Walter Riese’s Copy
HELMHOLTZ, Hermann.
Populäre wissenschaftliche Vorträge. [Erstes-Zweites Heft]. Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1865-1871.
Two parts in one vol., 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 211, [1 blank]; diagrams and illustrations to text; first few leaves slightly dusty, else a very good copy in contemporary half brown morocco and marbled boards, slightly rubbed, spine gilt; marbled endpapers; bookplate of William Riese, distinguished medical historian and collector, to front pastedown.
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Populäre wissenschaftliche Vorträge. [Erstes-Zweites Heft].
First edition, the first two parts only of Helmholtz’s ‘popular lectures’, a third part appearing in 1876. The subjects of the lectures here included are, amongst others: music theory; Goethe’s natural history; glaciers; optics; and engineering.