Electricity. VOLTA. Collezione dell'Opere.
VOLTA, Alessandro. Collezione dell'Opere. Tomo Primo -Quinto. Firenze, Piatti, 1816.
Altro esemplare, come il precedente, recante però una brossura in carta azzurra editoriale con la dicitura: Firenze, Angelo Romei, 1858. Timbri di biblioteca estinta ai frontespizi. Fioriture sparse.
Prima edizione delle opere complete del Volta, il cui fondo rimasto invenduto venne poi commercializzato oltre quarant'anni dopo applicandovi una nuova copertina ad opera del libraio fiorentino Angelo Romei; particolarità ignota ai bibliografi come Scolari.
Condition Report: 8vo, 210 x 140 mm; 3 tomes in 5 vols; pp.10, XII, 277, 3; pp. 505, 3; pp. X, XXVI, 268, 2; pp. 302, 2; pp. 4, 387, 7, with a portrait of Volta engraved by Raffaello Morghen and 7 folded plates in the end. Fine copy.
First and rare edition of Volta’s works, edited by the Florentine patrician Vincenzo Antinori. This collection (which, albeit incompleted, especially for the part about unpublished manuscripts, until 1918 when Hoepli began publishing the national edition was also the only one) contains 67 writings, including those on the electrophoric, on electric meteorology, on the aurora boreale, and on the condenser in vol. I; The various letters and memories on animal electricity, which occupy almost all the 1st part of the II vol .; and the famous letter to Sir J. Banks, president of London R. Society, from which the world learned the invention of the battery vol. II, p. II. Mottelay, pp. 246-249. Dibner, Volta and the electrical battery, passim. Wheeler Gift, 731. Scolari, pp. 15-16:" The only Voltaian edition was that of the Marquis Vincenzo Antinori, now very rare ... This benevolent patrician of Fiorence 1794-1865), a man of vast culture ... is worthy of the most lively gratitude on the part of the Italians. "" This collection has become rare in this time" Gamba, 2689. Gliozzi, St. Fisica, pp. 201-6. Zeitlinger, I/5126-28.
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VOLTA, Alessandro. Collezione dell'Opere. Tomo Primo -Quinto. Firenze, Piatti, 1816.
Altro esemplare, come il precedente, recante però una brossura in carta azzurra editoriale con la dicitura: Firenze, Angelo Romei, 1858. Timbri di biblioteca estinta ai frontespizi. Fioriture sparse.
Prima edizione delle opere complete del Volta, il cui fondo rimasto invenduto venne poi commercializzato oltre quarant'anni dopo applicandovi una nuova copertina ad opera del libraio fiorentino Angelo Romei; particolarità ignota ai bibliografi come Scolari.
Condition Report: 8vo, 210 x 140 mm; 3 tomes in 5 vols; pp.10, XII, 277, 3; pp. 505, 3; pp. X, XXVI, 268, 2; pp. 302, 2; pp. 4, 387, 7, with a portrait of Volta engraved by Raffaello Morghen and 7 folded plates in the end. Fine copy.
First and rare edition of Volta’s works, edited by the Florentine patrician Vincenzo Antinori. This collection (which, albeit incompleted, especially for the part about unpublished manuscripts, until 1918 when Hoepli began publishing the national edition was also the only one) contains 67 writings, including those on the electrophoric, on electric meteorology, on the aurora boreale, and on the condenser in vol. I; The various letters and memories on animal electricity, which occupy almost all the 1st part of the II vol .; and the famous letter to Sir J. Banks, president of London R. Society, from which the world learned the invention of the battery vol. II, p. II. Mottelay, pp. 246-249. Dibner, Volta and the electrical battery, passim. Wheeler Gift, 731. Scolari, pp. 15-16:" The only Voltaian edition was that of the Marquis Vincenzo Antinori, now very rare ... This benevolent patrician of Fiorence 1794-1865), a man of vast culture ... is worthy of the most lively gratitude on the part of the Italians. "" This collection has become rare in this time" Gamba, 2689. Gliozzi, St. Fisica, pp. 201-6. Zeitlinger, I/5126-28.
