, 4th count, in volume 1 numbered 1-4; plates following p. [1-2], 2nd count, in volume 2 numbered 5-12.

Moraes, R.B. de. Imp. regia do Rio de Janeiro, I:196.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: v. 1, p. xv-xvi misbound after title page; plate no. 4 in volume 1 torn and wanting lower gutter edge corner, with no loss of illustration; title page of volume 2 torn and mutilated and backed with paper affecting some text; v. 2, p. 401-402 torn at bottom foredge, not affecting text.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary cloth spine with limp marbled boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Bromsen Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: R. Vasconcellos: ms. autograph on title page of volume 2.