Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 285

Unsold
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
ZWEISSIG, JOSEPH, S.J., and FEICHTMAYR, NICOLAUS, S.J., praesides. Tractatio de theoria descensus et ascensus gravium obliqui, eiusque multiplici applicatione, proposita . . . Benno Ignatius de Hoffstetten . . . in Electorali Lyceo Monacensi publice propugnaret. Folding engraved allegorical portrait of the dedicatee, Maximilian III Joseph, Duke of Bavaria; 3 engraved plates. [10], 74, [22] pages. Folio, 329x210 mm, contemporary marbled wrappers; contents generally clean. Munich: Franz Joseph Thuille, [1765]

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first edition of a thesis on the motion of falling bodies and pendula.