Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 267

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
NAUDÉ, GABRIEL. Apologie pour tous les Grands Personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de Magie. [20], 470, [2] pages, including engraved allegorical frontispiece and final blank. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt with morocco lettering piece, covers rubbed; occasional light dampstaining, single tiny wormhole in blank lower outer corner through most of volume. Amsterdam: Pierre Humbert, 1712

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First published in 1625, a defense of celebrated persons, mostly scholars and scientists, accused of practicing illicit magic. Pages 330-42 contain a negative assessment of Michel de Nostradamus. Bibliotheca Chimaerica, page 7; Caillet 7923; Duveen, page 423; Thorndike VII, 301.