[Early treatise on weather stations]

Traittez des Barometres, Thermometres et Notiometres ou Hygrometres, Mr. D*** [=Joachim Dalencé], Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1707. 12mo, leather, marbled endpapers, title on spine in red and gilt stamping, title in red and black with vignette, frontispiece by A. Schoonebeek. (7),139,(4) pp., with 35 (of 36) copper engravings; binding with minor imperfections, here and there water stains in the text. Rare.

Second Amsterdam edition [the first at Wetstein, 1688] of the earliest report solely treating these subjects; at the same time the first work laying down the rules for scale division on thermometers. Beautifully illustrated work with images of the various instruments in baroque interiors and allegorical landscapes by A. Schoonebeek. Joachim Dalancé (or d'Alencé), French physicist, born in Paris in 1640 and died in Lille in 1707.