[Rarebooks] OFFER: THE ART OF ARTIFICIAL MEMORY DIAGRAMED!!

[Laderman]

ANON:  ARS MAGNA ET ADMIRABILIS SPECIMINIBUS VARIIS CONFIRMATA, QUA 
PANDECTARUM TITULI, EURUMQ; PRAECIPUA MATERIA, OPE FIGURARUM 
EMBLEMATICORUM. Brevissime, jucundem & tenacuter, memorie imprimim firmiter 
contineri, & opportune in usum trasferri possunt; In maximum commodum legis 
Studiosi. Lugduni Batavorum Apud Theodorum Haack & Samuelem Luchtmans 1728. 
320 Pp. 16.2 cm. Full vellum with two folding plates of arrangements of 
memory plaques on walls. The text consists of a series of 50 books in which 
there are a series of numbered paragraphs for closely linked ideas which 
should be so linked on the memory walls. This is an art of memory book 
using the artificial scheme within an imaginary room covered with tiles, 
like those which the Dutch could make so well at that time. But these tiles 
were arranged for the greatest utility in helping law students remember 
laws and their relationships. This is just such a book as is described in 
Yates "The Art of Memory", but may be the only one which carries out the 
process in almost textbook fashion, allowing us to see the actual  memory 
walls and their relationships.  Something Yates never found herself.  This 
is the Second edition. The first was issued in Leyden, as well, but by 
Luchtmans without a partner in 1695. The book appears to be very rare, 
despite the reprint. I have found 2 copies of the first edition, one in 
Berlin and the other in the National Library of the Netherlands, and none 
of this edition. Unnoted at GBV, SBV, ONB,COPAC,  OCLC, BN, Etc. A Very 
Good copy in original full vellum titled "Ars Magni Pandectarum" in script 
and with the small label of Thomas Clark, Law Bookseller, 8 Parliament 
Square Edinburgh, on the inner front board, but without signs of prior 
ownership. $1275.00

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