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BOISSARD, JEAN-JACQUES. Tractatus posthumus . . . de divinatione & magicis praestigiis. Engraved historiated architectural border on title, engraved dedication, and 52 text illustrations by Johann Theodore de Bry. [28], 358, [11] pages. Folio, contemporary vellum boards, soiled; contents browned, sometimes heavily, with some marginal soiling and dampstaining. Armorial bookplate of Duke Tommaso Vargas Macciucca (1680-1740) on front pastedown, letterpress leaf of commandments for users of his library mounted opposite. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, (1615)
first edition of an illustrated treatise on divination and magic drawing on the writings of classical and medieval authors and concerned largely with the oracles and seers of classical antiquity. Caillet 1348; Thorndike VI, 504.
