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MUSSCHENBROEK, PETRUS VAN. Cours de Physique Expérimentale et Mathématique. 64 folding engraved plates; folding engraved table. xlviii, [4], 472; [4], 510, [4], 503, [1] pages, including half-titles. 3 vols. 4to, 255x192 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt with morocco lettering pieces; few plates foxed, some toning in Volume 3. Bookplates of Paul Guilly. handsome set. Paris: (Didot for) Bauche, 1769
first edition of the translation by Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de la Fond of Musschenbroek's 1748 Institutiones physicae, a textbook of experimental physics. A French version by Pierre Massuet had appeared in 1751. DSB IX, 596.
