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Munich: E.A. Fleischmann for the Author, 1829. Original lithographed boards (rubbed), front panel with an ornamental border, title and a vignette of Zeus throwing lightning bolts, rear panel with the same border and a vignette of two stargazers in a boat at night, spine title. Fun with science! Second Edition: more than four times the size of the first. Professor of mathematics and physics, Egger privately collected scientific instruments and apparatuses and regularly held demonstrations for school children and for learned societies. In his introductory guide to experiments with colors, magnetism, acoustics, gravity and optics, he shows a variety of electrical devices, including his luminous rainbow, comet, and clock, as well as a "magical electric question and answer" machine (Fig. 276). At the end he discusses astronomy, meteorology, and notable meteor strikes. Both copies in the U.S. are in D.C. (Smithsonian and Houdini-LC). In good condition (first few leaves foxed). ¶Sotheran,…
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Leitfaden zu Vorlesungen über populäre Experimental= Physik für Liebhaber der Natur und die Jugend...Zweite verbesserte Auflage
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Catalogus Librorum Qui In Bibliopolio Danielis Elsevirii venales extant
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Amsterdam: D. Elzevier, 1674. Contemporary stiff vellum with overlapping edges (small hole in the rear cover), manuscript spine title. A SELECT UNIVERSAL BIBLIOGRAPHY" (Breslauer & Folter). With nearly 20,000 titles, this is the largest, most international and most important 17th-century bookseller's catalog. It served a cosmopolitan European clientele. The third generation typefounder, printer, editor and bookseller divided his Latin inventory into theology, law, medicine and varia. He imposed the same scheme on his holdings of French and German books. The Italian, Spanish and English language materials are in three straight alphabets. A fine, crisp copy. ¶Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography its History & Development 68; Bigmore & Wyman, Bibliography of Printing I: 196; Willems, Les Elzevier 15.
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