Catalogue 36
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"The First Handbook of Modern Systematic Mineralogy" - Horblit
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AGRICOLA, Georgius. De ortu & causis subterraneorum; de natura eorum quar efflunt ex terra; de natura fossilium; de veteribus & novis metallis; Bermannus, sive De re metallica Dialogus; Interpretatio Germanica vocum rei metallicae, addito Indice foecundissimo. Basel, Froben, 1546.
First edition of a collection of fundamental texts by the "Father of Mineralogy" (Werner apud PMM).
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Source for Jung's Psychology & Alchemy
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BARCHUSEN, Joannis Conrad. Elementa Chemiae quibus subjuncta est Confectura Lapidis Philosophici Imaginibus Reprontata. Leiden, Theodor Haak, 1718.
Rare and best edition of this splendidly illustrated chemistry textbook, of particular interest for its "remarkable set of alchemical plates" (DSB).
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STENO [STENSEN], Nicolai. De Solido intra Solidum Naturaliter Contento Dissertationis Prodromus. Florence, Typographia sub signa Stellae, 1669.
First edition and an exceptionally fine copy—very rare thus—of this foundation work in geology.
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From Dry Cleaning To Hardening Knife Blades:
An Elizabethan Manual
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[BOOK OF SECRETS] [MASCALL, Leonard.]. A profitable booke declaring dyvers approoved remedies, to take out spottes and staines, in Silkes, Velvets, Linnen and Woollen Clothes. London, Thomas Purfoote, 1588.
Rare early edition of this 16th-century English book of secrets, an augmented translation of an untraced Dutch text.
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