The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections
by
Daniel Bellingradt, Bernd-Christian Otto
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles – as an artefact of the...