Catalogue 32
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Natural History
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"Copernicus First Scientific Work'
- Gingerich
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COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Lateribus et angulis Triangulorum, tum planorum rectilineorum tum Sphaericorum, libellus eruditissimus & utilissimus, cum ad plerasque Ptolemaei demonstrationes intelligendas, tam vero ad alia multa... Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1542.
Rare first edition of Copernicus' first scientific work, containing the first appearance of any part of the text of De Revolutionibus as well as Rheticus first published trigonometric tables.
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With a New Definition of 'Flower'
& Over 1300 Woodcuts
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DODOENS, Rembert. Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex Sive Libri XXX. Antwerp, Plantin, 1583.
First edition of Dodoens' summation of his botany, the most comprehensive botanical work, incorporating material from a number of his earlier books, including the Cruyderboeck.
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GARCIA CAVALLERO, Joseph. Theorica y practica de la arte de Ensayar. Oro, Plata y Vellon rico. Danse Reglas para Ligar, Triligar, Alear. y Reducir Qualesquiera Cantidades de Oro, y Plata a la Ley del Reyno. Madrid, Agustin Fernandez, 1713.
Very rare first and sole edition of this professional guide to assaying gold, silver and assorted precious metals by a practicing Madrid assayer, of interest for the international as well as mercantile history of Spain in the last years of her imperial period.
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One of Nine Copies on Holland Paper With The Plates Printed on Velllum
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[PHILIP IV, King of France] / CRAPELET, Georges Adrien, ed. C'monies des gages de bataille selon les constituions du roi Philippe de France, reprnt en onze figures: suivies d'instructions sur la mani dont se doivent faire empereurs, rois, ducs, marquis, comtes, vicomtes, barons, chevaliers;. Paris, Crapelet, 1830.
Scarce first printing of this elaborately produced facsimile of a 14th-century manuscript containing Philip the Fair's legislation concerning wagers of battle, the chivalric custom of settling disputes by force of arms rather than by the rule of law.
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