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365 Hauksbee, F(rancis). Physico-Mechanical Experiments On Various Subjects. Containing An Account of several Surprizing Phenomena touching Light and Electricity, Producible on the Attrition of Bodies. With many other Remarkable Appearances, not before observ'd. Together with The Explanations of all the Machines, (the Figures of which are Curiously Engrav'd on Copper) and other Apparatus us'd in making the Experiments. Ldn., R. Brugis für den Verf., 1709. 4°. 7 Bll., 194 SS., 8 (7 gef.) Kupfertaf. Ldr. d. Zt. mit Deckelblindpr., Rücken mit Rverg. u. Rsch. im Stil d. Zt. erneuert. Schätzpreis: (2.400,- €) / (3.216,- $) Duveen 281f.; Ferchl 219 (unter Hawksbee); Honeyman 1616; Poggend. I, 1041; Wheeler Gift 232; vgl. Mottelay 150. - Seltene erste Ausgabe. - "One of the most important early works on electricity, containing a description of the electrical machine with a glass cylinder (invented by Hauksbee), descriptions and illustrations of an improved air-pump of his invention, founded on his discovery of the lateral communication of motion in air and important for first showing the optical effects produced by the passage of electricity through rarefied air, which formed the starting point of modern researches, X-rays and the constitution of the atom" (Duveen). - Kaum gebräunt oder fleckig, SS. 19/20 u. 21/22 vertauscht, le. Bl. mit kl. Wurmspuren im w. Längsrand. Der professionell restaurierte Einband gering berieben. Zuschlag: 1.400,- € / 1.876,- $ " Jahr Haus Auktion Preis Einband Zustand 1992 R&A 47/1092 2.800,- Ldr. d. Zt. 1996 CHRI 1705/23 5.900,- Ldr. d. Zt. - $ 3,800 1998 CHRI 1606/510 6.700,- Ldr. d. Zt. - $ 4,000 2004 SWAN 0212/428 2.400,- Hldr. d. 19. Jhdts. - $ 3,200
365 Hauksbee, F(rancis). Physico-Mechanical Experiments On Various Subjects. Containing An Account of several Surprizing Phenomena touching Light and Electricity, Producible on the Attrition of Bodies. With many other Remarkable Appearances, not before observ'd. Together with The Explanations of all the Machines, (the Figures of which are Curiously Engrav'd on Copper) and other Apparatus us'd in making the Experiments. Ldn., R. Brugis für den Verf., 1709. 4°. 7 Bll., 194 SS., 8 (7 gef.) Kupfertaf. Ldr. d. Zt. mit Deckelblindpr., Rücken mit Rverg. u. Rsch. im Stil d. Zt. erneuert. Schätzpreis: (2.400,- €) / (3.216,- $) Duveen 281f.; Ferchl 219 (unter Hawksbee); Honeyman 1616; Poggend. I, 1041; Wheeler Gift 232; vgl. Mottelay 150. - Seltene erste Ausgabe. - "One of the most important early works on electricity, containing a description of the electrical machine with a glass cylinder (invented by Hauksbee), descriptions and illustrations of an improved air-pump of his invention, founded on his discovery of the lateral communication of motion in air and important for first showing the optical effects produced by the passage of electricity through rarefied air, which formed the starting point of modern researches, X-rays and the constitution of the atom" (Duveen). - Kaum gebräunt oder fleckig, SS. 19/20 u. 21/22 vertauscht, le. Bl. mit kl. Wurmspuren im w. Längsrand. Der professionell restaurierte Einband gering berieben. Zuschlag: 1.400,- € / 1.876,- $ " Jahr Haus Auktion Preis Einband Zustand 1992 R&A 47/1092 2.800,- Ldr. d. Zt. 1996 CHRI 1705/23 5.900,- Ldr. d. Zt. - $ 3,800 1998 CHRI 1606/510 6.700,- Ldr. d. Zt. - $ 4,000 2004 SWAN 0212/428 2.400,- Hldr. d. 19. Jhdts. - $ 3,200