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VOLTA Alessandro. Collezione dell'Opere. Tomo Primo [-Quinto]. Firenze, Piatti, 1816. 8vo, 210 x 140 mm; 3 tomes in 5 vols; pp.[10], XII, 277, [3]; pp. 505, [3]; pp. X, XXVI, 268, [2]; pp. 302, [2]; pp. [4], 387, [7], with a portrait of Volta engraved by Raffaello Morghen and 7 folded plates in the end. Specimen in publisher’s paperback in light blue leaves with: Firenze, Angelo Romei, 1858. Stamps of extinct library at the titlepages. Spread foxing.
First and rare edition of the Opere, edited by Florentine patrician Vincenzo Antinori. This collection [which, albeit incompleted, especially for the part about unpublished manuscripts, until 1918 when Hoepli began publishing the national edition was also the only one] contains 67 writings, including those on the electrophoric, on electric meteorology, on the aurora boreale, and on the condenser in vol. I; The various letters and memories on animal electricity, which occupy almost all the 1st part of the II vol .; and the famous letter to Sir J. Banks, president of London R. Society, from which the world learned the invention of the battery [vol. II, p. II]. Mottelay, pp. 246-249. Dibner, Volta and the electrical battery, passim. Wheeler Gift, 731. Scolari, pp. 15-16:" The only Voltaian edition was that of the Marquis Vincenzo Antinori, now very rare ... This benevolent patrician of Fiorence [1794-1865], a man of vast culture ... is worthy of the most lively gratitude on the part of the Italians. "" This collection has become rare in this time" Gamba, 2689. Gliozzi, St. Fisica, pp. 201-6. Zeitlinger, I/5126-28.