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[GRIMOIRE], Les Admirables secrets d'Albert le grand, [1850]

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Les Admirables secrets d'Albert le grand. 

Lyon [Avignon], Héritiers de Beringos, 1791 [1850].

18mo (129x73 mm), xx-203 pages and 3 color plates (2 folding).  binding : Contemporary quarter calf, spine in five compartments. Upper joint splitting. Paper brown. 

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The most famous of the grimoires of popular magic.
This edition attributed to Offray in Avignon is sought after for its colored plates and its numerous engravings in the text (sometimes full-page).

references: Dorbon [42 : "édition publiée à Avignon vers 1850, par Offray aîné"], Caillet [I,132 :"édition rare de livre fort recherché"].

Price : 500 €

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