Lot 300
Alchemy.- Nazari (Giovanni Battista) Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre, rare second edition, Brescia, Francesco & Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1572.
Hammer Price: £2,600
Description
Nazari (Giovanni Battista) Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre, collation: *4 A-Y4, title with first word in woodcut cartouche and with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, woodcut historiated initials, penultimate f. with woodcut printer's device recto, otherwise blank, Y4 blank, occasional early ink marginalia, browned, lower corners trimmed away, some staining, 20th century limp vellum, spine titled in gilt, 4to (207 x 147mm.), Brescia, Francesco & Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1572.
⁂ Rare second edition of this alchemical work, which takes the form of dreams. Includes a list of authors and books of an alchemical nature.
Literature: Ferguson II, p.131 (note); EDIT 16 CNCE 28322; cf. Duveen p.426.
Description
Nazari (Giovanni Battista) Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre, collation: *4 A-Y4, title with first word in woodcut cartouche and with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, woodcut historiated initials, penultimate f. with woodcut printer's device recto, otherwise blank, Y4 blank, occasional early ink marginalia, browned, lower corners trimmed away, some staining, 20th century limp vellum, spine titled in gilt, 4to (207 x 147mm.), Brescia, Francesco & Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1572.
⁂ Rare second edition of this alchemical work, which takes the form of dreams. Includes a list of authors and books of an alchemical nature.
Literature: Ferguson II, p.131 (note); EDIT 16 CNCE 28322; cf. Duveen p.426.
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