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possunt;[Cont.] Leyden, Batavorum Apud Theodorum Haack & Samuelem Luchtmans, 1728, Second Edition. Hard Cover, 320 Pp. 16.2 cm. 2 Etched Plates, Folding. Ill.: Anon . [Author?]. Very Good/No Jacket.¶ [Cont.] In maximum commodum legis Studiosi. with two folding plates of arrangements of memory plaques on walls. The text consists of a series of 50 books in which there are a series of numbered paragraphs for closely linked ideas, which should be so linked on the memory walls. This is an art of memory book using the artificial scheme within an imaginary room covered with tiles, like those, which the Dutch could make so well at that time. But these tiles were arranged for the greatest utility in helping law students remember laws and their relationships. This is just such a book as is described in Yates "The Art of Memory", but may be the only one, which carries out the process in almost textbook fashion, allowing us to see the actual memory walls and their relationships. Something Yates never found herself. This is the Second edition. The first was issued in Leyden, as well, but by Luchtmans without a partner in 1695. The book appears to be very rare, despite the reprint.Unlisted in: Young Bibliography of the Art of Memory, [1961], I.C.F. Von Aretin Systematische Anleitung sur Theorie und Praxis de Mnemonik..1810; G. Von Feinagle Ed. John Millard: New Art of Memory ..1812; A. E. Middleton, Memory Systems, New and Old, 1888; and several others. I have found 2 copies of the first edition, one in Berlin and the other in the National Library of the Netherlands, and none of this edition. Unnoted at GBV, SBV, ONB,COPAC, OCLC, BN, Etc. A Very Good copy in original full vellum titled "Ars Magni Pandectarum" in script and with the small label of Thomas Clark, Law Bookseller, 8 Parliament Square Edinburgh, on the inner front board, but without signs of prior ownership..

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