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Jacob Gaffarelli - Curiositates


570
Jacob Gaffarelli
Curiositates, 1706.
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Gaffarel, J., Curiositates inauditae, sive selectae observationes de variis superstitionibus veterum, orientalium maxime, judaeorum, persarum etc. de figuris talismanicis ... Praefatio J. A. Fabricii. With fold. etched title and 15 predominantly fold. woodcut plates. Hamburg, B. Schiller 1706. Contemp. vellum. 8vo. 62 unnumb. ll., 290 pp., 9 ll. - Bound with: Michaelis, G., Notae in Jacobi Gaffarelli curiositates. With woodcut title vign.. Hamburg, G. Schultz 1676. 498 pp.
Wellcome III, 80. - Graesse, Bibl. mag. p. 47. -Thorndike VII, 304ff. - Cf. Caillet II, 4293; Ackermann IV, 302 und Dorbon-Ainé A. 1811 (different edition): "Principal ouvrage de ce grand cabaliste, bibliothécaire de cardinal de Richelieu". - Second Latin edition of the works about talismanics. The author was forced by the censors of the Sorbonne to publish a withdrawal of his work in 1629. - Partly browned, typogr. title with stamp and rebacked tear, 1 plate with torn gutter. Endpapers and title of appendix with old notes.



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Jacob Gaffarelli
Curiositates, 1706.
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