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IAMBLICHUS; et al. De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum [and other texts]. 177 [i. e., 175], [1] leaves, including final leaf with printer's device. Folio, 303x204 mm, 16th-century vellum boards, front hinge split; dark stains in gutter of opening leaves, light dampstaining in upper inner corners at end, insignificant worming in blank upper margin of last few leaves, early annotations on rear free endpaper, rear pastedown imperfect Later Italian owners' inscriptions and stamp of the theosophist George Robert Stowe Mead (1863-1933) on front free endpaper. (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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