Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius (1486?-1535) The Vanity of Arts and Sciences

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Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius (1486?-1535)The Vanity of Arts and Sciences. London: Printed by R.E. for R.B., to be sold by c. Blount, 1684.
Octavo, second English edition, with frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin, boards detached, browning.
Agrippa comments on the vanity of seemingly every possible human occupation, including but not limited to stage-dancing, alchemy, court ladies, medicine, lawyers, magic, fishing, grammar, looking glasses, the inquisition, witchcraft, and scholastic theology. He concludes with "A Digression in Praise of the Ass."
Estimate $400-600

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