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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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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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THE MOST INFLUENTIAL STAR ATLAS OF ITS TIME
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BAYER, Johann. Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, series laminis expressa. Augsburg, Christophorus Magnus, 1603.
Rare first edition of the most influential star atlas published in the first half of the seventeenth century and the first to represent the stars of the southern latitudes.
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Precursor To Galileo’s De Motu
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BENEDETTI, Giovanni Battista. Resolvtio omnivm Evclidis problematvm aliorumqэ ad hoc necessario inuentorum vna tantummodo circini data apertura, per Ioannem Baptistam de Benedictis inventa. . Venice, apud Bartholomaeum Caesanum, 1553.
Scarce first edition of the author’s first book, treating selected Euclidean problems by means of a ruler and a compass with fixed setting, “of outstanding importance in the history of the laws of falling bodies.” — Drake & Drabkin, Mechanics in 16th-Century Italy, p. 32.
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