Traittez des Barometres, Thermometres

et Notiometres ou Hygrometres, Mr. D*** [=Joachim Dalencé], Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1707.

12mo., leather, marbled endpapers, red and gilt-stamped title on spine, title in red and black with vignette, frontispiece by A. Schoonebeek. (7),139,(4) pp., with 35 (of 36) copper engravings. Second Amsterdam edition of the earliest report solely about these topics; also the first work establishing the rules for the scale division of thermometers. Beautifully illustrated work with illustrations of the various instruments in baroque interiors and allegorical landscapes by A. Schoonebeek. Joachim Dalancé (or dÁlence), French physicist, born in Paris in 1640 and died in Lille in 1707. All trade copies known to us are missing various plates. Very rare.