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NAUDE, Apologie pour les grands hommes soupçonnez de magie, 1712
NAUDE, Gabriel.
Apologie pour les grands hommes soupçonnez de magie.
Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1712.
12mo (153x95 mm), frontispiece and (18)- 470 pages. binding : Contemporary full sheep, gilt spine in six compartments. Arms on covers. Slight lack of leather on the joints and corners.
Last old 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.
A rationalist defense of figures accused of magic. An emblematic text of the humanist critique of superstitions, heralding the Enlightenment.
It features: Socrates, Aristotle, Plotinus, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Savonarola, Nostradamus, Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, and more.
references: OHR [1654], Caillet [III, 7923], Yves Plessis [1647], Dorbon [3227 : "Il est vraisemblable que l'auteur des remarques est le spirituel libraire hollandais Jean Frédéric Bernard"].
provenance: From the library of Jean-Claude Fauconnet de Vildé (?-1765), councillor of the city of Paris, with his arms on covers.
Price : 600 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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