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Paris: Martin le Jeune, 1580. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7Âľ - 9Âľ" tall. 8vo (165 x 108 mm). [16], 361, [23] pp. Signatures: *8 A-Aa8. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Bound in 19th century fine brown morocco by Hardy (see Flety 89), spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering, all edges gilt, board edges ruled in gilt, rich gilt-tooling of turn-ins, marbled endpapers (light rubbing of extremities). Text with little even browning, Y6 with short clean tear at fore-margin, V3 with repared tear at head obscuring page numbering, pp. 8-13 with unobtrusive text markings in black ink, first pages with occasional light finger soiling, tiny wormtrack at blank lower margin of pp. 289-302. In all a clean and sound copy with ample margins. ---- FIRST EDITION of this famous and fascinating collection of eleven distinct scientific treatises on subjects as diverse as the nature of water, the use of marl to reclaim land, and the famous treatise De l'Art de terre, an… Read More

A Paris, Chez Martin le Ieune, Ă  l'enfeigne du Serpent, deuant le college de Cambray, 1580.
8vo [156 x 106 mm] of (8) ll., 361 pp., (23) pp. of table. Ext. margin of the title-page restored not touching the text. Full red Jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt edges. Binding signed by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
"First edition of a piece as interesting as rare". (Brunet, supplement, VIII, 133).
B.n.F., En Français dans le texte, n°72 ; Neville, Historical chemical Library, 2006, p. 250 ; Duveen, Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica, p. 446 : "A book of great importance in the history of chemistry and science generally. Extremely rare."
A great book of science in the sixteenth century.
Exemplary figure of the self-taught man, Bernard Palissy (1510-1590) advocated observation and the virtues of the experimental method.
Palissy, "one of the men of genius of whom France is proud", was born at the beginning of the sixteenth century in the village of La Capelle-Biron, in the diocese of Agen. A remarkable hydraulic… Read More