NAUDÉ, Gabriel. Apologie pour tous les grands hommes qui ont esté accusez de magie. 1669.
NAUDÉ, Gabriel.
Apologie pour tous les grands hommes qui ont esté accusez de magie.
Paris, Jacques Cotin, 1669.
12mo (143x82 mm), (24)-502 pages. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt arms on covers, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece. Caps and corners worn, joints split but sound.
Probably the third edition of this treatise on magic and medieval science, which set out to defend men accused of being magicians, such as Merlin, Nostradamus, Roger Bacon, Paracelsus, and Popes Sylvester II and Gregory VII.
references: OHR [pl. 1045].
provenance: A. Boileau (ownership inscription on title). Claude-Henry Watelet (arms on covers).
Price : 500 €