De mundo nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova. Opus posthumum

by William Gilbert

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First edition

4to. 7 ff., 316 pp., 2 ff., including title printed in red and black, and with 1 folding engraved plate opposite p. 173. Bound in contemporary calf, covers gilt ruled, spine with raised bands rebacked. Some toning, foxing and light hand soiling in margins, but generally very good. Scarce first edition of Gilbert's only other published work, whose first section contains an extension of the cosmological ideas Gilbert introduced into the last section of

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