Experimenta Nova Ut Vocantur Magdeburgica De Vacuo Spatio Primum A R P Gaspare Schotto E Societate

by Otto Von Guericke

$45,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION. Bound in 18th c. pigskin, richly tooled in blind and with two spine labels. A fine copy. Portrait leaf skillfully re-margined, small nick in blank margin of leaf Z2, light dampstain in blank margin of one folding plate. Wormtrail to pastedown, flyleaves and blank margin of portrait, clean tear to p. 131-2 with no loss; early cipher in blank margin of engraved and printed title pages. The Robert P. Honeyman copy. With an 18th c.

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.