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1556in-4, pp. (26), 268, (1) bianca. Al frontespizio marca tipografica, capilettera istoriati e testatine xilografici, frontespizio anticamente restaurato: la porzione superiore contenente il titolo è stata elegantemente vergata in inchiostro bruno su un foglio antico sulla cui parte inferiore fu applicata la marca di Giolito originale impressa a stampa. Legatura coeva in pergamena floscia, sul dorso liscio titolo manoscritto. Prima edizione di un'opera resa affascinante dal suo contenuto e dalla sua storia testuale. Si tratta di un trattato sullo scibile umano, i temi spaziano dall'aritmetica, alla filosofia, alla politica, all'economia fino alle arti magiche. Ma l'opera, libera traduzione della Vision deleytable de la philosophia y artes liberales dello spagnolo Alfonso de la Torre, subì accuse di vero e proprio plagio: leggenda vuole che il figlio di Delfino avrebbe trovato il manoscritto originale spagnolo e, dopo averne curato la traduzione, avrebbe attribuito l'opera al padre senza fare alcun riferimento allo scrittore quattrocentesco spagnolo. Gli stessi spagnoli dimenticarono la vera paternità del trattato, ristampando l'opera con il nome di Delfino. Testo sicuramente accattivante, "essendo steso nella forma ora affatto inusitata d'una visione, dove l'intelletto e l'ingegno, percorrono per vie generali tutto lo scibile divino ed umano; con molte altre allegorie e sogni..." (Bongi). Buon esemplare, arrossature e fioriture marginali, gore al margine superiore di alcuni ff. Sul recto del foglio di guardia ex libris mss. di Giovanni Andrea Rovetti (poeta italiano attivo tra il 1600 e il 1637, autore del Mormorio d'Elicona: poesie divise in Vaghezze amorose, Diporti pastorali, Soggetti eroici, Echo supplicante, Pompe nuziali, Teneri affetti, Duelli festini). Al titolo antica nota in inchiostro evanescente; iniziali O.S. impresse al piatto ant. della pergamena.. Bongi I, pp. 503-5. Riccardi I, 402: «Bella e rara edizione». . Smith, Rara arithmetica, p. 275. Biblioteca magica Casanatense, 1263. Olschki, Coix VI, 6429. Ebert, 23039. Cantamessa, III, n. 8059: ''prima edizione in italiano e prima edizione attribuita a Domenico Delfino''. Bongi I, pp. 503-5. Riccardi I, 402: «Bella e rara edizione». . Smith, Rara arithmetica, p. 275. Biblioteca magica Casanatense, 1263. Olschki, Coix VI, 6429. Ebert, 23039. Brunet V, 887. Cantamessa, III, n. 8059: ''prima edizione in italiano e prima edizione attribuita a Domenico Delfino''. .
1761réf. 2-0-28Frankfurt und Leipzig, o.V. (Stahel), 1761. 8°, 4 Bll., 600 S., Ldr. d. Zt
1661In folio (38×23,7 cm); (28), 746 (i. e. 742), (62) pp. Legatura in mezza pergamena del primo novecento con piatti foderati con carta a motivi viola e verdi. Titolo e anno impressi in oro su fascetta in pelle ad un tassello. Dorso a 5 nervi. Come in tutti gli esemplari, durante la stampa del volume, sono state saltate nella numerazione le p. 116-117 e 727-728. Titolo in rosso e nero. Magnifica incisione al piatto anteriore delineata dal pittore olandese della scuola fiamminga che fu uno dei migliori allievi ed assistente di Rubens, Abraham van Diepenbeke (1596–1675) ed incisa da Peter Clouwet (1629-1670), raffigurante l’ingresso del giardino d’“Elysian”, fiancheggiato a sinistra da una donna con sette seni, sotto due studiosi (uno in possesso di un rotolo) e la parola “Natura”, e sulla destra da una donna che tiene un globo, sotto due uomini che conversano e la parola “Ars”, a significare che il percorso verso l’”Elysium”, o il paradiso è attraverso la convergenza di arte e natura. Sopra l’ingresso, che sembra essere un’apertura nel terreno o la bocca di una grotta, siedono dieci donne, delle quali, due suonano strumenti. Un cavallo alato spicca il volo nell’angolo in alto a destra dell’immagine alto a destra. Testatine, iniziali e finalini xilografici. Esemplare ancora in barbe. Alcune pagine leggermente ed uniformemente brunite a causa della qualità della carta e nel complesso esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Prima rara edizione (una seconda edizione venne edita nel 1670) di questo studio di interesse medico, farmacologico ed alchemico scritto dal noto medico e fisico portoghese nato ad Evorà ma che lavorò a Carmona, l’odierna Sevilla. L’opera, divisa per domande, tratta di temi differenti: Aristofane, Virgilio, Galeno, Ippocrate, Platone, corona spagnola, sul cadavere umano, “daemones morbos”, Vergine in un chiostro, urine, il termine tubercolosi e ostetricia “obstetrices”, Nudipedalia, mutazione dei genitali maschili e femminili, la sterilizzazione animale, vari tipi di occupa di febbre come “Elodes, Thyphodes [tifo], Crymoides, Tritaeophiae, querzerae, Phricodeis, Assodes, Almyrodes, Pemphigodes, [e] Tarachodeis. ” e tanti altri temi legati alla medicina, alla farmacologia, all’alchimia e alla fisica. La domanda 94 discute i poteri di una pozione basata su una miscela di latte e vino, forse in riferimento a Plinio il Vecchio. Nell’opera appare anche la parola “Abracadabra”. L’opera appare nelle bibliografie alchemiche perché tratta di vari argomenti legati alla magia, a guarigioni legate a particolari proprietà magiche di alcune piante e minerali e dei Bezoar, le pietre rinvenute negli stomaci dei alcuni animale e che si credeva avessero proprietà magiche. L’opera contiene anche la descrizione di diversi casi medici seguiti da Franco a Carmona, l’odierna Sevilla. Diôgo Barbosa Machado & Bento José de Sousa Farinha, Summario da bibliothecaluz …, Lisboa, 1786-87, v. II, p.168) scrive riguardo a quest’opera: “A remarkable example of the penchant for the bizarre in mid-seventeenth-century medical literature is the much-cited anthology of near-miraculous historiae excerpted and collected by the Portuguese physician Gaspar de los Reyes Franco” (Pomata, p. 134). In Penzer si dice “The idea of poisonous breath,” prevalent in literature in the form of the poison-damsel story, is claimed by numerous medieval medical and pseudo-medical practitioners, such as Peter of Albano, the Jesuit del Rio, Michael Bapst, Wolfgang Hildebrand and Gaspar de los Reyes” (Penzer, p. 41). Rif. Bibl.: Krivatsy, NLM, 9595; Penzer, Norman Mosley. Poison-Damsels. Manchester, NH: Ayer, 1980; Pomata, Giana. Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Not in Wellcome. Not in Duveen, Ferguson, Partington or Thorndike.
1613In-8 p. (mm. 204x150), p. pelle coeva (lievi abras.), dorso a cordoni con titolo oro su tassello dipinto (piccole manc. alle cuffie), cc.nn. 20, pp.num. 787, ornato da grandi iniziali e finali inc. su legno. L’opera divisa in “diece appartamenti, secondo i vari & ammirabili oggetti, cioè di mostri, prodigii, prestigii, sorti, oracoli, sibille, sogni, curiosità astrologica, miracoli in genere e meraviglie, narrate da’ più celebri scrittori e descritte da’ più famosi historici e poeti, le quali talhora occorrono, considerandosi la loro probabilità, ovvero improbabilità, secondo natura.. Con tre copiosissime tavole“. "Prima edizione postuma", uscita a cura del fratello Bartolomeo, di un’opera “sorpendente e bizzarra usata a illustrare argomenti strani e inusitati e con gusti e modi che preannunciano il Seicento.. di Tommaso Garzoni da Bagnacavallo (1549-1589), uomo assai colto, avidissimo ricercatore e collezionista di dati, notizie e aneddoti del più vario genere..” (così Diz. Opere Bompiani, p. II,29). Cfr. Graesse,III,32 - Parenti p. 253 - Caillet,4352 bis. Corto di margini, con pagine brunite o arrossate interc. nel t., due macchie margin. a p. 593, ma complessivam. buon esemplare.
réf. 520931Chamuel - Bibliothèque Chacornac Paris 1897 Fort in-8 ( 215 X 145 mm ) de 808 pages, demi-basane fauve marbrée, dos à nerfs janséniste, couvertures conservées. Nombreuses illustrations dans et hors-texte. EDITION ORIGINALE à la bonne date de 1887, exemplaire de remise en vente avec une nouvelle couverture ( Bibliothèque Chacornac ) et papillon collé sur la page de titre "Bibliothèque Chacornac" sur la mention Chamuel. Bel exemplaire. De la bibliothèque Gilbert TAPPA ( Ex-Libris ).Caillet, 4809. - R.Y Plessis, 894.
Tre tomi in 8° (cm 12,6 x 20), belle legature piena pelle coeve, piatti incorniciati da motivo a dentelle dorato, al centro dei piatti anteriore e posteriore, grande monogramma "RDG", dorsi con doppi tasselli e fregi in oro; pp xvi, 375 per il primo tomo; vii, 410 per il secondo; (5), 408 per il terzo. Il primo vol. corredato di 32 incisioni in rame, il secondo di 48, il terzo di 22. Esemplare in buone condizioni, il dorso del primo tomo con piccole mancanze di pelle , uniformi lievi bruniture . Affascinante trattato di esperimenti attinenti alla scienza e alla magia: magnetismo, elettricità, geometria, matematica, ottica, fisica, chimica (esperimenti con fuoco, aria e acqua), numerologia, meccanica, scrittura occulta, corredato di tavole illustranti gli esperimenti con dovizia di realistici utensili e strumenti, associati a grotteschi e simbolici particolari, quali amorini alati e animali fantastici. Illustrazioni nel testo e tabelle schematiche. Un esemplare censito in CCFr. Caillet n. 4900 per altre ediz. "Recueil infinement plus complet que tous ceux parus depuis..."
réf. 20449Anvers, Hevdrick Connix, 1584. In-4, [12]-653-[23] pp. (*4, **2, a-z4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Qqq4; Qq4 est 1 f. bl.), parchemin souple ivoire, dos long, titre manuscrit au dos, traces de liens (liens manquants, restaurations, taches, importantes mouillures sans dommage pour la lecture, taches).
1839réf. 303248-1Stuttgart, Scheible 1839. Kl.8°. 376; 342; 324; 340; 338; 342 S. Mit lithogr. Porträt u. 46 lithogr. Tafeln. Marmor. Pappbände d. Zt.
1891In 8°. Pagine 552; 808. Rarissimo testo di magia del celebre esoterista francese Stanislas De Guaita, ricco di illustrazioni e splendidamente conservato. Bella e pregiata legatura coeva in mezza pergamena con titoli su tasselli in oro al dorso. All'interno annotazioni di antica mano anche in lingua ebraica. Introvabile.
1890réf. 10821ABO.O, o.J. (ca. 1890). 46 : 29 cm. 8 Seiten Anleitungen Mit ca. 30 verschiedenen Hilfsmitteln zur Vorführung von Zaubertricks. Original-Pappkasten mit farbiger Deckelillustration.
1801réf. 306156London: Printed for G. Kearsley Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid Glasgow by W. Glendinning 1801. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. Contemporary half leather over gray paper-covered boards. Covers worn joints cracked but sewing sound lacking spine label text block roughly trimmed occasional light soiling along lower blank margins. Remnant of contemporary bookplate. In a custom redpaper slipcase and matching chemise. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. The first English edition of this quite unusual and very entertaining compendium of conundrums problems parlor tricks and "interesting facts" - it is actually much more fun than the title would seem to suggest. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d' amusements physiques et mathématiques. The work includes tricks with cards magic squares magic lanterns feats of artificial memory and proto-spiritualist conjuring through "palingenesy" by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar plus other optical illusions. A large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities including chapters on arithmetic "To arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them &c." "A lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughter" and amusing "secrets" "To make people in a room have a hideous appearance". Toole Stott 240 Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, by W. Glendinning unknown
1801réf. 306156London: Printed for G. Kearsley Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid Glasgow by W. Glendinning 1801. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. Contemporary half leather over gray paper-covered boards. Covers worn joints cracked but sewing sound lacking spine label text block roughly trimmed occasional light soiling along lower blank margins. Remnant of contemporary bookplate. In a custom redpaper slipcase and matching chemise. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. The first English edition of this quite unusual and very entertaining compendium of conundrums problems parlor tricks and "interesting facts" - it is actually much more fun than the title would seem to suggest. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d' amusements physiques et mathématiques. The work includes tricks with cards magic squares magic lanterns feats of artificial memory and proto-spiritualist conjuring through "palingenesy" by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar plus other optical illusions. A large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities including chapters on arithmetic "To arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them &c." "A lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughter" and amusing "secrets" "To make people in a room have a hideous appearance". Toole Stott 240 Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, by W. Glendinning unknown books
1779réf. 6888ABBerlin - Stettin, Friedr. Nicolai, 1779 - 1789. IV + 68 + 416 + 10, 16 n.n. + 406 + 12, 28 n.n. + 400 + 6 S. Priv. Hld. der Zeit, auf fünf Bünden u. mit RSchild., Abbildung 2 Bde.
réf. 117953aafs.n. (Würzburg ?, Herbipolis), s.d., (1665?), kl. in-4to, 2 ll. (Drucktitel + Candido lectori, (without engraved front) + 363 p. (+ 1 blanc, page 71 with some staines) + 4 ll. Index + 22 engraved plates, ‘Tréah’ & name ‘Nolent 1902’ on fly, 19th century boards (XIX c.),
réf. SONG0822223325Used: Good unknown
1891réf. BB112Magic Lantern Catalogue Illustrated Catalogue of Magic Dissolving View & Optical Lanterns Lime-light Apparatus and Slides. Rare generic trade catalogue for the entire industry almost certainly London 1891-92 but without imprint. Wood-engraved illustrations of magic lanterns accessories and occasionally the projected image. 8vo. 352 pp. with detailed listings of sets of slides all with prices and various types of magic lanterns with optical projections a few pages browned pp 44/45; original pictorial cloth lettered in black a little rubbed front cover beginning to warp. No imprint, hardcover
1891réf. BB112Magic Lantern Catalogue Illustrated Catalogue of Magic Dissolving View & Optical Lanterns Lime-light Apparatus and Slides. Rare generic trade catalogue for the entire industry almost certainly London 1891-92 but without imprint. Wood-engraved illustrations of magic lanterns accessories and occasionally the projected image. 8vo. 352 pp. with detailed listings of sets of slides all with prices and various types of magic lanterns with optical projections a few pages browned pp 44/45; original pictorial cloth lettered in black a little rubbed front cover beginning to warp. No imprint, hardcover books
1917réf. 45784Ithaca NY: n.p. 1917. Very good plus. Original manuscript journal containing the wildly ardent lovelorn musings of "Magie" to "Margie" written while waiting for the finalization of Margie's divorce. To call "Magie's" love for "Margie" superlative would be an understatement: his writing in this journal is comprised of verbose expressions of fondness and adoration for her "the only blessed wonderful loyal fine sweet true adorable lovable precious beautiful altogether lovely incomparable perfect little woman in God's great universe whom I ever have ever can really love!!!!!!!!!" Magie's enthusiasm even bleeds into the margins of some leaves where he has written additional missives around the main text. Who is the lovesick "Magie" the author of this manuscript journal that positively oozes with pent-up emotion and who is the "Margie" for whom he so desperately pines Magie's remark that "our marriage . will be so far different from the marriages we knew that they will seem like a bad dream" as well as several references to the day when Margie will be "legally free" to "give and receive" love indicate that both parties had been married previously and that Margie was likely still in the divorce process or the remarriage waiting period when this journal was written. The US divorce rate in 1917 was just 1.2%; this borderline-taboo action often had dire social consequences for the parties involved particularly the women and a state- or self-imposed period of waiting before remarriage was not unusual. Magie apparently spent this separation in varying degrees of agony emptying his evidently very full heart into this journal almost every day from May 28th to July 22nd. The lovebirds remain somewhat elusive in official records despite several tantalizing pieces of information nestled within Magie's lovelorn ramblings: references to "this fearful year" which in addition to a mention of a state military census pins the date of this journal pretty convulsively to 1917 which was "three quarters of the way through" by July 19th his occupation as a lawyer and the address 302 N. Cayuga Street a location Magie calls "our office". That address is sometimes listed as the location of a local Ithaca restaurant The City Cafeteria but more frequently as the longtime residence of prominent citizen and noted Wordsworth collector - her collection was donated to Cornell Cynthia Woodward Morgan St. John. Her son Edward Morgan St. John Cornell 1911 Cornell Law 1913 did work as an attorney and in the records of his 1919 marriage to Ruth Cronk he lists at least one and possibly two previous marriages though we find only a 1910 marriage to Lena Marie Smith. Cronk however does not. Which suggests perhaps sadly that "Margie" if she existed at all did not get her happily ever after. Nevertheless a compelling document overall and a vivid vernacular portrait of limerence. 10.25'' x 7.5''. Original cloth-backed marbled boards with printed label to front board hand-lettered "I". 94 manuscript leaves written both recto and verso. Boards with light edgewear. Hinges a touch cracked. Tight and clean. n.p. unknown
1917réf. 45784Ithaca NY: n.p. 1917. Very good plus. Original manuscript journal containing the wildly ardent lovelorn musings of "Magie" to "Margie" written while waiting for the finalization of Margie's divorce. To call "Magie's" love for "Margie" superlative would be an understatement: his writing in this journal is comprised of verbose expressions of fondness and adoration for her "the only blessed wonderful loyal fine sweet true adorable lovable precious beautiful altogether lovely incomparable perfect little woman in God's great universe whom I ever have ever can really love!!!!!!!!!" Magie's enthusiasm even bleeds into the margins of some leaves where he has written additional missives around the main text. Who is the lovesick "Magie" the author of this manuscript journal that positively oozes with pent-up emotion and who is the "Margie" for whom he so desperately pines Magie's remark that "our marriage . will be so far different from the marriages we knew that they will seem like a bad dream" as well as several references to the day when Margie will be "legally free" to "give and receive" love indicate that both parties had been married previously and that Margie was likely still in the divorce process or the remarriage waiting period when this journal was written. The US divorce rate in 1917 was just 1.2%; this borderline-taboo action often had dire social consequences for the parties involved particularly the women and a state- or self-imposed period of waiting before remarriage was not unusual. Magie apparently spent this separation in varying degrees of agony emptying his evidently very full heart into this journal almost every day from May 28th to July 22nd. The lovebirds remain somewhat elusive in official records despite several tantalizing pieces of information nestled within Magie's lovelorn ramblings: references to "this fearful year" which in addition to a mention of a state military census pins the date of this journal pretty convulsively to 1917 which was "three quarters of the way through" by July 19th his occupation as a lawyer and the address 302 N. Cayuga Street a location Magie calls "our office". That address is sometimes listed as the location of a local Ithaca restaurant The City Cafeteria but more frequently as the longtime residence of prominent citizen and noted Wordsworth collector - her collection was donated to Cornell Cynthia Woodward Morgan St. John. Her son Edward Morgan St. John Cornell 1911 Cornell Law 1913 did work as an attorney and in the records of his 1919 marriage to Ruth Cronk he lists at least one and possibly two previous marriages though we find only a 1910 marriage to Lena Marie Smith. Cronk however does not. Which suggests perhaps sadly that "Margie" if she existed at all did not get her happily ever after. Nevertheless a compelling document overall and a vivid vernacular portrait of limerence. 10.25'' x 7.5''. Original cloth-backed marbled boards with printed label to front board hand-lettered "I". 94 manuscript leaves written both recto and verso. Boards with light edgewear. Hinges a touch cracked. Tight and clean. n.p. unknown books
1563In-8° (cm. 20.6x15,3), carte (68).non num., 416 cc. num. (= pp. 968), legatura tutta pergamena floscia, al dorso e presso le cerniere piccole mancanze di pergamena professionalmente risarcite, superba marca tipografica (FONTANA di 12 zampilli da un vaso e dal putti gaiamente orinanti, che lo sorreggono), 32 RITRATTI incisi (cm. 4x5, ma uno di cm. 9,8x6, il Placentinus con scolari) di giureconsulti, molti capilettera ornati, gran titolo calligrafico coevo al taglio inferiore, testo nitido e fittissimo su due colonne. Eccellente, solido e perlopiù immacolato esemplare, pur con lievi fioriture, gore e macchioline a varie pagine, Alla sguardia nome d'appart. anticam. cancellato e davvero sibillina strofa calligrafica coeva in 4 versi latini, firmata "Salvator Manaceus Lucensis" (cioè di LUCCA) alludente alla tormentata vicenda di Lucio III (che non nomina) nato a Lucca (1097), vescovo di Ostia, papa a Roma ma esiliato, morto a Verona; al front. altra firma di appartenenza anticam. cancellata. Ricco repertorio cinquecentesco contenente una raccolta di TRATTATI di 32 autori raccolti ed emendati da ZILETTI famoso giureconsulto veneto: de accusationibus, de crimine laese maiestatis, de persecutionibus, Giov. Franc. PONZIO da Parma: de LAMIIS (= STREGHE, 39 fitte colonne, in cui saggiamente nega il sabba diabolico), Paolo GHIRLANDO, de SORTILEGIIS (118 colonne), de HAERETICIS eorumque POENIS (4 trattati, 204 colonne), de fuga, de carceribus, de indiciis et TORTURA, de quaestionibus et tormentis (116 col.), de BANNITIS (cioè esiliati) di Iacopus De Arena (178 colonne), de modo procedendi contra APOSTATAS, COITUS contra naturam ecc. ecc. A richiesta, titoli ed Autori dei vari TRATTATI. Cimelio tipografico del grande COMINO da TRINO nel MONFERRATO. Raro e prezioso di sterminati contenuti, non solo giuridici!.
1839réf. 19929Stuttgart, Scheible, 1839. Kl. 8°, 379; 342; 324; 340; 338; 342 Seiten mit 1 lithogr. Frontispiz-Portrait und 46 gefalteten Kupfertafeln. Marmorierte Pappbände der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschild und 3seitigem Marmorschnitt.
18661st Edition Period Half Leather with raised bands and gilt spine lettering and adornment. 8vo, iv, 572, iv, 572 pages. Complete 1st 24 issues of the New Series of this monthly spiritualist periodical. Continuation of The British Spiritual Telegraph and The Christian spiritualist. Includes essays by Henry Ward Beecher, and about Bengal Spiritualism, Levitation in Spain, Spiritualism and Christianity, Zouave a Young Creative Medium, etc. Bibliography of Spiritualism, Lincolns Dream of Warning, Manx Superstitions, SUBJECT(S): Spiritualism -- Periodicals. OCLC: 728344879. OCLC lists only 3 holdings worldwide (Boston Pub Libm Kings Col London, British Lib). Front blank endpaper of Vol I loose, all text pages clean and nice, binding solid and good. Some rubbing and edgwear to boards and spine, Still attractive, About Very Good- Condition Overall. Rare and important. (AC-22-18)
19501 27.3x19.8 cm., XXIV, 334, [2] pp., XXV tavv. in b/n in fondo al testo, legatura in tela edit. con titoli al dorso e stemma dell'Universit? del Michigan impresso a secco al piatto anteriore, prima edizione, esemplare ben conservato, in inglese Rara edizione originale di questo importante studio sugli amuleti magici greci ed egiziani.
réf. 024837Paris, chez LESCLAPART, 1788 (pour les trois premiers volumes), Bruxelles, veuve Dujardin, et à Paris, chez Defer et Maisonneuve, 1789 (pour le quatrième et dernier volume) 0 Cinq ouvrages en quatre volumes petits in-8° (100 x 171mm), demi-percaline à coins rouge, dos lisses ornés de l'auteur, du titre et de petits fers dorés (reliure de la fin du xixe). ( dos insolés et légèrement salis, exemplaires très rognés avec la perte de quelques lettres, la plupart des feuillets des quatre volumes sont uniformément et fortement roussis, trace de brûlure au feuillet 89-90 du volume du Codicille et au feuillet 121-122 du volume des Petites Aventures, SONT MANQUANTS : les frontispices, le portrait, les feuillets 125-126 et 127-128 du volume de la Magie blanche dévoilée, les feuillets d'explication (8 pp.) et d'éclaircissements (32 pp.) ainsi que 2 planches du volume de Supplément à la Magie). VOLUME 1 : La Magie Blanche dévoilée, ou Explication des Tours surprenans qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la Capitale & de la Province, avec des réflexions sur la Baguette divinatoire, les Automates joueurs d'Échecs, &c. Seconde édition corrigée par l'auteur. Paris, chez LESCLAPART, 1788. XXIV 124 pp. (sont manquants les deux derniers feuilllets). Une figure page 117.; Relié à la suite du même : Supplément à la Magie Blanche dévoilée, Contenant l'explication de plusieurs Tours nouveaux, joués depuis peu à Londres, Avec des éclaircissements sur les artifices des Joueurs de profession. Les Cadrans sympathiques, le Mouvement perpétuel, les Chevaux savans, les Poupées parlantes, les Automates dansans, les Ventriloques, les Sabots élastiques, &c. Paris, LESCLAPART, 1788. VII 287 (1) pp. 2 planches de 2 figures chaque (homme enchaîné) et 29 figures; VOLUME 2 : TESTAMENT de JEROME SHARP, Professeur de Physique amusante, où l'on trouve parmi plusieurs tours de subtilité, qu'on peut exécuter sans aucune dépense, des préceptes et des exemples sur l' Art de faire des chansons impromptu ; pour servir de suite à la magie blanche dévoilée. Paris, LESCLAPART, 1788. XX 328 pp. 2 planches repliées (musique) et 69 figures. Bandeaux et vignettes; VOLUME 3 : CODICILE de Jérôme Sharp, Professeur de Physique amusante ; Où l'on trouve, parmi plusieurs Tours dont il n'est point parlé dans son Testament, diverses Récréations relatives aux Sciences & Beaux-Arts ; pour servir de troisième suite à la Magie blanche dévoilée ; avec 64 figures. Paris, LESCLAPART, 1788. 286 pp. (2) pp. (approbation). Nombreuses figures au feuillet 31-32, 64 figures et deux tableaux dépliants reliés en fin de volumes; VOLUME 4 : Les Petites Aventures de Jérôme Sharp, Professeur de Physique amusante ; ouvrage contenant autant de tours ingénieux que de leçons utiles, avec quelques petits portraits à la manière noire ; par l'auteur de la Magie Blanche. Bruxelles, chez la veuve DUJARDIN, et à Paris, chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789. 386 pp. 17 figures. Cachet d'ex-libris. Henri Decremps (1746-1826) publia en 1784 " La Magie blanche dévoilée " afin de démasquer charlatans et escrocs dont le plus fameux d'entre eux à la veille de la Révolution Joseph Pinetti, prétendu physicien et magicien de la cour de Louis XVI qui publiait la même année ses Amusements physiques. Decremps, le premier, démystifia l'escamoteur par l'explication de toutes ses expériences (tours de cartes, gobelets et gibecières etc.) et dressa la liste des techniques de tricherie, comme les faux mélanges, les sauts de coupe, la donne en second, etc. RARE
1744réf. GEJ-3Rome but Lille, Imprimerie de Blocquel, 1744 but probably 1830. Hardcover. In-12. Colation complete: 112 pp. and avertissement pp. Quarter leather binding, brown leather backstrip over marbled paper boards. Gilt titling on leather spine label, raised bands, gilt rules and decorations to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Exlibris on the first endpaper: "Libraire Papeterie G.Cazaux".Frontispiece, full page plates, sigils and devices in text. Bright and clean inside. Little foxing interior. Rare 1744 edition of French Grimoire refers to an edition of Henri Corneille Agrippa famous grimoire, translated into French by Pierre d Aban, which includes occult secrets such as the ritual of the Queen of the Hairy Flies. Although dated 1744, the edition may be fanciful. Probably early XIX c. edition. This type of Bibliotheque Blue publication, although sometimes fanciful in its dating, was common at the time and refers to writings already circulating on occult and alchemical practices. Bibliography: Caillet, 97, Y. Plessis, 34.