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Ars Notoria: The Notory Art Of Solomon The King (Of Magical Operations, The Liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, And The Art Of Memory). Whereunto Is Added An Astrological Catechism, Fully Demonstrating The Art Of Judicial Astrology. Together With A Rare Natural Secret, Necessary To Be Learn’d By All Persons, Especially Sea-Men, Merchants, And Travellers. An Excellent Invention, Done By The Magnetic Vertue Of The Load-Stone.
by Turner, Robert (translated from the Latin by)
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About This Item
Seattle: Trident Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Deluxe edition bound in full black leather with gilt stamped titles to front and spine. Issued without dust jacket and housed in a buckram slipcase. Top and fore-edge stained black, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of the Seal of Solomon, title page in black and red, black page marker ribbon. xiv + 115 pp. The entire print run for the first edition (deluxe and trade) was 500 copies, with a small, unspecified amount bound in full leather, as offered here. This is copy #169. A near fine copy in like slipcase. “The Ars Notoria, the magical art of memory, flourished during the Middle Ages, although its origins are attributed to Solomon and Apollonius of Tyana. It was a process by which the magician could instantly gain knowledge or memory of all the arts and sciences. Each branch of knowledge or subject area was assigned a set of magical seals and characters known as notae. To set the process into operation, the appropriate notae were contemplated whilst reciting angelic names and magical orisons. However, it was regarded as a diabolical form of magic, since the knowledge was quickly acquired from ‘demons’ without honest study” - Robert Turner (Elizabethan Magic). This edition is a verbatim reprint of the 1657 Robert Turner translation. Both the language and the spelling of the original edition have been maintained, to assure the integrity of this volume. Supplemental material by Lynn Thorndike and Adam McLean makes this edition indispensable.
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- Richard Bishop, Bookseller
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- Title
- Ars Notoria: The Notory Art Of Solomon The King (Of Magical Operations, The Liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, And The Art Of Memory). Whereunto Is Added An Astrological Catechism, Fully Demonstrating The Art Of Judicial Astrology. Together With A Rare Natural Secret, Necessary To Be Learn’d By All Persons, Especially Sea-Men, Merchants, And Travellers. An Excellent Invention, Done By The Magnetic Vertue Of The Load-Stone.
- Author
- Turner, Robert (translated from the Latin by)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Trident Books
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 1997
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- Occult & Esoterica;
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