75/2206 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. mottled calf w. richly gilt spine, gilt boardedges, 4to.

- Volume 1 and 2 reissues from eds. 1736 and 1746. All vols. w. owner's entry in pen and ink on first blank. Binding worn, joints occas. starting/ splitting.

= 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). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.