Apologie pour tous les grands hommes, qui ont esté accusez de magie.

2 pts in 1 vol., 12mo: [24]-1/288-[2]-289/502 pp. (foxing mainly marginal, occ. sm. tears without loss).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt decorated spine with raised bands, red sprinkled edges (sl. cracking on the spine, sm. lack on the lower turn-in, sl. faded gilding).

Reissue (1st ed.: 1625) of this interesting small work in which Naudé (1600-1653), librarian to Richelieu and Mazarin and physician to Louis XIII, defends scientists wrongly accused of magic or witchcraft, including Pythagoras, Democritus, Aristotle, Geber, Raymond Lulle, Arnauld de Villeneuve, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Bacon, Albert the Great, etc. With a contemp. engr. front. on a loose leaf.
Ref. Dorbon 3226. - Caillet 7922 (1699-ed. by Jacques Cottin, with a different collation). - Duveen 423 (1625-ed.).
Prov. Didier Coenen (ms. entry). - Mod. unidentified bookpl. with mention "du fait de". - Erased stamp.