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AGRIPPA, Henry Cornelius (1486-1535). The Vanity of Arts and Sciences. London: J. C. for Samuel Speed, 1676, 8vo. Copperplate frontispiece portrait. [xviii], 1-368 pp. Bound in later (?) full mottled calf, boards ruled and paneled in blind, spine ruled in blind (spine chipped at headcap, joints worn, some edgewear to boards, hinges starting, text occasionally foxed with a few markings in text, a few leaves trimmed a bit close at top). Good. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THIS SATIRE ON SCIENCE AND CULTURE. With chapters on witchcraft, religion, whoring and pimping, conjuring, rhetoric, politics, nobility, and more.