Live veiling - Lot 716
[Electricity]
Elettricismo artificiale.
(In fine: Turin, Stamperia reale, 1 June 1772)
€ 300 / 400
Live bieden (Drouot*) Live bieden (Invaluable*)Biedingen zijn afgesloten.
Beschrijving lot
4to: viii-439-[1] pp.; 11 pl. (foxing, a few pp. sl. soiled, some ff. unopened).
Limp boards, mod. spine (uncut copy).
Second edition (1st ed.: 1753) of Beccaria's principal work on electricity based on Franklin's theories. Illustrated with 11 folding plates. Beccaria (1716-1781) taught experimental physics in Palermo, Rome and Turin. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1755. Ref. Wheeler 435bis. - Not in Ferguson. Prov. Unidentified armorial bookpl. Joined: [Idem] - Nuovi sperimenti [...] per confermare, ed estendere la meccanica del fuoco elettrico. Ibid, 1780. 4to, 19 pp. Mod. cardboard. First edition. One small illustration copper-engr. on last p. Ref. Not in Wheeler nor Ferguson. (2 vol.)