Napoli, Vincenzo Orsino (for) Domenico Terres, 1771, in-8vo, 4 leaves, title printed in red and black + 343 p., browning + 2 folding tables + 22 engraved folding plates, light foxing, vellum binding, lightly mostly duststained, lower cover with three hw. calculations and small strip of vellum torn off its edge.
New Italian edition of a much esteemed and popular English work of vulgarized science, translated from the French. The plates show planets and orbits, the solar system of Copernic, gravity specific to mass and fluids, machines, instruments, and experiments, observations through the microscope, a map showing winds and monsons, etc. The first English edition was published in 1735. DSB IX/141-142; cf. Quérard V/576 (ed. in French 1749, 1764 and 1777).
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