2 parts in 2 volumes, 4to (247 x 195 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette; 26 engraved folding plates. (Some browning or offsetting, a few short marginal tears, some marginal worming to the first few leaves vol.I.) Contemporary vellum, hand-lettered on spine (some soiling, some minor worming to pastedowns and flyleaves). Provenance: Bibliotheca Viennensis Scholarum Ciarum de Virgem Fidelem (inscription on title, 1781). 

First collected edition of the works of Mariotte. "Honored as the man who introduced experimental physics into France, Mariotte played a central role in the work of the Paris Academy of Sciences from shortly after its formation in 1666 until his death in 1684" (DSB). A WIDE-MARGINED COPY.