31st Mar, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia

 
  Lot 1
 

Acoustics.- Bartoli (Daniello)

Acoustics.- Bartoli (Daniello)

Del suono de' tremori armonici e dell'udito, FIRST EDITION, half title, title woodcut within frame with floral device, floriated and historiated initials, text diagrams and illustrations, minor spotting, limp vellum, joints and endband splitting, cover detaching (revealing early spine lining with ms. remains), title inked to lower edge, [Wellcome, II, 109; Gamba 1175], 4to, Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, Rome, 1679.

*** Important work on acoustics and physiology of hearing. Bartoli was a Jesuit teacher and preacher. This work includes the famous passage on the ‘camere parlanti’ of Mantua and of the Farnese palace at Caprarola.


 

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