Philosophia Magnetica In Qua Magnetis Natura Penitus Explicatur Et Omnium Quae Hoc Lapide

by Niccolo Cabeo

$35,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Ferrara: Francesco Suzzi, 1629. First edition, a unique pre-publication presentation copy by Cabeo to his teacher Jacobo Corrado, of the first extensive study of magnetism since William Gilbert’s De Magnete 1600 . Corrado’s name is handwritten on the title page, which is in an unfinished state, the coat-of-arms at the head having been left un-engraved; in addition, there is an

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