Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 264

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LONGINUS, CAESAR, editor. Trinum magicum; sive, Secretorum magicorum opus. [24], 498 pages. 12mo, contemporary vellum, remnant of later shelf label on spine; margins trimmed without text loss. Signature on title of [-] Brix von Wahlberg, physician to Prince Fürstenberg. Frankfurt am Main: Jakob Gottfried Seyler, 1673

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Enlarged later edition of a work originally published in 1614 dealing with various forms of magic; the marvelous properties of plants, stones,and animals; magnetic and other cures; and the Oracles of Zoroaster and ancient Middle Eastern, Greek, and Roman mysteries. Thorndike VI, 601-02; Krivatsy 7103. bound with: Tentzel, Andreas. Medicina diastatica; hoc est, Singularis illa et admirabilis ad distans, & beneficio mumialis transplantationis operationem & efficaciam habens. [16], 188 pages. Erfurt: Johann Georg Hertz for Johann Birckner, 1666. Paracelsian treatise on sympathetic healing at a distance, originally published in 1629. Sudhoff 396; Thorndike VIII, 414-15; Krivatsy 11756.