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IAMBLICHUS; et al. De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum [and other texts]. 177, [1] leaves, including final leaf with printer's device. Folio, 301x203 mm, 19th-century marbled boards, modern leather back, surface wear along top of covers; dampstaining along top edges throughout, title lightly soiled, with old embossed stamp of the Mark Skinner Library, Manchester, Vermont. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, November 1516)
Second Aldine edition of a collection of Neoplatonic writings translated and edited by Marsilio Ficino, enlarged from the first of 1497 with the addition of the Pymander and Asclepius attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, and Ficino's De triplici vita, on health maintenance and astrological medicine. The main work is the treatise ascribed to Iamblichus on ritual magic. Ahmanson-Murphy 150; Renouard, page 77(8).
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