Author: ALBERTUS PARVUS LUCIUS (Le petit Albert)
Title: Secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle & cabalastique du petit Albert, trad., exact. sur l 'original Latin...Enrichi des figures mistérieuses ...Nouv. ed. corr. et augmant.
Description: Lyon, Chez les héritiers de Beringos Fratres, 1729. 12mo. W. woodc. vign. on t., 10 engr. pls. (of which 4 fold.) and some woodc. ills. in the text. Cont. clf., sp. gilt (Sp. ends sl. dam., some rubb.). (XII, 252 pp.). Ferguson, Books of secrets II (and IV and suppl,. III): "...I have got a copy printed at Lyons 1729, uniform w. the secrets of Albertus Magnus of the same date...well printed and the ills. passable...it contains...1 famous receipt: How to make the hand of Glory" (our copy engr. pl. p. 110): Caillet I, 137: "Ce libre est tellement recherché en texte français...": Yves-Plessis, 1086, note: Duveen 9 (1745 & 1758 only): "Many eds. of this popular work were published, all of which are very rare according to Guiaita." Ferguson I, 17: "...well- known coll. of magical absurdities and impossibilities":

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