Della elettricità terrestre atmosferica a cielo sereno, osservazioni by BECCARIA, Giambatista - 1775

[Turin]: [printer unknown], 1775. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (270 x 210 mm). [8], 54, [2] pp. Signatures: [pi]4 A-G4. With the first blank leaf [pi]1 and the final leaf of Imprimatur G4. Bound in 20th-century patterend paste paper boards. All pages untrimmed. Text very little browned only, occasional minor spotting, small wormtracks to last leaf (not affecting text). Provenance: Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ----
Wheeler-Gilft 450; Honeyman 256; Balbo 30. FIRST EDITION of Beccaria's short work on atmospheric electricity in fair weather. "This is the author's famous tract on the normal electricity of the atmosphere. Positive and negative electricity found, p. 4; observations on the electrical charges of clouds, p. 18; origin of atmospheric electricity, p. 32." (Wheeler-Gift). This treatise was published not before 1775, as can be seen from the print signatures of the three epistles (p. 27, 45, 53). It was presumably published in Turin, as is derived from the imprimatur on G4r.