Les Clavicules de R. Salomon, traduite exactement du Texte hebreu en francois: le tout enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures misterieuses de Talismans, Pentacules, Cercles, Canderies, & Caracteres

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Sale 311: Rare Books & Manuscripts, including Exploration & Voyages (#311) 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #88Les Clavicules de R. Salomon, traduite exactement du Texte hebreu en francois: le tout enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures misterieuses de Talismans, Pentacules, Cercles, Canderies, & Caracteres

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Sale 311: Rare Books & Manuscripts, including Exploration & Voyages (#311) 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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(Manuscript - Occult)

Title:

Les Clavicules de R. Salomon, traduite exactement du Texte hebreu en francois: le tout enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures misterieuses de Talismans, Pentacules, Cercles, Canderies, & Caracteres

Author:

**

Place Published:

[France]

Date Published:

c.1700

Description:

142 pp. Manuscript in brown ink on rectos and versos, plus several lines of occult characters in colors and 48 talismans or other kabalistic diagrams also drawn in colors. 9¼x7, period full red morocco gilt-ruled and spine gilt.

Early French manuscript of the "Key of Solomon", probably the most famous and important of all magical handbooks. The talismans include "pour les honneurs et les richesses", "contre les betes immondes et poissons", "auquels tous les espirits obeissent", "pour etre invulnerable", etc., relating to the summoning and mastery of spiritual powers. This copy with a couple of modern notes laid in.

Condition:

Lettering-piece lacking, minor edge-wear and corners showing, endpapers worn; binding overall quite loose with several pages detached and laid in (but complete according to early pagination), browning, occasional smudges and offsetting, one blank corner torn away, scattered few other tears; overall, still very good, in a neat, legible hand and with brightly colored diagrams.

Item#:

161339
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Sale 311: Rare Books & Manuscripts, including Exploration & Voyages (#311) 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #88Les Clavicules de R. Salomon, traduite exactement du Texte hebreu en francois: le tout enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures misterieuses de Talismans, Pentacules, Cercles, Canderies, & Caracteres

Sale 311: Rare Books & Manuscripts, including Exploration & Voyages (#311) 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT

Sale 311: Rare Books & Manuscripts, including Exploration & Voyages (#311) 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT

Sale 311: Rare Books & Manuscripts, including Exploration & Voyages (#311) 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT