28th Apr, 2022 10:00

Fine Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 187
 

Gilbert (William) & Thompson (Silvanus Phillips, trans.) On the Magnet

Gilbert (William) & Thompson (Silvanus Phillips, trans.)

On the Magnet, Magnetick Bodies Also, and On the Great Magnet the Earth; a new Physiology, demonstrated by many arguments and experiments, Limited Edition of 250 Copies, folding plate, some offsetting, facsimile of the Latin edition of 1600, produced under the auspices of the Gilbert Club, later cloth, Chiswick Press, 1900; [with] Hooke (Robert) Micrographia, Hors Commerce copy, aside from an edition of 2800, originally published in London in 1665, quarter calf, slipcase, Editions Medicina Rara Ltd, Weiler im Allgau, 1975; Rueff (Jacob) De Conceptu et Generatione Hominis, Limited Edition of 300 Copies, originally published in Frankfurt in 1587, full vellum, slipcase, Editions Medicina Rara Ltd, Weiler im Allgau, 1975; and 9 other facsimiles of scientific and literary works, v.s. (12)

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