D'ALEMBERT (Jean Le Rond d'). Reflections on the general causes of winds. Paris, David, 1747. Small in-4, first edition illustrated with 2 folding plates bound at the end of the volume. Text in French and Latin. Title vignette and one entablature engraved by Delafosse after Eisen. Bound in full contemporary marbled basane, 5-ribbed spine. (very rubbed binding with missing headpieces and lower spine, lightly browned). Expert : Monsieur Nicolas Asvisio