Histoire des principales découvertes faites dans les arts et les sciences
Subtitle: sur-tout dans les branches importantes du commerce, de la navigation & des plantations dans toutes les parties du monde
By: traduite de l'anglois par M.E.
Contributors: M. E. (Marc Eidous), tr; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Boston Public Library (John Adams Library)
Publisher: Chez Benoît Duplain ...
Published: 1767
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 396
Work titles: General history of discoveries and improvements in useful arts
Notes: Translation of Defoe's 'General history of discoveries and improvements in useful arts, 1726-1727', which was published also as History of the principal discoveries and improvements in the several arts and sciences.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams."

Also available on microfilm. New Haven, CT : Research Publications, [1975]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; no. 10277.3).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.