Agrippa (Henricus Cornelius) (1486-1535)

De occulta philosophia libri tres. Illustrated with 7 wash drawings of the 'Astrological Man', etc. and by numerous figures of sigils, etc. Text within red rules.

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 6 ll. + CCCLXIII pp. folio. 31 1/2 x 20 cm. Original half vellum binding.

Purchased 1930.

A copy of the rare first edition, published by Johann Soter in Cologne. A note on a fly-leaf by Johann Ferdinand Rücker, Pfarrer of Thannhausen, states that he bought it at a book-sale at Nüremberg on 17 November, 1789.

Armorial book-plate [unidentified].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).