MACARIUS, Joannes. Abraxas seu Apistopistus; quae est antiquaria de gemmis Basilidianis disquisito. Antwerp: Plantin, Balthasar Moretus, 1657. 4° (218 x 170mm). 126 engraved illustrations on 29 plates, 3 illustrations in text, 2 woodcut, one engraved. (Light marginal spotting and browning, a few lower corners lightly waterstained.) 19th-century half calf (rubbed, new endpapers). Provenance: J.E. Hodgkin (gift inscription dated 29 July 1862 on *2, to:) -- Thomas Hodgkin (bookplate).

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MACARIUS, Joannes. Abraxas seu Apistopistus; quae est antiquaria de gemmis Basilidianis disquisito. Antwerp: Plantin, Balthasar Moretus, 1657. 4° (218 x 170mm). 126 engraved illustrations on 29 plates, 3 illustrations in text, 2 woodcut, one engraved. (Light marginal spotting and browning, a few lower corners lightly waterstained.) 19th-century half calf (rubbed, new endpapers). Provenance: J.E. Hodgkin (gift inscription dated 29 July 1862 on *2, to:) -- Thomas Hodgkin (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of Macarius's treatise on Gnostic engraved gems and amulets. Graesse IV, 319; Sinkankas 4081.

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