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Isaac Casaubon 1559–1614 By Mark Pattison Rector of Lincoln College

by Mark Pattison

<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 543. Signatures: [A]2 B-2M8. Calf. Bookplate of Henricus Montagu Butler, S.T.P., signed Henrico C.F. Mason on front pastedown endpaper. Bookplate of Haileybury College, stamped “… Library discarded” on front free endpaper. Handwritten annotations in ink on front flyleaf.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Still the definitive study of the humanist Isaac Casaubon, who had exposed the Corpus Hermeticum as a Hellenistic forgery.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span styl

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