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PORTA, Giovanni Battista della (1538-1615). Magiae naturalis libri XX. Naples: Orazio Salviani, 1589.
2o (296 x 217 mm). Woodcut title border, author's portrait on verso, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. (Worming at beginning and end, affecting text, some light browning and staining, a few tiny holes, mostly marginal.) 18th-century Italian limp vellum (some wear and repairs).
FIRST EDITION of the complete text in twenty books, an augmented version of a work first published in four books in 1558. Harvard/Mortimer Italian 400; Riccardi I(2):307.
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FIRST EDITION of the complete text in twenty books, an augmented version of a work first published in four books in 1558. Harvard/Mortimer Italian 400; Riccardi I(2):307.