H.E.R.
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A catalogue of extreamly rare books
related to the western magical tradition
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Henricus Cornelius AGRIPPA
Operum pars posterior. Quorum catalogum exhibebunt tibi paginae sequentes.
Una cum rerum et verborum hoc tomo memorabilium indice & locuplete & certo. Huic accesserunt epistolarum ad familiares libri septem, & orationes decem ante hoc seorsimeditae.
Lugduni, Beringo fratres, [Probaly later edition around 1600].
format in-8, dimension : 174 x 100 mm
(16), 1156 pages Complete.
This is the best edition and of much most complete, according to Caillet who writes in his 'Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes' 82 :
"Dans le tome II se trouvent tous les autres opuscules célèbres d'Agrippa : La vanité des sciences, (De incertudine & vanitate Scientiarum). Le commentaire de Raymond Lulle, (In artem brevem Raymundi Lullii commentaria). La préexcellence du sexe féminin. Le sacrement du mariage. La vie monastique. Les reliques de saint-Antoine. L'antidote de la peste. La trigamie de Sainte Anne. Dix discours. L'histoire du couronnement de Charles-Quint."
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The conteporary binding is vellum with gilded decorations in nice and firm condition.
This is the second and final volume of this edition of works of the doctor, magus and alchemist, Henricus Cornelius Aggripa.
It has five illustrated figures in the text representing the wheels of Lull. The paper is only slightly browned. Ex libris: "Lud. Dom. Vincent " with a plate to inner front cover.
This specimen is in an excellent state of conservation and is quite difficult
to find.
The contents include among other subjects (just to give a general idea):
- De incertitudine & vanitate scientarum atque artium declamation
inveciva.
- In Artem brevem Raymundi Lulli commentaria
- De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum liber unus.
- Dehortatio Gentilis Theologiae.
- Expostulatio cum Ioanne Catilinero
- De nobilitate & praecellentia foeminei sexus declamatio
- De sacramento matrimonii declamatio
- De originali peccato disputabilis opinionis declamatio
- de vita monastica fermo
- de inventione reliquiarum B.Antonii Eremitae fermo
- Regimen , seu Antidota adversus pestem
- Epistolarum ad Familiares.
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