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Description : FIRST AND ONLY EDITION ARPE, P. F. De prodigiosis naturae et artis operibus talismans et amuleta.Hamburg, Liebezeit, 1717. 8vo, (175 x 100 mm) modern half vellum bindin, board enriched by marbled paper, engraved title at spine. Engraved allegoric frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, Xylographic head-letters, headpieces and end-pieces. RARE WORK ON TALISMANS AND AMULETS This singular work, of extraordinary erudition, is a reasoned bibliography of the authors who dealth with talismans and the amulets, their mysterious powers and the different ways of making them. 550 authors have been reviewed, from the most remote antiquity, since the invention of the first amulet dates back to Cam, son of Noah, until the seventeenth century. Arpe gives us information on the Chaldeans, on Egypt and other ancient civilizations, about Rome he presents a comprehensive picture of the development of magical thought from the early Greek philosophers, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, to the neotropical esoterism, Hermes Trismegistus , Proclus, to eventually reach the most recent authors, Marsilio Ricino, Cornelio Agrippa, Paracelo, Trithemius, Fludd, Kircher. Chapter V is dedicated to the materials used to make amulets, metals, stones, herbs, and the techniques used to make them effective as magical objects. The VI concerns the mysterious relations between the talismans and astrology, the chiromancy, the ancients alphabets, images and magic words of incantations, relations of sympathy and antipathy between men and stars or, as the work concludes, between the microcosm of man and the macrocosm of the universe. References:: Faber du Faur 1576, Graesse, Magica, 39: Caillet 446, Rosenthal 1814: Ebert 1227: Georgi I, 69.
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