Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Disquisitiones de caloris et frigoris natura : Cujus cognitio vera in reseranda multa naturae arcana Clavis erit.

Accession number
PML 195960.4
Creator
Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
Published
Amstelodami : Joannem Janssonium, 1659.
Description
59 p. ; 13cm (12mo)
Provenance
John Gordon, of Kinnaird Head, inscription, 1768 (first fly leaf recto), and presentation inscription (blank leaf before Abraham Patriarchus), Gordon was the last resident of Kinnaird Castle, Scotland; George Osborne, inscription, Sept. 20, 1809 (front pastedown); J. H. Raven, inscription (front pastedown); R. S. Raven, inscription, 1911 (front pastedown); Alexander Taylor, inscription (first fly leaf verso); Moirandat Company, Basel, kat. 32, 2013, lot 23; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Moirandat, 2013.
Classification
Department