Les admirables secrets d'Albert le Grand: Contenant plusieurs traitez sur la conception des femmes, des vertus des herbes, des pierres précieuses & des animaux.[Oecoiatrie;Liber physionomiae;De secretis mulierum, Liber aggregationis, De mirabilibus

Lion : Les Héritiers de Beringos Fratres a la Enseigne d'Agrippa, M DCC XLIII (1743)., 1743. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12 pp., 1 leaf, 306, [6] pp. ; 4 plates ; 14 cm. ; OCLC: 23635462, OCLC: 14321959 ; The imprint is false. Cf. Baudrier, Bibl. lyonnaise, v. 3, pg. 55./ Contents same as Lyons 1729 ed. ; Bk. 3 includes Christophe Landré's Oecoiatrie under title: Traité des vertus de plusieurs sortes de fientes./ Bk. 4 includes pt. 3 of Michael Scott's Physionomia./ This collection first appeared in Cologne in 1703. Cf. Bernard Husson's preface to Le Grand et le Petit Albert. Paris, 1970, pg. 19.; Books 1 and 2 are a translation of De secretis mulierum, Liber aggregationis, and De mirabilibus mundi. ; Complete title: Les admirables secrets d'Albert le Grand : Contenant plusieurs traitez sur la conception des femmes, des vertus des herbes, des pierres précieuses & des animaux. Augmenté d'un abrégé curieux de la Phisionomie, & d'un préservatif contre la peste, fiévres malignes, les poisons, & l'infection de l'air...Divisez en quatre livres. ; Cette livre est écrit entièrement en français; la dernière page est blanche, mais la couverture est en cuir avec le relieur en or. Il y a une indication d'une étiquette de cuir rouge, mais maintenant elle a été perdue. ; full leather with raised bands, gold tooling and an impression of a missing spine title label ; chipping to tops and bottom of spine ; previous owner's label on front ep ; title page in red and black ; considerations of the occult nature of conception, the fetus, sperm, animals, astrology, miracles, excrement, urine, herbs, and the use of physiognomy ; treats of conception and birth, the various powers of animals, stones, chemicals, and herbs, and discusses the parts of the human body and their relation to personality ; planets and lucky or unlucky days are also covered ; strange and fantastic, with purported support from the classics, although Egyptian sources are also quoted, which at this pre-Champollion era seems unlikely to be much more than heresay ; the four full page plates are present ; only 2 copies of this edition held by libraries worldwide ; scarce ; G.