VAN MUSSCHENBROEK, Pierre. Essai de physique. Avec une Description de nouvelles sortes de Machines Pneumatiques... Leyden. Samuel Luchtmans. 1751. 2 volumes in-4, full spotted calf, ornate ribbed spines, red morocco titles. Second French edition, illustrated with 34 folding plates including 1 map. Dutch physicist Van Musschenbroek, along with his master Gravesande, was a pioneer of experimental physics. experimental physics. Translated from the Dutch by Mr. Pierre Massuet. Without the portrait-frontispiece of the author. Heads restored, spines split.