[Rarebooks] For Sale: "Albertus Magnus"

[Norman Kane]

We can offer:

ALBERTUS MAGNUS BEWAERTE  & APPROBIRTE SYMPATHETISCHE
& NATUERLICHE EGYPTISCHE GEHEIMNISSE FUER MENSCHEN & VIEH.
. . . FUER STAEDTER & LANDLEUTE.  Braband, 1839-1834-1840 & Boston
[sic]: im literarischen Central-Bureau, 1852.  4 parts in 1, as 
issued. Part 4 has
the title: Das Buch der Geheimnisse.  8vo, old plain cloth, modest wear, free
end papers gone, 67, 80, 69, 72 pages.  Pages 71-72 contain a list of
medicinal plants.  (Magical and practical cures for diseases of men and beasts.
This work, falsely attributed to the genius of the middle ages, was the basis
for the famous "pow-wow" book of magical cures which had great popularity
among the Pennsylvania-Germans.   Quite 
uncommon.)  $175.00

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