MUSSCHENBROEK, PETRUS VAN. Tentamina experimentorum naturalium captorum in Academia del Cimento... ex Italico in Latinum sermonem conversa. Leiden: J. and H. Verbeek, 1731. Title in red and black, 32 engraved folding plates, one folding table. 2 parts in one, 4o, contemporary sheep, spine elaborately gilt, spine ends repaired; blank margin with stamp erased. Contains the first description of the pyrometer. Wheeler Gift 276. Provenance: Al. Liotard, owner's ink stamp on title.