Dissertation sur la Glace, ou Explication physique de la formation de la Glace, & de ses divers phénomènes.

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1749 ; First illustrated edition, complete with the frontispiece and the 5 folding engraved plates at the end, of this work by the mathematician and physicist Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan (1678-1771), member of the Academy of Sciences and the French Academy. Duodecimo (12mo) of XXIX + 5 unnumbered leaves + 384 + XX. Period marbled Full calf leather, spine with false raised bands, compartments decorated with fleurons, title label, gilt fillets on the boards, roulette on the edges. Beginning of a split at the upper joints, loss at the joints and the lower headcap, at the lower corner of the first board, very slight abrasions.