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CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM OSLER TO WELCH NAUDÉ, GABRIEL. Apologie pour les Grands Hommes soupçonnez de Magie . . . Dernière Édition. [20], 470 pages, including engraved frontispiece (offsetting onto title, minor marginal repair . 8vo, disbound; contents toned, institutional stamp on title, ink accession number on verso. Amsterdam: Jean-Frederic Bernard, 1712
First published in 1625, " . . . this famous book . . . was written in defence of celebrated scientists accused of being magicians or sorcerers. Among the men defended by Naudé are: Cardanus, Geber, Lullius, Arnaldus de Villanova, Paracelsus, Agrippa von Nettesheym, R. Bacon, etc." (Duveen). Bibliotheca Chimaerica, page 7; Duveen, page 423 (original edition); Caillet 7923 (this edition); Thorndike VII, 301. Front flyleaf
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