![OCCULT – MASINI, Eliseo. Sacro Arsenale overo Prattica dell'officio della Santa Inquisitione. Genoa and Perugia: Sebastiano Zecchini, 1653. 4° (213 x 153 mm). (A number of gatherings browned, scattered staining and spotting, final leaf with short marginal tear just into text.) Contemporary vellum, gilt roll-tooled borders to covers with cornerpieces and central device, gilt edges (rear inner hinge broken, lightly soiled, lacking ties). Provenance: Sebastiano de Marini, advocate fiscal to the Holy Office [i.e. the Inquisition] (ink inscription on flyleaf).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0184_002(occult_masini_eliseo_sacro_arsenale_overo_prattica_dellofficio_della_s_d6069478034951).jpg?w=1)
![OCCULT – MASINI, Eliseo. Sacro Arsenale overo Prattica dell'officio della Santa Inquisitione. Genoa and Perugia: Sebastiano Zecchini, 1653. 4° (213 x 153 mm). (A number of gatherings browned, scattered staining and spotting, final leaf with short marginal tear just into text.) Contemporary vellum, gilt roll-tooled borders to covers with cornerpieces and central device, gilt edges (rear inner hinge broken, lightly soiled, lacking ties). Provenance: Sebastiano de Marini, advocate fiscal to the Holy Office [i.e. the Inquisition] (ink inscription on flyleaf).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0184_003(occult_masini_eliseo_sacro_arsenale_overo_prattica_dellofficio_della_s_d6069478035010).jpg?w=1)
![OCCULT – MASINI, Eliseo. Sacro Arsenale overo Prattica dell'officio della Santa Inquisitione. Genoa and Perugia: Sebastiano Zecchini, 1653. 4° (213 x 153 mm). (A number of gatherings browned, scattered staining and spotting, final leaf with short marginal tear just into text.) Contemporary vellum, gilt roll-tooled borders to covers with cornerpieces and central device, gilt edges (rear inner hinge broken, lightly soiled, lacking ties). Provenance: Sebastiano de Marini, advocate fiscal to the Holy Office [i.e. the Inquisition] (ink inscription on flyleaf).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0184_001(occult_masini_eliseo_sacro_arsenale_overo_prattica_dellofficio_della_s_d6069478034935).jpg?w=1)
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OCCULT – MASINI, Eliseo. Sacro Arsenale overo Prattica dell'officio della Santa Inquisitione. Genoa and Perugia: Sebastiano Zecchini, 1653. 4° (213 x 153 mm). (A number of gatherings browned, scattered staining and spotting, final leaf with short marginal tear just into text.) Contemporary vellum, gilt roll-tooled borders to covers with cornerpieces and central device, gilt edges (rear inner hinge broken, lightly soiled, lacking ties). Provenance: Sebastiano de Marini, advocate fiscal to the Holy Office [i.e. the Inquisition] (ink inscription on flyleaf).
MAFFEI, Giovanni Camillo. Scala Naturale, overo Fantasia Dolcissima, intorno alle cose occulte, e. desiderate nella Filosofia. Venice: Giovanno Varisco, 1564. 8° (150 x 98mm). Title with printer's woodcut device, and full-page woodcut portrait of the author to verso, several woodcut initials, one woodcut text illustration. (Staining to lower margin throughout.) Modern limp vellum.
[and:] MASEN, J. Speculum imaginum veritatis occultae, exhibens symbola, emblemata, hieroglyphica, aenigmata, omni tam materiae, quam formae varietate. Cologne: Kinckius, [1650]. 8° (163 x 98mm). Complete with index and the separately paginated final part of 47pp. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges (extremities lightly rubbed and soiled). FIRST EDITION. [and:] VISCONTI, Zacharia. Complementum Artis Exorcisticae. Venice: Francesco Bariletti, 1619. 8° (160 x 109mm). Engraved representation of a terrestrial globe on title. (Title with tiny marginal tear due to paper flaw, A7 and E8 with marginal chips, ink mark affecting a couple of words on K7v, some light scattered spotting.) Contemporary limp vellum (extremities lightly rubbed with a few tiny chips). Provenance: Bibliotheca Montis Oliveti de Neapoli (stamp on title, later sold to:) – Cipriano Pinto (purchase inscription dated 1888 on flyleaf). [and:] GODELMANN, Johann Georg. Tractatus de magis veneficis et lamiis, deqve his recte cognoscendis et puniendis. Frankfurt: Nikolaus Bassae and Johann Saur, 1601. 4° (187 x 148mm). (Title strengthened, small marginal chip to R3, occasional minor marginal worming, tiny burn hole in marginal to 3C2, occasional light browning.) Modern vellum. Provenance: occasional early ink marginalia and underlining -- Frédéric and Anne Max (booklabel). [and:] GEBER [JABIR IBN HAYYAN, attributed]. Geberis philosophi perspicacissimi. Venice: Schoeffer, and Brixium: Pederz, 1542. 8° (150 x 103mm). Large woodcut on verso of title, woodcut initials and text-illustrations of alchemical apparatus, 4 of which full-page, Pederz’s woodcut device on verso of final leaf. (Occasional light spotting.) Later pasteboard binding (soiled). Provenance: occasional early ink marginalia and underlining.
A COLLECTION OF VERY SCARCE PUBLICATIONS ON THE OCCULT, including Masini's rare work on the Inquisition. Masini was an inquisitor at Genoa between 1609-1627, and the first edition of his work published in 1621 was completely destroyed by order of the Holy Office. A second followed in 1639, with the present third edition appearing in 1653. The work outlines inquisitorial law, and contains the infamous sixth chapter ‘Del modo d'interrogare i Rei nella tortura.’ The group also contains the first edition of Maffei's cosmological treatise, where the universe is envisaged as a series of fourteen concentric spheres with man at the centre. The final named work is a 16th-century reprint of alchemical tracts. Sold with one other work.
MAFFEI, Giovanni Camillo. Scala Naturale, overo Fantasia Dolcissima, intorno alle cose occulte, e. desiderate nella Filosofia. Venice: Giovanno Varisco, 1564. 8° (150 x 98mm). Title with printer's woodcut device, and full-page woodcut portrait of the author to verso, several woodcut initials, one woodcut text illustration. (Staining to lower margin throughout.) Modern limp vellum.
[and:] MASEN, J. Speculum imaginum veritatis occultae, exhibens symbola, emblemata, hieroglyphica, aenigmata, omni tam materiae, quam formae varietate. Cologne: Kinckius, [1650]. 8° (163 x 98mm). Complete with index and the separately paginated final part of 47pp. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges (extremities lightly rubbed and soiled). FIRST EDITION. [and:] VISCONTI, Zacharia. Complementum Artis Exorcisticae. Venice: Francesco Bariletti, 1619. 8° (160 x 109mm). Engraved representation of a terrestrial globe on title. (Title with tiny marginal tear due to paper flaw, A7 and E8 with marginal chips, ink mark affecting a couple of words on K7v, some light scattered spotting.) Contemporary limp vellum (extremities lightly rubbed with a few tiny chips). Provenance: Bibliotheca Montis Oliveti de Neapoli (stamp on title, later sold to:) – Cipriano Pinto (purchase inscription dated 1888 on flyleaf). [and:] GODELMANN, Johann Georg. Tractatus de magis veneficis et lamiis, deqve his recte cognoscendis et puniendis. Frankfurt: Nikolaus Bassae and Johann Saur, 1601. 4° (187 x 148mm). (Title strengthened, small marginal chip to R3, occasional minor marginal worming, tiny burn hole in marginal to 3C2, occasional light browning.) Modern vellum. Provenance: occasional early ink marginalia and underlining -- Frédéric and Anne Max (booklabel). [and:] GEBER [JABIR IBN HAYYAN, attributed]. Geberis philosophi perspicacissimi. Venice: Schoeffer, and Brixium: Pederz, 1542. 8° (150 x 103mm). Large woodcut on verso of title, woodcut initials and text-illustrations of alchemical apparatus, 4 of which full-page, Pederz’s woodcut device on verso of final leaf. (Occasional light spotting.) Later pasteboard binding (soiled). Provenance: occasional early ink marginalia and underlining.
A COLLECTION OF VERY SCARCE PUBLICATIONS ON THE OCCULT, including Masini's rare work on the Inquisition. Masini was an inquisitor at Genoa between 1609-1627, and the first edition of his work published in 1621 was completely destroyed by order of the Holy Office. A second followed in 1639, with the present third edition appearing in 1653. The work outlines inquisitorial law, and contains the infamous sixth chapter ‘Del modo d'interrogare i Rei nella tortura.’ The group also contains the first edition of Maffei's cosmological treatise, where the universe is envisaged as a series of fourteen concentric spheres with man at the centre. The final named work is a 16th-century reprint of alchemical tracts. Sold with one other work.
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