500 € The Castle of Otranto was first published in 1764 and his author is Horace Walpole, but it purports to be a translation of a work printed in Naples in 1529 and newly discovered in the library of ‘an ancient Catholic family in the north of England’. The novel relates the history of Manfred, the…
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300 € The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes it was written by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch and published after his death in 1867. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English speaking readers. Illustrated with several wood engravings throughout, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. First state with the names of both…
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5300 € The Three Books of Occult Philosophy is the most complete repository of pagan and Neoplatonic magic ever compiled. It was written by the german Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. First edition in English of Agrippa’s occult masterpiece, De occulta philosophia libri tres, written prior to 1510, but not published until 1533, two years before Aggripa’s…
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