Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata. Sive Introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam [.]. Editio tertia duplo auctior.

S GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob

Verlag: J.A. Langerak [and] J. and H. Verbeek, Leiden, 1742

Beschreibung

Leiden, J.A. Langerak [and] J. and H. Verbeek, 1742 . 2 volumes, in 4°: [4]-lxxxvi-[2]-572, [2]-573/1073-[43] pp.; 127 folding plates (sl. foxing, some soiling on last leaves). Bound in 19th-c. marbled brown calf, gilt and blind-st. frames on boards, gilt-tooled spines on raised bands, red and green title-labels, red edges (joints sl. cracked, spines sl. faded). Third edition (1st ed., 1720-1721) of this important summary of Newtonian physics, one of the masterpieces of the Dutch scholar 's Gravesande (1688-1742), professor of philosophy at the University of Leiden. Complete with 127 beautiful engraved plates showing various instruments and experiments. Ref. Bierens de Haan 112. - Honeyman coll. Sotheby's London, 1979, 1541. - Macclesfield's library, Sotheby's London, 2004, 926. Provenance De Valenzi, Ghent (armorial bookplate). 2 volumes volumes.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 180924

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata. Sive Introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam [.]. Editio tertia duplo auctior.
• Verlag: J.A. Langerak [and] J. and H. Verbeek, Leiden
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1742