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  • KOLIN, PETER, AND HANS FRIES.
    Dec. 04, 2012

    KOLIN, PETER, AND HANS FRIES.

    Est: $2,500 - $3,500

    Dictionarium latinogermanicum. Zurich: Christopher Froschauer, March, 1541. Folio (340 x 215 mm). piυ4, a-zυ6 A-Zυ6 2a-2zυ6 2A-2Fυ6 2Gυ4 2Hυ6 (2H6 blank). Double column, roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device to title. Decorative initials. 16th century blind-ruled calf, fore-edge lettered in manuscript. Mild finger-soiling to title, neatly rebacked, inkstain on lower cover. Provenance: anonymous owner, Sotheby's, Dec 5, 1991, lot 120, to Quaritch. RARE FIRST EDITION of this collaborative work of two Zurich scholars. It is the German version of Estienne's Dictionarium latinogallicum. This is the only copy which appears in the auction records for the past 35 years. Not in Adams; Considine p 130.

    Bonhams
  • GILBERT, William (1544-1603). De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de mango magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimus & aegumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. London: Peter Short, 1600.
    Jun. 17, 2008

    GILBERT, William (1544-1603). De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de mango magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimus & aegumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. London: Peter Short, 1600.

    Est: $25,000 - $35,000

    GILBERT, William (1544-1603). De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de mango magnete tellure; Physiologia nova, plurimus & aegumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. London: Peter Short, 1600. 2o (290 x 188 mm). Woodcut device (McKerrow 119) on title, large woodcut arms on verso, numerous text woodcuts, some full-page, large folding woodcut diagram (lightly browned), historiated woodcut capitals, head- and tail-pieces. (Lightly browned at beginning and end.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal furniture and clasps (rebacked, one catch missing, covers rubbed). Provenance: Leiden, Royal Academy ("Acad. Lugd." stamp on binding, and ink lettered at top and bottom edges, "Publica auctoritate vendidi W.G. Pluym" duplicate stamp on title). FIRST EDITION of "the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research. Gilbert was chiefly concerned with magnetism; but as a digression he discusses in his second book the attractive effect of amber (electrum), and thus may be regarded as the founder of electrical science. He coined the terms 'electricity,' 'electric force' and 'electric attraction'" (PMM). In Book One Gilbert "introduced his new basic idea ... that the earth is a gigantic lodestone and thus has magnetic properties" while in Book Two, his observations on the amber effect "introduced the vocabulary of electrics, and is the basis for Gilbert's place in the history of electricity" (DSB). Dibner Heralds of Science 54; Grolier/Horblit 41; Heilbron, pp. 169-179; Norman 905; PMM 107; STC 11883; Wellcome 2830.

    Christie's
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