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PORTA, Jean Baptiste. 
De Humana Physiognomona libri IV,
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Physiognomoniae Coelestis Libri Sex. 
Rothomagi (Rouen), Ioannis Berthelin, 1650.
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I. De Humana Physiognomona libri IV.
Most complete edition of this work in which Porta analyzes the different facial features, and draws conclusions as to the character.
II. Physiognomoniae Coelestis Libri Sex. is a rare work of Porta, a disciple of Arnaud de Villeneuve and Cardan.
It is a treatise on astrology, which studies the influence of stars on the morphology and human temperaments.
ALBIMONTANO ETZLERO, Augusto (August Etzler). 
Isagoge Physico-magico-medica. 
Argentinae (Strasbourg), Caspari Diezelij, 1631.
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Treaty of "Astrological Medicine", in which August Etzler connects celestial and terrestrial worlds, planets with plants, animals, men, metals and diseases that can be related.
Les veritables présages des cometes avec la signification de l’aparoissance d’icelles
cometes. Tiré des écrits de Maître Michel Nostradamus Docteur en Médecine, de Salon
de Craux en Provence. 
s.l., s.n., [v.1650].
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius || PTOLOMÉE, Claude || BOURDIN, Nicolas. 
L'Uranie de Messire Nicolas Bourdin ... ou la traduction des Quatre livres des jugemens des Astres de Claude Ptolomée. 
Paris, Cardin Besonge, 1640.
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First edition of the French translation of the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy.
The Tetrabiblos was the most famous astrological work of antiquity.
He provided explanations of the astrological effects of the planets, according to their aspects.
Presentation copy with the arms of the translator, Nicolas Bourdin, on this copy he offered to Monsieur de Saint Léger. (bound at the end a letter of four pages from Bourdin to Saint Léger).
MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio. 
De Astrologica ratione, ac usu die rum criticorum, sei decretoriorum; ac prateria de cognoscendis & medendis morbis ex corporum coelestium cognitione. 
Venise, Haeredem Damiani Zenarij, 1607.
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Scarce first edition of this work dealing with astrology and its applications to medicine.
ZANTI, Giovanni de. 
Discorso sopra la Riforma dell' anno fatta da N.S. Gregorio Papa XIII. Con le cause, per lequali sono stati leuati li dice giorni. 
Roma, Antonio blado, 1582.
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Scarce pamphlet in which Zanti wants to explain, the effects of the Gregorian modification of the calendar, which makes ten days disappear.
PINAMONTI, Giovanni Pietro. 
Le Leggi dell’Impossibile ovvero le Regole dell’Astrologia per rintracciare l’avvenire. 
Venetia, Andrea Poletti, 1700.
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250 €
Second edition of this rare work againt astrology.
SAVONAROLA, Girolamo. 
Opera Singolare ... contra l'Astrologia divinatrice in corroboratione delle refutatione astrologice del S. conte Joan. Pico de la Mirandola, Con alcune cose dil medemo di nuouo aggionte. 
Venise, Bernardino Stagnino, 1536.
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Third edition of the rare work againt astrology.
Girolamo Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence.
On 12 May 1497, Pope Alexander VI excommunicated Savonarola.
Under torture Savonarola confessed to having invented his prophecies and visions, then recanted, then confessed again.
He was condemned as heretics and schismatics, and sentenced to die and burned .
In this short treatise, Savonarola states that astrology is not only contrary to the Holy Scriptures, but also vain and that it deserves neither the name of science nor that of art, but that of human error and diabolical superstition.
GAFFAREL, Jacques. 
Curiositez inouyes sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans, Horoscope des Patriarches et Lecture des Estoilles. 
Paris, Hervé du Mesnil, 1629.
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The rare first edition.
Librarian of Richelieu and Orientalist, Gaffarel is considered as the principal representative of the Christian kabbalah in the XVIIth century
In this work of magic, divination and astronomy with strong references to the Kabbalah, Gaffarel defends the Hebrews against the reproaches that Christians usually make, he wrote on the art of talismans in Persia, horoscopes and the astrology of the ancients as well as the astronomy and the Hebrew alphabet.
The two folding plates represent the Celestial Hebrew alphabet.

Fine copy in a binding from LE GASCON (similar binding was in the library of Maurice Burrus (n°51)).
FOMALHAUT. 
Manuel d'astrologie sphérique et judiciaire. 
Paris, Vigot Frères, 1897.
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First edition.
TORNÉ-CHAVIGNY, Henry. 
Influence de Nostradamus dans le gouvernement de la France, depuis la publication de ses prophéties en 1555, jusqu'à ce jour, ouvrage dédié et distribué au Sénat en 1878. 
Paris, Chez l'Auteur, [1878].
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550 €
Scarce first edition (not in Caillet and Dorbon).
PERERIUS, Benedictus. 
Adversus fallaces et superstitiosas Artes. Id est, de Magia, de Observasione Somniorum et de Divinatione Astrologica. 
Lugduni, Officina Juntarum, 1592.
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Rare treaty on witchcraft and magic of the sixteenth century.
Lyon first edition (first in 1591), well complete with the last blank leaf (with old manuscript notes).
The book is divided into three parts. The first deals with different aspects of magic, the second is about dreams and their interpretation and the last on astrology.
GUYNAUD, Balthazard. 
La concordance des prophéties de Nostradamus avec l'histoire depuis Henry II. Jusqu'à Louis le Grand. La vie et l'apologie de cet auteur. 
Paris, Jacques Morel, 1693.
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500 €
First edition.
NOSTRADAMUS. 
Les vrayes centuries et prophéties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus. 
Waesberge, Jean Jansson, 1668.
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Rare in morocco binding.
FAYOL, Jean-Baptiste. 
L’Harmonie céleste découvrant les diverses dispositions de la nature, ouvrage physique et mathématique nécessaire à toutes sortes de gens pour discerner les erreurs de Mr. Descartes. 
Paris, Jean d’Houry, Laurent Rondet, Thomas Moette, 1672.
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750 €
First edition, with three woodcuts in text.
Curious work on medical astrology.
Fayol explains, the influences of the stars, the forms of disease, prognosis, and specific remedies depending on influences of the stars.
BILLY, Jacques de. 
Le Tombeau de l’astrologie judiciaire. 
Paris, Michel Soly, 1657.
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600 €
Rare first edition.
ARTÉMIDORE d'ÉPHÈSE. 
Les jugemens astronomiques des songes, par Artemidorus, autheur ancien & renommé.
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Le Livre d'Auguste Niphe des divinations, & Augures, par Antoine du Moulin. 
Paris, Nicolas Bonsons, 1576.
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1500 €
This rare treaty of dream interpretation - Oneirokritika in Greek - is the only ancient Greek civilization work on this subjet, to have survived in full.
Artemidorus make a detailed technical treaty that was extremely popular during the Middle Ages.
Freud wrote on the great importance of this book in its "Die Traumdeutung".
QUINTI, Joseph. 
Les admirables secrets de la médecine chimique qu'il a recueillis avec beaucoup de soin & de travail : lesquels ont été plus d'une fois expérimentez par lui-même en plusieurs infirmitez, & maladies dangereuses. 
A Liège et se vend à Liège, J.F. Broncart, 1711.
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450 €
Rare first edition in french
Ferguson says that it's a translation of a collection of secrets by Domenico Auda.
Works divided into four books containing formulas on hermetic medicine, recipes for removing stains, to recognize if the coral, porcelain and pearls are counterfeit, for making varnishes, lacquers, stains, perfumes, ...

The last book is dedicated to the astrology useful and necessary for doctors.
RANTZAU, Henrik. 
Traité astrologique des jugemens des thèmes genetliaques pour tous les accidens qui arrivent à l’homme après sa naissance. 
Paris, Pierre Ménard, 1657.
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2000 €
Very rare first french edition of one of the most comprehensive and esteemed treaties of astrology.
Our copy contains the eight pages "de la façon de construire la figure céleste" which are often missing.
GÜSSMANN, Franz. 
Sugli Antichi Zodiaci dell'Egitto. Ad nobile giovane die Francesco Gyssman traduzione dal tedesco. 
Venice, Francesco Andreola, 1802.
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350 €
First Italian edition.
Rare and complete with the plate.
LE PELLETIER, Anatole. NOSTRADAMUS. 
Les oracles de Michel de Nostredame. 
Paris, Le Pelletier imprimeur Lithographe, 1867.
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350 €
Presentation copy.
Le Pelletier is considered as the best interpreter of Nostradamus.
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