The magick of Kirani King of Persia, and of Harpocration; containing the magical and medicinal virtues of stones, herbs, fishes, beasts and birds. A work much sought for by the learned, but seen by few; said to have been in the Vatican-Library in Rome; but not to be found there. Nor in all the famous libraries of the empire. Now published and translated into English from a copy found in a private hand.

Date:
[1685]
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Publication/Creation

[London] : [W. Cooper], [1685]

Physical description

12 unnumbered leaves, 156 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves ; (8vo)

Notes

Signatures: A-M⁸, N1
Title within double line border
Bound in old calf, rebacked

References note

Wing M249
TC ii.202
ESTC R14291
Wing (2nd ed.), M249

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in ‘The Cult of Beauty’ at Wellcome Collection, London, 26 October 2023 – 28 April 2024

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    EPB/A/31169

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