Petri Peregrini Maricurtensis De magnete, seu, Rota perpetui motus, libellus ...
By: per Achillem P. Gasserum L. nunc primum promulgatus
Contributors: Gasser, Achilles Pirmin, 1505-1577; Ulhart, Philipp, d. 1567 or 8, printer; Burndy Library; Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1558
Place of publication: Augsburgi in Sueuis
Language: lat; grc
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Perpetual motion; Magnetism; Astronomical instruments; Early works to 1800; Compass
Other titles: Peregrinus De magnete, 1558; De magnete; Rota perpetui motus libellus
Work titles: Epistola de magnete
Notes: The first printed edition of Pierre's text on the magnet, popularly known as Epistola de magnete.

Printer tentatively identified as Philipp Ulhart in BM STC German, 1455-1600.

Title within ornamental border.

Signatures: piA-F.

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 52

BM STC German, 1455-1600  p. 682

SCDIRB copy 39088005875646 has bookplate Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Heralds of Science no. 52.

SCDIRB copy has a modern red morocco leather binding with raised bands and gilt-lettered spine, signed: Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Housed in a modern brown cloth slipcase with opening edged in brown morocco leather. There are some old handwritten ink underlinings and brief annotations throught the volume.