[Rarebooks] FS: Henricus Agrippa on "The Vanity of Arts & Sciences" London: 1676

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Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius. THE VANITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. London: Printed 
by J. C. for Samuel Speed. 1676. First English edition. (18),368pp. Index. 
Copper engraved frontispiece portrait. Cont. calf, rebacked with an elaborately 
gilt tooled spine, red morocco spine label. A very nice copy.     $2,000.00 
(trade discount allowed)
Scarce first English translation of a much reprinted Latin text in the 16th & 
17th centuries. It is a sarcastic attack on the existing sciences and the 
pretensions of learned men. Agrippa (1486-1535) wrote this work in Latin about 
1527. It was first published in Antwerp in 1531. Wing A790.

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