Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 190

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VOET, DANIEL. Physiologia. Edited with notes by Gerard de Vries. 4 folding plates, all but the last folding; numerous woodcut text diagrams. [16], 280 pages. Small 8vo, old wrappers, spine darkened and soiled; some minor marginal dampstaining, plates browned, the second separated at fold. Utrecht: Guilielmus Clerck, 1688

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first vries edition of a treatise on natural philosophy originally published in 1661. Appended are 2 short texts by Vries discussing the nature and behavior of light and the impossibility of the moon being inhabited. Thorndike VII, 657-59.