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CONTENTS
A work in which medical and dietary issues come into contact with the world of the occult, the oneiric and the monstrous. The treatise deals with many natural, curious topics: hereditary characters, gynecology, sleepwalking, drunkenness and the properties of wine, dreams, conservation and properties of foods, herbs, as well as natural phenomena.
CONDITION REPORT
In-24°, pp. (16), 582, (58 of Index). 4 works of Lemnius in 1 vol. Coeval half parchment binding with marbled plates. Title embossed in gold on spine. Widespread foxing, dark pages, burnished cuts. Woodcut drop caps and fronts. Frieze engraved on the title page, with manuscript Ex libris. Ex libris red label applied to the second endpaper. Good copy a little short at the upper margin. Woodworm holes from page. 27 to page 32 (outer lower margin), from page. 165 on p. 198.
FULL TITLE & AUTHORS
De miraculis occultis naturae libri iii. item “de vita cum animi et corporis incolumitate recte instituenda, liber unus”: illi quidem iam postremum emendati, & aliquot capitibus aucti; hic vero nunquam antehac editus.
Franco thefts, typis excusi Wolfgangi Hofmanni, impensis hæredum Iacobi Fischeri, p.m., 1628
Levino Lemnio Doctor Zirizæo 67282063
