[Rarebooks] Offering: Haen. DE LIBER MAGIA. 1774.

[Michael John Thompson]

HAEN, Anton [Antoine, Antonus] de, 1704-1776

DE MAGIA LIBER. [The Book Of Magic].

Lipsiae [Leipzig], Johann Paul Kraus, 1774.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, contemporary full calf, 
the spine with raised bands and decorated in gilt 
within compartments, title label printed in gilt, 
pink paste endpapers, all edges gilt.. [xxxii], + 
316 pp + errata page. Embossed Masonic Library 
stamp on title leaf, small bookseller's catalogue 
entry affixed to rear pastedown, neat owner's 
signature on title page. Some minor wear to the 
binding, otherwise a very well-margined, 
exceptionally clean copy. ¶ De Haen was a Dutch 
physician from the Ha gue, one of the greatest 
students of Boerhave. He lived and worked in 
Vienna and became the personal physician to Queen 
Maria Theresa. He was one of the first physicians 
to make routine use of the thermometer in 
medicine, he also made use of electro -therapy. 
He wrote numerous works concerning medicine, 
magic, the supernatural and the combination of 
all three as found by observation and reference 
to scripture. De Haen believed in magic as well 
as miracles, and was commissioned by Queen to run 
a hospital for the examination and treatment of 
the possessed. The work discusses various types 
of divination, the laws of the Church and the 
authority of the Church Fathers on Magic, and 
authors who have denied the existance of magic 
and waved the q uestion as to whether the 
physician may, by certain signs, diagnose a 
natural ailment from one caused by magical art. 
Caillet 4924 [listing the 1775 edition]; Dorbon 
2074 [also citing the 1775 edition] "possibly one 
of the most curious works on Magic"; de Guatia 
1440 [1775 edition] "curious and rare".

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$1,500.00 US. Post extra. Trade discount allowed.


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