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KEMI-ALKEMI. PORTA, G.B. Magiae naturalis libri viginti, in quibus scientiarum naturalium divitiae, & deliciae demonstrantur. Iam de novo, ab omnibus mendis repurgati, in lucem prodierunt... Hanoviae (Hanau, typis Wechelianis, impensis Danielis ac Davidis Aubriorum & Clementis Schleichii) 1619.
8:o. (32), 1-622 pp. Title with woodcut printer´s device, 22 woodcuts in text.
Contemporary dark brown full leather, worn, cracks in the joints, faded spine in five compartments, some damages at head and foot. Later inner doublures and endpapers. Some marginal worming, some marginal dampstaining. Some foxing and spotting.
Giambattista Porta (or della Porta, 1545-1615) acquired a great reputation through his book on Natural Magic, though he wrote also on plants, physiognomy, physics, mathematics, and other topics, besides composing several plays. See Ferguson: Bibliotheca Chemica (1954), vol. II, pp.215-217.
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Auktionsnummer:
127450
Datum:
2012-04-22