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1747rif. 53510Verona: Giannalberto Tumermani 1747. First edition. Engraved title vignette and headpiece. 8 189 7 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original boards uncut. Some early but faint dampstaining throughout -- otherwise a fine wide-margined copy. First edition. Engraved title vignette and headpiece. 8 189 7 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Collection of fifteen letters on the origins of lightning by the enlightened polymath Maffei 1675-1755 "said by Grimelli Storia to contain all the anterior letters on Lightning published by him i.e. all before 1746 the date of the censorship." - Ronalds The book is rare in institutions -- OCLC gives only one location. Ronalds p. 314; Gartrell p. 334; OCLC: 23628231 one location: U. of Michigan; Mottelay p. 321; Baaken Library p. 83; not in Wheeler; not in RLIN Giannalberto Tumermani unknown
rif. 807P., Pecquet, 1750, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en plein veau marbré, dos ornés de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), T.1 : (1), 17pp., 146pp., 1 PLANCHE DEPLIANTE, T.2 : (1), 180pp., 1 PLANCHE DEPLIANTE
1850rif. 408771850. Rare 19th Century American Electricity Broadside Electricity Wonderful experiments! At the Liberty Hall Groton this evening Feb. 19 inst. Dr. Fisk begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this place that he will give one night of pleasing and instructive amusement . . . Broadside. Woodcut illustrations. N.p.: Samuel B. Hall n.d. ca. 1850. 627 x 225 mm. Small portion of one corner torn not affecting text some creasing minor stains but very good. Rare nineteenth-century American broadside advertising Dr. Fisk's traveling show offering a "pleasing and instructive" demonstration of the many and varied uses of electricity. Among the marvels promised were "a splendid railway engine . . . driven by electricity 200 miles per hour" "electro-magnetic engines of immense power . . . driving a variety of useful machines" and "cannons and fireworks . . . fired by electricity." The broadside also proclaims that "a medical galvanizing machine will be at work for the benefit of all" which Dr. Fisk whom we have not been able to identify would use to make "chickens . . . fly without heads" and "sheep that have been dead some time . . . jump and run about." The broadside has blank spaces for inserting the place and date of Dr. Fisk's performance which have been filled in with the words "Liberty Hall Groton Connecticut" and "Feb. 19" in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand. . unknown books
rif. 20779Paris Chez Durand 1756 in 12 (17x10,5) 2 volumes reliures plein veau fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de cuir rouge, [2] 28 pages, 90 pages (XC) [6] 245 pages avec 1 planche gravée dépliante, et 349 pages avec 1 planche gravée dépliante, mors du plat supérieur du tome 2 fendu. Seconde édition française revue, corrigée et augmentée. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
rif. 229368Paris, H.-L. Guérin & L.-F. Delatour, 1761 in-12, xij pp., 164 pp., [2] ff. n. ch. d'approbation et de privilège, avec 2 planches dépliantes hors texte, veau fauve moucheté, dos lisse cloisonné et fleuronné, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de simple filet à froid sur les plats, simple filet doré sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées de rouge (reliure de l'époque). Coiffes un peu rognées, coupes frottées.
rif. 3575Chez Durand, Paris, 1756.. in 12 (17x10,5). 2 volumes reliures plein veau fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de cuir beige , 245 pages avec 1 planche gravée dépliante, et 349 pages avec 1 planche gravée dépliante, Seconde édition française revue, corrigée et augmentée. Bel exemplaire , dans une reliure parfaite , interieur parfait etat , photos sur demande
rif. 2200P., Quillau, 1773, 2 TOMES reliés en un volume in 4, plein veau marbré, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (quelques rousseurs, coiffe émoussée, mors légèrement fendus), T.1 : 1 PORTRAIT, (2), 22pp., (1), 338pp., 5 PLANCHES, T.2 : (2), 15pp., 318pp., (1), 7 PLANCHES, soit 12 PLANCHES
1735rif. 46590(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1735). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733"". Pp. 23-39, pp. 73-84, pp. 233-254 a. 1 engraved plate, pp. 457-476. With titlepage to the volume (1733/1735). Margins of titlepage with a few brownspots.
1735rif. 46590Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1735. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1733". Pp. 23-39 pp. 73-84 pp. 233-254 a. 1 engraved plate pp. 457-476. With titlepage to the volume 1733/1735. Margins of titlepage with a few brownspots. First appearance of these milestone papers in the histroy of electricity in which Dufay explains his discovery of two kinds of electricity and the relation between them attraction and repulsion shocks and sparking and the full recognition of electrostatic repulsion. He formulates the two-fluid theory of electricity. He further showed that "not all bodies can become electrified themselves" by friction and went on to show "that they can all acquire a considerable electrical virtue when the tube of rubbed glass wood metals or liquids are brought near them" provided only that they are insulated by beiing stood on "a support of glass or of sealing-wax".Dufay "TRANSFORMED A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS WEEDS INTO THE FIRST GARDEN OF EUROPE" Heilbron"Dufay's substantive discoveries - ACR the two electricities shocks and sparking - are but one aspect and perhaps not the most significant of his achievement. His insistence on the impiortence of the subject on the universal character of electricity on the necessity of organizing digesting and regulariizing known facts before grasping new ones all helped to introduce order and professionel standards into the study of electricity at precisely the moment when the accumulation of data began to require them. He foundthe subject a record of often capricious disconnected phenomena the domain of the polymaths textbook writers and prfesional lecturers and left a body of knowledge that invited and rewarded prolonged scrutinity from serious physicists." Heilbron "Electricity in the 17 & 18 Centuries" p. 260.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1734 P - Ronalds Library p. 145. - Not in Wheeler Gift Cat. unknown
2 Vols., 4to (250 x 200 mm), mixed editions with vol. I being second edition corrected and Vol. II the first edition, xii, 466, [10]; xv, [1], 568, [8]pp., 78 folding engraved plates, recently expertly bound to style in full calf, covers with a double fillet gilt border, spine with five raised bands and compartments heavily gilt tooled, one compartment with contrasting red morocco label gilt lettered, a very handsome set. Desaguliers was elected to the Royal Society of London in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton and he later popularised Newtonian theories and their practical applications in public lectures as well as his written works. By the time of his death he had given over 140 courses on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics and astronomy. "The two-volume set promotes the Newtonian tradition and quotes experiments that confirmed Newton's queries, especially from the Opticks. Desaguliers also describes a number of electrical experiments and contributes to the popularization of the study of electricity. Each volume contains six lectures, richly illustrated by experiments and annotated. The second volume deals mostly with applied science and engineering."?Norman. Norman, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 91; DSB, IV, pp. 43-5; Wellcome II, p. 451 (vol. 2 only); Poggendorff I, pp. 553-5.
rif. 118844aafLeipzig:: Gottfried Kiesewetter, 1758, in-8vo, Frontispiz Kupfer + 13 n.n. Bl. (inkl. Titelbl. mit gest. Vign.) + 354 S., gebräunt und vereinzelt fleckig und unterstrichen, unten am Titelblatt Stempel Prof. Ernst Mach, Original-Pappband. Rücken erneuert. Gutes Exemplar.
1784rif. 6038Paris, Gueffier, 1784. 2 volumes in-8 de [4]-XVI-396p. ; [4]-474-[2]p., plein veau marbré, dos à nerfs ornés de filets et fleurons dorés, pièces de titre en maroquin rouge. Bel exemplaire en très jolie condition.
rif. 39031Paris,chez Bauche en 1769. Traduit par M.Sigaud De La Fond. 3 vols in-4 en veau marbré d'époque. Dos à nerfs,ornés,avec pièces de titre et de tomaison.Tome I: 472 pages et 23 planches dépliantes ( XI et XI* ).Tome II: 510 pages et 1 Table dépliante " qui indique les differens dégrés de chaleur..". Tome III: 504 pages (avec Table des Matières) . 63 planches dépliantes numérotées; + 1 planche dépliante qui représente le monde. Tome I: Epître,préface de Jean Lulolfs,discours,table des chapitres,Cours.Bandeaux et culs de lampe.Tranches rouges.Très rares rousseurs.Bel état intérieur.Reliures un peu frottées avec manque de coiffe supérieure au Tome I. Très rare.
1773rif. 12556Paris, Quillau, Esprit, et l'auteur, 1773. 2 tomes en 1 vol. in-4 de [6]-XXII-[2]-338p.; [4]-XIII-[3]-318-[2]p. plein veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné d'encadrements et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre bordeaux. Reliure légèrement frottée, rares rousseurs.
1758In -4°, pp. (10), 159, (1), frontespizio in rosso e nero, legatura in cartonato coevo con titolo manoscritto al dorso. Prima e unica edizione di uno dei primi saggi italiani ed europei di psichiatria moderna; include un cospicuo resoconto sulla “medicina elettrica”, ovvero l’applicazione di fenomeni elettromagnetici alla cura del paziente: anche in questo caso il saggio è da considerarsi fra i primi mai elaborati e pubblicati sulla materia. Pietro Cornacchini, filosofo e medico senese, pubblica questo suo manuale nello stesso anno del “Treatise on Madness”, dell’inglese William Battie, considerato il trattato più importante del primo Settecento sulla cura della follia. Come testimoniato nel suo libro, in quegli anni si cominciava a sviluppare in Europa un approccio non repressivo e non reclusivo al malato e alla malattia mentale. Cornacchini è senz’altro fra i pionieri di questo tipo di studi, e il suo manuale è riconosciuto come il primo approccio fisiologico complesso dell’epoca moderna, in Italia, alla malattia mentale: si veda la “Storia della medicina in Italia”, di Salvatore De Renzi (Napoli, 1848, tomo V, pp. 759 sgg.) in cui l’autore riconosce a Cornacchini un anticipo di 14 anni sull’opera giovanile di un altro medico, Antonio Sementini, e addirittura di 35 sul lavoro che giudica il più importante del secolo, cioè “Della pazzia” di Chiarugi (1793). Il libro di Cornacchini succede solo a un altro trattatello, del ’57, cioè “Della mania, della frenesia e della rabbia” di Antonio Arrigoni, scritto che, in contrasto con il presente, trascurava la fisiologia per concentrarsi sul trattamento di queste patologie. Dopo aver distinto la malattia mentale in “tre specie” (frenesia, mania, malinconia), l’autore si addentra in spiegazioni fisiologiche: “Chi potrà negare - scrive - che la cagine [sic] immediata della Pazzia risieda [negli] organi interni, e che sia tutta materiale?” A osservazioni piuttosto dettagliate sulla circolazione sanguigna e sui fluidi corporali, si accompagnano altre considerazioni sperimentali o ipotetiche fra cui quella che la follia sarebbe connessa a una maggiore “durezza” del cervello o comunque alla consistenza di quest’organo (“Tanti autori confermano che il cervello de’ maniaci è stato ritrovato per lo più arido e friabile”). Al di là di quest’approccio, il volume si configura come un vero e proprio antesignano, in Italia, di un modo di considerare il malato di mente, anche sul piano lessicale: non a caso Cornacchini termina la sua disquisizione respingendo anche in senso terminologico “l’odioso nome di Pazzi”. Non meno intrigante e innovativo è il saggio che prosegue il volume, ovvero i due saggi “sopra la medicina elettrica”. L’argomento è a sua volta recentissimo e pionieristico, come chiarisce l’autore stesso che mette all’origine di questi studi il padovano Giovanni Francesco Pivati, il quale nel ’49 aveva pubblicato il suo “Riflessioni fisiche sopra la medicina elettrica”; l’approccio di Cornacchini alla materia è radicalmente diverso da quello di Pivati, ed è basato esclusivamente sull’applicazione di elettricità: Pivati e altri suoi seguaci erano convinti che, per una cura efficace, si dovessero applicare dei farmaci ai diversi conduttori di elettricità impiegati allora, mentre il parere di Cornacchini è che si dovesse procedere “senza intonacatura di medicamento alcuno”. In questo la posizione di Cornacchini è più aderente a quello che sarebbe stato il proseguimento degli studi a riguardo, e la sua esposizione va considerata più moderna e innovativa anche rispetto all’altra monografia pubblicata precedentemente in merito, quella del bolognese Veratti (“Osservazioni fisico mediche intorno all’elettricità”, Bologna, sempre del’49). Il discorso sull’elettricità di Cornacchini è piuttosto nutrito e addirittura sovrasta per quantità la prima parte del libro, impegnandone più di cento pagine. La prosa è limpida e avvincente: al di là della ricerca strettamente medica e delle descrizioni di casi clinici, non mancano cenni di proto-elettrotecnica (l’elettricità era ancora all’epoca un fenomeno curioso ma con scarse applicazioni pratiche). An early and rare work of psychiatry, in its first and only edition, this is one of earliest Italian and European modern book in this field. It includes a huge writing on “electric medicine”, i.e. the application of electromagnetic issues to illness care. Also this part has to be considered between the first essays ever published on the matter. Pietro Cornacchini, a physician and a philosopher from Siena, publishes this handbook in the same year of William Battie’s “Treatise on Madness”, a writing considered the most important of the early Century about madness’ care. A forerunner of non-reclusive psychiatry, Cornacchini writes the first complex physiological study on madness of modern age (see “Storia della medicina in Italia” by Salvatore De Renzi, Naples, 1848, in which the author assigns to Cornacchini 35 years of advance on the most important Italian work on madness of the Century, “Della Pazzia” by Chiarugi, 1793). Cornacchini’s book is published a year later of another handbook, “Della Mania, della Frenesia e della Rabbia”, by Antonio Arrigoni, that however ruled a non physiological approach to the matter. After giving a classification of different kinds of madness (frenesia, mania, malinconia), the author gives some original physiological explications, as like the madness connected to brain consistency. Beyond this, the volume is a pionering work on the way to consider the mental illness as a pathology to be treated with respect of the patient, starting with an appropriate use of language (at the end of the work the author rejects as obnoxious the word “Pazzi”, mad, for the mentaly ill). No less important can be considered the second part of volume, about “electric medicine”, a rising field, studied in Europe before the development of more important practical implementing of electricity. Cornacchini’s approach is different by most of contemporary works about: many researches required to add a drug to electric devices to be efficient; only later was demonstrated, as like Cornacchini assumes, that the electric application could be a treatment itself, and the pharmaceutical addition as unnecessary.
1789rif. 3582Rome:: nella stamperia Salomoni 1789. FIRST EDITION. Octavo:. 20.5 x 140 cm. 2 xxxvi p. This is a beautiful copy in contemporary red pasteboard with gold floral impressions and decorative paste-paper pastedowns. The text printed on thick paper is in excellent condition. A very fresh copy. The engraved title-page has a vignette of the Quirinale palace in Rome with the lightning conductor installed on its roof. Rare. 5 copies in North America: Burndy Harvard Huntington Smithsonian American Philosophical Association. First edition of this rare publication dealing with the construction of the lightning conductor installed on the Quirinal Palace in Rome in order to prevent further damage from lightning strikes. Calandrelli discusses the electrical experiments of other well-known scientists such as Priestley Toaldo Landriani De Saussure Reccaria Lord Malion and above all those of Benjamin Franklin including Franklin's iconic kite experiment of June 1752. The kite experiment is described on pages 2-3. On pages 4 and 5 credit is given to Franklin who understood that electricity prefers metal to all other materials as a conductor for the invention of the lightning rod "to protect buildings from fatal lightning strikes". This invention Calandrelli asserts should be of interest to all but especially to those who live in North America "where storms are more frequent and more severe." Franklin's observations of the lightning rods erected by William Maine in South Carolina and of William West in Philadelphia are also included in Calandrelli's account. Wheeler Gift 554 nella stamperia Salomoni, unknown books
1772rif. (LCPCMED-0001)(Deux rarissimes ouvrages sur l'électrothérapie au XVIIIe siècle, en édition originale, dans une superbe reliure en maroquin armorié du temps) SANS (abbé). "GUERISON DE LA PARALYSIE, PAR L'ELECRICITE, OU CETTE EXPERIENCE PHYSIQUE EMPLOYEE AVEC SUCCES DANS LE TRAITEMENT DE CETTE MALADIE REGARDEE JUSQUES A PRESENT COMME INCURABLE". 1772, Paris, Cailleau. (relié avec:) "GUERISON DE LA PARALYSIE, PAR L'ELECTRICITE; OUVRAGE... DANS LEQUEL ON EXPOSE LA METHODE QU'IL FAUT SUIVRE POUR GUERIR LA PARALYSIE PAR L'ELECTRICITE...". 1778, Paris, Cailleau. 2 ouvrages en 1 volume in-8° (166x101 mm) (dimensions pages 159x94 mm) I: (1) frontispice gravé, (8) ff. (faux-titre, dédicace, préface et table), 150 pp., 2 figures sur 1 planche dépliante. (a8, A-F12, G2) II: (1) frontispice gravé, (1) faux-titre, (1) titre, XXVII pp. (lettre), (1) p. (table), 234 pp., (1) f. (approbation), 4 planches dépliantes. (a12, b2, A-I12, K10) Reliure armoriée de l'époque en maroquin rouge. Encadrement avec triple filet doré sur les plats, petites fleurs aux angles et armoiries au centre. Dos lisse divisé en compartiments avec fleurons et décorations dorés et pièce de titre en maroquin olive. Filet doré sur les coupes et roulette intérieure dorée. Tranches dorées. Gardes de papier bleuté. Editions Originales, rares. Très rare le second ouvrage. Infime usure à un coin. Un petit trou de ver au pied du dos. Très petit manque de cuir à la charnière du premier plat. Très bel exemplaire dans une reliure en maroquin armorié du temps. Provenance: Exemplaire aux armes dorées de Mgr. Joseph-Dominique de Cheylus (Avignon, 1717 - Jersey, 1797), évêque de Bayeux et premier Aumônier de la Comtesse d'Artois. L'abbé de Cheylus, fut évêque de Cahors (1766) et de Bayeux (1777) avec, pour celle-ci, une rente annuelle de 90.000 livres. Premier Aumônier de la Comtesse d'Artois, en 1790 il devient maire de Bayeux; mais il refuse de prêter serment à la constitution civile du clergé. Il émigre à Jersey. Sa riche bibliothèque fut séquestrée et confisquée au profit de la Nation et M. Simien Despréaux, en 1793, fut chargé d'en rédiger l'inventaire (seul l' "Inventaire des livres trouvés dans la bibliothèque de l'émigré Cheylus, Théâtre et Poésies et Romans" subsiste, avec 145 ouvrages en 495 volumes). "L'importance de la bibliothèque de l'évêque est considérable et son inventaire mériterait d'en être dressé. Lorsque ces livres seront réclamés en mai 1803 par ses héritiers, les commissaires feront valoir que les 4082 volumes étiquetés Aa (c'est à dire provenant de la bibliothèque de Mgr. de Cheylus) par M. Simien Despréaux dans le dépôt A constituent une collection d'ouvrages précieux de toutes les parties de l'histoire, de la littérature et des sciences". ("Des chanoines et des livres. Actes du colloque sur la bibliothèque du Chapitre de la cathédrale de Bayeux Basse-Normandie Drac", 2014) (LCPCMED-0001) (4.500,00 €)
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