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<strong>Alchemy</strong> and the occult 10. M ACPH A IL , Ian, Laurence C. W ITTEN and Richard PACHELL A . <strong>Alchemy</strong> and the occult. A catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Volume One [-Four]. New Haven, Yale University Library, 1968–1977. 4 volumes. 4to. Cloth, in two cloth slipcases. € 750 First and only edition of a very detailed and luxuriously printed catalogue of the books and manuscripts concerning alchemy and the occult given by Paul and Mary Mellon to Yale University Library. Volume 1 and 2 cover printed books (1472–1623 and 1624–1790) and volume 3 and 4 manuscripts (1225–1671 and1675-1922). In very good condition; some minor stains on the slipcases and the title-labels slightly rubbed.
Scaliger’s unsurpassed critical edition of Manilius’s ancient astrology 11. M A NILIUS, Marcus and Joseph SC A LIGER (ed.). Astronomicon libri quinque. Including: JUNIUS, Franciscus. In Manilii Astronomica variae lectiones. SC A LIGER, Joseph. In Manilii Quinque libros astronomicon commentarius & castigationes. [Heidelberg], Officina Sanctandreana [=Hieronymus Commelin], 1590. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With woodcut publisher’s device (repeated on the title-page of part 3), 6 astronomical woodcuts and a few tables in text. 18th-century(?) stiff pasteboard wrappers. € 1.750 True second edition of Scaliger’s Manilius, the oldest and most widely cited work on ancient astrology, enlarged with commentaries by Franciscus Junius. “Perhaps no critic has ever effected so great and permanent a change in any author’s text as Scaliger in Manilius’. … The commentary is the one commentary on Manilius, without forerunner and without successor; after the passage of 300 years, it is the only avenue to a study of the poem …” (Houseman, in the preface to his edition of 1903). “For the average reader, the Astronomica served as a literary introduction to heavens and an advanced primer to astrology. Manilius’ masterpiece, a Latin didactic poem in five books, unveils the cosmos in hexameter verse, explaining the celestial sphere and zodiac, ‘describing the stars, constellations, and planets,’ and above all, providing a Stoic vision of the celestial dance” (Hockey et al.). From the library of Pietro Riccardi, a notable collector of mathematical books. Some browning throughout and one page with its lower right corner torn off, but still a good copy and wholly untrimmed, preserving all deckles. Binding also good, with upper part of the front hinge restored. Adams M362; Riccardi I, Manulius 44 (this copy); VD 16, ZV 10344 (6 copies); cf. Hockey et al., Biographical encyclopedia of astronomers, p. 735.
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