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SCARLATTINI, Ottavio (1623-1699). L'Huomo et sue parti figurato, e simbolico. Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1683.
2 parts in one volume, 2° (315 x 205mm). Engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, full page engraved portrait of the author, 41 engraved vignettes in the text. (First 4 leaves remargined, occasional open and repaired tears, some browning.) Contemporary goatskin (rubbed at extremities). Provenance: ‘Ad Usum Fr: Peregrinis Antonij di Orlandis Ord[o] Carm’ (inscription to frontispiece).
RARE FIRST EDITION of this handsomely illustrated work on mysticism and man’s relationship to the occult. cf. Caillet 9948 (listing only the first Latin edition, 1695).
2 parts in one volume, 2° (315 x 205mm). Engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, full page engraved portrait of the author, 41 engraved vignettes in the text. (First 4 leaves remargined, occasional open and repaired tears, some browning.) Contemporary goatskin (rubbed at extremities). Provenance: ‘Ad Usum Fr: Peregrinis Antonij di Orlandis Ord[o] Carm’ (inscription to frontispiece).
RARE FIRST EDITION of this handsomely illustrated work on mysticism and man’s relationship to the occult. cf. Caillet 9948 (listing only the first Latin edition, 1695).
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