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ALCHEMISTRY. ALBERTUS MAGNUS. Diui Alberti Magni summi in via peripathetica philosophi: theologique profundissimi Naturalia ac supranaturalia opera per Marcum Antonium Zimaram nuper castigata erroribusque purgata: necnon cum marginibus optimis annotationibus ornatis doctrinaque excultis atque fideliter impressis feliciter incipiunt. Que sunt hec. Videlicet. De physico auditu lib. VIII. De celo & mundo lib. IIII. De generatione & corrup. lib. II. De methauris lib. IIII. De mineralibus lib. IIII. De anima lib. III. De intellectu & intelligibili lib. II. De metaphysica lib. XIII. Venetijs (impensa heredum quondam domini Octauiani Scoto Modoetiensis: ac sociorum) 1517-1518.

Folio (307x216 mm.). (12), 1-108, 1-150, 1-174 ll. Woodcut initials, some schematical woodcuts in text, 3 woodcut printer's devices.
Near contemporary vellum, slightly worn, rebacked, somewhat spotted edges. Headtitle reinforced in outer margin, last leaf reinforced in the margins. Some foxing and spotting, larger brownspot in upper margin in the first part to ll. 40. Headtitle with old library stamp and annotation"Collegij Germania Ca... S. Joannis Baptista An. 1595". A few pages with marginal annotations and underlinings.

Albertus Magnus (c. 1206-1280), Known as Albert the Great, scientist, philosopher, and theologian, called "the Great", and "Doctor Universalis" (Universal Doctor), in recognition of his extraordinary genius and extensive knowledge, for he was proficient in every branch of learning cultivated in his day, and surpassed all his contemporaries, except perhaps Roger Bacon (1214-94), in the knowledge of nature.(Catholic Encyclopedia).
From the library of Carl Sahlin.
Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy.
He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works´ Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters´ Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.
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Auktionsnummer:

6027

Datum:

2015-12-15