[Rarebooks] FS: Several 17th c. texts on the occult, bound together, but with issues.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(OCCULT) [Fludd, Robert]. FASCICULUS GEOMANTICUS, in Quo Varia Variorum Opera Geomantica Continentur. Opus Maxime Curiosum... Veronae: No pub. 1687. 8vo. 647,(1)pp. With 7 folding tables, but without the 2 engraved plates which should be present (see below). BOUND WITH: TABULAE GEOMANTICAE... Ex Antiquo Manuscripto de Anno MDXXXV... Frankfurt: Joannis Davidis Zunneri. 1693. 197,(1)pp. Without the 2 folding tables called for. Both works bound together in cont. calf and paper covered boards. Spine ornately gilt. Edges rubbed. With the contemporary engraved bookplate, "Ex Bibliotheca Raschkiana."    $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
I: This is actually 3 texts in 1. The second is by H. de Pisis, OPUS GEOMANTICAE COMPLETUM... and the third is by Alfakini Arabici, QUAESTIONES GEOMANTICAE... Copies are recorded with only 5 or 6 folding tables (of 7), and another copy currently on-line is also lacking the 2 engraved plates. Caillet 4035.
II: Text is entirely tables in double columns. Caillet 10515.

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