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OCCULT SCIENCES Petri BUNGI Bergomatis (Pietro...

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[OCCULT SCIENCES] Petri BUNGI Bergomatis (Pietro BONGO) Numerorum Mysteria Lutetiae Parisiorum, Laurentium Sonnium, 1618 - A fine edition of this important numerological work, focusing on the symbolism of numbers and the occult sciences. A highly erudite work, very much in the tradition of the Italian Renaissance. Bound in full leather, with 4 spines, title in black ink, double cold framing on the boards, rubbing, small crack at the top of the first spine, a few tears, not serious. Includes a few in-text figures and tables, overall a fine copy, text complete, first white endpaper detached, last white endpaper missing. Small in-4, (90) 676pp (2) 90pp (126) Provenance: Murat de Lestang with armorial bookplate / R. A. (Robert Alexander) Chermside with armorial bookplate partly torn and faded. Several pen-and-ink bookplates L. Hamelin and A. Lurrandi ?