HAUKSBEE, Francis (1660-1713). Physico-Mechanical Experiments.

London: Printed by R. Brugis, for the author, and sold only at his house in Wine Office Court in Fleet Street, 1709.

Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects: containing an account of several surprizing phenomena touching light and electricity, producible on the attrition of bodies. With many other remarkable appearances, not before observ'd. Together with the explanations of all the machines, (the figures of which are curiously engrav'd on copper) and other apparatus us'd in making the experiments, by F. Hauksbee, F. R. S..

[12],194 pages: 7 plates (partly folded).

Bound in blind stamped mottled leather, gilt spine title.

H: 8 1/2 W: 6 1/2 in. Good. Some water stains on t.p. and first 20 p., some slight foxing throughout; plates VG.