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TAISNIER, Joannes. Opusculum perpetua memoria dignissimum, de natura magnetis, et eius effectibus. Cologne: Johann Birckmann, 1562.
Small 4° (188 x 133mm). Device on title, woodcut portrait of the author on verso and on recto of final leaf, illustrations, diagrams and initials in woodcut (Title with two faint waterstains, browning and marginal light waterstaining throughout, ink from title inscription showing through to portrait on verso, short tear in outer margin of K2.) Modern blue panelled calf gilt, gilt library stamps on front cover. Provenance: 'Est Zacharia Caimi' (early title inscription) — John Crerar Library Chicago (bookplate and binding), sold at Christie’s 2 July 1994, lot 252).
FIRST EDITION, only the second printed work on magnets. Taisnier describes a magnetic-based perpetual motion machine consisting of a ramp, a magnet stone and an iron ball. ‘The first 15 pages of this rare work refer to lodestone, its properties and uses, taken without acknowledgement from De magnete of Peregrinus’ (Wheeler). Wheeler Gift 53.
Small 4° (188 x 133mm). Device on title, woodcut portrait of the author on verso and on recto of final leaf, illustrations, diagrams and initials in woodcut (Title with two faint waterstains, browning and marginal light waterstaining throughout, ink from title inscription showing through to portrait on verso, short tear in outer margin of K2.) Modern blue panelled calf gilt, gilt library stamps on front cover. Provenance: 'Est Zacharia Caimi' (early title inscription) — John Crerar Library Chicago (bookplate and binding), sold at Christie’s 2 July 1994, lot 252).
FIRST EDITION, only the second printed work on magnets. Taisnier describes a magnetic-based perpetual motion machine consisting of a ramp, a magnet stone and an iron ball. ‘The first 15 pages of this rare work refer to lodestone, its properties and uses, taken without acknowledgement from De magnete of Peregrinus’ (Wheeler). Wheeler Gift 53.
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