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BOOKS.
Set of 3 works in 2 volumes.
BUNGUS Petrus (†1601). Mysticae numerorum significationis (Bergamo, C. Venturae, ). 2 volumes in 1 vol. in-folio (32 x 20.5 cm) half-brown calf with small corners, spine ribbed and decorated (19th c. slipcase).
Rare first edition of this important treatise on numerology, which studies the discipline through several hundred authors over a period extending from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
Former coll. René Alleau (Mottling, heavy browning to last few leaves, some freckling, worm gallery to first few leaves, marginal tears, label taped to first flyleaf, clumsy 19th-century rebacking very faded.
COCLES Bartolomeo (1467-1504). La Geomantia, [followed by:] GEBER Gioanni, De la Geomantia (Venice, G. Rapirio, 1550 and 1552). Set of 2 works in 1 vol. small in-8 (14.8 x 9.7 cm), green morocco, inner frame in the same leather decorated with lace, spine with decorated nerves (later binding). Reunion of two treatises profusely illustrated in the text. Handwritten bookplate "Gaspard de Ronnat" on title| former coll. Guy Bechtel (engraved bookplate). Spotting and dampening, annotations in ink, last quire partially uncropped.
Set of 3 works in 2 volumes.
BUNGUS Petrus (†1601). Mysticae numerorum significationis (Bergamo, C. Venturae, ). 2 volumes in 1 vol. in-folio (32 x 20.5 cm) half-brown calf with small corners, spine ribbed and decorated (19th c. slipcase).
Rare first edition of this important treatise on numerology, which studies the discipline through several hundred authors over a period extending from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
Former coll. René Alleau (Mottling, heavy browning to last few leaves, some freckling, worm gallery to first few leaves, marginal tears, label taped to first flyleaf, clumsy 19th-century rebacking very faded.
COCLES Bartolomeo (1467-1504). La Geomantia, [followed by:] GEBER Gioanni, De la Geomantia (Venice, G. Rapirio, 1550 and 1552). Set of 2 works in 1 vol. small in-8 (14.8 x 9.7 cm), green morocco, inner frame in the same leather decorated with lace, spine with decorated nerves (later binding). Reunion of two treatises profusely illustrated in the text. Handwritten bookplate "Gaspard de Ronnat" on title| former coll. Guy Bechtel (engraved bookplate). Spotting and dampening, annotations in ink, last quire partially uncropped.