Nov 03, 2006 - Sale 2092

Sale 2092 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HELMONT, JAN BAPTISTA VAN. A Ternary of Paradoxes: The Magnetick Cure of Wounds. Nativity of Tartar in Wine. Image of God in Man. [52], 147 pages, including additional title ("second Impression") with etched allegorical vignette. Small 4to, modern blind-ruled morocco in period style by Bernard Middleton; some browning. Kenneth Garth Huston bookplate. London: James Flesher for William Lee, 1650

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Second edition in English, published the same year as the first, of 3 tracts by Helmont, including his controversial 1621 De magnetica vulnerum . . . curatione. DSB VI, 254; Duveen 285; Krivatsy 5450; Wing H1402.