Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
GAFFAREL, JACQUES. Curiositez inouyes, sur la Sculpture Talismanique des Persans. Horoscope des Patriarches. Et Lecture des Estoilles. 2 folding woodcut star charts. [16], 315 pages. 8vo, 162x101 mm, 17th-century vellum boards with spine title in ink; contents relatively clean, indistinct stamped signature in lower margin of page 33, clean tear in outer margin of I2 and in inner corners of the charts. Np, 1637

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Work on ancient Middle Eastern magic and astrology first published in 1629. Caillet 4293; Houzeau & Lancaster 5127; Thorndike VII, 304-09.