Search Results: Titles starting with G from Liber Antiquus

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647. THIRD EDITION, EXPANDED AND WITH ADDITIONAL TEXTS. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lower "yapped" edge a bit warped). Complete with both folding tables. Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils. A very good copy, with scattered mild soiling and light foxing, very lightly stained at upper margin; a few gatherings lightly toned, tables a little browned at the head. Tiny marginal tear on title, second leaf, and leaf N2; some dog-eared corners. Nick in blank lower margin of gatherings M and N (second sequence) far from the text, corners of leaves in gathering L (second sequence) lightly creased. Third and best edition (1st 1609, 2nd 1636), edited by the Belgian physician Adrian Toll (1610-1675), of "one of the most important mineralogical works of the seventeenth century, marking a transition over previous lapidaries" (Schuh). The mineralogical researches of Jan De Laet… Read More