POUILLET, Claude-Servais-Matthias. Elements of experimental - Lot 511

POUILLET, Claude-Servais-Matthias. Elements of experimental physics and meteorology. Published in Paris by Béchet jeune in 1844. In 2 octavo / In-8 paperback volumes. VII-832 ; 766 pages, with 1 folding table (Observations du pendule) and 17 hors-texte folding plates in volume 1 ; 2 folding tables (Déclinaisons magnétiques d'après la carte de Duperrey ) and 15 folding plates (from 18 to 32) in volume 2. Spine faded, covers worn. Very rare foxing, plates 19 to 24 in volume 2. Fourth edition of this treatise on experimental physics and meteorology by Claude-Servais-Matthias Pouillet (1791-1868.). It is complete with the 2 volumes in 2 volumes, composed as follows: Volume 1: Notions préliminaires. Gravity. Heat. Magnetism and electricity Volume 2: Molecular actions. Acoustics. Optics. Heat. Meteorology. Fairly good set, complete with 3 tables and 32 folding plates, clean interiors.