Physicae Experimentales, et Geometricae, de Magnete, Tuborum Capillarium Vitreorum-que Speculorum Attractione, Magnitudine Terrae, Cohaerentia Corporum Firmorum Dissertationes: ut et Ephemerides Meteorologicae Ultrajectinae
first edition Hardcover
1729 · Lugduni Batavorum
by van Musschenbroek, Petri
Lugduni Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans, 1729. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary vellum over boards; 4to (260x192mm); pp. [10], 685, plus folding copper-engraved plates numbered I-XXVIII and a folding table. Vellum a little soiled and rubbed; tail of spine perished, and vellum torn along bottom edge of boards. Early ownership signature neatly excised from bottom margin of title-p.; some marginal foxing, affecting some of the plates, but contents are overall nice and clean. Only plate XXIII is significantly soiled.
Includes an early map of California, depicting it as an island. (Inventory #: D14128)
Includes an early map of California, depicting it as an island. (Inventory #: D14128)