Book of magic, with instructions for invoking spirits, etc, ca. 1577-1583. [manuscript]

Copy note: p. 206-235, leaves mounted individually (33-34 x 23 cm) and interleaved with modern paper, housed in case (40 x 28 cm); page 218 lower left hand corner damaged and missing 2 of the sigils (1 on p. 218 and 1 on p. 219). Red ink faded. An additional leaf of 20th century notes appears loose after p. 235. Bound in tan calf; blind tooled with title. Housed in brown cloth-covered case. Provenance: R.C. Smith -- Robert Lenkiewicz. Acquired from Sotheby's (London), July 12, 2007 (lot 1). Purchase made possible by the B.H. Breslauer Foundation, Inc.