Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron
Subtitle: où l'on a joint des réfléxions philosophiques sur divers autres sujets
By: Traduit de l'Anglois du Dr. George Berkeley evêque de Cloyne. Avec deux lettres de l'auteur
Publisher: chez Pierre Mortier.
Published: 1745
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Immaterialism (Philosophy); Therapeutics; Tar
Work titles: Siris
Notes: Translation, by David Renaud Bouillier, of: Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water. 2nd ed. Dublin, 1744.

Another edition, also published at Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier in 1745, is known, with identical paging, but different typography.

Title ornament.

Signatures: *¹² A-O¹² P⁶ (-P5, -P6; *1 verso, *2 verso, P4 verso blank)

Includes index.

"Lettre de de [sic] l'auteur des Recherches philosophiques à Mr. T[homas] P[rior]" (p. [317]-340).--"Autre lettre de l'auteur a Mr. L[inden]" (p. 341-343)

Mentions method of making tar water in America.

Landis, D.C.  European Americana, 745/19.

Quérard, J.M.  La France littéraire, 1:p. 286.

Jessop, T.E.  A bib. of George Berkeley (2nd ed.), 150.

Keynes, G.  A bib. of George Berkeley, 74.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Trust Fund of Lathrop C. Harper.