NO RESERVE Electricity.- Hauksbee (Francis) Esperienze fisico-meccaniche sopra varj soggetti contenenti un racconto di diversi stupendi fenomeni intorno la luce e l'elettricita, first Italian edition, half-title, 7 numbered folding engraved plates, 1 smaller unnumbered plate, woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata f. at end, the smaller plate browned, the others lightly browned and with some spotting, contemporary green vellum, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, later paper shelf label to a lower compartment, upper joint starting, but holding firm, short diagonal split to lower spine, [Dibner Early Electrical Machines (1957) 16-19; Duveen 281-282; Mottelay 149-150; Wheeler Gift 232], a well-margined copy, 4to, Florence, Jacopo Guiducci, 1716.

⁂ 'One of the most important early works on electricity, containing a description of the electrical machine with a glass cylinder' (Duveen). A very good copy of the first Italian edition, which was the first edition to be published on the Continent.