Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym, De incertitudine & vanitate scie[n]tiarum declamatio inuectiua, denuo ab autore recognita & marginalibus annotationibus aucta. [leaf] Capita tractandorum totius operis, seque[n]tes indicant pagella.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 - 1535)
Category
Books
Date
1537
Materials
Place of origin
Cologne
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3170216
Summary
Bibliographic description
[384] p. : port. ; 8vo. Running number: 3418. Provenance: arms of Louis-Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1635-1698). Count Loménie de Brienne's library was sold in London in 1724, where Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) undoubtedly purchased it. Remnants of torn book number label on front pastedown, with manuscript letter "R" [in red crayon] over-written with "V" [in pencil]. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "- 2 0". Manuscript inscriptions on final blank page, all faded and illegible. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp: arms of Louis-Henri de Lomenie, comte de Brienne (1635-1698); gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt tooling and monogram of the comte de Brienne on spine. Brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 - 1535), author