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GILBERT, WILLIAM. On the Magnet. Text illustrations reproducing woodcuts from the 1600 original edition. 246, [1] pages. Folio, 298x196 mm, original limp vellum with green silk ties, gilt spine lettering rubbed; infrequent minor marginal spotting; uncut. London: Chiswick Press, 1900
one of 250 copies. "The first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research" (PMM) and a fundamental work in the study of electricity. Grolier/Horblit 41; Printing and the Mind of Man 107 (both describing the original edition); Wheeler Gift 72h (this edition).
