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

243 c   STAHL, GEORG. Fundamenta chymiae dogmaticae & experimentalis. [8], 255, [24] pages, including errata leaf. 4to, 203x161 mm, contemporary calf gilt, missing lettering piece; marginal dampstaining throughout, scattered foxing. 19th-century stamp of Armand de Terwangne. Nuremberg: Johann Ernest Adelbulner for Wolfgang Mauritz, 1723 [300/500] first edition . “One of the most important works by Stahl, containing a rational system of chemistry based on his theory of phlogiston and the experimental observations of the analysis and synthesis of matter”—Neville II, 509. Norman 2005. 244 244 c   STOEFFLER, JOHANN. In Procli Diadochi sphaeram mundi commentarius. Woodcut text illustrations and diagrams; portrait of the author at end. [8], 133 [i. e., 135], [1] leaves. Folio, 307x198 mm, old limp vellum, possibly a remboîtage, with portion of spine restored, front pastedown renewed; intermittent and occasionally heavy foxing or browning. Tübingen: Ulrich Morhart, 1534 [2,500/3,500] first edition of a commentary on the introduction to astronomy falsely attributed to the 4th-century A. D. Neoplatonist Proclus. Passing references to the New World appear on D6r and I6v. Hoffmann II, 293; Houzeau & Lancaster 2449; Zinner 1579; not in Alden. science , continued