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1353 - JOURNAL DES SAVANTS from the year 1680, Volume 8, reprinted in Amsterdam (Peter the Great), 16872. In-12°, with a contemporary vellum plate (stains and soiling).
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JOURNAL DES SAVANTS from the year 1680, Volume 8, reprinted in Amsterdam (Peter the Great), 16872. In-12°, with a contemporary vellum plate (stains and soiling). Contains, among other things, descriptions of the levels of Huygens (with plate), Chapotot, and Puyrichard; Roger’s globe; the Earl of Castelmaine (with plate); a method for making sundials by Philippe de la Hire; and a mathematical anagram based on the name of Louis XIV. We add TEISSIER, Antoine. *Les Eloges des hommes savans tirez de l'Histoire de M. de Thou …* *seconde partie*, Geneva 1683. 12mo, vellum plate (front cover with etching), pp. 432. Volume II only. Contains, among other things, the biographies (with additions) of Mercator, Ortelius, Henri Etienne, Dasympodius, Tycho Brahe, and François Viète. Provenance: library of Jean-Nérée RONFORT (1943–2012)
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