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165

Raimondi, Eugenio

The highly learned pastime where you can read curious oracles, serious sentences with precepts and political and Christian teachings, 1630

Estimate

€ 200 - 300

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Information

Venice, Gervasio Anesi, 1630. [Al colophon 1629] In 8th. Half leather binding, titles and friezes in gold, colored edges, slight defects.


Specialist Notes

See Vinciana, 3515 (which cites the 1660 edition) "A scholarly work divided into 107 chapters on various subjects: religion, politics, customs, marriage, women, astrology, doctors, music, alchemy, games, love, prostitutes, navigation, metals and joys, virginity and widowhood, curiosities and stories, cosmography (with observations on America), painting and sculpture, smells and baths, duelists and politicians, magicians and evil spells, oracles and Sibyls, prophecies and dreams, etc.” 

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