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SCHENCKELIUS DETECTUS, SEU, MEMORIA ARTIFICIALIS HACTENUS OCCULTATA AC A MULTIS QUAM DIU DESIDERATA: NUNC PRIMUM IN GRATIAM OPTIMARUM ARTIUM, AC SAPIENTIAE STUDIOSORUM LUCE DONATA
by (MEMORY). (SCHENCKEL, LAMBERT THOMAS). PAËPP, JAN
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Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium, 1617. FIRST EDITION. 140 x 82 mm. (5 1/2 x 3 1/4"). 208, 213, 210, 211, 216-17 pp. (pagination erratic but text complete).
Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, raised bands with gilt Greek key roll, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Front pastedown with bookplate of Bernard Zufall; verso of title page with red ink "Duplicate" stamp of his library. Yates, "The Art of Memory" (1966), pp. 300-302. ◆Calf marked and rubbed, corners very worn, leaves a shade less than bright, but a perfectly decent copy, clean and fresh internally, and in a sound, unassuming binding.
This guide to creating "artificial memories" (i.e., mnemonic devices) is based on the work of Dutch memory teacher Lambert Schenkel (1547 - ca. 1603), whose feats of recollection were so formidable that he was declared a sorcerer. Here, Schenkel's disciple Paëpp (d. ca. 1613) has revised and abridged the master's 1609 "Gazophylacium Artis Memoriae." In the process, he "detects Schenkel," revealing the simple mnemonic tricks that seemed, in Schenkel's hands, like magical powers. Paëpp authored other similar--and similarly obscure--mnemonic works that are sought after, bringing substantial prices at auction, both because of content and scarcity. Our copy comes from the library of magician and memory expert Bernard Zufall (1894-1971), known as the "Human Encyclopedia." Zufall amassed the largest known collection of books on mnemonics, in excess of 1,000 titles, which (except for duplicates like the present volumes) he donated to Yale University..
Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, raised bands with gilt Greek key roll, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Front pastedown with bookplate of Bernard Zufall; verso of title page with red ink "Duplicate" stamp of his library. Yates, "The Art of Memory" (1966), pp. 300-302. ◆Calf marked and rubbed, corners very worn, leaves a shade less than bright, but a perfectly decent copy, clean and fresh internally, and in a sound, unassuming binding.
This guide to creating "artificial memories" (i.e., mnemonic devices) is based on the work of Dutch memory teacher Lambert Schenkel (1547 - ca. 1603), whose feats of recollection were so formidable that he was declared a sorcerer. Here, Schenkel's disciple Paëpp (d. ca. 1613) has revised and abridged the master's 1609 "Gazophylacium Artis Memoriae." In the process, he "detects Schenkel," revealing the simple mnemonic tricks that seemed, in Schenkel's hands, like magical powers. Paëpp authored other similar--and similarly obscure--mnemonic works that are sought after, bringing substantial prices at auction, both because of content and scarcity. Our copy comes from the library of magician and memory expert Bernard Zufall (1894-1971), known as the "Human Encyclopedia." Zufall amassed the largest known collection of books on mnemonics, in excess of 1,000 titles, which (except for duplicates like the present volumes) he donated to Yale University..
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- SCHENCKELIUS DETECTUS, SEU, MEMORIA ARTIFICIALIS HACTENUS OCCULTATA AC A MULTIS QUAM DIU DESIDERATA: NUNC PRIMUM IN GRATIAM OPTIMARUM ARTIUM, AC SAPIENTIAE STUDIOSORUM LUCE DONATA
- Author
- (MEMORY). (SCHENCKEL, LAMBERT THOMAS). PAËPP, JAN
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium
- Place of Publication
- Lugduni [Lyon]
- Date Published
- 1617
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books an Manuscripts was established in 1978 on a ping pong table in a basement in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the beginning, its founder was willing to sell a range of material, but over the years, the business has gravitated toward historical artifacts that are physically attractive in some way--illuminated material, fine bindings, books printed on vellum, fore-edge paintings, beautiful typography and paper, impressive illustration. Today, the company still sells a wide range of things, from (scruffy) ninth century leaves to biblical material from all periods to Wing and STC imprints to modern private press books to artists' bindings. While we are forgiving about condition when something is of considerable rarity, we always try to obtain the most attractive copies possible of whatever we offer for sale.
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