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Imperial Botany
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AMMAN, Johannes. Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte provenientium icones et descriptiones. St. Petersburg, Academia Scientiarum, 1739.
Two important and generously illustrated botanical works produced by respected Linnaean correspondents at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg.
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ARCHIMEDES/ed. RIVAULT, David. ΑΡΧΙΜΗΔΟΥΣ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ. Archimedis Opera quae extant. Novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata. Paris, Claude Morel, 1615.
First edition of the most influential seventeenth-century edition of Archimedes’ complete works.
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“The Most Important Book on Mechanics Published in the Sixteenth Century” – Drake
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MONTE, Guido Ubaldo, Marchese del. Mechanicorum Liber. Pesaro, H. Concordia, 1577.
Rare first edition of the author’s first work, generally regarded as the most important treatise on mechanics since Archimedes and a critical influence on Galileo.
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MORIN, Pierre. Remarques necessaires pour la culture des fleurs diligemment observées. Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1658.
Scarce first edition of one of the most popular practical guides to the cultivation of flowers, by the highly accomplished amateur Pierre Morin (fl. 1650-1690).
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