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MAGNETISM. KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. Magnes sive De arte magnetica opus tripartitum quo universa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus scientijs & artibus usus, nova methodo explicatur: ac praetera è viribus & prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis, animalibus, elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturae arcana, per physica, medica, chymica, & mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur. Editi tertia... Romae (sumptibus Blasij Deuersin, & Zanobij Masotti, typis Vitalis Mascardi) 1654. Folio (319x215 mm.). (32, including extra engraved title), 1-618, (28) pp. Extra engraved title, title printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, fullpage engraved arms of Ferdinand IV (the dedicatee), 34 mostly full-page engravings, about 215 woodcuts in text, and about 50 tables and several examples of musical scores in the text. Contemporary vellum, renovated, spine in five compartments, mended in upper and lower part, manuscript title, old spine label preserved and mounted on inside of lower cover, lower edge with old manuscript title. 2 leaves in the index with mended marginal tears. Some leaves browned, about 8 harder. Minor foxing. Engraved extra title with the library stamp of the "Biblioteca Magnani della Città di Bologna". Inside of upper cover with old manuscript library signum and notation in red "duplicato". Old catalogue cut mounted on inside of lower cover. Ferguson I, p. 467. Third, and most complete, edition. Also the last, best and most valuable. The first edition was published in 1741, and the second in 1743. One of the major works of the German Jesuit scholar, covering all aspects of magnetism. 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 Sweidsk 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. Photo.