Philalethes, Eugenius (Thomas Vaughan)

Magica Adamica: or the Antiquitie of Magic, and the Descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved. ...

London: T. W. for H Blunden, 1650. 12mo. Hardcover. [14] pp 40. Together with: The Man-mouse taken in a trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the Margins of Eugenius Philalethes, London: sold at the Castle in Corn-Hill, 1650, pp [6], 116. Bound in one in contemporary calf. Front joint fragile but holding. Vaughan (1621-1666) was a Welsh philosopher and alchemist, now remembered for this magico-philosophical work, and a translation of an early Rosicrucian manifesto. A genuine rarity of this first English edition. Fair. Item #018986

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