Physicae Experimentales, et Geometricae, de Magnete, Tuborum Capillarium Vitreorum-que Speculorum Attractione, Magnitudine Terrae, Cohaerentia Corporum Firmorum Dissertationes: ut et Ephemerides Meteorologicae Ultrajectinae
by van Musschenbroek, Petri
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
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.
Includes an early map of California, depicting it as an island.
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- Sanctuary Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D14128
- Title
- Physicae Experimentales, et Geometricae, de Magnete, Tuborum Capillarium Vitreorum-que Speculorum Attractione, Magnitudine Terrae, Cohaerentia Corporum Firmorum Dissertationes: ut et Ephemerides Meteorologicae Ultrajectinae
- Author
- van Musschenbroek, Petri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Samuelem Luchtmans
- Place of Publication
- Lugduni Batavorum
- Date Published
- 1729
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...