Gaspar Schott (1606-1666).
Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica ... Accessit experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuum alii stabilire, alii evertere conantur. Frankfurt: Heinrich Pingrin of Würzburg for the heirs of Johann Gottfried Schönwetter, 1657-[1658].
First edition, containing the first published report of Guericke's experiments with the vacuum pump. The present work had originally been 'intended as a brief guide to the hydraulic and pneumatic instruments in Kirchner's Roman museum' (DSB XII, p.210), and it included Guericke’s results of his experiments, which he had communicated to Schott in 1657, in the appendix [the Experimentum novum Magdeburgicum ..., pp.441-488]. Guericke did not publish his own account until 1672, as Experimenta nova (ut vocantur Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio. ‘The success of Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica caused Schott to become the centre of a network of correspondence from both Jesuit and lay scientists, who wrote to inform him of their inventions and discoveries; this material formed the basis of Schott's later publications'. Norman 1910.

Quarto (201 x 159mm). Half-title, leaf of instructions to the binder. Engraved additional title, 45 engraved plates, 6 folding, woodcut device on verso of title, woodcut illustrations, head- and tailpieces, and initials, letterpress music (paper repair on AA1 effecting a few letters, browning and spotting, sometimes heavy, as usual, occasional stain, some plate numbers corrected in ink.) Later vellum, title written on spine, sprinkled edges.

Peter and Margarethe Braune

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