From the library of Caillet
NAUDE', Gabriel Apologie pour tous les grands hommes, qui ont esté accusez de magie. - Paris, Cotin, 1669
2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemp. calf, spine in compartments richly gilt; top of spine worn and corners rubbed. (24), 288 pp.; (2) pp., pp. 289-502. A good copy from the library of Caillet with his book-plate.
Second edition (1st 1625) of this defence of great man who had been falsely accused of magic. Naudé, distinguished physician and librarian to Richelieu and Mazarin, defends amongst others Socrates, Aristotle, Plotin, Albertus Magnus, Lullus, Paracelsus, Savonarola, Nostradamus, etc. Thorndike VII, p.300. Caillet 7922 & 7923 (note): «ouvrage célèbre».
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