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's GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob. Essai de perspective. The Hague, la Veuve d'Abraham Troyel, 1711.
I. Rare first edition of this "milestone in the gradual transformation of the science of perspective into descriptive geometry." - Vagnetti Praised by Johan Bernoulli, this important study simplifies the various methods then in practical use, including those dealing with shadows and gnomics.
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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 Book on Pulse
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AEGIDIUS CORBOLIENSIS [GILLES de CORBEIL, Pierre]. De Pulsibus. Padua, Matthaeus Cerdonus, 1484.
First edition of the first printed book on the pulse, a textbook composed in verse by the French physician and humanist Aegidius Corboliensis (Gilles de Corbeil, 1165-1223). Called by Neuburger the transalpine herald of the glory of the school of Salerno, Aegidius composed three poems that amplified and paraphrased the entire Salernitan doctrine in Latin hexameters.
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Agricola's First Book On Mining
In A Rare Separate Leipzig Imprint
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AGRICOLA, Georg. Bermannus, sive de re metallica. Ab accurata autoris recognitione & emendatione nunc primum editus. Cum nomenclatura rerum metallicarum. Leipzig, Valentinus Pap, 1546.
Rare Leipzig printing of Agricola's first book devoted to mining, "a pioneer delineation of mining and metallurgy" (DSB), and of particular interest to the study of occupational diseases.
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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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