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A discussion of interesting books from my current stock at www.jamesgraybookseller.com

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November 2016

Holland’s Pliny: 1601 one of the Most Important Elizabethan Science Books

881G     Gaius Plinius Secundus. (23-79); trans. Philemon Holland Pliny the Elder 1552-1637 The Historie Of the World: Commonly called, the Natvrall Historie of c. Plinivs Secvndvs. Translted into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [and... Continue Reading →

Book of the Week — Petri Gassendi Institutio Astronomica… — OPEN BOOK

“…senseless atoms, playing and toying up and down, without any care or thought, and from eternity trying all manner of tricks, conclusions and experiments, were at length (they know not how) taught, and by the necessity of things themselves, as... Continue Reading →

New Voyages to North-America. Containing an Account of the Several Nations of that Vast Continent

877G Louis Armand, Baron de Lahontan (9 June 1666 – prior to 1716) New voyages to North-America. Containing An Account of the several Nations of that vast Continent; their Customs, Commerce, and Way of Navigation upon the Lakes and Rivers;... Continue Reading →

Willis and the famous copper engraving of the base of the brain

Clarissimi viri Thomaeillis ... De anima brutorum, quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, exercitationes duae : quarum prior philosophica, ejusdem naturam, partes, potentia, & affectiones tradit : altera pathologica, morbos qui ipsam sedem ejus primariam, nempe cerebrum & nervosum genus afficiunt,... Continue Reading →

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