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(PHYSICS.)
Group of 6 volumes.
Various formats, various contemporary bind-
ings, overall condition varies.
Vp, 1682-1803
[300/500]
Rohault, Jacques. Traité de Physique . . . Quatrième Édition. 2 folding plates. [36], 418, [2];
224 [i. e., 422], [10] pages. 2 volumes. Marginal dampstaining in first volume. Paris:
Guillaume Desprez, 1682 * Grandi, Guido. Instituzioni Mecchanice. 20 folding engraved
plates. viii, 160 pages. Florence: Gio. Gaetano Tartini & Santi Franchi, 1739 * Sigorgne,
Pierre. Institutions Newtoniennes . . . Seconde Édition. 7 folding engraved plates on 6 leaves.
lvi, xlix, [3], 393, [3] pages. Paris: Guillyn, 1769 * Haüy, René-Just, Abbé. Traité Élémen-
taire de Physique. 24 folding engraved plates. [6], xxxiv, 426; [4], iv, 447 pages. 2 volumes.
Light to moderate foxing. Paris: Delance et Lesueur, 1803.
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PILGRAM, ANTON, S.J.
Untersuchungen über das Wahrscheinliche der
Wetterkunde durch vieljährige Beobachtungen.
Folding engraved plate. [24], 608, [4]
pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 247x205 mm, contemporary mottled calf, spine worn,
lettering piece off, joints partly cracked; contents toned, old institutional stamps on title
and verso of plate.
Vienna: Joseph Edler von Kurzbeck, 1788
[250/350]
FIRST EDITION
of an early work on historical climatology and its application to weather pre-
diction, based on meteorological observations in Vienna for the years 1762-86, and
information on the historical occurrence of major weather events culled from 100 sources ranging
from published chronicles to unpublished monastic records.
277
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PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA.
Magiae naturalis libri viginti.
[16], 163 pages. Folio, 286x212 mm, modern vellum boards, covers warped; marginal
dampstaining throughout with traces of mold, paper corrosion in bottom portion of con-
tents toward end causing varying and occasionally substantial text loss, preliminaries and
last 22 leaves tissue-mounted.
SOLD AS IS
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Naples: Mattia Cancer, 1558
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
of a treatise on wonders of nature. DSB XI, 96; Thorndike VI, 418-22.
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REDI, FRANCESCO.
Experimenta circa generationem insectorum.
38
engraved plates, including 10 folding; one full- and one half-page illustration; extraneous
portrait of Redi tipped to front free endpaper. [12], 230 [i. e., 330], [19] pages, including
etched additional title by Romeyn de Hooghe and errata leaf at end. 12mo, 132x77 mm,
contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink; contents generally clean, margins
trimmed just touching text on index leaves, outer portion missing from folding plate facing
page 264. Armorial bookplate of Francis Hubert Barclay and his signature dated 1893.
Amsterdam: Andreas Frisius, 1671
[200/300]
FIRST EDITION IN LATIN
of the first scientific study of the theory of spontaneous generation,
which Redi disproved. Garrison-Morton 97 (1668 original edition in Italian). Krivatsy
9452; Prandi 8 (this edition).