May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603
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Sale 2603 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[Medicine & Science] Barrett, Francis (c. 1770-1802)
The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer; Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy.

[London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, & Co., 1801, i.e. 1875.]

Facsimile of the first edition of 1801, large quarto, four parts in one volume; illustrated with author portrait frontispiece, seventeen full-page engravings in black-and-white, and five hand-colored plates, four of which depict frightening faces, including: fallen angels, vessels of wrath, the spirit antichrist, and powers of evil; bound in later half-calf with marbled paper boards, some spotting to first few leaves only, text otherwise very good, 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
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