DE ANNIS CLIMACTERICIS ET ANTIQUA ASTROLOGIA DIATRIBAE
by Saumaise, Claude / Claudius Salmasius
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Leiden: Elzevier. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1648. Hardcover. Woodcut title vignette, devices and initials, contemporary vellum, yapp edges. Ink letters to top corner of first pages (from a to i). Small circle institution stamp to titlepage and to obverse of titlepage (University of London) and last page. Light Ink lines (1 or 2) and very minor ink notes (1 page) to index pages (about 6 pp). Rear inner cover shows faint evidence of removed plate. Small 1 cm tear near top of gutter of ffep. Former owner's name to ffep. Some foxing. Some darkening to vellum binding. ; [136] pp + 844 pp + [18] pp. "attack upon astrology by Claude Saumaise or Salmasius, the great French classical scholar, in his De annis climactericis, a long work published at Leyden in 1648" (Thorndike VII, 103). ; 990 pages .
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- Ancient World Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31335
- Title
- DE ANNIS CLIMACTERICIS ET ANTIQUA ASTROLOGIA DIATRIBAE
- Author
- Saumaise, Claude / Claudius Salmasius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Elzevier
- Place of Publication
- Leiden
- Date Published
- 1648
- Keywords
- Astrology, Humanism, Renaissance Studies
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humanism; Renaissance Studies;
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