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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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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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No Copy of Any Text in America
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[ARABIC MEDICAL COMPENDIUM] AVICENNA. Manuscript on paper.
. c. 1425.
Extremely interesting early 15th-century medical manuscript, uniting the medical traditions of two cultures, Arab and Western...
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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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Magnetism At Sea
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BARLOW, Peter. An Essay On Magnetic Attractions, And On The Laws Of Terrestrial And Electro Magnetism. Second Edition, much enlarged and improved... London, J. Mawman, 1823.
First published London, 1820, this is the second enlarged edition of Barlow's shipboard study of magnetism.
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