Oracles, magic & astrology.- Peucer (Kaspar) Commentarius, de praecipuis divinationum generibus, in
Oracles, magic & astrology.- Peucer (Kaspar) Commentarius, de praecipuis divinationum generibus, in quo a prophetiis, authoritate divina traditis, collation: * **8 A-Z Aa-Zz AA-CC8 DD4, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, 2 folding letterpress tables, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, spine in compartments, covers with blind-ruled double filet borders, lacking ties, scuffmark to upper cover, little stained, 8vo (169 x 105mm.), Frankfurt, Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1593.*** A very good copy. 'After discussing divination in general, he turns to oracles and theomancy, then to magic...then to divination from entrails, to augury and aruspicina, to lot-casting under which he puts geomancy and divining from names and numbers and to dreams and their interpretation. Next he considers medical prognostications, meteorology and weather prediction, physiognomy and chiromancy, astrology, and last prodigies and portents' (Thorndike VI, p. 495). Peucer (1525-1602) was a physician and scholar, who was a close friend of Philip Melanchthon, whose daughter he married. Provenance: George Lindner (early ink inscription to foot of title). Literature: Adams P934; Caillet 8578; Houzeau & Lancaster II, 4860; Wellcome I, 4970; Thorndike VI 493-502; VD 16 P 1978.
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Oracles, magic & astrology.- Peucer (Kaspar) Commentarius, de praecipuis divinationum generibus, in quo a prophetiis, authoritate divina traditis, collation: * **8 A-Z Aa-Zz AA-CC8 DD4, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, 2 folding letterpress tables, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, spine in compartments, covers with blind-ruled double filet borders, lacking ties, scuffmark to upper cover, little stained, 8vo (169 x 105mm.), Frankfurt, Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1593.*** A very good copy. 'After discussing divination in general, he turns to oracles and theomancy, then to magic...then to divination from entrails, to augury and aruspicina, to lot-casting under which he puts geomancy and divining from names and numbers and to dreams and their interpretation. Next he considers medical prognostications, meteorology and weather prediction, physiognomy and chiromancy, astrology, and last prodigies and portents' (Thorndike VI, p. 495). Peucer (1525-1602) was a physician and scholar, who was a close friend of Philip Melanchthon, whose daughter he married. Provenance: George Lindner (early ink inscription to foot of title). Literature: Adams P934; Caillet 8578; Houzeau & Lancaster II, 4860; Wellcome I, 4970; Thorndike VI 493-502; VD 16 P 1978.
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