BATTUS, Carolus.

Secreet-boeck van veele diversche en heerlijcke konsten in veelderley materien, met veel remedien tegen de innerlijcke en uytterlijcke gebreken der menschen. ... Verrijckt met verscheyden secreten van wijnen, verwen ende schrijf-konsten.Amsterdam, Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1661. 12mo. Contemporary vellum.

573, [3] pp.Rare edition of a popular Dutch book of secrets, compiled by the physician Carolus Battus (1540-1617) a Flemish refugee who from 1588 to 1601 was city physician in Dordrecht. As mentioned on the title-page, Battus compiled his work from various Latin, French, German and Dutch sources, mentioning the author at the end of each "secret". The book opens with secrets concerning fire, air, water and earth: how to make a candle that can't be blown out or how to heat water without fire. Next are secrets to cure or reduce human diseases and maladies, followed by numerous secrets concerning plants and animals. Also included are many household secrets: recipes for various kinds of ink, dye, soap, waters, balsams etc. and many recipes for preserves, cakes, cookies, wine, meat dishes and more. In total the book includes over 1500 secrets.Title-page restored at the gutter, some marginal thumbing and staining, small piece torn off at the corner of page 273/274, slightly affecting the text. Binding slightly stained. Otherwise in very good condition.l STCN (2 copies); WorldCat (2 additional copies); cf. Thorndike VI, pp. 215-216.

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BATTUS, Carolus.

Het secreet-boek vol heerlijke konsten. Als van de hooftstoffen in elks gebruik, vande gebreken, siekten en qualen der menschen, van tamme en wilde dieren ..., bloemen, kruiden en saden ..., van olien en salven te bereiden, van distileren en andere weetenschappen; met een aenhangsel verrijkt, uyt een groot getal Latijnsche, Italiaansche, Francoische, Hoog- en Neder-duitsche autheuren vergadert.Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1694. 12mo. With a woodcut vignet on title-page. Contemporary vellum with boards partly folded over the edge, with manuscript short-title on spine.

573, [3] pp.A popular Dutch book of secrets. This is the very rare last (11th?) edition, the first edition was printed in Dordrecht in 1609. We have located only two copies of the present edition in libraries, both in Amsterdam (VU & UB). The complier, physician Carolus Battus (or Baten or Batin), (1540-1617), was a Flemish refugee who from 1588 to 1601 was city physician in Dordrecht. He wrote three major works, (besides some smalle ones), that went through numerous editions in the seventeenth century Netherlands: a handbook for surgery, a handbook for medicine and the present book of secrets. As mentioned on the title-page, Battus compiled his work from various Latin, French, German and Dutch sources, mentioning the author at the end of each "secret". The book opens with secrets concerning fire, air, water and earth: how to make a candle that can't be blown out and how to heat water without fire. Next are secrets to cure or reduce human diseases and maladies, followed by numerous secrets concerning plants and animals: curing diseases, pest control, feeding and fatting up animals, etc. Also included are many household secrets: recipes for various kinds of ink, dye, soap, waters, balsams etc. and many recipes for preserves, cakes, cookies, wine, meat dishes and more. In total the book includes over 1500 secrets. In very good condition. Small wormhole throug part of the book in the lower margin.l STCN (2 copies); Bibl. Med. Neerl. 57; Bibl. Gastronomica 314; Ferro 9k; Landwehr 8.

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BAUDEMENT, Émile.

Les races bovines. Études zootechniques.Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, [1864]. 2 volumes (text & plates). Oblong folio (36 x 49.5 cm). With 5 hand coloured maps and 87 numbered plates. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, gold-blocked boards with the note "offert par le Minstre de l'Agriculture", gilt edges.

[6], LXXIV, [2]; [4], [10] pp.Presentation copy of one of the most beautifully produced works on cattle, by the "zootechnician", Émile Baudement (1810-1864). The 87 plates of bovine animals are arranged by origin, each region with its own part-title: England, Holland and Denmark, Switzerland and Germany, (the empire of) Austria, and France. Many of the excellent plates are after photographs by Adrien Nadar. Artists like Emile van Marcke, Isodore Bonheur and Barye contributed to this work. "The plates were produced by a mixed process of photographic transposing on to a metal plate (heliography) followed by handwork of various kinds - soft ground etching, mezzotint and aquatint, the background tint being achieved by lithography" (Boalch).While regular copies are bound in green half roan, with plain cloth sides, the present set is bound in red half morocco, with gold-blocked red cloth sides with the note "offert par le Minstre de l'Agriculture". All copies include a preliminary "rapport" on the work by this ministry on two letterpress pages.Some minor, professional restorations to the spines and the atlas volume with a discolouration and an endleaf partly detached. Some occasional foxing, but otherwise in very good condition.l D.H. Boalch, Prints and paintings of British farm livestock; Nissen, ZBI 257.

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BAUDERON, Brice, and François VERNY.

La pharmacopée de Bauderon, revue, et exactement corrigée ... avec la réponse à l'Apologie de Mr. Jean Zwelfer ... & un examen des ingrediens de la confection d'Alkermes ...Lyon, Jean Girin & Barthelemy Riviere, 1672. 4to. Title-page in red and black, woodcut title-vignette, woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red sprinkled edges.

[16], 534, [2], 416, [16] pp.Second edition of Bauderon’s pharmacopoeia to be edited by the pharmacist of the University of Montpellier François Verny, whose first edition of Bauderon appeared in 1662, and who added several other texts by Laurens Chatelan, Guillaume Sauvageon and Verny himself: an answer to Johannes Zwelfer (1618-1668), the court physician in Vienna, who had also written a Pharmacopoeia (Vienna 1652), and who had composed an apologia. Brice Bauderon’s work itself was first published in 1588: Paraphrase sur la pharmacopée (Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1588), with more than 43(!) editions to the end of the 17th century.Brice (Briçon) Bauderon, Seigneur de Sénecey (ca. 1540-1623) was a French physician who after his study at the University of Montpellier settled in Mâcon. Apart from his Praxis medica in duos libros tractatus distincta (Parin 1620), he published his famous Pharmacopée in 1588 which met with enormous success and was translated into German (already in 1595) and English. It is generally considered the most important French manual of pharmacology of the 17th century.Binding a little worn (especially around the spine), some marginal wormholes, a little water-stained, some foxing and browning, otherwise in good condition.l Bouvet & Volckringer, “Un extraord. succès de librairie. Les éditions de la ’Pharmacopée’ de Bauderon”, in: Revue de l’hist. de la pharmacie, 1959, pp. 108-111; Duveen, p. 52 (1681 ed.); Krivatsky, 910.

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BAUDIER, Michel.

Histoire generale de la religion des Turcs. Avec la naissance, la vie, & la mort, de leur prophete Mahomet; et les actions des quatre premiers caliphes qui l'ont suivy.Paris, Jean Guignard, 1632. 8vo. With the controversial half-page engraved portrait of Muhammad. 17th-century(?) vellum, later endpapers.

[70], [2 blank], 726, [50] pp.Second edition of "the most complete treatment of Islam up to its time in France" (Atabey). Written by Micheal Baudier (ca. 1589-1645), historiographer to the Court of France. The book is presented as a history of the religion of the Turks, who controlled, at that time, a large part of the Islamic world, and gives a detailed description of Islam and its prophet Muhammad.Bottom of title-page restored, covering a fraction of a millimetre of the date in the imprint, and a small corner torn off, another corner torn from leaf K3, just touching the text. Further some thumbing, several wormholes and a few water stains. Still a good copy of a classic description of Islam.l WorldCat (9 copies); cf. Atabey 73-74 (1625 & 1641 eds.); not in Blackmer.

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BAUDIUS, Dominicus.

Induciarum belli Belgici, libri tres. Editia tertia prioribus emendatior.Leiden, Louis Elzevier, 1629. 12mo. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards.

[28], 468, [8 blank] pp.The third edition of this important history of the years 1608-1611, so crucial for the history of the Dutch Republic. In 1602 Baudius was appointed extraordinary professor of Rethoric at the University of Leiden In 1611 he became ordinary professor of history. In the same year he was appointed historian for the States-General together with Johannes Meursius, with the assignment to write on the events of 1608-1611: the negotiations leading to, and the first years of the Truce in 1609 (-1621). This resulted in the present Induciarum belli Belgici, libri tres (Three books about the Truce in the Dutch war), first published in Leiden in 1613. In Leiden he befriended amongst others Daniel Heinsius and Hugo Grotius. He must have had an attractive and cheerful personality as his classes were very popular.Good copy from the library of A.M. Ledeboer, one of the most famous Dutch bibliographers of the nineteenth century.l Rahir 276; Willems 307.

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[BAVARIA - PHARMACOPOEIA].

Pharmakopoe für das Königreich Bayern. Neue Bearbeitung. Auf königlichen Befehl herausgegeben.München, Johann Palm, 1856. Large 8vo. With the royal coat-of-arms of Bavaria on the title-page. Half light brown buckram.

XII, 378 pp.First edition of a new Pharmacopeia for the Kingdom of Bavaria, ordered by the liberal King Maximilian II (1811-1864, who succeeded his father in the revolutionary year 1848) to replace the obsolete Bavarian Pharmacopeia of 1822. The compilers of the new work were a.o. Prof. Max Pettenkofer, ‘Hofapotheker’ and first German ‘Hygienist’ (1818-1901) and Dr. Ernst Aug. Buchner. Library stamp on title. Some stains, especially on the first leaves, otherwise in good condition.l The afterword by Wolgang Schneider in the reprint of the Pharmakopoe of 1988; Neues Repertorium für die Pharmacie, vol. 9 (1859), 3. Abschnitt, pp. 39-43.

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BAVEGHEM, Petrus van.

Pharmacopoea Gandavensis nobilissimi senatus jussu renovata: adjunctae sunt variae adnotationes criticae & instructivae... ejusdem urbis pharmacopoeo.Ghent, Louis Lemaire, 1787. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin (tree pattern), gold-tooled spine.

[1], [1 blank], [10], 192 pp.Rare first and only edition of the commentary on the most recent edition of the Ghent pharmacopoeia, which had been published a year before. The author, a pharmacist from Ghent, constantly critiques and ridicules the person responsible for the revisions in the pharmacopoeia's latest edition. Several unfortunate errors in the formulation of the recipes lead to ironic commentary. For instance, when the pharmacopoeia mentions that all types of water can be used, and that in the alembic it "rises up by itself", Van Baveghem (1758-1835) writes that he would very much like to own a distilling apparatus which has such amazing features, as fuel has become scarce and costly.Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities; a very good copy.l Anet (1 copy); Daems & Vandewiele, p. 108; WorldCat (5 copies); Vandewiele, "Nota's betreffende ‘Sr. Petrus van Baveghem. vrijen meester apothecaris’ te Gent", in: Kring voor de Geschiedenis van de Pharmacie in Benelux, Bulletin VI (1953), pp. 1-13; not in STCV.

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BAYARD, Émile.

[Proof impressions of illustrations for Alphonse Daudet's Fromont jeune et Risler aîné]. [Paris, 1885]. Folio (35 x 29 cm). Proofs of 12 engraved plates in many different states, giving 73 prints in total, engraved by Jules Massard and Eugène Abot after Emilé Bayard (image size 10.7 x 7.3 cm; plate size 19 x 14 cm). Contemporary half goatskin morocco.

An extensive collection of proof impressions of all 12 illustrations drawn by Émile Bayard (1837-1891) and engraved by Jules Massard (1848?-1891?) and Eugène Michel Joseph Abot (1836-1894) for the 1885 edition of Alphonse Daudet's Fromont jeune et Risler aîné. Moeurs parisiennes. This novel, first published in 1874 was a great critical and popular success, quickly making Daudet's name famous. As a result it went through many editions, some luxuriously illustrated. The definitive illustrations were published by Louis Conquet in Paris in 1885 in a limited edition (500 copies) of the novel with the present twelve masterly plates "gravées à l'eau-forte" after Bayard. The present set has 4 to 8 impressions of each plate, most or all in 4 or more states. All have the engraved signature of the artist in the image area, but only two have any further engraved text. The first proof of the first plate has "E. Abot aqua f d'après E. Bayard" and the last proof of the same plate has "Jules Massard. sc.", both in the plate below the image. The engraving is usually credited to Massard, but it would appear from this early proof that Abot began the work and Massard finished it. The last proof of the eleventh plate has the pencilled initials of the artist, "E. B." below the image, apparently in his own hand.One example of one print is on wove paper, mounted on the leaf of the book, but all others are printed directly on the leaves. Their laid paper is watermarked "MBM" for Morel, Bercious and Masure, who developed machines for the Canson paper mill to make this so-called "mould-made" paper for the artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1883. In very good condition, one plate with extensive foxing and a few others with very minor foxing. The marbled-paper sides of the binding are rubbed.

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BEATTIE, John Watt.

[Album with 32 photographs of Tasmania].Hobart, [ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (30 x 41cm). With 32 original photographs (ca. 17 x 23 cm), pasted on paperboard. Later gold-tooled red morocco.

Beautifully bound album with a magnificent collection of 32 original photographs of Tasmania, made by John Watt Beattie (1859-1930) at the end of the 19th century. Beattie arrived in Tasmania in 1879 as an amateur dry-plate photographer of scenic views. He began to work with the Anson Brothers in 1882. In 1892, Beattie bought out the Anson Brothers' very large collection of large format studio portraits and negatives. The photographs include 10 views of Hobart and surroundings (including a view from the bay, a photograph of an original sketch by an eye-witness: "The first days of Hobart, Collins Camp, Sullivan's Cove, Feb. 1804", Elizabeth Street, Cathedral, Bellerive), Mount Wellington with hunter, Mount Ida, Lake St. Clair (3), Mount Byron & Cuvier, giant eucalyptus giant, cedar trees on way to Great Lake, Mount King William, from track to Arrowsmith, Track to Fern Tree Bower, forest views, Mount Olympus from Laura Creek, King Williams Pines, Lake Marion, Garrs Tree Hill track, Hartz Mountains, etc. Very good collection.l Long, Tasmanian Photographers 1840-1940: A Directory (1995), p.12; Michael Roe, [article on Beattie], in: Australian Dictionary of Biography VII, pp. 232-33.

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[BEAUGRAND, Felix].

Relation fidele du voyage de la Terre Sainte dans laquelle se voit tout ce qu' il y a de remarquable, tant par mer que par terre, depuis le départ de Marseille jusqu' au retour de ce saint voyage.Paris, Gabriel Valleyre, 1760. 8vo. With a small woodcut vignette on title, several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, with yellow morocco title label, gold-tooled binding edges, red edges.

[4], 248, [10] pp.Third edition of this voyage to the Holy Land by Felix Beaugrand, member of the Franciscan order. His travels, made in 1699 also included Crete, Patmos and Cyprus, and his account includes many details of Turkish customs (pp. 187-207). The work is divided into two parts. The first part, consisting of 40 chapters, describes mainly the Island of Cyprus, the Mont-Liban, Syria, Corsica and Sardinia, with special attention to Nazareth and Jerusalem and their Biblical places. The second part, consisting of 60 chapters is concentrated upon the twelve tribes that inhabited the Holy Land, their origins and religion, and describes Barbaria, Malta, Crete, Patmos and Constantinople.With the stamps of the library of the Château d' Eu and the Palais Royal, our copy belonging to the personal library of King Louis-Philippe. Some insignificant foxing and browning, small hole in second leaf affecting two words. Good copy of an account of a voyage to the Holy Land, describing many Mediterranean sites.l Röhricht p. 288; Tobler p. 119; cf. Blackmer (Sotheby's), 104; Blackmer 22 (both first edition); not in Atabey; Diba Collection.

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BEAUJEU, Chevalier de [= François Paulin DALAIRAC].

Memoires du Chevalier de Beaujeu. Contenant ses divers voyages, tant en Pologne, en Allemagne, qu'en Hongrie...Amsterdam, heirs of Antoine Schelte, 1700.With: (2) [LACERDA, Fernando Correa de (author) and Michel BLOUIN DE LA PIQUETIERRE (translator)]. Relation des troubles arrivez dans la cour de Portugal en l'année 1667. & en l'année 1668. Amsterdam, suivant la copie [= A Wolfgang?], 1674.2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on each title-page (not identical: a dog against a tree in ad 1 and a globe in ad 2) and with a woodcut endpiece. Contemporary vellum.

[8], 496; [1], [1 blank], 272 pp.Ad 1: First edition of the memoires of Chevalier de Beaujeu, pseudonym of François Paulin Dalairac (died 1691), a French Roman Catholic Capuchin priest, writer and translator. After having travelled in Poland, Germany, and Hungary, the author rectifies many mistakes in the maps as to distances of places; he gives a particular account of these countries, and most especially of Poland, and all things relating to it. Ad 2: French translation printed in Amsterdam of a work on the troubles in the court of Portugal during the years 1667-1668.Title-page of the second work waterstained. Good copiesl Ad 1: V. Gestel - Van het Schip, Maps in Books of Russia and Poland 71; ad 2: Barbier IV, col. 223; Willems, Les Elzevier, 'Annexes' 1882.

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BEAUVAIS, Gilles-François.

La vie du venerable pere Ignace Azevedo, de la Compagnie de Jesus. L'histoire de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie. Le tout tiré des procès-verbaux dressés pour leur canonisation. Dédiée au Roi de Pologne. Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744. 12mo. With engraved armorial headpiece above the dedication to King Stanislaus I of Poland. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, gold fillets on board edges.

XLIII, [5], 300 pp.First edition of a French biography of the Jesuit martyr Ignacio de Azevedo, by Father Gilles-François Beauvais (1695-1773), who modelled his book on the Italian biography by Father Cabral (pseudonym of Giulio Cesare Cordara) (1704-1785), published at Rome in 1743 under the title Relazione della vita e martirio del venerabile padre Ignazio de Azevedo. In the present biography, dedicated to King Stanislaus I of Poland, Beauvais made several additions, for example the "Martyre du Vénérable Père Diaz et de ses Compagnons", pp. 193-262. Most of the book is devoted to the life of the martyr Ignatius de Azevedo from Porto (1528-1570), who worked in Brazil as Visitator for the Jesuit Order. On 15 July 1570, he and his 39 companions at sea were killed by French Calvinist pirates near the Canary Islands. In 1854, these "40 martyrs of Brazil" were canonized. Beauvais's biography may be regarded as a loose translation, with additional material, of Cordara's biography, which was translated into Spanish in the same year and into German in 1856. A second edition of Beauvais's version was published at Brussels in 1854. The martyrdom of Ignacio de Azevedo and his companions has inspired many literary works up to the present day. Some faint marginal stains, a small corner of the last 2 leaves (and larger corners of the following endleaves) restored, not approaching the text. Boards scratched. In good condition.l Borba de Moraes, p. 93; De Backer & Sommervogel I, col. 1080, 4; Chadenat 754; not in Bosch; Sabin.

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BEAUXAMIS, Thomas.

In sacro sancta Coenae mysteria, passionem, et resurrectionem domini nostri Jesu, homeliae, & tabulae, annexis quibusdam scholiis, ex primis ecclesiae patribus. Ad amplissimum, & illustrissimum principem carolum cardinalem Lotharingum.Mons (Belgium), Claude de Bronchin [printed in Paris by Guillaume Chaudière], 1570. 8vo. With Chaudière’s woodcut device on the title-page (Chronos, with the motto, “hancas iem sol retundit virtus”), a woodcut headpiece, 2 woodcut tailpieces and 2 woodcut initials (from 2 different series). Limp vellum (ca. 1700?).

[6], 321, [1] ll.Second known copy of the Mons issue of the first edition of a collection of Latin sermons on the Last Supper, the Passion and the resurrection of Christ, by the famous French theologian and polemicist Thomas Beauxamis (1524-1589). The dedication to Cardinal Louis of Lorrain is dated 1 January 1570. The present first edition was printed in Paris by the printer and bookseller Guillaume Chaudière, and the title-page bears his device, but he changed the imprint during the press-run to produce a small number of copies for the Mons bookseller Claude de Bronchim (“Monte in Hannonia. Apud Claudium Bronchinium”). Rousselle records no Mons publications before 1580, though the USTC records examples from 1553. This appears to be the only known book with the imprint of Claude de Bronchin, though he is recorded as a bookseller at Mons from 1569 to 1578, when he did business with (probably bought books from) Christoffel Plantin in Antwerp, but he appears to have died in the latter year.Beauxamis was born in Melun, France, where he joined a monastery of the Carmelite order. He studied philosophy and theology and became a Doctor of Theology in 1567. At the congregation of Albi he was vicar-general for three years and became prior of the Carmelite convents of Melun and Paris at about the same time. According to Cosme de Villiers, Anshelmus Steckelius made use of the present book for his Prectationes, meditationes in singulas uniuscujusque hebdomadae dies divisiae and his Enchiridion quadragesimale precationum diarium, both published at Munich in 1585. Beauxamis himself left many writings, the present being one of his most important.In good condition, with only occasional minor foxing and a few marginal worm holes in a few leaves.l USTC 443025 (1 copy; cf. 138312, the Paris issue); cf. Adams, B419 (Paris issue); Belgica typographica 275 (1573 Antwerp ed.); French books 56578 (Paris issue); not in BMC STC Dutch; BMC STC French; Bibliotheca Belgica; Rousselle, Bibliographic Montoise; for De Bronchin: Marc Lefèvre, “Libraires Belges en relations commerciales avec Christophe Plantin et Jean Moretus”, in: De Gulden Passer, 41 (1963), pp. 1-47, at p. 34.

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BECCARIA, Giambatista.

Elettricismo artificiale … (Colophon: Turin, royal printing office [of the King of Sardinia], 1 June 1772). With 11 engraved folding plates. With: (2) [BECCARIA, Giambatista]. Experimenta, atque observations, quibus electricitas vindex late constituitur, atque explicatur.(Colophon: Turin, royal printing office [of the King of Sardinia]), [1769]. With letterpress folding table and 1 engraved folding plate. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary mottled half calf, gold-tooled spine.

VIII, 439, [1]; [4], 66 pp.First editions of two works on electricity by the Italian physicist Giambatista Beccaria (1716-1781), who was appointed to the chair of physics at the university of Turin in 1748 and was one of the scholars who helped transform electrology into a scientific discipline defending the theory of Benjamin Franklin.Ad 1: First edition, in the original Italian, of "Beccaria's last major contribution to the science of electricity" (DSB). It treats the theory of artificial electricity, especially in conducting bodies, deduced from the circulation of electricity in an ordinary apparatus. Beccaria explains and enlarges on Franklin's one-fluid theory of electricity. It contains descriptions of many experiments, with accompanying illustrations on the 11 engraved plates. It was translated into English, on Franklin's recommendation, in 1776.Ad 2: First edition, in the original Latin, of a collection of experiments and observations explaining the nature and properties of residual static electricity. Beccaria's interest in electricity "was reawakened by the work of a former student, G.F. Cigna, who in 1765 published an account of experiments that developed Nollet's elaboration of Symmer's famous manipulations with electrified silk stockings. Beccaria pursued these experiments with all his skill, inventiveness, and energy, largely because they seemed to favour the anti-Franklinian double-fluid theory. … Beccaria, who would not admit action-at-a-distance, supplied this deficiency with a complicated scheme of electrical atmospheres and "vindicating," or regenerating, electricity. These ideas … subsequently led Volta, while seeking alternatives to them, to the invention of the electrophorus" (DSB).Bookblock cracked, with some leaves a bit loose, a few leaves slightly browned and some occasional spots. Binding heavily rubbed, with much of the gold lost in the tooling on the spine. Good copy of two important works on electricity.l Ad 1: DSB I, p. 548; ICCU TO0E 000864; Wheeler Gift 435bis; ad 2: DSB I, pp. 547-548; ICCU TO0E 000867; Wheeler Gift 424.

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