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[DUPONT DE NEMOURS (Pierre Samuel).] De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle, 1768. A lovely copy of this important exposition of physiocrat doctrine £6,500
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OVIDIUS NASO Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567. WOODCUTS OF VIRGIL SOLIS £4,500
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ERASTUS (Thomas). De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574. ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN £4,500
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