Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(TRITHEMIUS, JOANNES.) Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Juan. Steganographiæ nec non Claviculæ Salomonis Germani, Joannis Trithemii Abbatis Spanheimensis . . . declaratio; ex qua constabit . . . omnia ea quae Author in iis libris promittit, effectum habere infallibilia securissimum, huncque nullo modo a pactu aliquo, aut superstitione dependentem [etc.]. Full-page woodcut dial (without volvelle). [48], 158, [2] pages, including final blank. Some use of Hebrew type. 4to, contemporary calf gilt; some toning and minor spotting. Cologne: Cornelius ab Edmondt for the Author, 1635

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first edition of a work defending Tritheim's 1531 Steganographia, a treatise on secret writing, against charges of black magic and necromancy. Caillet 10855; Palau 43529.