Meteorology.- Mizauld (Antoine) Le mirouer de l'air, rare second edition

Meteorology.- Mizauld (Antoine) Le mirouer de l'air, second edition in French (the first published in Latin in the preceding year by the same printers), collation: a-i8, italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut criblé decorative initials, spotted, some staining, lightly browned, antique style blind-stamped panelled calf, 8vo (166 x 96mm.), Paris, Regnault & Claude Chaudière, 1548. *** Rare handsomely printed edition of one of the earliest books on meteorology, which includes comets and earthquakes, as well as all elements of the weather. Literature: Adams M1510A; Caillet 7613; Thorndike ‘History of Magic and Experimental Science’ V, 299-301.

Estimate:£500

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