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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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Overlooked Editio Princeps:
Of the First Treatise On Conic Sections
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APOLLONIUS OF PERGA / Ed. MEMO, Giovanni Battista.. Opera per doctissimum Philosophum Ioannem Baptistam Memum…de Graeco in Latinum Traducta & Noviter impressa. Venice, Bernardo Bindoni, 1537.
Very rare editio princeps of Apollonius Conics (Books I-IV), the basic treatise on the subject, “which recognized and named the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.” – Horblit 4 (on the later edition of 1566).
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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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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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