MUSSCHENBROEK (Pierre van). ESSAI DE PHYSIQUE. Leiden, Samue - Lot 98

MUSSCHENBROEK (Pierre van). ESSAI DE PHYSIQUE. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1739. 2 volumes in-4°, basane racinée, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). First French edition by physician Pierre Massuet. Physicist Pierre Van Musschenbroek discusses mechanics, electricity, magnetism, optics, acoustics, comets, etc. The work is illustrated with a large engraved portrait and 30 DEPLIANT MAPS, including a world map in the second volume. The latter is followed, in separate pagination, by the Description de nouvelles sortes de machines pneumatiques with a collection of several curious experiments illustrated with 4 large plates. Light foxing, fine wear to boards, minor defects to spines.