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LEADER: 03127cam 2200505Ii 4500
005 20060522040213.0
008 760824s1658 enka 000 0 eng d
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm02392892
040 $aVVK$edcrb$cVVK$dOCL$dOCLCQ$dSMI
041 1 $aeng$hlat
049 $aSMI+$nosds 05/22/06; recat /upgrade of Q155.P83 E1658 SCDIRB (retain tag and bc 39088002126779)
050 4 $aQ155$b.P83 E1658
090 $aQ155$b.P83 E1658
099 $aQ155.P83 E1658
100 1 $aPorta, Giambattista della,$d1535?-1615.
240 10 $aMagiae naturalis.$lEnglish
245 10 $aNatural magick /$cby John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books .... Wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.
246 1 $iBinder's title:$aPorta's Natural magick$5DSI
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for Thomas Young, and Samuel Speed, and are to be sold at the three Pigeons, and at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard,$c1658.
300 $a[8], 384, 381-388, 393-409, [7] p. :$bill. ;$c30 cm. (fol.)
500 $aTranslation of: Magiae naturalis.
500 $aWith an added engraved title page with historiated border and portrait of Porta, signed "R. Gaywood fecit. Lond. 1658."
500 $aTitle printed in red and black.
500 $aHead-pieces; initials; vignette on t.p.
500 $aErrors in paging.
500 $aSignatures: pi℗ø C℗ø D-3Iþ́.
505 0 $a(from t.p.) 1. Of the causes of wonderful things -- 2. Of the generation of animals -- 3. Of the production of new plants -- 4. Of increasing household-stuff -- 5. Of changing metals -- 6. Of counterfeiting gold -- 7. Of the wonders of the load-stone -- 8. Of strange cures -- 9. Of beautifying women -- 10. Of distillation -- 11. Of perfuming -- 12. Of artificial fires -- 13. Of tempering steel -- 14. Of cookery -- 15. Of fishing, fowling, hunting, &c. -- 16. Of invisible writing -- 17. Of strange glasses -- 18. Of statick experiments -- 19. Of pneumatick experiments -- 20. Of the chaos.
510 4 $aWing$cP2982
510 4 $aESTC (RLIN)$cR033476
590 $aSCDIRB copy 39088002126779 has some old ms. pencil markings throughout.
590 $aSCDIRB copy has bookplates: 1. (armorial) George Wilbraham, with motto: In portu quies; 2. Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner; 3. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Adopt-a-Book. Gift of Anne Heanue.
590 $aSCDIRB copy has a contemporary gilt- and blind-tooled full leather binding with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and blue sprinkled edges, re-backed.
650 0 $aScience$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aMagic.
650 0 $aAlchemy.
650 0 $aIndustrial arts$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aGaywood, Richard,$dfl. 1650-1680,$eill.
700 1 $aWilbraham, George Baker,$cSir,$d1845-1912,$eformer owner.$5DSI
710 2 $aBurndy Library,$edonor.$5DSI
856 42 $zDigital bookplate, SCDIRB copy: $uhttp://www.sil.si.edu/link/?9AKYps
945 $ahsn 4/12/95; corrected 300.
945 $aolea 12/19/12 added 856 bookplate
945 $akvdv 1/3/2013 add 590 bkpl note
949 $lsc$gscdirb$nlc$trare
951 $a82926