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OBSEQUENS, Julius. Prodigiorum liber. Basel: Johannes Operinus, 1552.
8° (161 x 107mm). Woodcut vignette on title, 83 woodcut illustrations, historiated initials. (Small paper flaw in H5 with loss of image on recto and verso, a few leaves with mainly light marginal waterstaining, light worming in outer margin of second half.) Modern morocco. Provenance: Guy Bechtel (bookplate; G. Bechtel’s collection of books of occult studies was sold at auction in 1978).
First separately printed edition of this work on omens and supernatural events, first published in 1508 at the end of Aldine’s edition of Pliny’s Epistolae. The illustrations depict various abnormal animals and humans, landscapes, destroyed cities, weather and other natural phenomena. Edited by C. Lycosthenes, the work also contains Polydore Vergil's ‘De prodigiis’ and Camerarius’s ‘De ostentis’. Adams O-8; Durling 3380; Wellcome I, 4602.
8° (161 x 107mm). Woodcut vignette on title, 83 woodcut illustrations, historiated initials. (Small paper flaw in H5 with loss of image on recto and verso, a few leaves with mainly light marginal waterstaining, light worming in outer margin of second half.) Modern morocco. Provenance: Guy Bechtel (bookplate; G. Bechtel’s collection of books of occult studies was sold at auction in 1978).
First separately printed edition of this work on omens and supernatural events, first published in 1508 at the end of Aldine’s edition of Pliny’s Epistolae. The illustrations depict various abnormal animals and humans, landscapes, destroyed cities, weather and other natural phenomena. Edited by C. Lycosthenes, the work also contains Polydore Vergil's ‘De prodigiis’ and Camerarius’s ‘De ostentis’. Adams O-8; Durling 3380; Wellcome I, 4602.
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