Lot 1 | De occulta philosophia libri tres
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De occulta philosophia libri tres
[12], CCCLXII pp. aa6, a-q6, r8, s-z6. A-G6. Occasional woodcut figures and illustrations in the text; woodcut initials; woodcut portrait on title-page. (folio)11¾x7¼, old calf, rebacked with modern calf, original spine strip laid on. First Complete Edition.
Important work on the occult, first published in 1531, considered the most famous work on "white" magic; this is the first complete edition. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535), was variously a diplomat, theologian, doctor of both law and medicine, soldier, and occult philosopher, required to defend himself against charges of being a witch, and enduring stints in prison form indebtedness. The present copy of the work has bound in before the title-page an engraved title for another work, "Cosmographei," which is mounted on a backing leaf with chips. There is extensive contemporary underlining to the text, and much ink marginalia and markings. Lacking the final blank. Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun, Esq.
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