79/1883 Desaguliers, J.T. De natuurkunde uit ondervindingen opgemaakt. Amst., I. Tirion, 1751, 3 vols., (26),483,(25); (16),510,(2); (8),250,(66)p., 114 fold. engr. plates, contemp. unif. marbled boards w. green mor. letterpiece.

- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned, mostly the plates and surrounding lvs.; partly erased library stamps on title-p. Bindings rubbed/ worn along extremities.

= Volume 1 and 2 are reissues from editions 1736 and 1746. John Théophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), from Huguenot parents who settled in England. Bierens de Haan 1178-1180. "Desaguliers continued to furnish the society with experiments until his death. (...) between 1716 and 1742 he contributed no fewer than fifty-two papers to the Philosophical Transactions, the earlier ones chiefly on optics and mechanics, the later ones on electricity." (DSB).