Highlights

Out of the total of about 3600 titles in the library almost 600 can be considered of importance. About 100 of these books are particularly rare and/or valuable often reporting early advances in the basic sciences and astronomy. As a glimpse of these highlights of the collection ten books are presented here more closely.

BIRINGUCCIO, Vannoccio (1480-1539) De la pirotechnica. Venice: Venturino Rossinello for Curzio Navò & Fratelli, 1540.	BOETHIUS, Anicius(480–524 or 525) Incipiunt duo libri de Arithmetica Venice 1488.
BOREL, Pierre (Petrus) (1620-1689) De vera telescopii inventore, cum brevi omnium conspiciliorum historia- Observationum microcospicarum centuria. The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1655.	BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691) The sceptical chymist: or chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes. London: J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, 1661.
COPERNICUS, Nicolaus (1473-1543)   De revolutionibus orbis coelestium. Nuremberg: Joannes Petreius, 1543	DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) Sidereus nuncius magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610.	NEWTON, Isaac (1643-1727) Philosophiea naturalis principia mathematica. London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society (at the expense of Edmond Halley); 1687
STENO, Nicolaus (1638-1686) De Solido intra Solidum Naturaliter Contento Dissertationis Prodromus. Florence, Typographia sub signa Stellae, 1669.	LABORDE, Jean-Benjamin (1734-1794) ZURLAUBEN, Beat (1720-1799) Tableaux de la Suisse ou Voyage pittoresque fait dans les XIII cantons du Corps Helvetique, Representant les divers Phenomenes que la Nature y rassemble, & les beautes dont l'Art les a enrichis.  Paris 1784-1786