Auction 61 AUCTION 61: RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS 2
By HELIOS
Apr 6, 2025
HELIOS AUCTIONS 1050 Second Avenue Gallery # 52 New York, NY 10022 USA, United States
An extremely varied selection of paper-related items, including 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle Antique Incunabula Liber Chronicarum Hartmann Schedel, 1764 Bible by Anthony Purver Quaker Antique 2 Two-folio volumes, 1531 Dante Alighieri Post-Incunabula l'Amoroso Convivio in Italian, among many other interesting subjects.
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LOT 182:

1725 USE OF OILS OINTMENTS BY GREEKS ROMANS JEWS ANTIQUE ILLUSTRATED FOLIO

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Auction took place on Apr 6, 2025 at HELIOS
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1725 USE OF OILS OINTMENTS BY GREEKS ROMANS JEWS ANTIQUE ILLUSTRATED FOLIO

[Classical antiquity and neolatinism].

Scacchi, F.

Thesaurus antiquitatum sacro-prophanarum, in quo ex antiquis Graecis ac Latinis Scriptoribus, quidquid ad Nomina, Usum, & Abusum Oleorum, & Unguentorum, ex sacris habetur litteris, dilucide explicatur.

The Hague, J. Swart, 1725

(20), 1155 [numbered in columns], (78)pp., engraved frontispiece, portrait

Illustrated

Original blind-stamped vellum

Folio: 9 1/2 by 15 1/4"

Frontispiece with tear repaired by archival tape at the verso

Vellum blackened by fire damage, spine damaged

Graesse VI, p.288.

Interesting work on the religious use of oils and ointments by the Greeks, Romans and Jews, with illustrations of oil-vessels, scrapers and coins.

Text in Latin

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