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Natural History
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Early Eyewitness Account On The New World
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ACOSTA, Jos Tr. REGNAULT, Robert. Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Indes, tant Orientalles quOccidentales. O'est traictes choses remarquables du ciel, des elemens, Metaux, Plantes & Animaux qui sont propres de ces
. Paris, Marc Orry, 1598.
Scarce first French edition of this classic on the Natural History of Latin America.
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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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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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The Most Important Medical Woodcut 1500
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[BOTANY/MATERIA MEDICA] Anonymous. Ortus Sanitatis. De Herbis et Plantis. De Animalibus et Reptilibus. De Avibus et Volatilibus. De Piscibus et Natatilibus. Strasbourg, Reinhard Beck, 1517.
An unusually fresh example of this early augmented Strasbourg edition of “the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500” (Hunt) giving descriptions of medicinal plants and medicinal stones, instructions on animal husbandry, and a treatise on urine.
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ANONYMOUS. Il Nuovo Computista pei Commercianti ridotto alla massima facilità.
. Milano, Cartaro Stampatore Candido Bucinelli, [1811.].
Rare ephemeral pocket book giving the exchange rates between Milan and various Italian city-states or regions as well as the most commonly encountered European currencies.
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