Johann Reinhold Dulseker

First edition.

Full marbled calf binding , five spine compartments with gilt floral motifs, green morocco label,  marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to boards, expertly restored at joints, corners, head and tail of spine. Very faint marginal dampstain to final leaves and folding plates.

Illustrated with a title vignette by Weis, twelve numbered folding plates, as well as numerous head- and tailpieces.

First edition of Bernoulli’s treatise that profoundly influenced the development of fluid mechanics for over a century. Hydrodynamica includes two landmark results: a proof of Boyle-Townley’s law and the eponymous equation describing fluid motion within a tube.