Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DIGBY, KENELM, Sir. Of Bodies, and of Mans Soul . . . With two Discourses Of the Powder of Sympathy, and Of the Vegetation of Plants. [56], 439, [1]; [10], 142; [2], 147-231 pages. 4to, 187x144 mm, contemporary panelled calf with rear cover supplied from contemporary sheep binding, joints and spine ends reinforced, front free endpaper and rear endleaf renewed; light soiling and marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, contents otherwise relatively clean. London: S. G. and B. G. for John Williams, 1669

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only collected edition of Digby's most important scientific works, reprinting the Two Treatises as well his discourses on the powder of sympathy (in an English translation of the French original) and on the stages of plant development. Rubin 27; Krivatsy 3259; Wing D1445.