Live auction - Lot 920
[Esoterics]
De naturalium effectuum causis, sive De incantationibus [...]. Adiecto brevibus scholiis à Gulielmo Grataro [...].
Basel, H. Petri, August 1556
€ 250 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: [16]-349-[3] pp. (browning, foxing, light marginal dampstains in the prelims and last quire, broken after quire V).
Mod. half leather, marbled paper boards.
Rare first edition, published posthumously by the alchemist Guglielmo Gratarolo, of this work in which the Italian philosopher Pomponazzi (1462-1525) proposes natural explanations, based on Aristotle, to miraculous phenomena. Ref. VD-16 P-4144. - Caillet 8819. - Wellcome 5153. - Durling 3713. - Adams P-1827. - Machiels P-1095. - Not in Soltész.