Joannis Joachimi Becheri Novum organum philologicum : pro verborum copia in quavis materia acquirenda, das ist: Neuer Werkzeug der Wohlredenheit.

Novum organum philologicum

Francofurti ad Moenum : Impensis Joan. Davidis Zunneri, typis Wendelini Möwalti, 1674.

110 unnumbered pages, 440 pages, 264 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Editio secunda paragraphorum distinctione & versione germanica adaucta.

Added engraved t.p.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: R. Gaskell. Note: For a description of this copy, see D. McKie, "Three historical notes", Nature, v. 163 (1949), pp. 627-8. Binding: Contemp. blind-ruled mottled calf, edges gilt. Provenance: 1. Possibly Robert Boyle (1627-91). This may be implied by a note in Robert Hooke's diary: see McKie. 2. Robert Hooke (1635-1703), with his ownership inscription on front free endpaper verso: "R. Hooke pd. 21d. Mar.25.1693 MF" [Moorfields]. Verified by McKie: matches entry for that date in Hooke's diary. Lot 463 in the Latin 8vo section of the Hooke library sale: see E. Millington, Bibliotheca Hookiana (1703), p. 31. 3. Trotter family, with 19th cent. engraved armorial bookplates on front pastedown and front free endpaper verso. 4. Douglas McKie (1896-1967).

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