NOLLET, Jean Antoine. Essai sur l'électricité des corps. 

Paris, Frères Guérin, 1765.

12mo (165x95 mm), xxiii-(1)-276 pages and 1 frontispiece and 4 folding plates.  binding : Contemporary full sheep. Slightly rubbed. Head cap worn. Few foxings. Cut of paper formerly restored on blank. 

Second edition.
Father Nollet was a professor of experimental physics and a French specialist in electricity.
He opposes the theories of Benjamin Franklin, whose Letters on Electricity are a response to the present Essay on the Electricity of Bodies.

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