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Contareni, G. - Admiranda rerum admirabilium encomia. 1676


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Contareni, G.
Admiranda rerum admirabilium encomia. 1676
Estimate:
€ 400 / $ 428
Sold:
€ 600 / $ 642
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Contareni, G., De elementis eorumque mixtionibus. Lib. V. Editio quinta. With 7 woodcuts in text and woodcut printer's device on title. Leiden, J. Livius 1633. Contemp. vellum with yapp edges and ms. title on spine. 12mo. 8 ll., 264 pp.
Thorndike V, 552. - Cf. Poggendorff I, 473; Ferguson I, 176. - First published in 1548. "The work treats mainly the principles of chemistry and physics on Aristotelian basis" (Duveen S. 144). "He follows Aristotle and Galen rather than the Pythagoreans and atomists who would have the elements composed of atoms or triangles" (Thorndike). - Bound before: Admiranda rerum admirabilium encomia. Sive diserta & amoena Pallas disserens seria sub ludicra specie. Nimwegen, R. Smetius 1676. 5 ll., 656 (of 660) pp. - Rahir 2563. - First published 1666 by the same publisher. - Lacking pp. 203/04 and 277/78. - Bound in: Colomesius, P., Opuscula. Utrecht, P. Elzevier 1669. 6 ll., 276 pp. - Willems 1600. - Rahir 1774. - In Printed in fact by Daniel Elzevier in Amsterdam. - Partly some browning, front endpapers and first 3 ll. with traces of crayon. - Ex libris.
First published in 1548; the work treats mainly the principles of chemistry and physics on Aristotelian basis". With 7 woodcuts in text and woodcut printer's device on title. Contemp. vellum with yapp edges and ms. title on spine. - Partly some browning, front endpapers and first 3 ll. with traces of crayon. - Ex libris.



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Contareni, G.
Admiranda rerum admirabilium encomia. 1676
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