$3,998
Schott, Gaspar (1608-1666) Magia Naturalis Naturae et Artis . Bamberg: Schonwetter, 1674-1677. Four quarto volumes, collated, complete, each with an engraved title, and illustrated with full-page and folding engravings throughout, I: twenty-five; II: thirty-three; III: twenty-one; IV: thirteen; for a total of ninety-two plates; text with occasional browning, as usual, sometimes heavy; bound in contemporary French calfskin, speckled boards, gold-tooled spines, headcaps chipped, all boards attached; ex libris Carmelite Convent of Paris, with their early stamp in black ink, placed discreetly, and blending in with the typography, and ex libris a Jesuit institution, with their blue stamp on titles.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
