Science and Natural History | Lots 1-66 Including fine Microscopy Books from the

Science & Natural History

Lots 1-66

1 AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De Re Metallica Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Minerology & Mining Law from the Earliest Times to the 16th Century. Herbert Clark HOOVER and Lou Henry HOOVER, translators. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912.

Folio (346 x 211 mm). Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations reproducing the 1556 woodcuts. Publisher’s original full vellum, smooth spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, black lettered in 3 compartments, 2 edges uncut (some very minor wear, some browning to edges); original brown dustjacket with manuscript lettering to front cover (soiled, chipped, rubbed). Provenance: Charles F. Rand (inscription, stamp on dustjacket).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOOVER to Charles F. Rand: “To Charles F. Rand with Compliments of H.C. Hoover.” This first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy was translated from the first Latin Edition of 1556. Duveen, p. 5; Hoover 28; Norman 21.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana

$400 - 600

2 AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, Henricus Cornelius (1486?-1535). De Incertitudine & Vanitate Scientiarum Declamatio Invectiva, Denuo ab Autore Recognita, & Marginalibus Annotationibus Aucta. [Cologne]: T. Baumius, 1544.

8vo (157 x 97 mm). Woodcut portrait on title-page, 2 woodcut initials. (Some underlining, some dampstaining, small marginal wormholes toward rear). Contemporary calf rebacked (all else preserved), spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, blind-stamped sides (sides worn, some wormholes, annotation on fore-edge “Van. Scich”). Provenance: Anto[nius] Manuelus? (signature, some annotations); Philip vir De Lauberivière (signature, some annotations).

Early edition, first published in 1530. Following the publication of this work, Agrippa was branded a heretic and lost his position as the imperial historiographer to Charles V for scrutinizing intellectual activity in his satirical call for a return to the faith as exemplified by the early Christian church. STC German p. 11; not in Adams.

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400

3 BARRETT, Francis (ca 1770-80, d. 1802 or later). The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer. London: for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1801 [but 1875].

4to (285 x 220 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 22 engraved plates (5 with hand-coloring). (Lacking final advertisement leaf, some very minor soiling.) Later half cloth uncut (rebacked preserving portion of original spine, some light wear).

Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1801. “Composed in the Christian tradition, The Magus was a farrago of Renaissance alchemy and natural and talismatic magic that fitted contemporary Gothic taste... The book›s most startling feature was a set of gargoyle-like portraits of demons conjured up in ritual magic ceremonies” (DNB).

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700

4 BOSSE, Abraham (1604-1676), artist and engraver. Girard DESARGUES (15911661). La Maniere Universelle de Mr. Desargues Lyonnois, Pour Poser L’essieu, & placer les heures & autres choses aux Cadrans au Soleil. Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes, 1643.

8vo (175 x 125 mm). Engraved allegorical title-page, engraved dedication, engraved title-page, 66 engraved plates. (Some staining, some annotations.) Contemporary vellum (some soiling, some light wear, book seller’s description pasted to front flyleaf). FIRST EDITION of this important manual for setting up sundials, including many engraved diagrams of sundials by artist and engraver Abraham Bosse. Berlin Kat. 4716; Brunet I, 1127; Cicognara 817; Fowler 56.

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $400 - 600

5 CAUS, Salomon de (1576-1626?). La pratique et demonstration des horloges solaires. Paris: Jerome Drouart, 1624.

Folio (385 x 237 mm). Engraved diagrams on N2r and Q1r. Woodcut diagrams throughout, including several full-page, the diagrams on ã1v, G1r, H1r, K1r, K2r, R1v and S2v with volvelles or attachments (several detached, lacking overslip on E2r), the diagram on R1v printed on an overslip and pasted in. Compass printed on vellum laid in at N1r. (A few leaves wrinkled and frayed, a few small holes or tears affecting text and images, dampstaining, marginal chipping, some soiling.) Contemporary vellum (defective). Provenance: J. D. Labarre (early signature on title-page); a few early manuscript annotations.

FIRST EDITION OF CAUS’ RARE WORK ON SUNDIALS, inspired by the work of Vitruvius, and including the dissertation on the 35th proposition of Euclid following the dedication. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only 4 copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 45 years, each with varying numbers of volvelles present, and most defective. Berlin Kat. 1745; Brunet I:1691. Sold not subject to return for lack of any movable volvelles.

6 CHASLES, Michel (1793-1881). Catalogue de la Bibliotheque Scientifique, Historique et Litteraire de feu M. Michel Chasles (de l’Institut). Paris: A. Claudin, 27 June 1881. -- Supplement. Articles omis. Ouvrages en Double. Paris: A. Claudin, 18 July 1881.

2 parts in one volume, 8vo (219 x 137 mm). Printer’s devise on title-pages. (Minor spotting, some chipping with repairs to preliminary leaves, several leaves uncut.) Half brown cloth over cloth boards, original gray printed wrappers bound neatly in (some repairs to wrappers). Chasles was a highly influential mathematician and historian of arithmetics who made significant contributions to projective geometry. His collection was so extensive that it took 20 days to disperse, and the supplement is almost always missing. Taylor, p.123 (“a means of identifying rare old scientific books”).

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400

8 DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection. New York: D. Appleton, 1860.

8vo. Half-title; one folding letterpress table. (Some spotting or browning, small dampstain to upper corner of a few leaves.) Original blue blindstamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (Rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, some light wear to corners). Provenance: C. F. Wreak (signature); S. B. Wakeman (signature); Liberal University Library (bookplate partially removed and struck through).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with two quotations facing titlepage. Darwin’s work “marked a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general, for there is no field of human intellectual endeavor that has not been influenced by the thought and fact of evolution” (DSB III, p.571). Freeman 377. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $3,000 - 4,000 7 CUVIER, Georges L.C. Baron (1769-1832). The Animal Kingdom. London: G. Henderson, 1834, 1837.

4 volumes in 8, comprising 4 text volumes and 4 atlas volumes, 8vo (214 x 133 mm). 7 engraved portraits (4 frontispieces), 8 engraved title-pages, 789 (of 789) engraved plates (751 hand-colored, many heightened with gum arabic, 8 folding). (Some stab holes in margins, some browning, some offsetting, 1 closed tear repaired verso.) Contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, each with 2 calf lettering-pieces gilt (overall wear, several spines defective). Provenance: A.B. Valentine (signatures, some annotations).

A later edition of Henry McMurtrie’s translation of Cuvier’s landmark work on anatomy, taxonomy, and classification. The present copy with the complete number of plates called for by Nissen and accounted for in the index, but with slight variations to plate numbering (complete details available on request). Anker 110; Brunet II: 457; Nissen ZBI 1016; Zimmer pp. 153-55.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $600 - 800

8A DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650). Tractatus de Homine, et de Formatione Foetus. --Passiones Animae, per Renatum Descartes. --Specimina Philosphaiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Rectè regendae rationis, & Veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice, et Meteora. --Principia Philosophiae. --Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, In quibus Dei Existentia, & Animӕ humanӕ à corpore Distinctio, demonstrantur. 1678. --Appendix, Continens Objectiones Quintas & Septimas In Renati Descartes Meditationes De Prima Philosophia. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1677, 1678.

6 works in 2 volumes, 4to (199 x 151/152 mm). Title-page of first work printed in red and black; together, 248 woodcut illustrations; woodcut devices on titlepages. (Some light browning or spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, each gilt-lettered in one compartment, giltdecorated in the rest, red and brown speckled edges (some wear, a few joints starting), Provenance: Guy Ahlsell de Toulza (bookplate).

FIRST ELZEVIR EDITIONS. Though usually considered a philosopher, Descartes was also a mathematician and scientist who put forth the idea that physical phenomena can be explained through mechanics. Descartes studied the relationship of the human body with the presence of the soul, believing the soul resides in the brain, thus combining philosophical and scientific principles. Many of his theories were discredited using empirical methods by Thomas Bartholin and Nicholas Steno. First work: Garrison-Morton 574.

9 [EINSTEIN, Albert]. KARSH, Yousuf (1908-2002), photographer. Group of 4 photographs of Albert Einstein. Ca 1948 (but printed later, ca 1959).

4 glossy black and white 8 x 10-in. portrait photographs of Albert Einstein, copyright notice stamped on verso, each numbered by hand verso in pencil (“No:4,” No:8,” No:24,” No:25”). With original mailing envelope from Karsh, postmarked 21 August 1959, including the typed note: “Photographs for Record Purposes Only.” Provenance: Dr. Herbert McLean Evans (18821971), anatomist and embryologist known for co-discovering Vitamin E (original mailing envelope); acquired from Jeremy Norman.

Einstein sat for Karsh at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where Karsh found him “a simple, kindly, almost childlike man, too great for any of the postures of eminence. One did not have to understand his science to feel the power of his mind or the force of his personality. He spoke sadly, yet serenely, as one who had looked into the universe, far past mankind’s small affairs. When I asked him what the world would be like were another atomic bomb to be dropped, he replied wearily, ‘Alas, we will no longer be able to hear the music of Mozart’.” Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $800 - 1,200

10 [EINSTEIN, Albert]. HECHT, Selig (1892-1947). Explaining the Atom. New York: The Viking Press, 1947.

8vo. Numerous in-text illustrations. Original cloth; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping.) Provenance: Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein (bookplate, see below); acquired from Weinstein by the present owner.

FIRST EDITION, accompanied by a photocopy of a 29 April 1947 letter sent by Albert Einstein to Rabbi Weinstein on Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists stationery. In his message, Einstein remarks: “Dr. Hecht has succeeded in giving, clearly and simply, an authoritative account of the scientific steps, both theoretical and experimental, that have led to our present knowledge of nuclear fission.” Also laid in are photocopies of correspondence between the Thomas Sills and Dr. John Stachel, first editor of the Einstein Papers Project, in which Sills reports that Rabbi Weinstein is “known for his work in antinuclear and peace movements.” Einstein apparently gave several copies of Hecht’s book as gifts with an accompanying letter. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700

11 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). A group of offprints, comprising:

“Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizität. [Parts I and II].” Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-Math. Klasse, VI. Berlin: Der Akademie Der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co., 1927. (1885-1954) published a paper in 1921 where he linked gravitation and electromagnetism using Einstein’s gravitation equations for 5 dimensions, instead of 4. In February 1927, Einstein published these “papers on the five-dimensional theory are two short communications” where “his improved treatment [of the Kaluza theory] turns out to be identical with the work of Klein” (Pais, Subtle is the Lord, pp. 344, 333).

[With:]

EINSTEIN. Walther MAYER (1887-1948). “Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität.” [With:] “Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizitat. Zweite Abhandlung.” Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-Math. Klasse. XXV, XII. 25 (1931) [Part I] and 12 (1932) [Part II]. Berlin: Der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co., 1931-1932.

2 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (258 x 182 mm). Original printed orange wrappers (browning, brittle, some annotations). FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS. “In 1931 Einstein and Walter Mayer reformulated Kaluza’s 5-dimensional [unified field] theory retaining a 4-dimensional spacetime” (Norman 701).

12 EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B. C.). Analyseis Geometricae Sex Librorum Euclidis. [Strasbourg]: Josias Rihelius, 1566.

Small folio (301 x 173 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations throughout. (Title slightly browned with gutter margin repair.) Modern half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, 2 red morocco letteringpieces gilt (a few tiny scuffs).

FIRST EDITION of Christian Herlin and Conrad Dasypodius’s analysis of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements. Herlin and Dasypodius taught mathematics in Strasbourg and designed the second astronomical clock in the Strasbourg Cathedral. The clock represented the synthesis of the most advanced scientific knowledge of the day in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and physics, and was only replaced in 1842.

[With:] EUCLID. Euclidis Elementorum Libri XV. Graecè & Latinè. Paris: Hieronymum de Marnef & Gulielmum Cauellat, 1573. 8vo (158 x 103 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, numerous in-text woodcut diagrams. Modern half green morocco paste-paper-covered boards, smooth spine gilt, gilt-lettered (some wear, old shelf label at foot of spine). Provenance: contemporary inscriptions; Francis Brethren (inscription); unidentified stamp from a Jesuit Seminary. Second edition, a corrected reimpression of Cavellet’s 1533 Edition, widely used in the 16th Century. Adams E-1001.

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $1,000 - 1,500

14 FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). In eos quos de Mundi sphaera conscripsit libros, ac in Planetarum theoricas, Canonum Astronomicorum Libri II. Paris: Michael Vascosan, 1553.

Small 4to (227 x 161 mm). 26 woodcut diagrams designed by Fine, 27 tables; decorated initials. (Some staining, some creasing.) Contemporary limp vellum, hand-lettered on upper cover (soiled, a few holes, lacking ties); brown cloth folding case. Provenance: Early marginalia on a few leaves; Aloyeii Rodulphi (early signatures).

FIRST EDITION of Fines’ scarce text, used in universities for teaching Ptolemaic astronomy. Fine, French mathematician and cartographer, wrote many other works related to the use of astronomical equipment and description of innovative methods in astronomy and cartography. Adams F-476; Honeyman 1316. 13 FERSEN, Eugene, Baron (1873-1956). Science of Being. New York: J.F. Tapley Co., 1923.

12mo (173 x 100 mm). Illustrated title-page printed in brown and gold, text printed in brown and gold, numerous decorations and illustrations throughout; “Information for the Reader” pamphlet laid-in. (Dampstaining to lower margin and gutter.) Publisher’s original limp faux alligator, gilt-stamped device on upper cover, peach watered silk endpapers, edges gilt, original peach silk bookmark (old cellotape repairs, upper hinge starting); original box (some light wear). Provenance: Anna Kluepfel (presentation inscription); Mabel Baker (correspondence laid in); gifted by the previous to the present owner.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FERSON in gold: “To Anna Kluepfel as a token of friendship from Svetozar 25 XII 1923.” Svetozar was the childhood nickname of Ferson. Ferson emigrated to the United States and was granted U. S. Citizenship in 1923, the year of publication of the present work. At that time, he had to renounce his Baronial title. Mabel Baker, the previous owner, reportedly met Ferson at a dinner party in Seattle in 1946.

The present copy is RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BOX, WITH THE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET ALSO PRESENT, entitled “Information for the Reader.” We trace no other presentation copy on the market at auction. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700

15 GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Mathematical Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion. London: Samuel Baker, 1734.

4to (254 x 196 mm). Engraved table, numerous in-text illustrations. (Lacking final leaf of advertisements, title a bit browned.) Spine present only (lacking both covers, a few leaves becoming loose). Provenance: The Franklin Institute (perforated stamp); sold Swann Galleries, 2014 (sale 2362, lot 310).

Second edition, so stated on the title-page, apparently a reissue of the first edition with the title-page reset (see ESTC). of Thomas Weston’s translation of Galileo’s 1638 Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Mathematiche. Galileo’s final work, the Discorsi “represents the first systematic attempt to extend the mathematical treatment of physics from statics to kinematics” (Norman). ESTC T119010. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $800 - 1,200

16 [HERBAL] -- [Hortus sanitatis. De herbis et plantis...] [Strassburg: Johann Prüss, ca 1497?].

Folio (approximately 287 x 195 mm), disbound. 155 leaves only (of 360), most with hand-coloring. (Some minor soiling, spotting or browning to some leaves.) Leaves loose in a pigskin binding blind-stamped “PS” and dated 1613 on upper cover (lacking clasps and catches, minor wear). Provenance: H.M. Fletcher (purchased with another dealer, Sotheby’s London, 15 April 1988); acquired by Harold Berliner (printer and typographer) and D. Steven Corey (librarian); later sold PBA Galleries 23 February 2006, sale 326, lot 107.

Most of the woodcuts of plants in the Prüss editions were previously used in Johann Grüninger’s edition of the Gart der Gesundheit. Many of the other woodcuts are direct or reverse copies of those used in Meydenbach’s first edition of the Hortus Sanitatis. The present partial copy was apparently acquired by Berliner and Corey with the goal to collaborate on a leaf book. Corey made a study of the book and completed an introduction, but the project was never completed. See Goff H-487; see Hain-Copinger 8941; see Nissen BBI 2363.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $3,000 - 5,000

18 HUARTE, Juan (1529?-1588). Examen de Ingenios. The Examination of Mens Wits. In Which, by Discovering the Varietie of Natures, is Shewed for What Profession Each One is Apt, and How Far She Shall Profit Therein. Richard Carew, translator. London: Adam Islip, 1604.

8vo (174 x 128 mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title-page, woodcut headand-tail-pieces and initials, numerous in-text woodcuts. (A few repaired tears, some dampstaining.) Modern calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco letteringpiece gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some rubbing, joints starting). Provenance: a few annotations in early hand.

Third edition in English of Huarte’s work, first published in Spanish in 1575, and then translated into Italian by M. Camillo Camilli in 1582. Carew translated the work from the Italian into English. Cornish translator and antiquary Carew was known for his Survey of Cornwall (1620). Huarte’s’ work is considered to be “the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology” (Garrison-Morton). ESTC 006193407. 17 [HERBAL] -- [BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. SHAFFER, Ellen. The Garden of Health: An Account of Two Herbals, The Gart des Gesundheit and the Hortus Sanitatis. [San Francisco:] Lawton Kennedy for Book Club of California, 1957.

4to. ORIGINAL LEAF from the Hortus Sanitatis (Strasbourg, 1499) tipped in. Title printed in red, green and black; reproductions of woodcuts throughout. Original linen-backed red boards; original plain dust jacket.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies. Original prospectus laid in. BCC 96.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $100 - 200

19 IAMBLICHUS (245-325). Logio suo. De Vita Pythagorae, & Protrepticae Orationes ad Philosophiam Lib. II. Johannes Theodoretus Arcerius, editor and translator. [Heidelberg & Franeker]: A. Radaeus, 1598.

3 parts in one volume, 4to (208 x 153 mm). Woodblock device on title-page; 25 woodblock initials, illustrations, and diagrams. (Browning or spotting to a few leaves, small wormhole in blank lower margin of opening leaves.) Contemporary limp vellum, spine hand-lettered, yapp edges (some soiling, chipping or tears). Provenance: Lenit Et Ardet (bookplate).

Latin translation by Arcerius of Iamblichus’s biography of Pythagoras with Greek and Latin text in parallel columns. This edition also includes Iamblichus’ Protrepticus, which preserved the work of the otherwise unknown 5th-century BCE Sophist knowns as the “Anonymous Iamblichi.” Adams 17; Brunet III. 493.

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $600 - 800

20 KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630) and Jacobus BARTSCH (ca 1600-1633). Tabulae manuales logarithmicae ad calculum Astronomicum... Strassburg: Johann Pastorius for Theodor Lerse, 1700.

8vo (158 x 94 mm). Letterpress tables throughout. (A few spots, some minor dampstaining to outer foremargin.) Contemporary vellum, edges stained red (hinges starting, some soiling). Provenance: Henryk Latuszkiewicz (signature).

Second edition, the first obtainable edition, preceded by an edition of 1631 known in only one copy (which is defective). Following Kepler’s death, his sonin-law, Bartsch, sought to publish a more affordable edition of the logarithms from Tabulae Rudolphinae. Publication was halted for financial reasons. French mathematician Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt published the present edition in 1700 with a new introduction. Caspar 99. $1,500 - 2,500

21 MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879). A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881.

2 volumes, 8vo (222 x 140 mm). Half-titles; 20 engraved plates, numerous in-text engraved diagrams (some full-page). (Some minor staining.) Original publisher’s blind-stamped brown cloth spine gilt-lettered (a few corners bumped, vol. II hinges starting, one cover detaching). Provenance: A.S. Earl Youbridge? (partially effaced signature); Benjamin Lielowry? (signature).

Second edition of Maxwell’s most comprehensive work, presenting ideas which would become essential to the development of modern physics. He viewed electricity not just as another branch of physics but “as an aid to the interpretation of nature,” and saw the study of electromagnetism “as a means of promoting the progress of science” (Preface, p. vii). Maxwell advanced “the significant hypothesis that light and electricity are the same in their ultimate nature” (Grolier/ Horblit). “He began the investigation of moving frames of reference, which in Einstein’s hands were to revolutionize physics; gave proofs of the existence of electromagnetic waves that paved the way for Hertz’s discovery of radio waves; worked out connections between the electrical and optical qualities of bodies that would lead to modern solid-state physics; and applied Tait’s quaternion formulae to the field of equations, out of which Heaviside and Gibbs would develop vector analysis” (Norman 1466). Grolier/Horblit 72; PMM 355. Beal 793.

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $800 - 1,200

22 MEURSIUS, Johannes (van Meurs) (1579-1639). Denarius Pythagoricus. Sive, De Numerorum, usque ad denarium, qualitate, ac nominibus, secundùm Pythagoricos. Leiden: J. Maire, 1631.

4to (189 x 143 mm). Woodcut device on title-page. (Some spotting or browning, a few leaves creased.) Contemporary vellum (recased, endpapers renewed, some soiling, a few tiny chips to spine). Provenance: Alexandri Pollini (contemporary signature); Colonna Family (Libraria Colonna stamps).

FIRST EDITION of Meursius’s scientific treatise related to Pythagoras’ number theory and the Pythagorean Theorem. Meursius was a Dutch classical scholar and a professor of Greek and History in both Leiden and Zealand. The present copy comes from the collection of the Colonna family, a papal noble family of Rome. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only three copies of this work have sold in the last 45 years.

Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $400 - 600