Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 195
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
RAIMONDO, ANNIBALE. Opera dell'Antica, et Honorata Scientia de Nomandia. Engraved astrological diagrams on pages 76 and 81; contemporary pen-and-ink diagrams mounted on pages 11, 173, 176, 180, and 183 to replace engraved diagrams omitted in press. 210 pages; lacks final blank. 8vo, 161x102 mm, 18th-century 1/2 vellum worn; contents heavily soiled, bookplate removed. Signature of Giovanni Chiari dated 1763. sold as is. Venice: (Pietro & Giovanni Maria Nicolini da Sabbio for) Giovita Rapirio & Compagni, 1549 [colophon dated 1550]

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first edition of a treatise on divination by names, using a system of assigned numerical values relating them to planets and zodiac signs. Thorndike VI, 473-74.