Books on the Exact and Pseudo-Sciences, Astrology, Astronomy, Horology, Chemistry, Electricity, Occultism, Mathematics... by Parke-Bernet Sale 1377, 11 November 1952

NY, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1952. Periodical. 4 p.l., 51 p., illus., 347 lots, 24 cm. Title continues: including Descartes Discours de la Methode, first edition in English, a rare mid-sixteenth century cookbook, Hooke Micrographia, first edition, Wallendarfer Decalogium (1507) with a reference to Vespucci's voyage to the New World, property of a New York private collector." Lots 160-199 are Italian literature. Good+, some pencil bidder's notes / paper covers. Stock#43575.