Paris, Clousier - Méquignon, 1782-1784.
Deux ouvrages reliés en un volume in-8 (195x125 mm), viii-461-(3) pages et 5 planches dépliantes / 8-111-(1 bl.) pages. reliure : Pleine basane marbrée de l'époque, dos à cinq nerfs orné et doré portant la pièce de titre. Reliure frottée avec manque de cuir en tête. Mouillure en tête du premier ouvrage.
références: I. Wheeler Gift [509 : "Accepted theories are attacked and 214 experiments described which are held to prove the author's own theories. Many complimentary references are, however, made to Franklin"]
II. Wheeler Gift [524 : "This is one of the early books on medical électricity. The author minutely describes the great number of applications that he made of positive and negative electricity on himself and others. He refers to persons killed by lightning and adds many curious observations on cats, dogs and pigeons which he electrocuted"].
Prix : 950 €