Opera Per Doctissimum Philosophum Ioannem Baptistam Memum Patritium Venetum

by Apollonius Of Perga Giovanni Battista Memo Ed

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First edition · Signed

Colophon: Venice: Bernardinus Bindonus, 1537. / First edition, and a copy of extraordinary importance: signed and heavily annotated by John Dee 1527–1608 at Louvain in 1549, and acquired eighty-two years later by John Winthrop Jr. 1606–1676 , alchemist, first Governor of Connecticut, and founding Fellow of the Royal Society, who added Dee's hieroglyphic monad beside his signature on the title-page. No. 74 in Roberts & Watson's census of

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