Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 518
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
FICINO, MARSILIO. De vita libri tres. 334, [18] pages, including 2 blanks at end. 16mo, modern marbled wrappers; contents toned, light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, occasional early underscoring, 19th-century institutional stamp on title and next leaf. [Geneva]: Jean Le Preux, 1595

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First published in 1489, " . . . a three-book treatise on prolonging health . . . packed with encyclopedic pharmacological and other learning and combining philosophical, astrological, magical, and psychiatric speculations. The third book in particular is a remarkable treatise on scholarly melancholy and deals inter alia with amulets, talismans, star and demon magic, regimen, mood elevation, and holistic medicine" (OCIL).