[Colophon:] Venice: Bernardinus Bindonus, 1537. First edition, signed and heavily annotated by John Dee (1527–1608/9) during his Louvain residence in 1549, and acquired and signed eighty-two years later by John Winthrop Jr. (1606–1676), physician, alchemist, first Governor of Connecticut and the first colonial American elected Fellow of the Royal Society..... More
Item #5650

Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. First edition of the founding text of modern philosophy, in a strictly contemporary Parisian armorial binding bearing the gilt quartered arms of Louis Hesselin (1602–1662) — maître ordinaire de la Chambre aux deniers, conseiller du Roi, and surintendant des plaisirs du Roi, choreographer of the court..... More
Item #5910

Augsburg: [Philipp Ulhart the Elder], 1558. First edition, of the greatest rarity, of the earliest European treatise on magnetism — written in 1269 but not published until 1558, more than four decades before William Gilbert’s De Magnete and more than three centuries before the science it inaugurated was joined to..... More
Item #6212