Description de l’aimant, qui s’est formé à la pointe du Clocher neuf de N. Dame de Chartres

by Pierre Le Lorrain de Vallemont

$1,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: 1692. 12mo. xii, 215 pp. Engraved headpiece and engraved vignette. Contemporary mottled calf hinges repaired , spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red. Ownership inscription “Marelle fils ainé.” In excellent condition. Item #20068 First edition of this important and occult-leaning treatise on magnetism. In October 1690, a powerful storm damaged the cross-topped steeple of the Cathedral de Notre Dame in Chartres such that it had

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