Riolz, de

Phisica: pars quarta Philosophiae. Data à D. D. de Riolz Philosophiae celeberrimo Professore in Ludo Philosophico Collegii Meldensis. Ex libris Cocault. Illustrated by numerous pen-drawn figures and diagrams, some coloured. There are two inserted engraved title-pages, and 30 engraved plates, 3 in the text, 27 at the end, illustrating physics, mechanics, etc. The engravings are by Vallet of Paris, and are perhaps from an unidentified printed work. Contents: Logica compendiosa (83 pp.); Probationes ordinatae (29 ll.); Phisica; pars prima (73 pp.); secunda (pp. 75-186); tertia (400 pp.). Produced in Meaux.

1742-3

1 volume 1 l. + 83 pp. + 30 ll. (last bl.). + 189 pp. + 3 bl. ll. + 2 ll. + 400 pp. + 2 bl. ll. 4to. 22 × 17 cm. Original calf binding.

Purchased 1930.

The writer gives his name as Joannes Baptista Cocault at the end of the text.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).