PHYSICS. Manuscript, Phisica Ratione Duce et Experientia Comite ex Optimus Auctoribus Collecta et Digesta Ad usum Studiosæ Iuventutis. Archigymnasii Taurinensis anno Mdccxlviii, Turin 1754; large volume in-4 (22.5 x 16.5 cm) with 231 ff. (460p.) and 38 folding plates, contemporary brown calf binding, ornate spine (worn binding, 1st plate detached). Physics course, written in Latin, in fine handwriting, and dated at the end: "Physicæ Finis, et anni scholastici 1754". At the end of the volume, 38 folding plates, carefully drawn in black ink, with frames. Attached is the manuscript of a course in Literature (early 19th century), on the philosophers, from the Greeks to Voltaire and Diderot (small in-4, 96p. very full in fine handwriting; bound in romantic eggplant calf with cold decoration and framing gilded fillets, edges gilt).