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Accademia del Cimento, Florence, Italy. Essayes of Natural Experiments Made in the Academie del Cimento.
London: printed by Benjamin Alsop, 1684.
First edition, quarto, (Z4 final blank present), translated by Richard Waller, illustrated with added engraved title and nineteen full-paged engravings; first leaf with order to print present, bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, early engraved armorial bookplate inside the front board, ex libris Gordon Castle and Kenney Collection, with book labels inside front board; front board detached, 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Wing A-161; ESTC R6541; Bolton I 259; Duveen page 636.
