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REISCH, GREGOR. Margarita philosophica.<> Woodcut illustrations throughout, including 23 full-page; woodcut folding map (from another copy, loose, with minor soiling and stains, separating at folds with attempted tape repairs on verso); lacks the two folding woodcut diagrams.<> [360] leaves. 4to, old limp vellum, covers dampstained, joints cracked, contents partly loose in binding; some light marginal soiling and dampstaining at beginning and other, otherwise generally clean internally. ([Freiburg im Breisgau]: (Johann Schott, 1504)
Third edition of a work first published by Schott the preceding year, " . . . a sort of hand-book or encyclopaedia of natural and moral philosophy, presented in dialogue form and illustrated with a large number of woodcuts. The twelve books in which it is divided relate to grammar, logic, rhetoric, artificial memory, correspondence, arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy, cosmography, astrology, natural philosophy, chemistry, alchemy, botany, optics, mental philosophy, theology, and moral philosophy" (Sabin). The map, which supposedly alludes to the discovery of America, is the variant with the the top of the north windhead facing right. Adams R333; Alden 504/3; Sabin 69124; Shirley 23(A).<
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