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136 - CROSSET DE LA HAUMERIE. Les Secrets les plus cachés de la Ph…
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CROSSET DE LA HAUMERIE. Les Secrets les plus cachés de la Philosophie des Anciens découverts et expliqués. Paris, veuve d'Houry, 1762. In-12, brown basane, red edges (Modern binding). Second edition of this rare and curious hermetic treatise, published under the pseudonym of Crosset de la Haumerie. Caillet and Dorbon attribute it to Francesco Maria Pompeo Colonna (1646-1726), an Italian mathematician, physicist and occultist who lived in Paris, while Ferguson and Duveen, following Lenglet-Dufresnoy, give it to the physician Alexandre Le Crom. The work is decorated with three woodcuts in the text. A copy in a modest modern binding. Some brown spots. Ferguson, II, 16 - Duveen, 345 - Dorbon, n°827 - Caillet, n°2511 - Verginelli, n°81.
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About the sale Antiquarian books from the 15th to the 19th century - Astronomy
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