SCELTA DI OPUSCOLI INTERESSANTI. AA. VV. Scelta di Opuscoli interessanti tradotti da varie lingue. Tomo I [-XII]. Torino, Giammichele Briolo, 1775-77 [ma 1779]
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12 vols. small 8vo, mm. 180x 110, each with three booklets; Original sewing binding; each set with over 90 pp. and several plates outside text engraved in copper.
A total of 2 tables in press and 36 plates engraved copper out text.
Important collection of scientific essays. It contains two works by Volta on electricity in the volume published in 1776, as well as contributions of Beccaria, De Saussure, Ferguson, Fountain, Franklin, Herdsmen, Lavoisier, Martin, Priestley and Spallanzani. Address issues pertaining to different sciences: mineralogy, microscope, meteorology, agriculture, anatomy and surgery, zoology and natural sciences, mechanics and applied sciences, optics and astronomy and electricity. The work, directed by Carlo Amoretti and F. Soave, was a great success and went out simultaneously in Turin and Milan, but this edition of Turin is wider and cover pages announces contain a new booklet in each volume; in the title pages of recent issues of the collection there is also the indication "more than a quarter increased".
Sirugo, p. 23: "Plays the items in the collection Milan ... except the additions of preparing Turin".
Ronalds, p. 519; Rossetti Cantoni, p. 104.
Condition Report: Slight signs of wear at the bindings, fresh specimens uncut./Leggerissime tracce d'uso alle legature Fresco esemplare in barbe. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
A total of 2 tables in press and 36 plates engraved copper out text.
Important collection of scientific essays. It contains two works by Volta on electricity in the volume published in 1776, as well as contributions of Beccaria, De Saussure, Ferguson, Fountain, Franklin, Herdsmen, Lavoisier, Martin, Priestley and Spallanzani. Address issues pertaining to different sciences: mineralogy, microscope, meteorology, agriculture, anatomy and surgery, zoology and natural sciences, mechanics and applied sciences, optics and astronomy and electricity. The work, directed by Carlo Amoretti and F. Soave, was a great success and went out simultaneously in Turin and Milan, but this edition of Turin is wider and cover pages announces contain a new booklet in each volume; in the title pages of recent issues of the collection there is also the indication "more than a quarter increased".
Sirugo, p. 23: "Plays the items in the collection Milan ... except the additions of preparing Turin".
Ronalds, p. 519; Rossetti Cantoni, p. 104.
Condition Report: Slight signs of wear at the bindings, fresh specimens uncut./Leggerissime tracce d'uso alle legature Fresco esemplare in barbe. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
