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GILBERT, William (1544-1603). Tractatus sive physiologia nova de magnete, magneticisque corporibus et magno magnete tellure. Edited by Wolfgang Lochmann (1594-1643). Stettin: Georg Gtzke for Johann Hallervord, 1628.
4o (195 x 162 mm). Folding engraved title by Pet. Rollos, 12 etched plates (2 folding), numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. (Short copy, first 4 leaves with upper margins extended, one line on preliminary leaf and some side-notes shaved.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: some 19th-century notations on half-title verso and a few margins.
Second edition, with variant issue of the title-page mentioning Hallervord in the imprint; another issue exists with Hallervord's name replaced with "sumptibus authoris." VERY SCARCE. BM/STC German (17th-c.) G-609; see Dibner Heralds of Science 54 (note); Wheeler Gift 72a (note, "very rare"); Norman 906 ("both issues are considerably rarer than the first edition").
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Second edition, with variant issue of the title-page mentioning Hallervord in the imprint; another issue exists with Hallervord's name replaced with "sumptibus authoris." VERY SCARCE. BM/STC German (17th-c.) G-609; see Dibner Heralds of Science 54 (note); Wheeler Gift 72a (note, "very rare"); Norman 906 ("both issues are considerably rarer than the first edition").