ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - [Lorenzo MAGALOTTI (1637-1712), editor] & others. Saggi di Naturali Esperienze, Florence, 1691, folio, 75 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum-backed boards. Second edition.

ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - [Lorenzo MAGALOTTI (1637-1712), editor] & others.  Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento sotto la Protezione del Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Toscana e Descritte dal Segretario di essa Accademia. Seconda Edizione. Florence: Nella Nuova Stamperia di Gio: Filippo Cecchi, 1691. Folio (351 x 255mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, engraved portrait of Cosimo III, elaborate woodcut initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces, 75 full-page engraved illustrations (half title and final leaf stained, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, marginal closed tear to one full-page illustration, some creasing). Contemporary vellum-backed [?]later paper boards, spine with remnants of old lettering-piece, new endpapers. The "Accademia del Cimento" was a scientific society established in Florence in 1657. During its short existence, the Saggi was its only published work. Brunet IV, 163 (citing the first edition of 1666, but mentioning the present edition in the note): "Cet ouvrage estimé ..."; Cinti 163; Dibner Heralds 82; Gamba 853; Krivatsy p.25; Riccardi II, 407; Wellcome III, p.23; Wheeler 196.