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SCHOTT, Gaspar (1608-1666). Technica curiosa, sive mirabilia artis, libris XII comprehensa. Wrzburg: Jobst Hertz for Johann Andreas Endter and the heirs of Wolfgang the younger, 1664.
4o (203 x 160 mm). Title printed in red and black and engraved portrait of Schott on verso, engraved coat-of-arms, engraved additional title and 60 engraved plates, some folding (endpapers renewed.) Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, spines ink lettered.
FIRST EDITION. "Contains descriptions of the aerostatic experiments of Guericke and Boyle, perpetual motion machines, diving bell, chronometer, barometer, etc. etc." (Duveen). BM/STC German (17th-c.) S1255; Duveen p. 537; Norman 1911. (2)
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FIRST EDITION. "Contains descriptions of the aerostatic experiments of Guericke and Boyle, perpetual motion machines, diving bell, chronometer, barometer, etc. etc." (Duveen). BM/STC German (17th-c.) S1255; Duveen p. 537; Norman 1911. (2)
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