Author: Steno, N. [G. Scherz (ed.)]
Title: Epistolae et epistolae ad eum datae, quas cum prooemio ac notis germanice scriptis. Tomus prior - Tomus posterior.
Description: Hafniae [Copenhagen], Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck, 1952. Two volumes in two. 4to (31.3 x 22.7 cm). xxxii, 1027 pp.; four plates with proofs of his handwriting, one portrait. Original uniform printed wrappers. = First edition of the collected letters by Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686) to Leibniz and Cosimo III in Florence between 1660-1680. In 1669, Steno published his famous "De Solido intra Solidum Naturaliter contento dissertationis prodomus" widely regarded as the foundation of geology, palaeontology and crystallography. ADDED: J. E. Poulson and E. Snorrason (1986) Nicolaus Steno 1638-1686. a re-consideration by Danish Scientists. A well-illustrated biography and critique, including a full colour portrait. Clean, unmarked copy. Scherz volumes uncut. One of 400 copies on laid paper. The first Scherz volume with the armorial bookplate of A. C. C. Melchiors on the front pastedown, and a handwritten and signed dedication by Scherz to Melchiors, dated 5.XII.1963 on the half-title. Both with Knud B. Melchiors name (son of A. C. C. Melchiors?) written in pencil on the half-titles. Otherwise very good, clean.

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