Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 275

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BOISSARD, JEAN-JACQUES. Tractatus posthumus . . . de divinatione & magicis praestigiis. Engraved historiated architectural border on title, engraved dedication, and 52 text illustrations by Johann Theodore de Bry. [28], 358, [11] pages. Folio, 313x192 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked; marginal browning throughout, soiling on title and elsewhere, some marginal pencil markings, few minor marginal tears not affecting text. Early signature of Francis Copuldyk. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, (1615)
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first edition of an illustrated treatise on divination and magic drawing on the writings of classical and medieval authors and concerned largely with the oracles and seers of classical antiquity. Caillet 1348; Thorndike VI, 504.