Lot 373
Accademia del cimento
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
£900
Description
Saggi di naturali experienze fatte nell'accademia del cimento. Florence: Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1691, second edition, folio, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, half title, engraved portrait and 75 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum, small crack at head of upper joints
Footnote
Note: Second edition of the publication of the first European academy of science. A fine copy.