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Item Details
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| Author: |
Porta, Giovanni Battista dell |
| Title: |
Magiae naturalis, sive de miraculis rerum naturalium libri IIII |
| Place: |
Naples |
| Publisher: |
Mathiam Cancer |
| Date: |
1558 |
| Item # : |
186641 |
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| Sale Number |
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369 |
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163 |
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| Fine & Rare Books, with Material from the Estate of Norbert Lipper of New York City |
| Sale Date |
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11/29/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 2875 |
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| Description: |
| [16], 163 pp. a-b4, A-T4, V6 (wanting K2-3, M2). Numerous woodcut historiated initials. (folio) 11¾x8¼, modern quarter vellum & boards, new endpapers. First Edition. |
| The very rare first edition of this key scientific work of the Renaissance, translated into English in 1658 as Natural Magick. The work contains a famous - and possibly the earliest - description of the camera obscura, and also has material on magnetism and demonology, among other subjects. No copies of the 1558 first edition are listed by OCLC/WorldCat, and the last copy to sell at auction, according to the American Book Prices Current, was in 1980, the Honeyman copy. This copy incomplete, lacking three leaves: K2-3 (pp. 75-78) and M2 (pp. 91-92). Adams P1931. |
| Condition: |
| Shelfmark R111 at top of title, along with another number crossed out, old ink notation "oratorii nannetensis" at center of title. Earlier leaves dog-eared with some loss at corners including to title-page, some very light dampstaining to latter leaves, occasional traces of mildew, still very good. |
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