Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA. Magiae naturalis, sive de miraculis rerum naturalium libri IIII. Title within woodcut historiated border. [8], 135, [1] leaves, including final colophon leaf. 8vo, 159x93mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, spine badly worn, ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact, cover corners worn through; contents toned, light dampstaining in upper margins. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1560

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Treatise on secrets of nature originally published in 1558 in Naples. DSB XI, 96; Thorndike VI, 418-22.