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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.