Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

231 c   BOERHAAVE, HERMANN. Elementa chemiae . . . editio altera, Leydensi multo correctior et accuratior. Cui etiam accessere eiusdem auctoris Opuscula omnia. 17 engraved plates of laboratory apparatus. [12], 476, [30]; [8], 346, 48 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, 250x190 mm, contemporary calf gilt, first spine chipped at top, second at bottom; marginal dampstaining through most of both volumes, worming in blank lower inner corners at end of Volume 2. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1733 [300/500] First edition of Boerhaave’s chemistry textbook to include his collected short writings published to date, consisting of 8 academic orations and 4 medical papers. Lindeboom 457, 527a. 232 c   BONSI, LELIO. Cinque Lezzioni . . . lette da lui publicamente nella Accademia Fiorentina. Aggiuntovi un breve Trattato della Cometa. [4], 112 [i. e., 111], [1] leaves. 8vo, 167x97 mm, contemporary limp vellum with gilt floral urn stamp and monogram G S C on covers, and spine title in ink; varying and occasionally heavy foxing, scattered early marginalia, old stamp on title and last page. Florence: i Giunti, 1560 [300/500] first edition of lectures to the Florentine Academy on literary and other subjects, with an appended tract on the nature of comets and their astrological significance. Cantamessa 619; Gamba 1265. 233 c   CABEO, NICCOLÒ, S. J. Philosophia magnetica. Woodcut text illustrations. [16], 412, [12] pages, including engraved title. Folio, 314x221, contemporary calf, spine worn, ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact, cover corners worn through; title lightly soiled and stained, missing narrow strip from blank outer margin, contents otherwise clean. Bookplate of the Royal Meteorological Society (Symons Bequest) dated 1900, with release label dated 1973. Ferrara: Francesco Suzzi, 1629 [3,000/4,000] first edition of an important treatise on magnetism, containing the first recognition of electrical repulsion; issue with Ferrara imprint. DSB III, 3; Riccardi I, 205-06; Wheeler Gift 97. From the library of the medical historian Walter Pagel (1898-1983), with the handwritten booklabel of his son Bernard. 232 234 science , continued