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DEE, John (1527-1608). A True and Faithful Relation of what Passed ... between Dr. John Dee ... and some Spirits. London: D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait, 1659. 2° (340 x 217mm). Title printed in red and black, 3 engraved plates, one of which double-page. (Frontispiece supplied in facsimile, one plate loose and lightly frayed at edges, occasional light spotting, title with small marginal hole and some light creasing and fraying at edges.) Contemporary reversed calf (worn and repaired, endpapers loose). Provenance: Lucy and Eliza Dunch (early ink inscriptions at front) -- neat bookseller's price of £-/2/6 dated June 6 1750 at front.
DEE, John (1527-1608). A True and Faithful Relation of what Passed ... between Dr. John Dee ... and some Spirits. London: D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait, 1659. 2° (340 x 217mm). Title printed in red and black, 3 engraved plates, one of which double-page. (Frontispiece supplied in facsimile, one plate loose and lightly frayed at edges, occasional light spotting, title with small marginal hole and some light creasing and fraying at edges.) Contemporary reversed calf (worn and repaired, endpapers loose). Provenance: Lucy and Eliza Dunch (early ink inscriptions at front) -- neat bookseller's price of £-/2/6 dated June 6 1750 at front.

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DEE, John (1527-1608). A True and Faithful Relation of what Passed ... between Dr. John Dee ... and some Spirits. London: D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait, 1659. 2° (340 x 217mm). Title printed in red and black, 3 engraved plates, one of which double-page. (Frontispiece supplied in facsimile, one plate loose and lightly frayed at edges, occasional light spotting, title with small marginal hole and some light creasing and fraying at edges.) Contemporary reversed calf (worn and repaired, endpapers loose). Provenance: Lucy and Eliza Dunch (early ink inscriptions at front) -- neat bookseller's price of £-/2/6 dated June 6 1750 at front.

FIRST PUBLICATION REVEALING DEE'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCES. 10 years after Dee's death, Robert Cotton discovered several manuscripts of Dee's angelic communications. Cotton's son gave these to the French-English scholar, Méric Casaubon, who published them in the present work. Wing D-811.

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