'S GRAVESANDE, JACOB WILHELM (1688-1742)

Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata. Sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam. Auctore Gulielmo Jacobo 'sGravesande, Editio Secunda, auctior & emendatior

Lugdunum Batavorum, Apud Petrum Vander Aa. 1725. Full-Leather, 4to. Book, 1725 [second vol. dated 1721]. 2 volumes bound in one; contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands and red morocco letter-piece with gilt title, titles printed in red and black, engraved illustration on title, 47 & 25 folding engraved plates, head- and tail pieces, folding letterpress table, (26), 346, (3), & (6), 200, (12) pp. 24,7 x 19 cm Provenance: Robert Montgomery (armorial bookplate on verso front board, old signature on titles); Richard Frankland, 1726 (signature on titles); some pencil highlighting and annotations at margins.(some plates shortly trimmed at fore-margins but without loss of picture, some light spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots, some scuffing to covers, lightly rubbed, some expertly repair to foot of spine). Near Fine.

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MUSSCHENBROEK, PETRUS VAN

Introductio ad philosophiam naturalem, Tomus I & II (in one)

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), Sam. et Joh. Luchtmans. 1762. Hardcover, 4to. Book, Later blind-stamped black calf binding, spine with 5 gilt tooled raised bands, marbled endpapers, red edges, page with half-page Je Maitiendrai vignette by J. v.d. Spyk, Dedicatio (8 pp.), Joannis Lulofs Praefatio (8 pp.), Ordo Capitum (2 pp.), 1132 pp. engraved end piece at Finis, 63 foldout plates, 1 folding map 'Tabula Totius Orbis Terrarum (24,5x48 cm), 23x26 cm (binding bit tight, interior bright and clean) Provenance: Johann Georg Tralles (15 October 1763 - 19 November 1822), German mathematician and physicist. (his name J.G. Tralles in manuscript on both titles, 1785). Fine.

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