?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PERSON, DAVID. Varieties . . . Wherein the Principall Heads of Diverse Sciences are illustrated, Rare Secrets of Naturall Things unfoulded, &c. [50] (of [52]), 47, [5], 49-93, [5] (of [7]), 97-178, 181-190, [4] (of [6]), 177-256, [4], 105 pages, including initial leaf, blank except for signature A on recto, and additional dedication to Thomas Lord Binning; lacks A4 (end of first dedication) and blanks(?) 2*4, N2, and N8. 4to, contemporary sheep, recased, endpapers renewed, spine worn, ends chipped, front cover detached; occasional marginal soiling, marginal dampstaining in second half of volume. London: Richard Badger for Thomas Alchorn, 1635
First edition of a rambling and partly anecdotal survey of scientific and miscellaneous knowledge. Alden 635/100; Duveen, page 466 (for section on the philosopher's stone); Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes I/4, pages 19-20; STC 19781.
