NOLLET (Jean-Antoine). L' Art des expériences, ou Avis aux amateurs de la physique, sur le choix, la construction et l'usage des instruments ; sur la préparation et l'emploi des drogues qui servent aux expériences. Paris, P.-E.-G. Durand, 1770, 3 vols. in-12, with 56 folding plates out of text, marbled fawn basane, ribbed spine with partitions and fleurons, title and appendices, framed with simple cold fillet on the covers, simple gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (period binding). Mention of a second edition, but with the date of the original edition. (Three worn headpieces, beginning of cracks in some spine ends).