Ficino, Marsilio - Della Religione Christiana

Florence, Giunti, 1568. 8°. Typog…

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Ficino, Marsilio - Della Religione Christiana Florence, Giunti, 1568. 8°. Typographic mark to title page and at end of volume, wood-engraved capilettera, slight flourishes, a few light haloes, a few woodworm holes to last few papers, vellum binding, manuscript title to spine, a few small gaps, spine slightly detached from body of book, minor defects.

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Ficino, Marsilio - Della Religione Christiana Florence, Giunti, 1568. 8°. Typographic mark to title page and at end of volume, wood-engraved capilettera, slight flourishes, a few light haloes, a few woodworm holes to last few papers, vellum binding, manuscript title to spine, a few small gaps, spine slightly detached from body of book, minor defects.

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Papal coins Urban VIII (1623-1644) Testone 1628 - Munt.63 AG (g. 9.54) RRRR Urban VIII, born Maffeo Barberini (Florence 1568 - Rome 1644), was elected pope in 1623, a staunch supporter of the supreme authority of the Church, he also showed himself jealous of his personal authority. He implemented numerous reforms within the ecclesiastical hierarchy and worked to strengthen the Inquisition. He succeeded in annexing the Duchy of Urbino (1631) to the Papal State. He was a man fond of pomp and a great patron of the arts, cultured and humanist, therefore nicknamed the Attic bee (from the bee found in the family coat of arms), and under his pontificate Rome was embellished with important works. A coin of the greatest rarity, the only other specimen is the one in the Vatican museum , in low conservation and pierced. This one, on the contrary, is in excellent preservation. Rated Spl by appraiser Knight Francis - SPL

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[Esoterisme] [Manuscript] ELIPHAS LEVI [CONSTANT (Louis-Alphonse)]: The Wisdom of the Ancients. Collection of symbolic figures with legends and explanations, by Eliphas Levi, professor of occult sciences. 1874. One volume. 19 by 26 cm. 401 pages (complete). Contemporary speckled half-basane, smooth spine with 4 gilt fillets, boards illustrated with a large gilt plate. Some rubbing to spine, gold on boards slightly faded, corners dulled, inner hinges weak, copy partly unstuck. But overall good condition. The manuscript consists of 99 figures (photographs, engravings, pen-and-ink drawings, watercolors) with commentary, in a set intended as a general synthesis of a thought that encompasses religions, Kabbalah, Freemasonry, etc. First series: Sohar and Kabbalah Second series: Paracelsus' Prophecy 3rd series: Sin, Hell, Death and Redemption. 4th series: Indian wisdom. 5th series: Comparative wisdom of the Bible and the Gospel. 6th series: Egypt. Kabbalah and magic. 7th series: Keys to the Egyptian Tarot. This last series includes Symbolic Astrology, and The Devil's Sermon on the Mount. In particular, the 32 figures of the "Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti Paracelsi" (1536 edition, photographed), the Egyptian tarot keys with all their figures, and a symbolic astrology presented in 14 watercolors by Eliphas LEVI, with extensive commentary on their reverse. Each illustration is left free, retained in the manuscript by a fold in the page. And preceded by a page of handwritten comments by Eliphas Lévi. The manuscript is complete with all illustrations, and is signed at the end by Eliphas Lévi. "Original manuscript in the hand of the famous Eliphas Lévi, composed one year before his death. It was probably this collection that Eliphas Lévi was referring to when he wrote to his pupil Baron de Spédaliéri on January 23, 1974: I still hope that we'll resume our lessons regularly and finish our course, which remains unfinished; the album I'm working on will be a complement to it and like an atlas." This manuscript album remains unpublished. Alphonse-Louis CONSTANT (1810-1875), who took the author's name of Eliphas Lévi Zahed, the Hebrew translation of his name, had a full life. Steeped in religion, politically committed, utopian, Freemason, cabalist, painter (he illustrated novels by DUMAS), he was a great scholar, devoting most of his work to highly learned esoteric analyses. He remains famous for his profound occultist writings. "Provenance of this manuscript: Library of Christiane Buisset, founder of the Cercle Eliphas Lévi, also founder of several Masonic Lodges in the Memphis Rite (Egyptian Rite)". This manuscript belonged to Stanislas de GUAITA, famous scholar and esotericist, N°1348 in his library catalog. A unique document, which should be published... For passionate collectors.

Estim. 1 600 - 2 400 EUR

Antique reception two fighting wrestlers 19th century, unsigned, bronze cast in several parts and mounted, dark patina, reduced copy of an antique marble sculpture, which was found in Rome in 1583 and came to Florence in 1677, where it was considered one of the most famous antiques in the Medici collection, since 1688 it has been exhibited, even today, in the Uffizi in Florence, patina partially somewhat rubbed, h 43 cm.

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SENEQUE. Senecae Tragoediae. Venice, Filippo Giunta, 1506. In-8 (167 x 98 mm) of 224 ff. (coll. a-z⁸ &⁸ A-D⁸ (D8 blank)). Rubricated lettering in red and blue. Brown calf, spine ribbed with cold decoration, handwritten title label, boards decorated with a large decoration of cold roulettes, chased edges (binding of the period ). Rubbed, leather missing from tail of spine, corners dulled, clasps missing. Slight marginal dampening. Handwritten Marginalia (late 16th century). Minor worm damage to endpapers. Fine edition in italic type, containing for the first time a commentary on the life of Seneca and the argumenta of Benedetto Riccardini. "After the Paris edition by C. Fernandus, the edition by Benedetto Riccardini, known as 'Philologus', was again published in Italy, but in Florence, by the famous printer F. Giunta. Giunta. It demonstrates typographic research and new page organization, with the insertion of a colophon at the end of the book and the use of italics. The text is much tighter, undoubtedly intended for a more assiduous reading, by a larger audience, all the more so as the copy adopts a reduced format. The arguments are found here, but in a new version: they are in prose and quite developed (so much so that the second Juntine edition, of 1513, will offer an abridged version)."" Pascale Rey, ""Les éditions des tragédies de Sénèque conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (XVe-XIXe s.)"", in L'Antiquité à la BnF, 17/01/2018, https://antiquitebnf.hypotheses.org/1643). Bookplates (religious congregations) and handwritten notes to title and top of first page (including a quotation from Seneca).

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