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Willsford, Thomas
Estimate
1,800 - 2,500 USD
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Description
- Nature's secrets: or, the Admirable and Wonderful History Of the Generation of Meteors and Blazing-Stars. Particularly describing the Temperatures and Qualities of the four Elements; the Heights, Magnitudes, and Influences of the Fixt and Wandring Stars. Shewing the Efficient and Final Causes of Comets, Earthquakes, Blazing-Stars, Deluges, Epidemical Diseases, and Prodiges of precedent Times; their Presages of the Weather: with Direction for observing of a Weather-Glass. London: Printed for N. Brooke, 1665
- Paper, Ink, Leather
8vo (6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.; 164 x 106 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, one illustration (verso of p. 150); some light foxing. Contemporary calf; hinges rubbed, head of the spine very fragile.
Provenance
Henry White (bookplate) — Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate)
Literature
Wing W2875A; ESTC R232219
Catalogue Note
Second edition of this Aristotelian cosmology and explanation of comets and meteors.