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Auction archive: Lot number 308

WINKLER-WATSON-FREKE. Recueil de Traités.

Estimate
€400 - €600
ca. US$459 - US$688
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 308

WINKLER-WATSON-FREKE. Recueil de Traités.

Estimate
€400 - €600
ca. US$459 - US$688
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

WINKLER Johann Heinrich - WATSON William - FREKE John. RECUEIL de Traités sur l’Electricité. WINKLER Johann Heinrich. Essai sur la nature, les effets et les causes de l’Electricité, avec une description de deux nouvelles machines à Electricité. WATSON William Expériences et observation pour servir à l’explication de la Nature et des Propriétés de l’Electricité proposées en trois lettres à la Soc. Royale de Londres.FREKE John. Essai sur la cause de l’Electricité, où l’on examine, pourquoi certaines choses ne peuvent pas être électrisées. Et quelle est l’influence de l’Electricité dans le Rhumatisme du Corps humain, dans la Nielle des Arabes, dans les Vapeurs des Mines, dans la Plante Sensitive. Paris, S. Jorry, 1748. 3 vols. small 8vo mm. 180 x 100; pp. [2], VII, [3], 156 with 2 copper plates at the end; pp. XII, 141 with 4 copper folded plates at the end; pp. VIII, 112 with 1 folded copper plate at the end. Contemporary quarter calf binding, rules on spine.
Precious collection, including three of the most remarkable works on electricity that appeared in the fifth decade of the eighteenth century. The work of the German physicist J.H. Winkler [1703-70] also contains the description of two new types of friction electric machines and research on the speed of the electric transmission;the work of Sir William Watson contains a number of original experiments relating to the action of electricity on various chemicals [very interesting the 4 plates at the end, illustrating various electrical experiences]; John Freke's work, finally, supports the identity between light and electricity. Cfr. Wheeler Gift, nn. 313c; 333; 325 [il primo trattato è l’unico di cui cita la versione francese]. The lot is offered with a valid export license

Auction archive: Lot number 308
Auction:
Datum:
11 Jul 2017
Auction house:
BADO E MART AUCTIONS
Via Dei Soncin, 25
35122 PADOVA
Italy
info@badoemart.it
+39 049 875 5317
+39 049 875 5317
Beschreibung:

WINKLER Johann Heinrich - WATSON William - FREKE John. RECUEIL de Traités sur l’Electricité. WINKLER Johann Heinrich. Essai sur la nature, les effets et les causes de l’Electricité, avec une description de deux nouvelles machines à Electricité. WATSON William Expériences et observation pour servir à l’explication de la Nature et des Propriétés de l’Electricité proposées en trois lettres à la Soc. Royale de Londres.FREKE John. Essai sur la cause de l’Electricité, où l’on examine, pourquoi certaines choses ne peuvent pas être électrisées. Et quelle est l’influence de l’Electricité dans le Rhumatisme du Corps humain, dans la Nielle des Arabes, dans les Vapeurs des Mines, dans la Plante Sensitive. Paris, S. Jorry, 1748. 3 vols. small 8vo mm. 180 x 100; pp. [2], VII, [3], 156 with 2 copper plates at the end; pp. XII, 141 with 4 copper folded plates at the end; pp. VIII, 112 with 1 folded copper plate at the end. Contemporary quarter calf binding, rules on spine.
Precious collection, including three of the most remarkable works on electricity that appeared in the fifth decade of the eighteenth century. The work of the German physicist J.H. Winkler [1703-70] also contains the description of two new types of friction electric machines and research on the speed of the electric transmission;the work of Sir William Watson contains a number of original experiments relating to the action of electricity on various chemicals [very interesting the 4 plates at the end, illustrating various electrical experiences]; John Freke's work, finally, supports the identity between light and electricity. Cfr. Wheeler Gift, nn. 313c; 333; 325 [il primo trattato è l’unico di cui cita la versione francese]. The lot is offered with a valid export license

Auction archive: Lot number 308
Auction:
Datum:
11 Jul 2017
Auction house:
BADO E MART AUCTIONS
Via Dei Soncin, 25
35122 PADOVA
Italy
info@badoemart.it
+39 049 875 5317
+39 049 875 5317
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