Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
LEMNIUS, LEVINUS. De miraculis occultis naturae libri IIII. Item de vita cum animi et corporis incolumitate recte instituenda. [16], 868, [73] pages. 153x93 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with panel stamps depicting allegorical figures of the Virtues, spine darkened, raised bands rubbed, stain on front cover; contents browned, early underscoring and marginalia, 17th-century inscription on title, printer's device tinted yellow. Jena: Tobias Steinman (for Nicolaus Knoper), 1588

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Compilation of miscellaneous natural and medical lore first published in 1559. Durling 2774; Thorndike VI, 393-94.