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Catalogue 44

Occult, Magic & Experimental Science Part II: 17th Century Books & Manuscripts

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Catalogue 44 Part II: 17th Century Books & Manscripts Occult, Magic, & Experimental Science

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1. Abraham à Sancta Clara. [Ulrich Megerle] Judas Der Ertz-Schelm, Für Ehrliche Leuth, Oder: Eigentlicher Entwurff und Lebens-Beschreibung des Iscariotischen Bösswicht.

Nuremberg [v3,Salzburg]: Johann Georg Lochner [v3 Melchior Hann], 1692-1752. 4to. 4 vols.

18th c. matching 1/2 calf-backed paper covered boards, title-labels leather,edges red; Donaueschingen bookstamps on verso of t.p.s 4 frontis. by M. Melck, E.H. Nunzen, Matthias Echter, Jac, de Lesper & 1 unsigned. Volume 1 has Judas hanging from a tree with demons dancing at his feet ;V2, the Last Supper with an imps supporting Judas; V3 has a procession carrying Judas through Hell; V4,has demons operating on a reclining body.

“The Spanish ceremonial at the emperor’s court in Vienna found its counterweight in the work of Abraham à Sancta Clara. Here all the popular elements. everything rough and vigorous, everything born out of daily observation, known to the popular wit or equivalent to it, are used to jolt, to convert, and to instruct. The highest personalities are placed in an unceremonious manner before death and devil, the eternal powers to whom all are subject. In exorcising these powers Father Abraham is a past master, and few can rival his richness of imagery and his puns.

His language bubbles out of him, procreates itself, and with eve new wave projects into the light unexpected forms, constructions, and thoughts...Father Abraham regarded this, his most ambitious work, a sort of novel, but useful for preachers also.

The devilish side of the human soul is incarnate in Judas.” [Faber du Faur.]

Faber du Faur 1112. Dünnhaupt 135ff.,22.I.15, 22.II.15, 22.III.2.,22.IV.8. Bertsche 22a,13-14;27a,2;29,8. $750

2. Abraham, Patriarch, attrib.

Sefer Yetzirah [Jetzirah, Yetsirah, Jetsirah] [Hebrew Title] Id Est Liber

Iezirah Qui Abrahamo Patriarchae adscribitur, una cum Commentario Rabi Abraham F. D. super 32 Semitis Sapientiae, a quibus liber Iezirah incipit.Johann Stephan Rittangel, Latin trans. & comm. with annotations erroneously ascribed to Abraham ben David of Posquieres; but the real annotator is Josef ben Shalom ha-Ashkenazi.

Amsterdam: Johannes & Joducus Janssonius, 1642. 4to. [8],208, [2]p.

First Rittangel Edition.

Contemp. vellum over boards, lightly soiled, stamp of “Gesselschaft Fuer Juedische Vollk Kunde, Hamburg” on t.p., old owner’s signature on t.p., minor pinworm holes in bottom margin, repaired tear upper outer corner on 2C4, minor edge darkening, a very pleasing copy. Printer’s device on t.p., t.p. in red and black, 2 full-page engravings of sephirot ; text in Hebrew and Latin types in columns.

“The history of the study of the “Sefer Yetzirah” is one of the most interesting in the records of Jewish literature. With the exception of the Bible, scarcely any other book has been the subject of so much annotation. Aristotelians, Neoplatonists, Talmudists, and cabalists have used the book as a source, or at least thought they did so. Two points must be taken into consideration in judging the importance

of the work: the influence which it exerted on the development of Jewish philosophy, especially on its mystic side, and the reputation which it enjoyed for more than a thousand years in most Jewish circles... a thaumaturgical work that was popular in the Talmudic period. “ [EJ] “... small in size but enormous in influence, the sefer Yetzirah (‘Book of Creation), the earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic, speculative thought. Its brevity — less than 2,000 words altogether even in its longer version— allied to its obscure and at the same time laconic and enigmatic style, as well as its terminology, have no parallel in other works on related subjects... The central subject of Sefer Yetzirah is a compact discourse on cosmology and cosmogony... outstanding for its clearly mystical character.” [Scholem, Kabbalah, 1974.]

Rittangel (606?-1652) was professor-extraordinary of Oriental languages in the University of Konigsburg.He changed his religious affiliation several times and there is some question if he was an apostate Jew. His translation of the Sepher Yetzirah is the first bi-lingual edition of the work.

The commentary ascribed to RABaD of Posquieres was known to have been by another author even in the sixteenth century as noted by Rabbi Hayim Vital. Latter research has ascribed it to Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi, a 14th century rabbi in Barcelona. [See: Gershom Scholem, Major Trends, 407, n137.]

This was the edition used by 19th century students of the kabbalah.

STCN 164204 [not reporting errata leaf]. Scholem, Bibl. Kabbalistica, 943. Fuks, Amsterdam, 196 [listing errata leaf.] Vinograd, Amsterdam, 58. Steinschneider 3563.

Caillet 9454. $3500

3. Acontius [Aconcio, Contio, Concio], Jacob & Hotman, Francis.

Acontius: Stratagematum satanae: Sive, De recte & prudenter cum in Doctrina,

in Disciplina instituenda, reforma(n)da... Diabolici insidiaspraemunienda Dei Ecclesia,Libri IIX. Ad Elisabetham Angliae Reginam...

Basel: Conrad Waldkirch, 1610. ):(-2):(8, a-z, A-F8. [32],416,[24]pp. [bound with:] Hotman: P. Sixti V. Fulmen brutum in Henricum sereniss.Regem Navarre... Disputatio Roberti Bellarminii... Responsio. Item Alciati, Cuiacii, & Hotomani coniecturae de falsitate l(iber) inter calas 8. C. summ. Trinit...Disputatio de Donatione Constantini Magni. Necnon Peti Apostoli cum Papa Romano. N.P.: N. P., 1603. A-Y8,Z4. [14], 334, [12]pp.8vo. 2 works in 1 vol.

Contemp. vellum, title in ms. on spine, yapp fore-edge, old owner’s name on f.f.e.p. some light browning, occ. dampstains, marginal paperflaws on q7 & 8 of Acontius slightly affecting sidenote.

Acontius has a woodcut title-page border, folding table in Hotman, woodcut papal seal on O2, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.

Aconcio, Jacopo [Jacobus Acontius] (c.1520-1566/7?), theologian and military engineer. “According to Aconcio’s own recollection, he had already become attracted to the ideas of the Reformation while still with Landriano, views confirmed in Milan. Since he could not openly express such thoughts in Italy, he decided to choose a career by which he could earn a living in exile, and settled on military engineering... Meanwhile Aconcio had been busy developing his religious

views, which were much more radical than his engineering. From 1560 he had become involved in a dispute which had split the Strangers’ Church-the Dutch church, which he joined after the Spanish reformers’ church had been disbanded.

The minister had been severely attacked for allowing Anabaptist refugees to join the church. Indeed loyal Calvinists had already been enquiring about Aconcio’s past, as if he had always been suspect. When Bishop Grindal took the side of the objectors, Aconcio wrote to him to defend the minister and himself. This may have been the spur for him to publish his major work, the Stratagematum Satanae (1565), a military metaphor appropriate for a military engineer... In this book Aconcio turns the persecution of heresy upside down; instead of the heretics being seduced by the devil, it is the wish to persecute which is diabolical, for it is the means whereby the devil injures true Christianity. Given the fallibility of human judgement, and men’s love of their own opinions, it can never be certain that any particular doctrine is totally erroneous. Satan moreover seeks to persuade men to ignore the bidding of their own consciences by surrendering their judgement to another (meaning all priests and ministers), while he encourages those with influence to exert their authority over the consciences of others. Curses, denunciations, and cruel punishments will only reinforce sectarian resistance. In effect persecution is wrong but also ineffective, having led to the present multiplication of opinions, all passionately defended. For Aconcio there are only a very few fundamental teachings in Christianity, derived directly from the plain meaning of the New Testament; everything else can be accepted or rejected so that any disagreement should be conducted mildly, acknowledging that either or indeed both sides may have a case-or may be wrong.” [Oxford DNB] François Hotman (August 23, 1524 - February 12, 1590), was a French Protestant lawyer and writer. “Hotman was a home-loving and genuinely pious man (as his Consolatio shows). His constant removals were inspired less by fear for himself than for his family, and he had a constitutional desire for peace. He did much for 16th-century jurisprudence, having a critical knowledge of Roman sources, and a fine Latin style. He broached the idea of a national code of French law.... a polemic (Brutum fulmen, 1585) directed against a bull of Sixtus V...{EB 11th ed.]

Both of these works relate to the excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I by the Pope.

Acontius: VD 17 14:001209R. Coumont A8.2. Rausch, Index Verbotener Bucher I,413 “Rarete Prodigieuse.” Rosenthal, BPM 2002.

Hotman: VD 17 1:070553N. See:Adams H1058. BM STC (French) 756. Hooter, NBG XXV, 232. $1450

4. Aelianus, Claudius.

[Greek Title] De Animalium natura libris VII.

Peter Gillio & Conrad Gesner, eds. & trans.

Cologne: Philipp Albert, 1616. 16mo. ¶4,a-z8,A-Z8,aa-zz8,AA4.

[8],1018,[94]pp. Second (separate) Greek edition.

Old 1/2 calf over paper boards, spine gone, covers worn, “Dutch” floral

paper pastte-downs,minor marginal dampstains.

Claudius Aelianus (c. A.D. 170-235) generally known as Aelian of Praeneste where he was pontifex. He taught rhetoric at Rome, but later confined himself to writing...He enjoyed a reputation for Attic purity of diction...His works enjoyed great subsequent popularity, and were much drawn upon by Christian writers.”

[OCD.] The De Natura Animalium is Claudius Aelianus’s compilation of stories and tales from others before him, borrowing heavily from sources like Ctesias, Herodotus, Pliny, Aristotle and others. It contains much valuable information that is not available in other places on ancient perceptions of men and animals and is also full of outlandish descriptions of imaginary creatures, He mentions fly-fishing, gryphons, bloodhounds, alchemical processes etc.

Hoffmann I,14. Moss I,5. Graesse I,24.BL (17th Germ.) A169. Graesse I,24 “edition fort estimee.” $400

4. Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius von Nettesheim.

De incertitudine & vanitate omnium scientiarum & artium liber,

lectu plane jucundus & elegans. Cum adjecto, indice Capitum. Accedunt duo eiusdem Auctoris libelli; quorum unus est de Nobilitate & praecellem eminentia foeminei sexus, eiusdemquae supra virilem eminentia; Alter de matrimonio seu conjugio, lectu etiam jucundissimi.

Frankfurt & Leipzig: Johann Adam Plener, 1693. 12mo. [22],660p.

18th c. paper wraps, title in modern hand on spine, innermargin support to frontis. & t.p.,paper darkened, housed in clam-shell case with red morocco spine over patterned paper boards, title gilt.Emblematic engraved extra-t.p., ornament on t.p., large tail-piece.

Henri Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1534/8), a learned man who began his career as secretary to and later soldier under the emperor Maximilian, served also as physician to the mother of Francis I , and professor at many universities throughout Europe. On account of his writings he was constantly at odds with ecclesiastics whose methods of reasoning he criticized. “Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded.

Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women’s superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raised the question of why women were excluded and provided answers based not on sex but on social conditioning, education, and the prejudices of their more powerful oppressors.”

The work on the uncertainty of scientific knowledge was his most famous work. It is a criticism and historical essay illustrating the emptiness and instability of art and man’s efforts at such, while at the same time a tracing of man’s evolution and progress. Despite Agrippa’s stature as a great man of learning, it is an expression of disappointment and dissatisfaction with all his achievements, learning, and

experience, so full of information and “hard knocks” that it went through numerous editions and translations into Dutch, English, French, German and Italian.

Agrippa “was to a large extent a dabbler and trifler who did not adhere to any given interest for long, just as he did not stay in any one place. Except that always he kept coming back to occult science. Even in De incertitudine he gives information and reveals his knowledge of the field of occult science, devoting a score of its 85 chapters to occult arts and listing past writers on such subjects as chiromancy and natural science,” [Thorndike V, 133.]

It is also said, upon observation of the close relationship between Agrippa and his black dog, whom he called “Monsieur,” that the dog was nothing less than Agrippa’s familiar.

VD17 12:130412N. Caillet 88. Mayer 225:48. $450

5. Albertus Magnus & Michael Scot.

De Secretis Mulierum Libellus, Scholiis, Auctus, & à mendis repurga-

tus. Eiusdem de Virtutibus herbarum, lapidum, & animalium quorundam libellus, Item de mirabilibus mundi...Adjecimus & ob materiæ similitudinem Michaelis Scoti philosophi, De secretis naturæ opusculum.

Strassburg: Heirs of Lazari Zetzner, 1625. 16mo in 8s. 342,[9],[1]p.

Contemp calf, rebacked. title gilt, front endpapers old printer’s scrap, last leaf laid down on blank verso,old annotations on t.p.including a contemporary owner’s name “Ex Libris Rich(ard) Howard.” Paper soiled from use.

This edition also includes the” Secretis Mulierum (The Secrets of Women) “Experimenta Albert (Liber aggregationis or Albertus’ experiments),” & the “De mirabilibus mundi (Marvels of the Universe),” of Albertus as well as Scot’s “De secretis naturae.”

The treatise on the ‘secrets’ of women—procreative and physiological is by modern tastes “indecent” and may have contributed to its being placed on the Index. However it is “rightly remarked that it shared the common medical knowledge of the time and displayed a strong astrological superstition, but was neither immoral nor indecent.” Thorndike II,742. The “Marvels” is a theoretical treatise but is still experimental in form like the “Experiments.” They find “marvels” abound in nature and Albertus discusses gems, hebs, stones, animals, and birds.

The Scotus treatise is physiological but also treats the process of generation. Its similarity in subject caused it to be frequently reprinted with Albertus’ works.

“No tracts used to be more popular than those of Albertus Magnus and Michael Scotus. They began to be printed in the fifteenth century, and passed through a very great number of editions both separately and conjoined as here.”

[Ferguson, Young Coll.]

Caillet 129. Sinkankas 55ff. (var. eds.). Ferguson I,15. Ferguson,Secrets, III.27.

Thorndike II,721(note) and 739ff. Thorndike, “De secretis mulierum”, Speculum (1955) 413ff. $600

6. Andreae, Johann Valentin.

Mythologiae Christianae sive Virtutum & vitiorum vitae humanae

imaginum Libri Tres.

Strassburg: Heirs of Lazar Zetzner, [1618-9.] 12mo. A-Q12. [24],352,[8]p.

First Edition.

Mid 19th c. 1/2 vellum over paper boards, old owner’s signatures on t.p “Daniel Frisii”,”Bern(hard Anton) Bertram.” 2 leaves with marginal stain, minor marginal stains; else a very nice copy of a rare book. Engraved t.p.

Andreae (1586-1654) German humanist, clergyman, educator, philanthropist, and founder of the Rosicrucians.

“Andreae’s Christain Mythology of 1618, which shows a wide knowledge of contemporary affairs...contains numerous references to drama and the theatre.

This work is divided into three books, each of which is divided into short sections on a bewildering varied collection of topics...the section on ‘Fraternitas’ is certainly an allusion to the R. C. Fraternity. He speaks of it as ‘an admirable Fraternity which plays comedies throughout Europe’....It is Andreae’s strong interest in the drama which helps to explain the ludibrium of Christian Rosencreutz and his Fraternity as, not a hoax, but a dramatic representation of a profoundly interesting religious and intellectual movement.” [Francis Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment.]

VD 17 12:105642E. Hall, Alchemy, 9 (Getty 1386-587). Dunnhaupt I,196:16.11. Wolfsteig II,42372 “Selten.” Paisey A 656. Gardner, Rosicruciana, 37. Malzer 134. Selenianae 352. Faber du Faur 127 (note.) $3500

7. Andreae, Johann Valentin.

Reipublicae Christianopolitanae Descriptio...

Strassburg: Heirs of Lazari Zetzner, 1619. 12mo. A-I12,K4 [lacks K5 & 6

blanks]. 220,[1],[1blank]p. First Edition.

Mid 19th c. 1/2 vellum over marbled paper boards, minor marginal stains, small marginal holes in B4,E3 & 4; otherwise a nice copy of a very rare book.

Zetzner device on t.p., lacks folding view of Christianopolis.

“The most outstanding features of this work are his schemes for an artisan democracy; his project for a system of education run as a miniature republic and and manned by instructors who are ‘the choice of all the citizens...His educational ideas resulted in agitation for better educational systems both on the continent and in England...[Ency. of Social Sciences] “The Reipublicae...is a well-known work which holds a respected position in European literature as a minor classic of the utopian tradition stemming from Thomas More...Andreae connects the preface of Christianopolis with the Chemical Wedding. The island on which Christianopolis stood was really discovered by Christian Rosencreutz on the voyage on which he was starting at the end of the Chemical Wedding...Andreae is then, repeating in a disguised form in Christianopolis the secret themes of the Rosicrucian manifestos and of his own Chemical Wedding.” [Francis Yates,The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. ] Gardner, Rosicruciana,38. Hall, Alchemy,11 (Getty 1386-589). Dunnhaupt I,199:23.

Wolfsteig II,42371 “Selten.” Winter 61. Faber Du Faur I,128. Malzer 38. Montgomery 71. Nagler, Utopian,30. Gesampt. IV,6892.Selenianae 352.VD17 12:105664H. $3500

8. Andreae, Johann Valentin.

Seleniana Augustalia... Una cum opusculum aliis.

Ulm: Balthasar Kuhne, 1649. 12mo. )o(12, A - Z12, Aa - Bb12. [24], 585, [15]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum, slight worming to last leaves, slight creasing to ports., scattered minor stains, one old Latin note at p526, some foxing. Port. of Andreae, engraved t.p. with symbolic cuts, 4 full-page ports. & 1 full-page allegorical woodcut (p28).

This work contains Andreae’s remarakable and important correspondence with the house of Brunswick-Luneberg; that is with Duke August, the three sons and the daughter, [Rudolf August, Anton Ulrich and Ferdinand Albert and the princess Sibylle Ursula whose portraits grace this volume]. Included is Andreae’s poem (Lemmata Sacra) A variety of humanist subjects are discussed, history, art, cryptography, utopianism, the ‘Societas Christianae’, etc. A second volume (not present here) was published in 1654.

At the end are honorarium poems by: Martin Gosky; Jacobus Honoldus; Johann Mair; Rudolphus Roth; Johann Henricus Faber; Marcus Dolmetsch; Johann Joachim Schüele; Chrsitophorus Zellerus; Johannes Schmidt; Johannes Schübel; Tobias Pfisterus; Petrus Meuderlinus; & Konrad Buno.

VD17 23:620680M. Dünnhaupt (2nd), 285: 99. Schmitt-Appenzeller, Kuhn, 92.

Gardner, Rosicruciana, 43. Wolfsteig 13736 “sehr Selten.” BL STC 17th (German) A660. Faber du Faur 129 (1654 ed. see note). Graesse I,119. Mälzer 162. Montgomery 150. Burk 68. Gily, Andreae 1986, 55. $3500

9. Andreas, Capellanus.

Erotica, seu Amatoria...Numquam Ante Hac edita, sed sæpius à mul-

tis desiderata. Nunc Tandem Fide Diversorum MSS. codicum in publicum emissa à Dethmaro Mulhero.

Detmar Mulher,ed.

Dortmund: Johann Westhoff, 1610. 8vo. Ff.144 [=288p.].

Later vellum, bottom of spine gnawed; browned and worming. Old royal bookstamp on titlepage.

Manual of courtly love originally composed in the 13th century. The preliminary matter includes a short-title list of over 35 works on love published in the 16th and early 17th centuries. “C’est l’edition la plus correcte du Tractatus amoris...C’est, sans contredit, le document le plus instructif que l’on puisse consulter sur les moeurs galantes du moyen age.” [Gay-Lemonnyer II, 142.]

A young knight of Arthur’s court must win a prize hawk for his lady but first he must slay two knights in double combat, obtain the hawk’s gauntlet, and prove his lady’s great beauty.Title-page undated, see Graesse, vol. 1, 120.

VD17 23:279268K. Graesse 1, 120. Brunet, 267. Gay-Lemonnyer II, 142. $600

10. Angelis {Angelus], Augustinus de.

Lectiones Meteorlogicae. Ed. tertia Cum Appendice Ad Cometam

visam Mense Decembri Die 21 Anni MDCLII. [1652.]

Rome: Fabii de Falchis for Joseph Corbi, 1664 [1663 in colphon]. 8vo. a8, A-2A8, 2B4. [16], 363,[1], [28]pp.

Limp vellum, wrinkled & soiled, wower edge grawed, dampstains, light browning and foxing .

“The reverend Father Augustin de Angelis, (1606-1681) rector of the Clementine College at Rome, as late as 1673, after the new cometary theory had been placed beyond reasonable doubt, and even while Newton was working out its final demonstration, published a third edition [this edition] of his Lectures on Meteorology. It was dedicated to the Cardinal of Hesse, and bore the express sanction of the Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome and of the head of the religious order to which De Angelis belonged. This work deserves careful analysis, not only as representing the highest and most approved university teaching of the time at the centre of Roman Catholic Christendom, but still more because it represents that attempt to make a compromise between theology and science, or rather the attempt to confiscate science to the uses of theology, which we so constantly find whenever the triumph of science in any field has become inevitable.

As to the scientific element in this compromise, De Angelis holds, in his general introduction regarding meteorology, that the main material cause of comets is ``exhalation,’’ and says, ``If this exhalation is thick and sticky, it blazes into a comet.’’ And again he returns to the same view, saying that ``one form of exhalation is dense, hence easily inflammable and long retentive of fire, from which sort are especially generated comets.’’ But it is in his third lecture that he takes up comets specially, and his discussion of them is extended through the fourth, fifth, and sixth lectures. Having given in detail the opinions of various theologians and philosophers, he declares his own in the form of two conclusions. The first of these is that ``comets are not heavenly bodies, but originate in the earth’s atmosphere below the moon; for everything heavenly is eternal and incorruptible, but comets have a beginning and ending - ergo, comets can not be heavenly bodies.’’ This, we may observe, is levelled at the observations and reasonings of Tycho Brahe and Kepler, and is a very good illustration of the scholastic and mediaeval method - the method which blots out an ascertained fact by means of a metaphysical formula.

His second conclusion is that ``comets are of elemental and sublunary nature; for they are an exhalation hot and dry, fatty and well condensed, inflammable and kindled in the uppermost regions of the air.’’ He then goes on to answer sundry objections to this mixture of metaphysics and science, and among other things declares that ``the fatty, sticky material of a comet may be kindled from sparks falling from fiery heavenly bodies or from a thunderholt’’; and, again, that the thick, fatty, sticky quality of the comet holds its tail in shape, and that, so far are comets from having their paths beyond the, moon’s orbit, as Tycho Brahe and Kepler thought, he himself in 1618 saw ``a bearded comet so near the summit of Vesuvius that it almost seemed to touch it.’’ As to sorts and qualities of comets, he accepts Aristotle’s view, and divides them into bearded and tailed. He goes on into long

disquisitions upon their colours, forms, and motions. Under this latter head he again plunges deep into a sea of metaphysical considerations, and does not reappear until he brings up his compromise in the opinion that their movement is as yet uncertain and not understood, but that, if we must account definitely for it, we must say that it is effected by angels especially assigned to this service by Divine Providence. But, while proposing this compromise between science and theology as to the origin and movement of comets, he will hear to none as regards their mission as ``signs and wonders’’ and presages of evil. He draws up a careful table of these evils, arranging them in the following order. Drought, wind, earthquake, tempest, famine, pestilence, war, and, to clinch the matter, declares that the comet observed by him in 1618 brought not only war, famine, pestilence, and earthquake, but also a general volcanic eruption, ``which would have destroyed Naples, had not the blood of the invincible martyr Januarius withstood it.’’ [Andrew D. White, History of the Warfare of Science With Theology.]

BL 17th Ital. 37. RLIN NYCXV4969104-B (Cornell only). Not in Houzeau/Lancaster. $1250

11. Angelis, Alexandro De. In Astrologos Libri Quinque.

Lyon: Horace Cardon, 1615. 4to. a,e,i4,o2,A-3B4.

[28],351,[1],[31]pp.

First Lyon Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum, soiled, light dampstains, worming toward the rear of the book mostly marginal at first but at the end the last four text leaves and the index are more heavily damaged with text losses.

Large printer’s device on t.p.,head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.

“Alexander de Angelis of Spoleto, head of the Jesuit college at Rome, published in 1615 five books against astrologers with a preface to one of the cardinals.

Despite the relatively late date at which de Angelis wrote, he appears to be especially incensed against Cardan and to devote particular attention to answering the arguments of Bellantius for astrology. He also pays his respectsto Fernel, affirming that no one has found more occult virtues of the heavens or more unlikely and absurd ones ...In his five books de Angelis gives an elaborate rehearsal of past arguments against astrology...It is well to remark before leaving de Angelis that his criticism did not extend from astrology to occult virtues. Not only did he admit that the stars exerted an occult influence. He also accepted the statement that a child weaned on goat’s milk, after it had grown up, would leap like a goat and eat such plants as goats are wont to crop.” [Thorndike] Gardner, Astrologica, 51. Goldsmith BM 17thc. Italian, A494. Gottlieb 15. Krivatsy/NLM 325. Wellcome 313. Caillet 291 “ouvrage rare.” Guaita 15. Ackermann IV,243. Houzeau/Lancaster 50216. Riccardi II,3. Rosenthal, Magica,3362. $500

12. Argoli, Andrea.

Ephemerides Juxta Tychonis Hypotheses... Ab ann MDCLXXI ad MDCC...Tomus Tertia [pasted label on t.p. ‘Primum’ is incorrect].

Lyon: Jean Antoine Hugetan & Marc Antoine Ravaud, 1659. 4to.A-5X4.

Contemp. vellum (old document reused), tears on spine, pinworm holes,wormtracks in margins at front, light paper toning, some printing offset.

Engraving on t.p.,text diagrams, genitures, etc.

Argoli (c1570-1657) taught mathematics at Rome and Padua, published astronomical tables and ephemerides, espoused the thinking of Galileo and Brahe (yet conceived a universe different from either’s) and based his astrology on the Prutenic tables. For him, individual lives and also elementary bodies are connected causally to celestial bodies and particular times.

“Argoli’s extensive astronomical ephemerides, based first on the Prutenic Tables (1620-1640) and later on his own tables (1630-1700), which were based on the observations of Tycho Brahe, gave permanence to his reputation...” [DSB] This is the third volume but stands alone for these years.

Houzeau/Lancaster 15174. Riccardi I,50:10.2. $400

13. Argoli, Andrea.

Ephemeris... Ad Annum Ab Incarnatio Verbo 1671...1700. Tom. 3.

Lyon? Jean Antoine Hugetan? 1677? 4to. A-3I8,3K12. 903,[1]p.

Contemp. vellum, stained with pieces torn from front, opened in inner hinge, Lacks general t.p. but text complete. Text cuts, genitures, etc. This is the third volume but stands alone for these years.

Houzeau/Lancaster 15174. Riccardi I,50:10.3? $300

14. Argoli, Andrea.

Exactissimae Caelestium Motuum Ephemerides Ad Longitudinem

Almae Urbis Et Tychonis Brahe Hypothesis, ac deductas e Caelo accurate observationes Ab anno 1641. ad annum 1700...

Patavi: Pauli Frambotti, 1648. 4to. [18],587,[4],[1]p. First Edition Thus.

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt rules, spine bandedand gilt, spine says “To. I.”but it is complete in itself. 1 folding engraved star map, 1full-page engraving,text diagrams, tables.

This work is prefaced by a 52 page survey of astromical-astrological principles. Two volumes were added to bring the ephemerides up to 1700 but they are not present here.

Gardner, Astrologica, 70 “A fine old work on science.” Houzeau/Lancaster 15174.Riccardi I,50, 10.1. B L Italian 17th, 47. $500

15. Argoli, Andrea.

Ptolemaeus Parvus In Genethliacis junctus Arabibus.

Lyon: Joseph & Peter Vilort, 1652. 4to. )(4, A-Q4. [8], 247p. First Edition.

Original limp paper boards. spine defective, hole in cover and lower margin (animal?)in first third— not affecting text, occ. stains (inner margin at end), paper in good condition with varying margins—uncut— with edge deckels.Name of owner “Giuseppe Gionesli? on t.p. and last leaf; date of July 1687 at foot of t.p.

Caillet 383. Gardner, Astrologica 71. Casanatense 126.Riccardi I,51:112 Anche

quest’opera appartiene pia all’astrologia che all’astronomia”. Houzeau/Lancaster 5204. Pianatanda 1507 (1654 ed.)Graesse I,194. $900

16. Argoli, Andreae.

Ephemerides Juxta Tychonis Hypotheses Et e Coelo deductas observa-

tiones. Tomus Secundus Ab anno M. DC. XLI. ad M. DC. LXX.

Lyons: Jean Antoine Hugetan & Marc Antonine Ravaud, 1659. 4to.[2],915p.

Contemp. vellum, speckled edges, last leaf laid down on rear endpaper, minor stains, light paper toning, worm track in blank lower margin 2f2-2s4.

Numerous charts, genitures, symbols. etc.

This is the first volume of a three volume set but it stands alone.

Houzeau/Lancaster 15174. Riccardi I, 50: 10.2. $400

17. Ashmole, Elias, ed. [Thomas Norton, George Ripley, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Dastin, Abraham Andrews, William Backhouse, Thomas Charnock, John Dee, John Gower, Edward Kelley, John Lydgate, et alia.]

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English Philosopphers, who have written the Hermetique Mysteries in their owne Ancient Language. Faithfully Collected into one Volume, with Annotations thereon. The First Part (All Published).

London: J. Grismond for Nath(aniel) Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1652. 4to. 181 x 135mm.A-B4,[duplicate

set of leaves A2-B4 Prolegomena bound-in], C-3Q4, 3R3,3S4. [Lacks 3R4, as usual, possibly a second errata leaf—see Manly Hall].

[16],280,285-486,[8]pp. Complete.

First Edition.

Modern antiqued calf, blind-tools on covers, spine banded,title on red morocco label,title pages soiled with small repairs and inner margin replaced, old signature of George Smith on verso od t.p. stamp of previous owner “C.R.” on some leaaves, some leaves trimmed shorter at fore-edge (supplied from another copy), old repairs (no text loss), scattered early annotations and corrections; occ. stains, spotting, and dustiness, some minor edge tears.

T.p. in red and black, large folding plate by John Goddard [often lacking], 1 inserted plate [sometimes bound as a frontispiece here between 436 & 437] 12 [six full-page, one 3/4 page] alchemical engravings by Robert Vaughn, 2 woodcuts, ornaments,head- and tail-pieces, initials and fleurons.

“Ashmole, Elias 1617-1692, ‘the greatest virtuoso and curioso that ever was known or read of in England before his time’... He... made the acquaintance of Captain (afterwards Sir) George Wharton, who procured him a commission in the ordnance, and imbued him with the love of astrology and alchemy which, next to his antiquarianism, became the leading feature of his intellectual character...Ashmole was nevertheless no ordinary man. His industry was most exemplary, he was disinterestedly attached to the pursuit of knowledge, and his antiquarian researches, at all events, were guided by great good sense. His addiction to astrology was no mark of weakness of judgment in that age; he can hardly have been more attached to it than Dryden or Shaftesbury, but he had more leisure and perseverance for its pursuit.”[DNB] “Even a casual peruser of Ashmole’s Theatrum will soon realize how much scholarship and conscientious research the author has put into these pages.

The collection of the manuscript texts, which were rare even in Ashmole’s time, the collation of parallel manuscripts, and the compilation of the glossary alone were tasks requiring, besides good knowledge of paleography, much discernment, perseverance, and industry...Ashmole decided ‘after some Consideration’ to select only from those written inverse, beacause poetry is a more ancient and therefore, a more venerable medium than prose...”[C.H.Josten, Elias Ashmole.]

Wing A3987. Duveen 31 “The most important English alchemical text.

Complete copies are extremely rare, most copies lacking at least one or more of the plates.” Mellon, Alchemy & the Occult 101. Bruning 1815. Manly Hall 29. Ferguson, Glasgow, 49. Ferguson, Young,I,52 (note, lacking from Young Collection.) Gardner, Rosicruciana. 64. Hazlitt, Handbook, 5. Bolton 952. Neu 146. Newberry 27.

Krivatsy/NLM 449. Wellcome II,63. Pritchard 80. $12000

18. Astolfi, Giovanni Felice.

Cento Avenimenti Miracolosi Stupendi, Et Rari...Distruggimenti di

Oracoli. Maleficii, e Tradimenti. Atti Magnanimi di Huomini fortissimi, Caste Donne, & Fanciulli animosi. Bellissimi Tratti di Avari, Insingardi, & Ambitiosi. Et Vittorie singolari co(n)tre Demonii, Mondo, Carne, & Huomini rei...

Como: Girolamo Frova, 1604. 8vo †8,a8,A-2H8. [32],497 [i.e. 495]pp.

17th c. sheep,rebacked,title gilt on leather label, dges speckled in blue, inner hinges reinforced, booklabels of “James Barratt of Lymm Hall,” and “Charles J. Bewlay of Carleton Hall.’, t.p. laid-down, corner off Q7 (minor affect to side-note), occ. browning and some minor stains. Printer’s device on t.p., decoarted initials, tail-pieces.

Astolfi was born in Bologna and was a theologian of the first half on the seventeenth century. He wrote a number of works on philosophy, theology, and history. Several of his works relate to miracles. This collection of novelle many with occult and supernatural appearances was first published in 1603 and was reprinted several times.

Piantanida 3329. Graesse I,341. Gamba 241. Caillet 488. BL 17th Ital., I,53. Cornell, Witchcraft, 25 (1660). Hoefer III,478. Coumont A68.2. $1200

19. Augustine, Aurelius,St., Bishop of Hippo.

Of the Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Jo.[Juan]

Lod.[Luis] Vives. Englished by J[ohn] H[ealey.] Juan Vives, comm.

[London:] George Eld, 1610. Folio. [18 of 20], 921, [9 of 11.] Lacks blanks.

First English Edition.

Modern leather with old center gilt arabesque ornament pasted on, banded spine, title of leather label,light marginal dampstains, t.p. and three following leaves defective at outer top corner (no text lost), minor paper corrosion along edges of last few index leaves; a few early notes and “pointing fingers.”

Large woodcut device on t.p.[ McKerrow 375],head-pieces, decorated initials.

“This translation of Vives’ text and commentaries of Augustine’s great work is the only one published in English until the latter half of the nineteenth century.”[Pforzheimer.]

St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was one of the most prolific geniuses that humanity has ever known, and is admired not only for the number of his works, but also for the variety of subjects, which traverse the whole realm of thought. The form in which he casts his work exercises a very powerful attraction on the reader...In The City of God (begun in 413, but Books 20-22 were written in 426) Augustine answers the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome (410) to the abolition of pagan worship. Considering this problem of Divine Providence with regard to the Roman Empire, he widens the horizon still more and in a burst of genius he creates the philosophy of history, embracing as he does with a glance the destinies of the world grouped around the Christian religion, the only one which goes back to the beginning and leads humanity to its final term. The City of God is considered as the most important work of the great bishop. The other works chiefly interest theologians; but it, like the Confessions, belongs to general literature and appeals to every soul. The Confessions are theology which has been lived in the soul, and the history of God’s action on individuals, while The City of God is theology framed in the history of humanity, and explaining the action of God in the world...” [Catholic Encyclopedia] STC 916. Pforzheimer 19. ESTC s106897. Arber III,377. Hazlitt II,20. McAlpin I,232. $2000

20. Bacon, Francis.

The Essayes Or, Counsels, Civill and Morall...With A Table of the

Colours, Or Apparances of Good and Evill, and their Degrees, as plsces of Perswasion, and Disseasion, and their severall Fallaxes, and the Elenches of them.

London: John Beale, 1639. 4to. A4,B-Z,Aa-Bb8. {Lacks A1 & Bb8 blanks).

Early 20th c. 1/2 calf, banded spine, title gilt, edges speckled red, bookplate of Nicholas Simons, fore-edge dampstains B4-6, marginal worming at end.

Large decorated initials, head- and tail pieces, decorative borders to t.p.

“Of Bacon’s literary, as distinct from his philosophical and professional, works, far the most popular and important are the ‘Essays.’ The title of ‘Essays’ is probably taken from the ‘Essais’ of Montaigne (who is quoted by name in the first essay), which first appeared at Bordeaux in 1580. Hallam says of these that they

are the first writings in the French language ‘which a gentleman is ashamed not to have read.’ A similar remark, if we confine ourselves to prose works, might be made of Bacon’s ‘Essays’....it may not be superfluous to remark that the ‘Essays’ are the most original of all Bacon’s works, those which, in detail, he seems to have thought out most completely for himself, apart from books and collections of commonplaces...Appended to the first edition of the ‘Essays’ was a fragment entitled ‘Of the Colours of Good and Evil’...it is full of shrewd remarks suggested by Bacon’s knowledge of life and observations of human nature. These ‘Colours of Good and Evil,’ with additions, were afterwards embodied in the sixth book of the ‘De Augmentis.’ Bacon there states that, when a young man, he had collected many other ‘colours’ or ‘popular signs’ of good and evil, but, as he had not yet found time to illustrate or examine them, he refrained from setting them out..” [DNB] Gibson 17. STC B1151. $850

21. Bacon, Francis.

The Essays...

London: T. N. for John Martyn,S. Mearne, & H. Herringman 1673.

8vo. A2,B-F8.[Missing blank F8 as in all copies]. [4],254,[12],31,[14],131pp.

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt rules on covers, gilt spine in compartments, title on red leather label, lacks first compartment at head, hinges cracked,marbled edges; engraved port. cut to margins and laid-down with small edge stain (not in image). Engraved port. of Bacon inserted from 1668 edition.

Wing B287. Gibson 23b “Enlarged.”. $500

22. Bacon, Francis.

Instaur. Mag. P. I. Of The Advancement And Proficience Of Learning of the Partitions Of Sciences. Gilbert Wats, translator.

Oxford:Leon(ard) Lichfield for Robert Young and Edwrad Forrest, 1640.

Folio. [38],60,[14],477,[1], [20]pp.

First expanded edition, later state.

Old calf, rebacked, covers scuffed, corners broken and rear edge opened; outer-edge text worming (no text affected), darkened at edges, ¶¶¶1 repaired at edge (no losses), minor dampstains at edge, some edges worn. Frontispiece of Bacon . Engraved title-page; both by William Marshall.

This is Bacon’s (1561-1626) magnum opus, in which he reveals his new scientific method: science is to be experimental and fact related rather than speculative and philosophical. This is in clear contrast to Aristotelian and Scholastic thought, and had profound influence upon the thought of Locke, Leibniz, Huygens, Robert Boyle, Votaire, and others.

“Bacon conceived a massive plan for the reorganization of scientific method and gave purposeful thought to the relation of science to public and social life. His pronouncement ‘I have taken all knowledge to be my province’ is the motto of the work.” [Printing and the Mind of Man. 119.]

Watts’ translation into English of this last revsion of Bacon’s Great Instauratio was widely celebrated.

Gibson 141b. STC 1167. PMM 119. $1000

23. Bacon, Francis.

Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning: or the Partitions of

Sciences. Nine Books. Gilbert Watts, trans.

London: for Thomas Williams, 1674.

Folio. [32], 38,[14],322, [20]pp.

Contemp calf, rebacked, title label, library marks, lower corners worn with some loss of leather, bookplate of Warrington Library some text stamps, edge repair to frontis. (no image affects), edge tears.

Frontispiece port. of Bacon.

Wing B312. Gibson 142. $750

24. Bacon, Francis.

Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning: or the Partitions of

Sciences. Nine Books. Gilbert Watts, trans.

London: for Thomas Williams, 1674.

Contemp calf, rebacked with original spine finely gilt laid-on, title-label ; edges marbled, bookplate of Crewe Hall, and Earl of Berkshire (at end). F r o n tispiece port. of Bacon.

Wing B312. Gibson 142. $1250

25. Bacon, Francis.

The Two Books of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human.

London: William Washington, 1629. 4to. A-N, [Lacks P1-4], Q-Z4,Aa-Tt4

[2], 1-110, [lacks 111-118],119-335pp. Second edition.

Later vellum, lacks ties, stamps of William Stirling-Maxwell on covers, large bookplate of Stirling-Maxwell on front paste-down, booklabel of Keir on rear paste-down,old owner’s name on t.p. “Exlibris Samuelis Edgley 1667” with his cost 3/6 on t.p., t.p. bordered with red ink,old notes on endpapers, tear in K3, nice copy overall. Device on t.p.,head-piece, decorated initial.

This is Bacon’s (1551-1626) magnum opus, in which he reveals his new scientific method: science is to be experimental and fact related rather than speculative and philosophical. This is in clear contrast to Aristotelian and Scholastic thought, and had profound influence upon the thought of Locke, Leibniz, Huygens, Robert Boyle, Voltaire and others.

STC 1165. Gibson 82. Galland, Cryptology,11. $650

26. [Baroque Humor.]

Admiranda Rerum Admirabilium Encomia. Sive Diserta & Amoena

Pallas Disserens Seria Sub Ludicra Specie. Hoc Est, Dissertationem Iudicarum Nec Non Amoenitatum Scriptores Varii...

Nijmegen: Reiner Smetius, 1666. 12mo. *6,A-Y12,Z6,2A-2E12. 660pp.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum, yapp fore-edge. Extra-engraved t.p. by P.V.Call.

First published in 1623 as “Dissertationum Ludicrarum et Amoenitatem.” this edition contains 23 humorous essays by such formidable figures as Justus Lipsius, Caspar Barlaeus, Jerome Cardan, Boxhorn, Pirkheimer, Phillip Melancthon,

Daniel Heinsius, etc.Willems notes that this edition removes some pieces [Wijnman, Scaliger, & Aldrovande] that appeared in the Elzevir edition of 1644 (Willems 1632) and adds three others: “l’eloge de la Chouette, par Conrad Goddaeus, l’eloge de la Surdite, de Martin Schoockius, et l’elogue de la Fumee, du meme.”

STCN 166612. Rahir 2563 (1676 ed.). Wlllems, Remarques, 424.Gay/Lemonnyer II,14 (other eds.). $500

27. Bausch, Johann Lorenz.

Schediasmata Bina Curiosa De Lapide Haematite Et Aetite ad mentem Academiae Naturae Curiosorum congesta

Leipzig: Johann Erich Hahn for Viet Jacob Trescher, 1665. Small 8vo.2 pts.

in 1 vol. A-2E8, 2F4.

[4], 164; [8], 79, [1]p.

First Edition.

18th c. paste-paper boards, spine gilt, title in gilt on label, some insect damage to spine light paper toning, minor foxing.

T.p. in red and black,ornament on t.p., 7 full-page engravings (2 folding). Complete.

Bausch (1605-1665) German physician, student of natural history and medical writer. He studied at the University of Altdorf where he received his degree in 1630. He founded in 1652, with his colleagues Johann Michael Fehr, Balthasar Metzger and Georg Balthasar Wohlfahrt the “Schweinfurt die Academia naturae curiosum, die heutige Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher).

The first such institute dedicated to the study of natural science. Bausch was its first president. “...a pair of treatises which he issued in 1665 on the bloodstone and the eagle-stone. Although he described both stones and their different species in some detail, his primary interest was in their medicinal virtues, and nearly half of the treatise on the bloodstone is a prooemium in regard to loss of blood. As to magical virtues, however, he was skeptical, declaring fabulous, ridiculous and fantastic the attribution to the bloodstone of power to win victory, freeze hot water, and preserve crops from hail or locusts. He also states that those who have written of the eagle-stone have promised many vain things which exceed the limits no only of medicine but of nature. “ [Thorndike].

VD17 12:186981V. Bruning 2119. Ferguson I, 85. Krivatsy/NLM 958. BL 17th German B399. Sinkankas 486 (part 2 only, not having a copy.) Thorndike VII, 262. Ward & Carozzi 147. $2250

28. Becke, David von Der. Experimenta et Meditationes, Circa Naturalium Rerum Principia.

Quibus Quae fixi & Alcalisati Salis, ante calcinationem in misto praeexistentiam, ac Causas Volatilisationis, obscura aut dubia esse poterant, clarè solvuntur, Natu Illustissimae Societatis Regiae Britannicae.

Hamburg: Gottfried Schultz,1674. 8vo. [14],335,[1]pp. First Edition.

Original? paper boards, uncut with fore-edges of varying sizes, bookstamp of the Fürstenbibliothek on verso of t.p. & last leaf.

Engraved emblematic frontis by H. von Honsberger with the light of God touching the creatures

of the Earth in the “Aqua Seminibus”.

“First Edition of v. d. Becke’s principal work, dedicated to the Royal Society. The author, a German physician (1648-84) was an exponent of Iatrochemistry, a medical theory ascribing all ills to the presence of various acidic bodies in the human body and therefore basing all therapeutic action on chemical reactions provoked by various medicaments. Apparently unknown to the usual authorities.”

[Duveen] “David von der Beck followed Helmont in holding that water or alkali was the matter of all things, while seeds or fire or acid were the formal principal.

He was interested in the strange force of imagination and the causes of monstrosities. He believed that seeds contained specific ideas, and that ideas or characters remained in the bodies of animals after death. He accepted the resuscitation of plants.” [This book was reviewed in the Philosophical Transactions IX,60-4;JS VI (1678) 442-46.]

VD17 39:116757N. Bruning 2280. Hirsch I,412. Krivatsy/NLM 996. Duveen 60. Neu 357. Wellcome II,126. Thorndike VII,236. $875

29. Bekker, Balthasar.

De Betroverde Weereld, Zynde een Grondig Ondersoek Van ‘t gemeen

gevoelen aangaande de Geeten, derselver Aart en Vermogen, Bewind ea Bedryf: als ook’t gene de Menschen door dereiver kraght en gemeenschap doen. In vier Boeken...

Amsterdam: Daniel Van Den Dalen, 1691-1693. 4to. 4 vols. in 1. 138, [2]; [8],262,[2];[8],188,[2];[6],277,[3]p.

First Complete Dutch Edition.

Contemp. vellum, soiled, marginal dampening has caused some chipping to edge of first leaves and light damp and mold stains throughout; corner torn off **4 in second volume, some text affected; clean tear on 2T2 in vol.2 (repaired); ; inner margin repairs to first leaves of volume 3; margin of last leaves edge chipped, SIGNED by the author on the verso of the first t.p., on the verso of the second t.p., and at the end of the preface in volume 4.

Full-page woodcut of drinking horn v4,p 141.A portrait sometimes found in this edition is not reported in Van Der Linde or STCN and probably not issued for this edition but from the French edition is not in this copy.

Bekker was a Dutch precursor of rationalism; born at Metslawier Mar. 30, 1634; died in Friesland June 11, 1698. He studied at Groningen under J. Alting and in Franeker, where he was rector of the Latin school, was made doctor of theology, and preacher in 1666. Being an enthusiastic follower of the Cartesian philosophy, he published at Wesel in 1668 an Admonitio sincere et candida de Philosophia Cartesiana, and gave greater offense by his catechisms in 1668 and 1670. He was accused of Socinianism, although Alting and other theologians pronounced him to be orthodox. After many controversies, he accepted a call as preacher to Weesp, and, in 1679, to Amsterdam. The appearance of a large comet in 1680 induced him to issue a work against, popular superstition, which stirred up more commotion; and, in 1691, in De betoverde Wereld, published at Leeuwarden, he denied the existence of sorcery, magic, possessions by the devil, and of the devil himself. The consistory

of Amsterdam instituted a formal process against him, and he was deposed July 30, 1692.

“He was the last of the Dutch thinkers from Johan Weyer to Grevius who had kept Holland free from the abuses of the witch hunters... In 1691... he published his attack on belief in witchcraft, on the only logical basis possible: that spirits, either good or bad (the existence of which Bekker did not deny), could exercise no influence over human affairs; nor should seemingly paranormal effects be attributed to witchcraft.” -[R.H. Robbins.]

It was a very influential book and editions were also published in German, French, and English.

Coumont B40.2. STCN 169104 & 169304. Jouin 857. Cornell Witchcraft 41. Van der Linde 16,17,19,20. Caillet 915 (French ed.) Rosenthal, Magica, 2873. Ferguson, Glasgow, 79. Graesse, Magica 61. $2000

30. Binet, Benjamin.

Traité Historique des Dieux et des Demons du Paganisme. Avec

quelques Remarques Critiques sur le Systême de Mr. Bekker.

Delff: André Voorstad, 1696. 12mo. *6, A-I12, K6. [12], 227, [1].First edition.

Contemp. mottled calf rebacked with old spine laid-on, spine gilt in compartments with repeated floral device, edges red, marbled endpapers, booplate of Bibliotheque de M. Rene Amedie Choppin, De Villy, text block cut a bit askew.

Binet’s (curé d’Orgeval, 1650?-1711?) refutation of the work of Bekker...It was also printed as an supplement to Colin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire des sciences occultes in 1846 (5th ed). “«Si l’on fixait la théologie païenne à ce que les poëtes nous en débitent, et à ce que le vulgaire a cru, il y aurait d’abord de quoi s’étonner en voyant comment l’homme, qui a conservé quelques linéaments de l’image de Dieu et qui en a une idée naturelle, s’est abandonné à des superstitions aussi absurdes. Les païens, qui n’avaient point d’autre guide que la mèche fumante de leur raison, sont tombés dans une espèce de délire en faisant autant de monstres de dieux qu’il y avait de créatures. Il est juste, avant d’examiner la croyance des philosophes, de vous décrire succintement combien la croyance du vulgaire était grossière. Leurs dieux les plus vénérés, tels que les poëtes nous les dépeignent, étaient plus propres à faire rire qu’à exciter la dévotion [...]. Mais afin de vous montrer combien la théologie des païens était grossière, il faut vous en donner un petit abrégé plus exact [...]. Je ne vous dirai rien de cette multitude de divinités païennes dont le nom seul est ridicule [...]. Je ne vous en rappellerai point mille histoires absurdes pour vous prouver que ce que l’on contait des dieux ne venait que des fictions des poëtes, que le peuple, naturellement superstitieux, avait adoptées comme conformes à ses préjugés» Colin de Plancy, under mythology.

STCN 169612. Caillet I, 1167. Bibliotheca Esoterica 364. Brunet 8874. Rosenthal 2875.Yve-Plessis 254. Coumont B65.1.Not in Baertsoen, Cornell. $850

31. Binet, Benjamin.

Traité Historique des Dieux et des Demons du Paganisme. Avec

quelques Remarques Critiques sur le Systême de Mr. Bekker.

Delft: Andries Voorstad, 1696. 12mo.

First edition.

19th c. marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate minor foxing, untrimmed copy with wide margins and deckles. $750

32. Binet, Ettienne, [pseudo. Rene Francois].

Essay Des Merveilles De Nature, Et Des Plus Nobles Artifices.Neusieme Edition...d’un chapitre des Monnoyes.

Rouen: Charles Osmont, 1644. 8vo. a7,[lacks a6, blank?Text & index is com-

plete] A-2Q8,2R4 [2R4 blank, present].

[14 of 16],630,[2]pp.

Contemp. mottled calf, spine banded, gilt; spine ends chipped ff, rear hinge cracked at bottom, edges speckled red, occ. minor dampstains, else very good copy.

Printer’s device on t.p. numerous text cuts, head-pieces..

Binet,(1569-1659), Jesuit, entered the order in 1590. He was rector of the college of Rouen and Paris and provincial of France, Champagne & Lyon. A Prolific author on a variety of subjects, de Backer/Sommervogel devotes 17 columns to him.

“The collection is rather unusual; the themes of the different sections have very little to do with each other. Still the book is not without its merits and gives curious information on some out-of-the-way topics. The ‘most noble artifices’ practically include the arts, as gardening, printing, painting, sculpture, dyeing, architecture, heraldry, music. etc. The aim of all this instruction, however, is not to enable the reader to understand or practice any of the arts, but to talk about them!

The author says so. It was meant for the fine gentleman of the time, who wished to be able to converse on any topic with an appearance of consummate skill and learning, though he may have no practical knowledge whatever.” [Ferguson, Secrets] Ferguson, Secrets,III.43:69. Caillet 1168 (1646 ed.). de Backer/Sommervogel I,1493:10. Goldsmith, BL French 17th, F11320. Thiébaud, Bibliographie sur la Chasse, 94. $600

33. Birrius, Martin.

Tres Tractatus De Metallorum Transmutatione. Quid Singulis con-

tineatur, sequens pagina indicat...Adjuncta est Apendix Medicamentorum Antipodagricorum & Calculifragi...

Amsterdam: Johann Jansson à Waesberg & the widow of Elizei Weyerstraet, 1668. 8vo. *8 A-G8 (G8 blank) [16],110pp. First Latin Edition.

Modern 1/2 calf over pebbled paper boards,old signature cut from t.p., repaired; note on verso of t.p., occ.. annotations.

Note: The portrait of Birrius in the Duveen-Neu copy is supplied from another source, this edition does not have a frontispiece. Birrius claims these anonymous works are by Eirenaeus Philalethes, “De Metallorum Metamorphosi,” “Brevis Manductio ad Rubinum Coelestem,” and Fons Chemicae Philosophiae.”‘ “In the preface Birrius further says that in the course of time alchemy became so involved in obscurities that it fell into contempt, but that there is an arcanum which not only works wonders in curing diseases but purges sick metals

and brings them to the perfect form of gold and silver. .. Sagacity, ingenuity and practical know-how are essential to obtain the substance which is midway between mineral and metal, occult and noble, all volatile, gold in the supreme degree, a thousand times more perfect than ordinary gold.” [Thorndike VIII,363.]

STCN 166808 . Bruning 2164. Ferguson I,109. Duveen 80/1. Neu 3261. Krivatsy/NLM 8946. Ferchl 48 (1618 ed.) Kopp II,336. $1500

34. Blagrave, Joseph.

Blagrave’s Introduction To Astrology. In Three Parts.... The first con-

taining the use of an ephemeris, and how to erect a figure of heaven to any time proposed: also the signification of the houses, planets, signs and aspects, the explanation of all useful terms of art; with plain and familiar instructions for the resolution of all manner of questions, and exemplified in every particular thereof, by figures set, and judged. The second treateth of elections; shewing their use and application, as they are constituted on the twelve celestial houses, ... The third comprehendeth an absolute method for rectifying and judging nativities, the signification and portents of directions, with new and experienced rules touching revolutions and transits, &c.

London: E[van] Tyler & R[alph] Holt for Obadiah Blagrave, 1682.

A4, B - Y8. [Lacks A1 port.][6], 329,[7 ads]pp. First Edition.

Early 19th c. 1/2 sheep over boards, spine slightly defective, vertical crack in spine, front hinge opened, rubbed; closed inner margin tear on E2, marinal ms. astrological chart on B6r, occ. browning and minor stains. Text geniture cuts.

Joseph Blagrave,1610-1682, astrologer, friend as Elias Ashmole to whom this work is dedicated. “ Of his personal history we have no knowledge beyond what is to be gleaned from a perusal of his books. His youthful years were spent in the study of astronomy and astrology, afterwards in philosophy and the practice of physic, upon which he writes: ‘Without some knowledge in astronomy one can be no astrologer, and without knowledge in astrology one can be no philosopher, and without knowledge both in astrology and philosophy one can be no good physician, the practice of which must be laid upon the five substantial pillars of time, virtue, number, sympathy, and antipathy’ (Astrological Practice of Physick, Preface)... His character appears to have been a curious mixture of earnest piety with a profound belief in the virtues of astrology. Of the various cures which he claims to have effected, one of the most curious is that of casting out a dumb devil from a maid at Basingstoke, where we are quaintly informed that, after invoking the name of the Tetragrammaton with that of the blessed Trinity, ‘the devil came forth, but invisible, with a great cry and hideous noise, raising a sudden gust of wind, and so vanished’ (Astrological Practice of Physick, p. 124). The whole story is a curious study in the demonology of the seventeenth century.”[DNB} Wing B3119.ESTC r18805.T.C. I, 474. Gardner, Astrologica, 133. $1200 8vo.

35. Boehme [Böhme], Jacob.

Optime de Pietate et Sapientia meriti...oder Jacob Bohmens von alt Seidenburg Theosophische Schrifften... Heinrich Ammersbach,ed.

Amsterdam & Frankfurt-am-Main: Henrick Betkio, 1675. 4to. 15 pts. in 1 vol.

[8],32,8,264,[8],48,40,36,132,32,118,16,76,124, 16,28pp.

First Ammersbach ed., second collected edition.

Contemp. calf, blind rules on covers, spine banded with gilt crowns; headcap defective, cracks in hinges; gilt and rose block-printed endpapers; browning; old owner’s names on endpapers; “Naffzger” on t.p., some light dampstains.

2 Folding tables (small tear in fold).

Jacob Böhme (1575-1624), German visionary and founder of the Behmenist sects, was a master shoemaker and amateur chemist who claimed to have received visions from the Holy Spirit on at least three striking occasions. At first and at the insistence of the clergy, he refrained from recording his revelations, but eventually he succumbed to his experiences and poured out a wealth of books, many of them in the last five years of his life. His works were immensely popular in England, and it has been noted that much of Quaker doctrine borrows from Böhme’s works and ideas.

Contains: Schutz-Rede wider G. Richter; Sendschreiben E. Hegenitii; Der Weg zu Christo; Mysterium Magnum; Ver Complexionen; Was ein Christ sey; Von Christi Testamenten; Von Christi Testament de Hl. Tauffe; Von Sechs Puncien; Von der Vermischeten Welt; Clavis od. Schussel; Q. Kuhlmann:J. B.’s CL. Weissagungen Neubegeisterer Boehme; Dreif. Leben; Gesprach einer hungerigen Seelen.

VD17 23:240076R. Dunnhaupt I,677; 2.1. Buddecke 10. Goedecke III,30:32. Calvor 75,6. $3000 36. Boehme, Jacob.

The Fifth Book of the Author, In Three Parts. The First; Of the Be-

coming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ The Sonne of God. That is, Concerning The Virgin Mary,What she was from her Original, and what kinde of Mother she came to be in the Conception of her Sonne Jesus Christ, And how the Eternal Word is become Man.The Second Part, is of Christ’s Suffering, Dying Death, and Resurrection and how we may enter thereinto.The Third Part, is of the Tree of Christian Faith; shewing what True Faith is.

London: J(ohn) M(acock) for Lodowick Lloyd, 1659. 4to.

[18], 120, [4], 121-197, [3], 199-239, [11]p.

First English Edition.

20th c. fine full calf, ruled in gilt and blind, spine banded, titles on red morocco lable, marbled endpapers by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; very fine large copy with ample margins.

A translation of: Von der Menschwerdung Jesu Christi; “The second part of the book of incarnation, is concerning the suffering, dying, death, and resurrection, of Christ” and “The third part of the book of the incarnation, is concerning the tree of the Christian faith” each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.

Wing B3405. Buddecke 112. Pritchard,Alchemy,308.1.ESTC r21119. Thomason, E.977. $2000

37. Boehme, Jacob.

Mysterium Magnum; Or An Explanation of the First Book of Moses

Genesis concerning The Manifestation or Revelation of the Divine Word through the Three Principles of the Divine Essence...; also of the originall of the world and the creation. Wherein the kingdome of nature, & the kingdome of grace, are expounded. For the better understanding of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are, also, how man should consider and may know himselfe in the light of nature, what he is, and wherein his temporall, and eternall life, consist; also, wherein his eternall blessednesse, and damnation, consist. And is an exposition of the essence of all essences for the further consideration of the lovers, in the divine gift. Comprised in three parts: vvritten anno 1623. by Jacob Behm. To which is added, The life of the author. And his foure tables of divine revelation.[Includes;] “Life of Jacob Behem” by Durand Hotman & “Four tables of divine revelation “...

Englished by H.B.” [i.e. Henry Blunden]John Ellistone and John Sparrow , trans.

London: M[athhew] Simmons for H[umphrey] Bunden, 1654. Folio. 10 3/4 x 7 1/4”. 4 pts in 1 vol. π1,A2, [2]A4, a4, B-H2, I-4O4,4P4, [2]B-K3 [Lacks [2]K4,blank.] [22], 605, [1], [4], [23], [1], [48], [22]pp. First English Edition.

Modern black calf in antique style, first three leaves and final two leaves have been washed, repaired, and rehinged (loss of a few letters on t.p. and first preface leaf), intermittent browning and a slight occ. dampstain, a few marginal wormtracks. 2 full-page engraved plates, text engraving, head-pieces, decorated initials.

The Mysterium Magnum is his last work, written in 1623, and one of the most important sources of his thought. It is an interpretation of Genesis and the nature of mystical thought. “Boehme describes God as the abyss, the nothing and the all, the primordial depths from which the creative will struggles forth to find manifestation and self-consciousness. Evil is a result of the striving of single elements of Deity to become the whole; conflict ensues as man and nature strive to achieve God who, in himself, contains all antithetical principles. Boehme exerted a profound influence on the philosophies of Baader, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer.” [Columbia Ency.]

Wing B3411.ESTC r14685.Buddecke II,130. $4000

38. Boissard, Jean Jacques.

Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi Vesuntini De Divinatione &

Magicis Praestigiis: Quarum Veritas ac Vanitas solide exponitur per Descriptionem Deorum Fatidicorum qui olim Responsa dederunt; eorundemque Prophetarum,

Sacerdotum ... Adiunctis simul omnium Effigiebus, ab ipso Autore e Gemmis, Marmoribus, Talibusq[ue] antiquis ad vivum delineatis; iam modo eleganter aeri incisis per Joh. Theodor. de Bry ... prostat Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, [1615.] Folio. 311 x 197mm. )(4. 2)(4, 3)(6, A2Y4.

[28], [2 port. of author,] 358, [12]pp. First Edition.

Modern 1/2 vellum over pastepaper boards, gilt royal emblem in center, red morocco title-piece, stamp of “Bibliothek Regia in Berlin” on verso of t.p., some preliminary leaves smaller (supplied from another copy?) small early repair in gutter of 2Y4; book-label of Ezechiel Spanheim (1629-1710, numistmatist, diplomat, and scholar).

Engraved architectural t.p., engraved dedication leaf with coat-of-arms on verso, 52 engraved text illustrations including 2 ports. of the author and one of the engraver (dated 1615) by Johann Theodore de Bry; 7 text diagrams.

Jean Jacques Boissard (1528-1602), “French antiquary and Latin poet, was born at Besancon. He studied at Louvain; but, disgusted by the severity of his master, be secretly left that seminary, and after traversing a great part of Germany reached Italy, where he remained several years and was often reduced to great straits. His residence in Italy developed in his mind a taste for antiquities, and he soon. formed a collection of the most curious monuments from Rome and its vicinity. He then visited the islands of the Archipelago, with the intention of travelling through Greece, but a severe illness obliged him to return to Rome. Here he resumed his favorite pursuits with great ardour, and having completed his collection, returned to his native country; but not being permitted to profess publicly the Protestant religion, which he had embraced some time before, he withdrew to Metz, where he died on the 30th of October 1602 (EB, 11th ed.)

This work on diviniation, necromancy, and magic is mainly based on earlier authors such as Trithemius. It also deals with different occult arts with such particular themes as lycanthropy, Simon Magnus, incubi and succubi. Greek verses on the subjects and their Latin translations are included. There is also an account of the oracle gods and seers of antiquity with a portrait of each: Jupiter of Dodona, Ammon, Themis, the Pythian Apollo, Trophonius, Serapis, the Sibyls, and many others.

VD17 1:001108C. Rosenthal, Magica, 1249. Caillet 1348.”Ouvrage fort rare et très recherché.” Cicognara 4681. Brunet 1,1068. Thorndike V,504. Mellon 72. Coumont B90.3. $5000

39. Bordelon, Laurent.

Les Oeuvres: Remarques ou Reflexions Critiques, Morales Et His-

toriques... [Seneuse,1690] ; De L’Astrologie Judiciare Entretien Curieux [Louis Lucas & Etienne Du Castin,1689]; & Les Philosophes A L’Encan. Dialogues [Jean Musier,1690].

Paris:

Etienne du Castin, Arnoul Seneuse, & Jean Musier, 1689-90.

12mo. 3 vols. in 1. π2,a2-6,A-S12;a8,e4,A-M 4.8,N6;a5,i2,A-R4.2. [4],[10],418,[14],[2 blank];[22],147,[9];[16],95,[9]p.

First collected edition.

19th c. 1/2 calf over marbled boards, spine banded, gilt in compartments with floral device, title gilt on red morocco label, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991) Peruvian archaeologist and Nostradamus authority, old catalogue slips pasted in, light dampstain on last leaves in inner margin.Decorative devices on t.p.s, head-pieces, decorated initials. Three first editions of Bordelon reissued with a collective title-page. Rare thus.

Bordelon (1653-1730), chaplain of St.-Eustache, was an intimate of the ruling and intellectual Parisian circles of his day. “A minor writer, he is typical of the nascent movement that included Cyrano de Bergerac (died 1655) at the end of the seventeenth century which ultimately led to the acceptance of rationalism. In over thirty works (including drama and pedagogy) comatting superstiio, Bordelon occasionally employed the weapons of ridicule.” [Robbins] In 1710 he wrote a famous satire upon the traditional aspects of witchcraft and demonology “L’Histoire des imaginaions extragantes de Monsieur Oufle.”

The first work, in our volume, is in the tradition of moral and philosophical reflections based on references from ancient writers. Several of the chapters are on occult subject including xxxiv on judicial astrology; xxxv on various forms of divination; and xcvi on oracles.

The second work is his famous attack on judicial astrology and spends several pages attacking Nostradamus.

The third volume begins with a Lucian’s famous satire on philosophers,the “Sale of Creeds” tanslated by Perrot d’Ablancourt (1606-1664) with extensive commentary. The second ‘Dialogue’ which is patterned after Lucian, is presumably by Bordelon and continues the satiric attack citing his own ‘Remarques’ on p84. [See: Jacqueline De La Harpe’s; L’Abbe Laurent Bordelon et la lutte contre la superstition en France entre 1680 et 1730. U. of Ca Publications in Modern Philology, XXVI,2, 123-224) Benazra 264. Esoterica 430 (this copy?) OCLC 70443516 (1 copy).

Astrologie: Houzeau & Lancaster 5337. Caillet 1419. Graesse I, 494. Bibliotheca Astrologica 158. BM Goldsmith 17th French 1453. Guaita 94. Houzeau/Lancaster 5337. $1200

40. Boyle, Robert.

[An Essay About The Origine & Virtues Of Gems.]

[London:] [William Godbid,] [1672.] Small 8vo. A-M8,N4. [A1, title & N4 are in facsimile.] [16],180,182-5.

First Edition.

Modern burgundy morocco over marbled boards,bookplate of Henry

Polissack, t.p. and last leaf in facsimile, one old side note, minor foxing.

“Precious stones have engaged the interest of mankind since remote times when women first commenced to employ them for personal adornment, and from these beginnings there arose among primitive races the belief in the mystical and protective power of gems...The Essay marks the beginning of the moden development in knowledge of crystal structure. [Fulton] Wing B3847. Fulton 96. Sinkankas 865. Ward & Carozzi 289. $1200

41. Boyle, Robert.

Exercitationes de Atmosphaeris Corpurum Consistentium;Deque

Mira Subtilitate, Determinata Natura, Et Insigni Vi Effluviorum. Subjunctis Experimentis Novis...Partes Ignis & Flammae...

Geneva: Samuel De Tournes, 1680. 4to. π1,A-N4.[2],12,55,21,[2],9pp.

19th c. marbled boards, spine lost, front cover detached,some foxing and browning. Printer’s device on t.p.,head-pieces, decorated initials.

“The ‘Effluviums’ is one of the important but less widely know scientific works of Boyle and in some respects is as significant as the ‘Spring and Weight of the Air’. Had Boyle been a little bolder in the conclusions which he drew from the experiments on the oxidation of metals he would have forestalled the phlogiston theory which paralysed chemistry during the greater part of the eighteenth century. He investigated the effect of heating metals in the presence of air and recorded that they invariably increased appreciably in weight... Boyle deals at length with the property of loadstones, and he also touches upon electricity...The word ‘effluvium’ refers to the sphere of detectable influence around a soild body, e.g. the magnetic effects of a loadstone. Boyle went farther than this in elaborating upon his concept by postulating that such bodies emitted particles and that this particulate aura was the bais of the effuvium or (as in the case of the loadstone) of its magnetic influence.

Odours likewise were designated ‘effluvia’ and also conceived to be particulate, an assumption which is still the basis of physiological theories of the sense of smell.” [Fulton] Fulton 112A. Bakken 5. Wheeler Gift 187 (part). Cajori 70-74. $500

42. Brendel, Zacharias & School of Salerno.

Brendel: Chymia. In artis formam redacta Et Praelectionibus Philia-

tris...libi praeter Methodum addiscendi...Chymicas facilimam & plurimorum medicamentorum...

Jena: John Reiffenberg for the Widow Weidner, 1630.

)(12,A-K12,L6. [24],218,[30],[6 blank]pp. [bound with] Hygieia, Id Est, Bonae Valetudinis Conservandae Thesaurus locupletissimus...[Scholia Salernum]

Cologne: Peter von Brachel, 1628.

*8,a-c12,A-S12,T4. [16],120,440 (errors in pagination).

1628 12mo. 2 vols in 1. First Edition of Brendel.

Contemp. vellum, blind rules, lacks ties, chips off of spine ends, foxing

and light browning, single pressure dent in first 38 pages of Hygieia (no losses), old owner’s note on t.p. some slight dog-ears. Printer’s device on first t.p., decorated initials, tail-pieces.

The author was Zacharius Brendel the younger, born at Jena, 1592, M.D. there in 1617, practiced at Weimar and other places, and was ultimately professor of medicine at Jena, where he died in 1638...” [Ferguson.]

“The first edition of Chimia...was at Jena in 1630. In the full title it is further described as a public lecture course at the University of Jena, in which, besides an easy method of learning chemical operations and the correction of many medicaments, various chemical discourses are printed, closing with an accurate account of a most famous preparation of potable gold, now for certain reasons made public...Brendel opens with a praise of chemistry, then defines and divides it...”

[Thondike VIII,119ff.]

The Regimen was probably written near 1100 and claims to be from the School of Salerno. “The work itself is actually a catch-all of advice and instruction on how to preserve health, rules of hygiene and diet, simple therapeutics, and other instruction intended more for the laity than for the medical profession...this collective effort remains one of the most revealing medical works of the Middle Ages...Commentaries on the Regimen were common and one of the most famous of these is that of Arnaldus de Villanova, included in the present work, edited by Joannes Curio (d.1561), a German physician.” [Hiers to Hippocrates.]

Brendel: VD17 23:308877R. Bruning 1515. Ferchl 68. Ferguson I,124. Poggendorf I,292. Partington II,312.

Hygieia: VD17 12:178085G. Krivatsy/NLM 6126. Gambacorta/ Giodano 86. $1450

43. Browne, John.

Adenochoiradelogia: Or, An Anatomick-Chirurgical Treatise Of Glandules & Strumaes, Or Kings-evil-swellings. Together with the Royal gift of Healing, Or Cure thereof by Contact or Imposition of Hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, Continued with their Admirable Effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many Wonderful Examples of Cures by their Sacred Touch. All which are succinctly described By John Browne, One of His Majesties Chirurgeons in Ordinary, and Chirurgeon of His Majesties Hospital.

London: Thomas Newcomb for Samuel Lowndes, 1684. 8vo. 3 pts in 1 vol.A8, a-d8, B-

2Q8, 2R4. [82], 207, [23], 122, [48], 196, [12] p.

First Edition.

Contemp. calf, gilt rules on covers, nicely rebacked, spine banded with ilt rules, title gilt on rd morocco label; corner of port.slightly torn, old owner’s names on t.p. “Charles Aspenden,” “John

Brosler,” “E. Cowes,” “Richard William Broster,” minor foxing, old descriptive entry inserted before port. Port. of Author by Robert White & full-page engraving of King Charles seated on a throne curing supplicants with his touch.

Browne, John (1642-1702/3?), surgeon. “Browne was a well-educated man, and a good surgeon for his time... His one original contribution to medicine is the first recorded description of cirrhosis of the liver, published in Philosophical Transactions in 1685 and based upon a post-mortem dissection of a St Thomas’s patient. In Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules ... or king’s evil swellings (1684), Browne left the best surviving account of the ceremony of touching for the king’s evil, which, as surgeon-in-ordinary, he would have attended. “[Oxford DNB] Wing B5122. ESTC r24241. Krivatsy/NLM 1817. Osler 2154. Wellcome II, 251-52.

Waller 1511. $2250

44. Browne, Thomas.

Certain Miscellany Tracts. Collected by Thomas Tenison...

London: Charles Mearne, 1684. 8vo. [8], 216, [4]pp.Lacks portrait, last leaf of

index, and final blank.

First edition.

Modern antique calf. Inner margin of first four leaves reinforced. Some old notes.

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), physician and author. “Thirteen more epistolary essays on natural history, ancient customs, holy scripture, classical and modern verse, languages, oracles, facetious prophecy, and mock antiquarianism constitute Certain Miscellany Tracts, first selected and ordered by Dame Dorothy’s relative Thomas Tenison, former incumbent of St Peter Mancroft, Browne’s parish from 1649, and published in 1683, the year after Browne’s death. Browne mentioned to Aubrey (14 March 1673) ‘some miscellaneous tracts which may bee published’, and Tenison notes that he ‘had procured Transcripts’, probably ‘for publick use’ (T. Tenison, preface to ‘Certain miscellany tracts’, in Works, ed. Wilkin, 4, 1836).

Browne’s wide-ranging mind produced learned, ingenious, and sometimes whimsical discourses for friends and serious authors in search of information. “ [Oxford DNB] Wing B5152, Keynes, 128. Osler, 4509 (lacks port. & last leaf like this copy. Wellcome II, 253. $400

45. Brunsmand, Johan. [Anne Haas Barskier].

Energumeni Coagienses Sive Admirabilis Historia, De Horrenda Ca-

codaemonis tentatione Quacum in Selandia Daniae, eiusque urbe Coagio familia Civis, & vita honestissimi & fama integerrimi, per annorum aliquot spatium est conflictata: primum Danico aliquoties edita & impressa: Nunc vero in exterorum gratiam...

Leipzig: Havnien for Johann Melchior Liebe, 1695. 12mo. A-F12,G5,H6.

Modern vellum binding, edges blued, inner hinge before text opened, paper toned.

Brunsmand, 1637-1707, was born in Thorndheim in Norway but lived and practiced in Denmark as a priest in Armen, Waisen and Krankenhaus in Copenhagen; hymn writer and rector of Herlufsholm 1668-1677. In 1674 Brunsmand published his first account of the Koge witchtrials. Johan Brunsmand edited this record of the process of Anne Baskier in 1612. The first part is the narrative testimony of Anne Hans Barshier. The magistrates were Christian Caspar Scholerus, Erasmus Scholer, & Jacob Pomier. The second half of the volume is a record of the trial before the Curia Coagiensis [Koege]. Added to the text are responses to the trial by Thomas Bartholin & Balthasar Bekker.

“In the years just after 1600 the market town of Koge on Zealand was the locale for an epidemic of witch-hunting that culminated in 1607-15 among a merchant family. The housewife set down a graphic account that was reproduced in the rector Johan Brunsmand’s work Koge Hus-Kors (The Koge Hellcat)... Here are all the symptoms experts could wish for: the shaking bed, the gaping eyes of the possessed person, doors flung open, and bodies raised in levitation. But when the Dutch pastor Balthasar Bekker published from 1691 on his rationalistic refutation of the theology of the devil and the persecution of witches in his De betroverde Weerld, he reduced Brunsmand’s book ad absurdum in the fourth part of his work (1693).” [Sven Rossel,A Hist of Danish Lit. 1992.]

A woman named Johanna Thomania was accused of causing it. She was tried and executed September 11, 1612. [ref: H. C. Lea Materials Towards A Hist. of Witchcraft III,1502 referring to Wilhem Bruckner’s, Commentatio de Magicis Personis et Artibus, 1712] King Christian IV took an active interest in the trials and had one of the women transferred to the royal castle in Copenhagen, where she was tortured. But the death of some 15 women alarmed him and in 1617 he promulgated a new law declaring that only witchcraft cases involving a pact with the Devil should carry a death penalty.

VD 17 3:309162N. Graesse, Magica, 149. Ferguson, Glasgow, I,126 (1693 ed.) Cornell, Witchcraft, 93. BL 17th German B238. Van der Vekene 232. Coumont B148.2. $850

46. Bulwer, John.

Chirologia: Or The Naturall Language Of The Hand. Composed of the

Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: Or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke. Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, digested by Art in the Hand, as the chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, by Historicall Manifesto’s, Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life, and Civill Conversation. With types, or Chyrograms: A long-wish’d for illustration of this Argument. By J.B. Gent. philochirosophus.

London: Printed by Tho(mas) Harper, and are to be sold by Henry Twyford, 1644. 8vo. 2 pts. in 1 vol. A8,a6,BBB-N8,π1; A-K8,L2. [28], 187, [5]; [16],

146, [2] p First Edition, Twyford imprint variation.

Contemp. paneled sheep, rebacked, rubbed, edges worn, fore-edge of first engraved t.p. chipped (no txt affected), old owner’s name “Thomas Harris...Reading 1813” on veso of engr. t.p., letterpress t.p. backed with full-page engraved book-

plate of “Reuben Melmoth” by Nicholls; occ. light dampstains, foxing and light browning; 2 plates trimmed at margin (slight loss of border). 2 Engraved titles

by William Marshall, additional printed titles, 6 engraved plates of sign language, with final errata.

Bulwer, John (bap. 1606, d. 1656), medical practitioner and writer on deafness and on gesture.Bulwer published four volumes exploring the theme of the human body as a medium of communication: Chirologia and Chironomia (as one volume, 1644, reprinted 1648), Philocophus (1648), Pathomyotomia (1649), and Anthropometamorphosis...

Chirologia comprehensively catalogues the meanings of hand gestures (illustrated by plates of ‘chirograms’). Bulwer argued, in a colourful and rumbustious style which characterized all his work, that gestural language was universal and primary, with spoken language being but a gloss on gestural communication. This related to the widespread contemporary interest in the notion of universal languages, as well as curiously adumbrating later theories proposing that language evolved from gesture. Chironomia similarly surveys the ‘Art of Manuall Rhetoricke’, mentioning in passing a new rhetorical gesture of Bulwer’s own invention. ... Now accepted as a founding text of the English rhetoric tradition, its influence on subsequent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works is nevertheless often covert (notably in Obadiah Walker’s Art of Oratory, 1659)...

Bulwer took Francis Bacon’s plea for a ‘science of man’, as well as his inductive method, more literally than any other seventeenth-century savant, often referring to him by such epithets as ‘the Verulamian oracle’. Indeed, his works more nearly approach modern psychology in character than those of his illustrious philosophical contemporaries. Despite his robust literary style, only at the end of the twentieth century did his long neglect as a serious thinker begin to be rectified.”

[Oxford DNB.] Wing B5462 & B5466.ESTC r14061.Garrison & Morton 3347 & 3346. Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-laryngology,74. $3000

47. Cabalae Verior Descriptio Das Ist Grundliche Beschreibung und Erweisung aller naturlichen und uber naturlichen Dingen, Wie durch das Verbum Fiat alles erschafen, Und darnach durch das Centrum Coeli & Terrae, so sein uber hunlisch Leecht und unbegreiffen Fewer ist, generirt, nutrirt, regiert und corrumpirt wird.

Hamburg: Georg Wolff,1680. 8vo. A-D8. 64pp. First Edition.

1/2 vellum over paste-paper boards slight foxing and paper toning.

Full-page “Figura Cabalae.”

Rare alchemical-kabbalistic guide for the student in a series of questions on astrology, metals,the philospher’s stone, etc.

VD17 23:242928F. Bruning 2439. Ackerman V,1340. Duveen 111.Caillet 1853 (later ed.). Kopp II,230. Lenglet-Dufresnoy III,342. Ferguson I,135 “Borrichius...says it is more useful for advanced students than beginners.” Ferguson, Glasgow, 131.Ouvaroff 1477 (later ed.) Sudhoff, Paracelsica 277. $1200

48. Cabeo [Cabaeus], Niccolo.

Philosophia Magnetica, In Qua Magnetis Natura Penitus Explicatur. Et

Omnium Quae Hoc Lapide cernuntur, causae propriae afferuntur: Nova Etiam Praxis Construitur. quae propriam Poli elevationem, cum meridiano, ubique demonstrat, Multa Quoque Dicuntur De electricis & aliis attractionibus, & eorum casis.

Cologne [ & Ferrara]: Johann Kinckius [ & Francesco Succi], 1629.

Folio. 310 x 215mm. [a]2 [t..p. & dedication leaf surrounding the next gathering], †2, 2a6 [2a2 blank present], A-2M6, 2N2. First Edition, Cologne issue.

Contemp. full vellum, gilt title on spine, edges colored, the first typographic printed title and dedication page (both browned as usual) were added to this Cologne edition [see below] . Aside for the two German leaves, the rest of the text is clean, crisp and very fine.

Printer’s mark on typographic t.p., engraved t.p. in architectural form with scientific apparatus, numerous text cuts (149) and engravings (4) [including world map on p93 (rp p220).

Cabeo, 1586-1650, “A Jesuit, Cabeo taught moral theology and mathematics at Padua, then was a preacher in various Italian cities until he settled in Genoa, where he taught mathematics.” {DNB] First edition, Cologne issue, of the first work to discuss electrical repulsion, “perhaps the most significant discovery of the century following Gilbert” [Wolf].

“On p. 194 of this famous work of the great Italian Jesuit will be found the first recognition of electrical repulsion. Gilbert’s discoveries and theories are freely discussed, the latter often adversely. Sympathetic telegraphy disproved, p.301; magnetic field mapped out by iron filings; also diagrams of the magnetic (lover’s) telegraph. Cabeo opposed the views of Copernicus on astronomy, as well as those of Gilbert on terrestrial magnetism. Copies of this first edition are much sought after.” [Wheeler Gift.]

“An important work on the loadstone... A curious chaper...institutes a comparison between electrical and magnetical attraction...The ‘Philosophia Magnetica’ is the second Latin book published on electricity.” [Mottelay] The Cologne issue adds a new typographic title-page and resets the ded-

ication leaf (conjugate leaf) beginning “Ludovico XIII” [see Wellcome description].

The Papal arms which were at the top of the engraved t.p. are replaced with the Jesuit emblem and the last line of the title beginning with “multa quoque dicuntur..” has been added. It seems fairly obvious that Succi printed two variants of the book, one intended for the German trade; the paper of the book is distinctly a superior Italian printing on fine paper except for the added leaves which are on the typically browned paper of 17th century German books. Probably Kinkius printed these two leaves and sent them to Italy to be added to his issue of the book. Our copy is in a typical Italian binding of the time which implies,in this cataloger’s mind, that Succi supplied the books with the changes in a finished form to his German counterpart.

VD17 23:230949Q. Ferguson I, 136. Ronalds 92. Wheeler Gift 97. Bakken 7. Wellcome I, 1171a. Riccardi I, 205. De Backer- Sommervogel. II, 483, 1.Sotheran,659. Bibl.

Dt. Mus. Libri rari 060. Macclesfield Sotheby’s, June 10, 2004, lot 47 [Ferrara issue] Madsen - Freilich Sotheby’s New York, Jan 10, 2001, lot 112. Thorndike VII, 267ff. $13000

49. Campanella, Tommaso.

Astrologicorum Libri VI. In Quibus Astrologia, omni superstitione

Arabum, & Judæorum eliminata, physiologicè tractatur, Secundum S. Scripturas, & doctrinam S. Thomæ, & Alberti, & summorum Theologorum; Ita ut absque suspicione mala in Ecclesia Dei multa cum utilitate legi possint.

Lyon: Jacob, Andreas, & Matthias Prost, 1629. 4to. †4,a-b4, A-2G4.[2G4 blank].

[10,] 3-232,[6]pp. First Edition.

Contemp. morocco, blind rules on covers, binding expertly repaired, endpapers renewed, repair on t.p. (minor text affects to imprint), old ink stain on t.p. with minor affets to following leaves, old owner’s notes on t.p.,minor light dampstains to upper margin, a few leaves have minor margin wear, esle a very good copy with wide margins. T.p. in red and black, Large printer’s device on t.p.,decorted initials, head-piece.

“In 1629 a Lyons printer was publishing Campanella’s Astrologicorum libri VI. The two high placed Dominicans (Ridolfi and Riccardi) together probably with the poerful Cardinal Nephew Francesco Barberini managed clandestinely to rush De fato siderali vitando into print as a supplement that it might appear as the seventh book to the Lyonese publication; while contriving the appearance of a French source, the two conniving Dominicans most probably had it produced inhoise by the cameral Roman printer Andrea Brugiotti.’ [John Headley, Tommaso Campanella And The Transformation Of The World. Princeton:1997,p109.] Our copy is one of those that are in the original state before the false sevent book was added to the text.

Campagnella (1568-1639) was a Dominican, who, though he “... accepted the theological doctrines of his church, found its views on philosophy and its prevailing Aristotelianiam uncongenial.” [Mellon Cat I,248-9.]

“He had great learning, a powerful memory, and a lively imagination, and strove to start so many new notions in Philosophy and Medicine that he was accused of magic, atheism, and even treason, was imprisoned in Naples in 1599, and contin-

ued there for five and twenty years, besides being occasionally subjected to torture.” [Ferguson.]

Campagnella “... professes to eliminate all superstition of the Arabs and Jews, to treat the subject naturally and according to holy scripture and the doctrine of Aquinas, Albertus and the leading theologians...Campagnella tells us that...a treacherous friar...gave it (this work) to a printer in Lyons to publish in order to make Campagnella lose favor with Urban VIII who detested astrology.” [Thorndike VI,72ff. ] Caillet 1980. Casanatense 265. Gardner, Astrologica,198. Houzeau-Lancaster 5124.

Riccardi I,1,217:3. Mellon 86. Rosenthal 3711. Roller-Goodman I,198. Wellcome I,139. $3000

50. Canepari, Petro Maria.

De Atramentis Cojuscunque Generis...In Sex Descriptiones Digestum.

London: J[ohn] M[acock] for John Martin, James Allestree, and Thomas Dicas, 1660. 4to. 186 x 139mm. [16];568pp.First Edition published in England.

Contemporary vellum, slightly soiled, foxing and browning, occ. rustholes, some marginal worming.

Head-pieces.

“It is difficult to decide whether to classify the work on inks by Pietro Maria Canepario, a physician and philosopher of Crema who practiced medicine at Venice, under mineralogy, alchemy, technology, or natural magic.” [Thorndike].

“At the present time, however, Caneparus’s book is full of interest to the student of the history of chemistry. The first part treats of pyrites and analogoius minerals, and of various theoretical questions which arise out of it as to the generation of metals, the nature of fire, etc.; the second part of metalic atraments; part three is devoted specially to green vitriol; part four to different kinds of writing and printing inks; part five to inks of different colours, and incidentally to pigments, including cinnabar, red lead, lapis lazuli, etc. The last book is taken up entirely with the oil of vitriol.” [Ferguson, Secrets, S1,34].

The section on printing ink also has information on ways of erasing letters, on secret writing, and on magic writing.

Wing C425a. Duveen 115. Ferguson I,139 (not in Young Coll.) .Ferguson, Glasgow, I,135. Ferguson, Secrets, SI,34.Bonacini 315. Caillet 1991. Thorndike VII, 250-52.

Edelstein 176. $2250

51. Carpzov, Benedict.

Peinlicher Sächsischer Inquisition- und Achts-Proceß: Daraus zu-

vernehmen Wann wie und welcher gestalt von der Obrigkeit ex officio wider die Delinquenten und Verbrechere zu inquiriren, so wol auch wider die Flüchtigen mit der Acht zuverfahren ; Mit einem General- und Special-Register anjetzo verbessert.

Aus Käys. Carls deß V. und des Heiligen Römischen Reichs Peinlichen Halßgerichts-Ordnung gemeinen und Sächsischen Rechten Churf. Edictis und Constitutionen, auch in dieser Lande Gerichten hergebrachten zuförderst in Churfürstl.

Sächs. Schöppenstul zu Leipzig üblicher bewerter Observantz und Büchern der

Rechtsgelährten meistentheils aber ex parte tertia Practicae Criminalis D. Benedicti Carpzovii ordentlichen zusammen getragen ...

Leipzig: Christian Michael for Tobias Riese, 1662. 4to. A-2N4, [12],256, [32]p.

Modern paper covers,paper toned, minor stains, old owner’s name on t.p., note on R2 verso describes the revision of article IIIof title IX in 1638 and bound-in this copy are 9 manuscript leaves in a fine German hand of the revised version.

“Carpzov..was reputed to have signed the death warrants of 20,000 persons.... Whether it is accurate or not, Carpzov exercised more influence over German witchcraft than any other person... Carpzov introduced nothing original into the theory of witchcraft or the law... He merely interpreted the merciless laws introduced into Saxony by the Elector Augustus in 1579... dressing them up in legal finery...” [Robbins, Ency. of Witchcraft] Carpzovius (1595-1666) “...was accounted one of the ablest lawyers and law-writers of his time, and may likewise be praised as a legal antiquary, as he rescued from the archives, where they were unknown or forgot, many constitutions and decisions of great curiosity and importance.”[Chalmers.]

“So haben seiene Grundsatze uber das Verfahren den unseligen Unfug der Hexenverfolgungen auf seine Hohe gefreiben.” [Stintzing] VD 17 1:011923Z. Stintzing II,80ff. Not in BL 17th c. German. $650

52. Casaubon, (Florence Estienne) Meric.

Of Credulity And Incredulity; In things Divine & Spiritual: Wherein,

(among other things) A true and faithful account is given Of The Platonick Philosophy, As it hath reference to Christianity: An also the business of Witches and Witchcraft, Aganst a late Writer, fully Argued and Disputed.

London: T(homas) N(ewcomb) for Samuel Lownd(e)s, 1670. 8vo.

A-N8. [4], 28, 25-40, 45-172, 177-208 pp.

First Edition Thus.

18th c. full spotted calf, gilt & blind rules on covers,nicely rebacked. spine banded title in gilt on leather label, signature of “Jane Eliza Simpson, 1693” on front paste-down, light marginal damp & mold stains on a few leaves, wide margins, a very pleasing copy.

Casaubon (1599-1671) classical scholar and writer in defense of the belief in witchcraft. In 1669 “John Wagstaffe, a master in arts of Oriel College, Oxford, held that belief in witchcraft was of heathen origin and fomented by priests against private persons who imitated their rights. Consequently those who today defended that belief were more guilty of heathenism than those who denied it were of atheism.” Casaubon took it upon himself to refute Wagstaffe and argue the case for belief in it showing that “...other facts or beliefs were just as strange and occult, such as monsters, natural sympathies and antipathies, occult qualities, celestial influence, chemical remedies...the wonders of natural and artificial magic, astronomical clocks, mathematical paradoxes, etc.” (Thorndike) Casaubon also edited John Dee’s magical diaries. “It is clear that he wished to diminish Dee’s considerable reputation by perpetuating a portrait of a gullible and spiritually naive academician whose unwholesome obsession with dreams of com-

municating with angels led to his social and financial ruin.” [Lon Milo DuQuette, Intro. to A True & Faithful Relation etc. 1992.]

“In 1668 and 1670 Casaubon published the first two and the last parts respectively of Of Credulity and Incredulity, in Things Natural, Civil, and Divine.

This work attempts to adjudicate between the extremes of ‘unadvised belief, or unbelief’ by means of general rules applied to historical examples; the first two parts were reprinted posthumously in 1672 as a defence of the existence of witchcraft.”

[Oxford DNB] The 1668 work with the same title does not contain the last book or the response to Wagstaffe and is should be considered a separate work.

Wing C806. ESTC r13962. Coumont C27.6. Thorndike VIII,567. Cornell, Witchcraft,107. Robbins:563:180. $1750

53. Casaubon, Meric A Treatise Proving Spirits, Witches, And Supernatural Operations, By Pregnant Instances And Evidences: Together with other things worthy of note.

London: Brabazon Aylmer, 1672. 8vo. A-X8. [16], 316,[3]p.

17th c. sheep paneled in blind,small wormholes in spine; bookplate and blindstamp of the Earls of Macclesfield, trimmed close on A6 with some slight loss, occ. spotting,endpapers renewed. Head-pieces, decorated initials.

The 1668 work with the title “Credulity and Incredulity” does not contain the last book or the response to Wagstaffe and is should be considered a separate work.This is a reissue of the 1668 edition of the first two parts with a new title, additions and corrections. There are two issues with different imprints with no priority of issue.

Wing C815. ESTC r21714.Coumont C27.8. Cornell, Witchcraft,108. $1750

54. Caussin [Causino], Nicolas.

Effemeride Astrologica, Et Historica... Opera curiosissima, & utilis-

sima a chiunque e desideroso di eruditioni. Tradota dalla lingua Latina nell’ Italiana.

Bologna: Carlo Zenero, 1652. 12mo. a12,A-T12, V10. [24],477,[1]p.

First Italian Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum, old notes on endpapers, some stains.

Nicolas Caussin “A famous Jesuit preacher and moralist; b. at Troyes in France, in 1583; d. at Paris, 2 July, 1651. His father, a physician of extensive practice, was able from a competent income to aid materially in the development of the remarkable talents that his son early displayed. Young Caussin’s success in oratory, particularly after his entry into the Society of Jesus (1609), was brilliant, and drew to him the attention of the royal family. When the kingdom of Henry IV was fast declining under the impotent sway of the queen-regent, Marie de’ Medici, Louis XIII came to the throne. Richelieu summoned Caussin to court to direct the young king’s conscience. The task was a difficult one in those disturbed times, but Caussin, with

scrupulous earnestness, gave his heart and soul to the work. The king, who relied implicitly on him, was made to realize that peace would once more reign in his realm and in his own soul when he recalled the queen-mother and other members of the royal family from the banishment in which they were languishing. Richelieu disliked this advice and accused Caussin of raising false scruples in the king’s mind, and even of holding communications that savoured of treachery or that were at all events disloyal to his sovereign, with another of the royal chaplains. Caussin was at once banished to Quimper-Corentin in Brittany, where he remained until the death of Richelieu in 1643, when he returned to Paris to prepare his works for the press.” [Catholic Ency] This is the first Italian translation of his ‘Domus Dei. In qua mirabilibus Coeli, totaque Astrologia..’ of 1650.

Backer/Sommervogel II,922-3:23. Houzeau/Lancaster 5203 (Cologne imprint).BL 17th Italian 209. $550

55. Caussin, Nicholas.

The Holy Court in Five Tomes: The First, Treating of Motives, Which

should excite men of Quality to Christian Perfection. The Second, Of the Prelate, Souldier, States-Man, and Lady. The Third, Of Maxims of Christianity Against Prophnesse, Divided into Three Parts, Viz. Divinity, Government of this Life, & State of the Other World. The Fourth, Containing the LIves of the most Famous and Illustrious Courtiers; taken both out of hte Old and New Testament, and other Modern Authours. Written in French by Nicholas Caussin, S. J. Translated into English

by Sr. T. H. and others. The third Edition.

T. H[awkins], trans.

London: for John Williams, 1663. Folio. [3], a-b4, c2, A-Hhhh4, Iiii-Kkkk6, Llll-Rrrrr4. [26], 628, 625-627, 630-634, [2], 635-844, 841-856, [16]p.

Full contemporary calf, gilt ruling and panelling, boards worn with some of the leather peeling off, corners worn, hinges split. Banded spine with some damage to head and tail. Red speckled edges. Browning and foxing, with occasional dampstain. Donation note on 1/2 title and couplet in bottom margin of engravd title, both in old hand “Petri Marci Sparck 1670”; inner margin repaired on 1/2 title.

Engraved t.p., over 25 text illustrations, engaved head and tail pieces.

Wing C1548A. $650

56. Censorinus Grammaticus Liber De Die Natali. Heinrich Lindenbrog (1570-1642), ed. & Notes.

Hamburg: Michael Hering 1614. 4to. (:)4, [*]2, A-2B4 [-2B4,blank].

[12],174,[22]p.

First Edition thus.

19th c. 1/2 morocco over cloth, gilt title on spine, leather wear,old note on t.p. about edition,corner repair to (:)2-3 (no text affected), some underlining, paper lightly toned.

Printer’s mark on t.p.

Censorinus (3rd c. A.D.), Roman grammarian and author of this work on Natal days. “The first part deals with human life, particularly its origins, the second with time and its divisions.” [OCD.]

“...De die natali, which is extant, is dedicated as a birhday present to a little-known patron, Quintus Caerellius; according to Censorinus’ own statements,i it was written in 238. The content of this comprehensive work can be divided into three parts... The first part, which is based on the Roman savant Varro, deals chiefly wityh human procreation and prgnancy, with excursuses on the influence of the stars and on music. In the second part, which is based on a lost work by Varro, Censorinus treats the different divisions of time (age, year, month, day, etc.). As in the first part, he mentions the doctrines of Greek philosophers. Not all of the De die natali has survived; the manuscript of the conclusion has been lost, as are its author and title. This work, now entitled Fragmentum Censorini, is a more important for the history of science...It contains a series of short tractates from an encyclopeic work on astronomy, geometry, music, and metrics. The chapter on geometry, which deals with the definitions, postulates, and axioms of book I of Euclid’s Elements, differs greatly from the other known translations of Euclid. The chapters on metrics are very detailed. This part contains the oldest known information on Roman metrics and may be based on a work by Varro. Thus De die natali and Fragmentum Censorini enrich our view of Greek and Roman sacience...” [DNB] VD 17 12:134877D. Houzeau/Lancaster 1046. Schweiger I,101. BL 17th German C483. $650

57. Censorinus Grammaticus.

De Die Natali. Heinric Lindenbrog, ed. & comm.

Leiden: Johann Maire, 1642. 8vo.16],250.[38]pp.

Contemp. limp vellum, old library stamps on t.p., bookplate of “ Le Bibliophobe Bechtel” One folding diagram, 8 text cuts.

Caillet 2135. Gardiner, Astrologica, 734. Schweiger I,101. Houzeau-Lancaster I,1046.

OCLC C870. $400

58. Censorinus Grammaticus.

Liber de die natali. Heinrich Lindenbrog ed. & notes.

Hamburg: Michael Hering, 1614. 4to. First Lindenbrod edition.

Contemporary 1/2 calf, worn. Browning, marginal wornming. Printer’s mark, 2 text cuts.

VD17 12:134877D. Houzeau & Lancaster I,1046. Zinner 4457. STC C 483.Schweiger I,10. $500

59. Chavigny, Jean-Aime de. [Nostradamus] Les Pleiades... Divisess En VII. Livres. Ou en l’explication des antiques

Propheties conferees avec les Oracles du celebre Nostra-Damus est traicte de renouvellement des siecles, chargement des empires et advancement du nom Chretien, avec les prouesses, victoires, & couronnes promises a notre maganime prince Henri IIII Roy de France & de Navarre.

Lyon: Pierre Rigaud. 1603. 8vo. π2 [π1 blank], A8, *1[privilege], B-2S8,2T4.

[20], 639,[1],[7],[1]p.

First Edition.

Late 18th c. spotted French calf, spine banded, gilt in compartments with floral device, title labels gilt on red morocco, front hinge split, edges marbled to match marbled endpapers, bookplates of Danel Ruzo (1900-1991) Peruvian archaeologist & Nostradamus collector & Victor Foucher (1802-1866) high magistrate and attorney-general at Rennes; light damp and mold stains at bottom, minor paper corrosion, minor marginal worming in lower margin i a few leaves at front; old repairs to lower blank margin of last four leaves and support in margin of 2R4.

Fine engraved t.p. by Jacques de Fornazeris (1594-1622) showing allegorical figures and Henry IV, royal arms on verso of 2S8, head-pieces, decorated initials.

Chavigny (c1524- 1604) was born of a noble family of Beaune. He had a doctorate in law and theology, and in 1548 was mayor of Beaune. Some say he was sent to Nostradmus by Jean Dorat to be his secretary and also became his most trusted student, as well as, his first biographer. Leoni doubts that this because Nostradamus dosn’t mention him in his will nor in is he mentioned in the writings of Cesar Nostradmus, Michel’s son. Leoni sugggests that Chavigny only knew Nostradamus in a more casual way and adopted the guise of his most trusted student.

In either case, Chavigny is Nostradmus’ first commentator, biographer, and collector of otherwise lost prophecies.

“In 1603 appeared The Pleiades. The word can refer to seven heavenly stars or to a group of seven terrestrial luminaries. In this case, Chavigny compromised by selecting seven ancient prophecies and assigning to the section devoted to each of them the name of one of the stars. Once again Nostradamus is dragged in for confirmation, and insofar as the first and second of the seven are St. Cataldus and the Tiburtine sibyl, this book constitutes an enlargement of the work of (unpublished)1594. The other five are “an anonymous prediction of 1580,” by Laurent Miniati (ca. 1460), one by Antonio Torquato of Ferrara (ca. 1480), a ‘Vulgar vaticination of the Turks’ and that of Saint-Hippolyte, which takes up half the book. In each case, isolated lines or pairs of lines are drawn from any work of Nostradamus for confirmation, quatrains, Presages, and Prognostications being treated alike. The theme is always the same: the great, new Charlemagne, who will overthrow and covert the Turks and other infidels and establish universal peace and Chistianity.

One or two involve the Antichrist and the Second Coming... Chavigny’s works are important not only as those of a supposed disciple of Nostradamus, and as those of the first of the commentators. In quoting Nostradmian passages in connection with other prophecies or predictions of his own, Chavigny, well-trained scholar that he was, gives associated dates and thus provides the only information on the substance and language of the lost almanacs.” [Leoni,Nostradamus and His Prophecies.

Chomarat 164. Benazra 154. Brunet I,1828. Buget 1860 1706-7.Ceard 431. Caillet 2305. Cioranescu 6527. Duportal 25. Leoni 91. Moyne 395. Houzeau/Lancaster 5021. $2750

60. Clifford, Martin.

A Treatise Of Humane Reason.

London: for Heney Brome, 1675. 12mo. A-D12. [4],91,[1]pp.Second Edition.

Contemp. calf, rebacked, spine banded, endpapers renewed,minor soling and paper toning.

“Clifford’s (d1677) one significant publication is his anonymously published A Treatise of Humane Reason, which emphasizes the role of reason in religious belief. To believe something on the basis of authority, he argues, following Spinoza and anticipating Locke, is itself a matter of reason — i.e. we need rational grounds for assenting to authority of a particular person on a particular topic....

Clifford also argued for toleration in matters of religion, arguing that reason alone can bring man to the truth in matters of religion, and that force can achieve nothing in this regard.” [Dict. of 17th C. British Philosophers.]

Wing C4708. ESTC r31305. $400

61. Coley, Henry & Johannes Kepler.

Clavis astrologiæ elimata: or A key to the whole art of astrology new

filed and polished. In three parts. Containing I. An introduction; by which an ordinary capacity may understand the grounds thereof, and how to set a figure upon any occasion: with the schemes of the cusps of the coelestial houses in copper plates, ... II. Select aphorismes; with rules and examples how to resolve or judge all lawful questions astrological, from a radical scheme erected: also elections, and other necessary precepts of art. III. The genethliacal part; wherein is shewn how to rectifie and calculate nativities, according to Regiomontnus, Argol, and Keppler; with some varieties in the doctrine of directions, revolutions, and profections, ... also tables, ... both for calculation, and demonstration. To which are added the Rudolphine tables, whereby the places of the planets may be calculated for any time, past, present, or to come. The second edition, much enlarged and amended.

London: for Benjamin Tooke & Thomas Strawbridge, 1676. 8vo. 2 vols & tables with 4to Kepler’s Rudolphine Tables. π1,A8,a4 [Lacks a5-8, prefatory poems etc.],B-3A8 [Lacks Q3],3B12; A-I4,K8,L4.

Second, expanded, edition. First English Edition of Kepler’s Tables.

Old calf, amateurishly rebacked, hinges cracked, endpapers renewed (acidic); occ. notes, some light paper toning. Setting of ‘Capacity’ in line 9 of the title in variant 1with whole word. Lacks port., with volvelle on C1 with movable part (very rare!), lacks astrological chart and port. of Coley at 2O8v (also rare).Lacks the added 32 engraved tables on 16 leaves which should follow the text.

Coley, Henry 1633-1695?, mathematician and astrologer. “ He was the adopted son of the astrologer, William Lilly, who constantly makes reference in his works to Coley’s merit as a man and as a professor of mathematics and occult science. He is best known by his celebrated work, ‘Clavis Astrologiæ Elimata; or a Key to the whole Art of Astrology, new filed and polished,’ which was first published in 1669 (not in 1663, as stated by Sibly), and of which a second and enlarged edition was published in 1676... Coley attained considerable distinction as a mathematician. We are told by his almanack that he taught ‘arithmetic, vulgar, decimal, and logarithmical, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, navigation, the use of the celestial and terrestrial globes, dialling, surveying, gaging, measuring, and the art of astrology in all its branches,’ at Baldwin’s Gardens.” [DNB]

Kepler’s ‘...tables are extraordinarily important, for they document in a unique way Kepler’s great contributions to astronomy’ (Gingerich, Johannes Kepler and the Rudolphine Tables). “In his own eyes Kepler was a speculative physicist and cosmologist; to his imperial employers he was a mathematician charged with completing Tyco’s planetary tables. He spent most of his working years with this task hanging as a burden as well as a challenge; ultimately it provided the chief vehicle for the recognition of his astronomical accomplishments.” [DSB] The ‘Tabulae’ were translated by Coley from Morin’s edition of 1650 and are sometimes found as a separate publication which the date of 1675 on the t.p. may support. It may also explain the difference in the collation (this being in 4s).

Wing C 5099 & K332. ESTC r39993 & ESTCr9771.T.C. 1,241. Gardner, Astrologica,232. Houzeau & Lancaster 5273. Caspar, Kepler,97. Cushing C317 & K50. $1250

62. Collet, Philibert Historia Rationis.

N.P.[Holland? Lyon?]: N.P., 1695. 8vo. a4,A-F8.

[8].136pp. First Edition.

Modern paste-paper over boards, old owner’s inscription on t.p., stamp of Biblio. St Victor, minor dampstain on a few leaves, corrected through-out by a careful reader (editor? author?).

Armillary sphere device on t.p.

Philibert Collet, (1643-1718) French lawyer and advocate of the parliament of Dombes, author and botanist. He studied the classics at Lyon in the college of Jesuits. In 1673 he became the advocate Of Dombes and kept the job for the next 20 years. He authored books on jurisprudence, botany, and regional histories. Though he apparently had strong Catholic leanings he was thought to be a moderate thinker. This small work on rational thought is quite scarce with none in RLIN or OCLC. Colet spends most of his work discussing irrational thought: divination, Kabbalah, astrology and magic, as well as, justice, law, dialetics, eloquence, and metaphysics.

Goldsmith, BL French 17th. C 1209. Cioranescu 19922. Hoefer XI,161 (citing Lyon as the place of publication but more likely Holland) $400

63. Couppe, Daniel.

Traicte des Miracles. Monstrant qu’ils ne peuvent estre vrayes marques de l’Egilse.

Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1645. 12mo. 161,[7]pp. First Edition.

Contemp. vellum, spine darkened, surface imperfections on rear cover, old owner’s note on t.p.long entry (2pages) on this work in a contemp. French hand on the f.f.e.p.,dated 1646 with his name on the front paste-down and the note he was at the Monastery of Westphalia, light foxing.

Couppe, 1583-1646, Protestant pastor of Tours (1603-1620) and Loudon (1620-1646). This treatise is writen in response to Robert Bellarmin [see his: Disputations de controversiis Christianæ Fidei, 1581-92)] and Louis Richeome’s Trois Discours, Bordeaux,1599. [Richeome, 1544-1625, was a French humanist and Jesuit ]He discusses Del Rio’s Disquisitiones Magicae (i.e. p121ff.) as well as Godelmann. It is

interesting to note that he was at Loudon during the Urban Grandier (Devils at Loudon) witchcraft episode (1634). STCN 164512. $500

64. Crasset, Jean. [Sibylline Oracles] Dissertation Sur Les Oracles Des Sibylles.

Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1688. 12mo. a6,A-L12,M10.

[12],282pp.

Contemp. French mottled calf, spine extra-gilt, edges speckled, marbled endpapers,old owner’s name on f.f.e.p. “Joannes Franciscus Josephus Loymure,1721 (bleeding onto t.p.), old stamps of “Konvent A Nemocnice Milosrdnych Bratri.” (one covered over).

Crasset (1618-1692) French Jesuit author and director of the congregation of “Messieurs a la maison professe de Paris.” Crasset is said to have written his work in response to David Blondel’s “Des sibylles celebres tant par l’antiquite painne que par les saints Peres.”

“Suivant l’auteur, la verite des Oracles des Sibylles fut temoignee par les Saints Peres et fut en grande veneration par l’Eglise des premiers temps, d’autant plus qu’en maintes circonstances on y trouve predite la venue du Christ.” [Esoterica] Goldsmith (BL 17th French) G1819. De Backer/Sommervogel II,1629:9. Du Prel 1163. Hoffmann III, 398.Esoterica 934 (1684 ed.) $400

65. Cudworth, Ralph.

The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part;

Wherein, All the Reason and Phgilosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. [All Published.] [bound with:] A Discourse Concering the True Notion Of The Lord’s Supper. To Which Are Added Two Sermos on I John Chap. 2. Ver. 3,4. I Corinth. 15.57. The Third Edition.

London: Richard Royston, 1678, 1676. Folio. 2 works in 1 vol.A4, *-3*2, B-Z6, 2A-5I4, [π1], (a)-(k)4, (l)2. A-M4.

[18], 899, [1], [82]. [2], 93,[1]pp. [Many irregularities in paging, including 85-96, and 301-302 omitted and 155-156, 305-306 repeated in numbering.]

First Edition.

Contemp. mottled calf, rebacked sympathetically with title in gilt on leather label, corners worn; edges speckled red; old bookplate removed from front paste-down, early purchaser’s note “perfect pret :18’ on f.f.e.p.,signature of Nicholas Pocock 1840 on f.f.e.p., minor foxing, a very clean & crisp copy.Extra engraved t.p. by Robert White after Jan Baptista Caspers showing a debate between the theists (Pythagoras, Aristotle and Socrates) and atheists ( Anaximander, Strato and Epicurus), with a laurel above the Atheists with the word ‘Confusion’ and another above the theists, ‘Victory.’ Typographic t.p. in red and black.

Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688), philosopher and theologian.

“In 1678 Cudworth was installed as a prebendary at Gloucester and, in the same year, his major and massive work, The true intellectual system of the universe, wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibil-

ity demonstrated, was published. It seems to have been ready for some time since it contains an imprimatur dated 29 May 1671. Thomas Birch (Birch, 20) states that when it appeared some courtiers attempted to discredit Cudworth and it may be that some such opposition was the reason for the delay in publishing. Although the work appears to a large extent to be defending and using the views of Plato and Aristotle (treated in a manner typical of Renaissance humanism rather than of later scholarship) to attack the views of Democritus, Strato, and Lucretius, its primary targets are the atheistic materialism of Thomas Hobbes and what Cudworth dubs ‘Hylozoick’ atheism. Cudworth expects that Baruch Spinoza will soon publish an exposition of this latter position (see 1678 edn, p. A7 obv.) and considers that it needs to be treated seriously, even though he dismisses Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus as being in ‘every way so Weak, Groundless and Inconsiderable’ that it is not worth confuting (ibid., 707). At exhausting length and with enormous erudition Cudworth seeks to counter atheistic arguments, which he gives in some detail, by showing that the First Original of all things, was neither Stupid and Sensless Matter Fortuitously moved, Nor a Blind and Nescient, but Orderly and Methodical Plastick Nature; Nor a Living Matter ... without Animal Sense or Consciousness; Nor yet did every thing Exist of it self Necessarily from Eternity, without a Cause. But there is One only Necessary Existent, the Cause of all other things; and this is an Absolutely Perfect Being, Infinitely Good, Wise, and Powerful (ibid., 899)who does not act arbitrarily but is intrinsically and eternally just and good (ibid., see A3v). In contrast to the Cartesian mechanical view of the world and to the denial of free will by both Cartesianism and Calvinism, Cudworth affirms both free will and the continual creative activity of the divine upon what he calls ‘a plastic nature’ (ibid., 147-51). By this notion Cudworth attempts to avoid both the view that ‘all things are produced Fortuitously, or by the Unguided Mechanism of Matter’ and the view that God is to be thought to do ‘all things Immediately and Miraculously’. Instead he suggests that there is a Plastick Nature under him [God], which as an Inferior and Subordinate Instrument, doth Drudgingly Execute that Part of his Providence, which consists in the Regular and Orderly Motion of Matterbut at the same time is under the control of ‘a Higher Providence ... which ... doth often supply the Defects of it, and sometimes Over-rule it’ (ibid., 150).

In 1642 Cudworth published A Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord’s Supper. He begins this work by affirming that since ‘pure falshood is pure Non-entity’, it always seeks to camouflage itself by linking itself up with some truth. This notion, which expresses a basic theme of much of his work, led him throughout his studies to attempt to sift out what was right and true from the dross in which it was often located. In this tract, maybe influenced by ideas of Joseph Mede (or Mead, a fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, who died in 1638), he argues with considerable erudition, that the Lord’s supper is not, as Roman Catholics hold, itself a sacrifice but an ‘Epulum Sacrificiale or Epulum Ex Oblatis -that is, a feast in which Christians celebrate and share in the sacrifice made once and for all in the death of Christ. Accordingly the place where they eat is not an altar ‘but a Table’ (ibid., 28). The rite is also to be understood as an ‘Epulum Foederale, a Feast of Amity and Friendship between God and men’ in which they reaffirm their ‘in-

violable league of friendship’).” [Oxford DNB] There seems to be two issues of this book. One contains only the ‘True...System” with an ad leaf at the rear. The other, ours, has the third edition of the “Lord’s Supper” appended without the ad leaf. Since the date of the “Lord’s Supper” is earlier than the ‘System’ it is not possible here to decide which issue appeared first.

True: Wing C7471. T. C. I,312. Lowndes 566.

Lord’s: Wing C7468. ESTC r31350 $1750

66. Culpeper, Nicholas.

A Physical Directory; Or a Translation of the Dispensatory made by

the Colledg of Physitians of London, And by them imposed upon all the Apothecaries of England to make up their Medicines by. And in this Third Edition is added A Key to Galen’s Method of physick. Wherein is Three Sections. 1. The first Section shewing the temperature of Medicines, viz. Hot, Cold, Moist and Dry. 2. The second Section (in nine Chapters) treat of the Apropriation of Medicins to the several parts of the Body, viz. 1 The Head. 2 Breast. 3 Heart. ... 9 Joynts. 3. The third section (in 24 Chapters) sheweth the properties or operations of medicines: 1 Emollient, 2 Hardning, 3 Loosning, 4 Making thick and thin, 5 Opening the mouths of the vessels, 6 Attenuating, ... 16 Breeding, or taking away milk, 17 Seed, 18 Easing pain. 19 Breeding flesh, 20 Glutinative, 21 Scarrifying, 22 Resisting poyson, 23 Adorning the body, 24, Purging Medicines.

London: Peter Cole, 1651. Folio. π2 [π1 blank present], A-3K2. [12],138, [4], 139184, [18]p.

Recent calf, old owner’s names on t.p. and blank, t.p. repaired with tissue at edges;numerous pencil notations and pointing hands, marginal dampstains, foxing.

Lacks port.

Culpeper, Nicholas (1616-1654), physician and astrologer.

“One of the ways in which the College of Physicians maintained its monopoly was through the Pharmacopoeia, commonly known as the ‘London dispensatory’. This was entirely in Latin-difficult even for some apothecaries, and impossible for the barely literate. Culpeper’s first project was therefore to take advantage of the collapse of censorship and translate the Pharmacopoeia into English.

It appeared, entitled A Physicall Directory, or, A Translation of the London Dispensatory, in 1649. Culpeper also supplied definitions of terms, added information on what the recipes were to be used for, and provided instructions on how to make the medicines where the Pharmacopoeia’s own were too short or unclear. These additions were meant to break the monopoly held by the apothecaries as well as that of the physicians...

This was no disinterested or neutral act, as the royalist newsheet Mercurius Pragmaticus for 4-9 September of that year immediately recognized, accusing Culpeper of ‘mixing every receipt therein with some scruples, at least, of rebellion or atheisme’, and of endeavouring ‘to bring into obloquy the famous societies of apothecaries and chyrurgeons’. William Johnson, the college’s chemist, asked whether the result was ‘fit to wipe ones breeches withall’ (L. Fioravanti,

Three Exact Pieces, 1652, preface). The next two editions, of 1650 and 1651, included a ‘Key to Galen and Hippocrates, their method of physick’... In these editions Culpeper continued to criticize the self-interest of the college physicians, whom he had already classed with priests and lawyers: ‘The one deceives men in matters belonging to their soul, the other in matters belonging to their bodies, and the third in matter belonging to their estates’ (A Physicall Directory, 1649, ‘To the reader’).

But he also warned the reader that physic was indeed a serious and difficult matter.” [Oxford DNB] “The third and best edition... Important in the history of pharmaceutical chemstry, the book contains details of the preparation of acids, bases, alts, ‘chymical oyls,’ etc. “ [Neville] Wing C7542. ESTC r24898. Krivatsy/NLM 2981. Wellcome II,414.Neville I,317.

Cushig C631. Neu 1078. Osler 2401. Watt I,276a. $1750

67. Cureau de la Chambre, Marin Sr. L’Art de Connoistre Les Hommes Par Sr. de la Chambre du Roy en ses

Conseils & son Medecin Ordinaire.

Amsterdam: [Elzevier] Jaques le Jeune, 1660. 12mo. T.p., A-L12,M10.

Full old calf, worn, corners chipped. Banded spine with gilt decoration, damage to head and especially to tail (worming); red speckled edges. Lacks endpapers, worming to front pastedown and lower left margin of t.p. with no loss of text. Browning, occasional damp stain.

Engraved t.p.

Cureau (1594-1675), French popularizing author, academician and physician to Louis XIII, was a protege of Seguier. One of the first to write of scientific and philosophical subjects in French, he produced works on chiromancy, on light and rainbows, on the passions, on the system of the soul, and on the question of rationality in animals. He was one of the most famous palmists of the 17th century.

Richelieu singled him out to be one of the first members of the French Academy.

STCN 166012. Willems 1260. Caillet 2728 ‘Jolie edition’. Krivatsy 3007(incpl.). $475

68. Cureau de la Chambre, Marin, Sieur.

Les Characteres Des Passions.

Amsterdam: Lowijs & Daniel Elzevir for Antoine Michel, 1658.

12mo. 2 vols in 1. [24],599pp.

Modern calf-backed cloth boards, a.e.g., marbled endpapers,fine copy.

Engraved t.p., head-pieces.

STCN 165812. Caillet 2730. Brunet III,726. Graesse IV,63. Goldsmith BM French 17th C1868. $375

69. Cureau de la Chambre, Marin, Sieur.

Les Characters Des Passions.

Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1648-1645. 4to. 2 vols. [24],387,[1];[10],468,80p.

First Edition of volume 2; second of volume 1..

19thc. red morocco-backed marbled-paper covered boards,spine gilt;edges

marbled,marbled endpapers (matching edges); marginal worming Cc3-Hh3 in vol 1. & Aaa2 to end in volume two (no text affected); large margins, nice copies.

Engraved frontis by De La Hire, printer’s devices, head-pieces, decorated initials.

Caillet 2730. Guaita 446. Brunet III,726. Graesse IV,63. Goldsmith BM French 17th C1867 . $600

70. Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien.

Satyrical Characters, And handsome Descriptions In Letters, Written to

severall Persons of Quality.

London: Henry Herringman, 1658. 8vo. [14],172,[2]pp.First English edition. stains.

18th c. calf,blind ruled, rebacked, gilt title, some headlines cut into, occ.

Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55), French soldier and author known as much for his near daily duels in defense of his long nose as for his literary wit, was the author of a number of fantastic and burlesque romances. He introduced into his works elements of Cartesian philosophy, and bore significant influences upon the works of Swift, Moliere, Fontenelle, and Voltaire despite the brevity of his own existence.

Wing C7718. ESTC r22479. Thomason E 1756[2]. $600

71. Daillé, Jean.

De Scriptis, Quæ Sub Dionysii Areopagitæ Et Ignatii Antiocheni No-

minibus Circumferuntur, Libri Duo. Quibus Demonstratur Illa Subdititia esse, diu post Martyrum, quibus falso tribuuntur, obitum ficta; idemque de illis judicandum quæ de operibus Christi Cardinalibus inter Cypriani monumenta habentur. Adjecta est brevis commonefactio de Ruffiniana Origenicorum aliquot Operum Interpretatione.

Geneva: Johannes Antonius & Samuel De Tournes, 1666. 4to.

[44], 501, [7]pp. First edition.

Modern calf over marbled boards. Light dampstains. Large printer’s device on t.p. T.p. in red and black. Head-piece & Decorative initial.

Important work of Critical Theology. Ignatius of Antioch (50-98/117?)

Saint and presumed author of a group of letters that have the highest importance to the dogmatic character of Apostolic Christianity. He is the most important link between the Apostles and the Fathers of the early church. A lively debate has raged over the authenticity of the letters. Daillé (1594-1670) at Geneva, a French protestant church reformer, called into question, in this present work, all the letters. Pearson replied to it in his defense of the letters “Vindciæ epistolarum S. Ignatii” (Cambridge,1672). Daillé also considers the authenticity of some of the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite, (fl 6th c.?) was thought to be the same man converted by Paul at Athens but it has long been known that he is not. His mystical writings are important to medieval mystical theology and to Renaissance neo-platonists. Daillé demolished the notions that the writings were from the apostolic age. The Oxford Dict. of the Christian Church calls this work “Celebrated.” In his own day he was

called by Balzac “un grand docteur” and by Patin “ceux de la Religion disaient que, depuis Calvin, ils n’svient pas eu de meilleure plume que M. Daillé.” (DTC IV,4.)

Hoffmann I,581. $400

72. Dale, Antonius van.

Verhandeling Van De Oude Orakelen Der Heydenen.

Amsterdam: Henrick Boom, 1687. 8vo. *8,A-2M8,2N2,a7{Lacks a8,blank].

[14],551,[13],[14]pp.

First Edition,Boom issue.

1/2 sheep over paste-paper boards, spine rubbed, head worn,frontis laiddown. Extra engraved t.p., 6 (of 7, lacking plate a p81) finely etched folding plates

by ROMEYN DE HOOGHE. Van Dale (1638-1708) Mennonite preacher, medical director of the hospital at Haarlem. “He early discovered an eager taste for acquiring the languages, which, for some time, his parents obliged him to give up for the more profitable pursuit of commerce. He, however, resumed his studies when about thirty years of age, acquired skill in Greek and Latin antiquities, and took his degree in physic, which science he practiced with success. In this work on oracles he holds that they were frauds of the priests. Fontenelle has abridged this work in his “des Oracles.”

This is the scarce first edition in Dutch, in 1700, Van dale published a Latin version which is often mistaken for the first publication.

Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) Dutch engraver, one of the greatest book artists of his period.

STCN 168708. Caillet 10999 (Later ed.)”plupart fort curieuses.” Landwehr, Hooghe,71. Hollstein IX 397-403. $500

73. Daniel, Gabriel.

Voiage Du Monde de Descartes.

Paris: [Marie Dallin] Widow of Simon Benard, 1690. 12mo.

[28],11-437,[1 errata]pp.

First Edition.

Contemp. French mottled calf, spine gilt, spine ends worn, hinges started but strong, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, booklabel of Bibliotheque Ouri; small hole in t.p. (no text loss), mnor mold marks on first leaves, dampstain in corner of rear blanks.Double-page engraved map, text cuts.

Gabriel Daniel, Historian and controversialist, born at Rouen, France, 8 Feb., 1649; died at Paris, 23 June, 1728. He entered the Society of Jesus at Paris in 1667, and after making his last vows at Rennes, 1683, was assigned to the professed house of Paris where his extraordinary talents resulted in his being appointed historiographer of France by Louis XIV. “The idea of the separation of soul from body, reflected in eighteenth-century ‘trance’ and ‘ectasy’ often went back to the Cartesian separation of ‘mind’ and ‘matter.’ On this theme Gabriel Daniel wrote a full-length cosmic voyage, as well known in England as it was in France....Descartes, his disciple learned, was not dead, but separated from the matter he had separated from mind, dwelt aloft in an intellectual world of his own creation....Descartes had reached the new sphere, by

an ‘Act of Will,’ but since unfortunately the ‘Will’ of his disciple was less potent, he depended for motive power upon a peculiar kind of snuff...On went this disembodied spirit, gaily flying off to explore the indefinite Cartesian universe, after many adventures to arrive in outer space where he found M. Descartes still busily engaged in correcting the mistakes of the Almighty!” [Marjorie Nicolson, Voyages To The Moon.]

Cioranescu (17th) 23362. Barbier IV,1081. De Backer/Sommervogel II,1796:1. Wellcome II,429. Maire I,195. Nicolson 202. Goldsmith 419 (2nd ed.) $900

74. Daniel, Gabriel.

Voiage Du Monde de Descartes.

Paris: [Marie Dallin] Widow of Simon Benard, 1691.

12mo. [16],308pp..

Later vellum, soiled, bookplate of R. Rickaert & booklabel of J. Casterman; starting to open before bookblock. Armillary sphere on t.p., text cuts and diagrams. At rear is a plate of a scholar with a measuring device with another man gesturing and a women in the rear in her bedroom in slight undress.

Cioranescu (17th) 23362 (1690 ed.). Barbier IV,1081. De Backer/Sommervogel II,1796:1. Wellcome II,429. Maire I,195. Nicolson 202. Goldsmith 419 (2nd ed.) $450

75. [Dellon, Gabriel.]

Relation De L’Inquisition De Goa. Paris: Daniel Hortemels, 1688. 8vo. [26],437,[24]pp. Second, expanded edition.

Contemp. French mottled calf, spine gilt, head of spine chipped, inscription on verso of t.p.,finger soiling, large margins, one plate is remounted.

4 engravings (2 folding), 6 text vignettes by P. Sevin.

Gabriel (a.k.a. Charles) Dellon (1649-1709?) was a French physician who travelled in the Indies and was arrested by the Portugese and in 1674 was transported to Goa and condemned to serve five years on the galleys. Caillet remarks on the impartiality of his account of the Inquisition. Despite its impartiality,it was put on the Index in 1690.

Caillet 2954. Fesch 466. Yve-Plessus 1139. Rosenthal, Magica,4725. Van der Vekene 275 (other eds.). $750

76. Digby, Kenelm, Lorenz Strauss, Nikolas Papin, & Ercius Mohyus.

Theatrum Sympatheticum auctum, exhibens Varios Authores. De pul-

vere sympathetico quidem: Digbaeum, Straussium, Papinum, et Mohyum. De Unguento vero Armario: Goclenium, Robertum, Helmontium, Robertum Fluddum, Beckerum, Borellum, Bartholinum, Servium, Kircherum, Matthaeum, Sennertum, Wechtlerum, Nardium, Freitagium, Conringium, Burlinum, Fracastorium, Et Weckerum Praemittitur His Sylvestri Rattray, Aditus Ad Sympathiam Et AntiPathiam.

Nuremberg: Johann Andreas Endter & Wolfgang [Endter] junior Hieirs, 1662. 4to. )(4,A-5C4,5D2. [8],722,[42]pp “Best Edition in Latin” [Rubin]

Modern calf, gilt rules, title on leather label, edges with red painted design, 18th c. owner’s name on t.p.,minor edge stain on t.p., else a very fine copy with good paper. T.p in red and black, head- and tail-pieces; alchemical engraving on Q3r.

“One of the best collections of texts on the sympathetic powder.” Duveen.

Contains: Kenelm Digby’s Oratio de Pulvere sympathetico; Laurentius Straussius’s Epistola ad Comitem Dygbaeum; Nicolaus Papinus’s Dissertatio de Pulvere Sympathetico; & Ercius Mohyus’ Pulvis Sympatheticus.

Digby first described his well-known weapon-salve, or powder of sympathy, in the discourse alleged to have been delivered at Montpellier in 1658. Its method of employment stamps it as the merest quackery. The wound was never to be brought into contact with the powder, which was merely powdered vitriol. A bandage was to be taken from the wound, immersed in the powder, and kept there till the wound healed. Digby gives a fantastic account of the ‘sympathetic’ principles involved. He says that he learned how to make and apply the drug from a Carmelite who had travelled in the East, and whom he met at Florence in 1622. He first employed it about 1624 to cure James Howell of a wound in his hand, and he adds that James I and Dr. Mayerne were greatly impressed by its efficacy, and that Bacon registered it in his scientific collections... “[DNB].

Lorenz Strauss [1633-1687] physician, professor of medicine at Giessen, court physician of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. He edited the 1660 edition (from which this edition is taken) of Theatrum Sympatheticum.

Papin born at Blois practiced medicine there and Alencon, and his death occurred subsequent to 1653. This dissertation was first published at Paris in 1644.

Mohyus came from Rondchamp near Liege. He studied medicine and practiced it with credit from1620 to 1654. The Pulvis was first published in 1654.

VD17 23:290712A. Rubin 68. Bruning 2077. Ferchl 531. Ferguson II,440. Caillet 10599. Duveen 574. Rosenthal, Magica, 3265. Gilhofer, Alchrmie 133, 428. Esoterica 4823. Neu 4013. $2000

77. Digby, Kenelm.

Two Treatises: In the one of which, The Nature of Bodies, In the other,

The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked INto: In Way Of Discovery Of The Immortality of Reasonable Soules.

London: for John Williams, 1645. 8vo. A8,B4,*-3*4,A-T8,V4;2A-2H8,2I6,3A3G8,3H-3L4. [48], 429, [10],143, [1]pp. First Edition published in England.

Full calf, covers ruled in blind, rebacked, corners worn.Lacks portrait, first and last leaves on tabs, some light browning and staining.

Lacks port.

Digby (1603-1665) is said to have gotten his interest in occult sciences from his tutor Thomas Allen when he studied at Worcester College, Oxford. “Digby presents in `The Nature of Bodies’ the first fully developed atomistic system of the seventeenth century in which he posits divisible atoms, adopts Galileo’s dynamic principle of matter, and approaches the Cartesian universe of extension and motion only.” Charles W. Boedmer, “Materialistic & Neoplatonic Influences in Embryol-

ogy,” p.185, from Allen G. Debus’, “Medicine in 17th Century England.” (1974).

Wing D1449. Rubin 24. Ferguson I, 212 (1669 ed.). Osler 2461. Wellcome II, 468.

Cushing D167. $750

78. Diodorus Siculus.

Bibliothecae Historicae libri XV.Lorenz Rhodomann, trans.

Hanau: Andreas Wechel for Jean Aubry’s Heirs, 1611. 8vo. (*)-2(*)8, 3(*)4, A4N8.

[40], 1245, [67]pp.

Contemp. vellum, title in ms. on spine,some staining; edges blued; booklabel of the school at Eisenach.

Printer’s device on t.p.

“Diodorus Siculus (c40 B.C.), a Sicilian contemporary of Julis Caesar, wrote in Greek...a history of the world, with Rome for centre, from mythological times to Cesar’s conquest of Gaul...Diodorus is one of the sources of our knowledge of the legends of mythology. He traces to Egypt the origin of many of the mythological gods. In others he sees mortals who have attained immortality by discovering the arts and benefits of civilization, e.g. Apollo, the inventor of music, Poseidon of ships, Dionysus the discoverer of wine.” [OCCL] The philological masterpiece of Lorenz Rhodomann (1546-1606) “a schoolmaster, who, in the latter part of his life, was professor of Greek and Latin at Jena and Wittenberg. He had a remarkable facility in writing in Greek hexameters, and his epic poems, anonymously published in 1588 by his former master, Michael Neander, were accepted by many as genuine classical works...he produced the ripe result of many years of learned labour in an edition of Diodorus Siculus, by which the textual criticism of the author was materially advanced.” [Sandys] VD17 23:249219Z. Hoffmann II,63. $400

79. Dobricius, Johann.

(Greek Text:) Chronomenytor das ist Zeiterinner: In welchem

durch anleitung einer Astrologischen der nechst vollnbrachten siebenfächtigen grossen Conjunction der oberen zweien Planeten und des darauff erfolgten neuen Sternes zugleich Dann aber auch insonderheit einer Mystischen und mit den Zahlen heiliger Schrifft vergliechenen contemplation kürtzlichen erkleret und angezeiget wird In was vor einer zeit wir jetzo sein/ und was nun mehr unfehlbar der Welt und uns schierkünfftig zugewarten Lignitz:For the Author & Nikolaus Schneider, 1612. 4to. [8],54,[2]p.

First Edition.

Disbound. Chip at head of t.p. with loss to first line of title, foxing, repaired tear on last errata leaf.

Large allegorical-astrological cut on t.p. Text cuts, charts and geniture.

Dobricius of Silesia’s “Interpreter of Times wherein both out of the Holy Sciptures, and from tthe new Str which appeared in the year MDCIV and the great Conjuctio of the Planets, many things are discoursed of concerning the reformation, and future happinesse of the Church.”

“Dobricius is clearly another in the long list of east-central European who

so greatly influenced Alsted and who contributed so much to the astrological discussion of the events of 1603-4. A native of Zittau, he published his work in Liegnitz in 1612 and dedicated it to a councilman and two noblemen from Breslau.

Culturally as well as geographically, his proximity to the world of Rudolphine Prague is clear... More specifically, he seems to have been a member of the circle of Silesian spiritualists around Hans Theodor von Tschesch and Abraham von Frankenberg. The author’s rather nondescript Protestantism is most clearly indicated by his dating of the exodus... But he is certainly not a trained theologian; he had studied medicine in Leiden and Basle... Dobricius lists three classes of authors who comment on the new star. The first are the vulgar sort of astrologers, who confuse the star with a comet, which would fortell nothing but plague, famine and disaster. These he chooses to ignore. Far better are the ‘wiser astrologers’, who interpret the great conjunction in the light of the new star in the manned noted above. The first half of his fifty-four page treatise reviews a substantial selection of astrological literature provoked by the conjunctio, new star, and related celestial phenomena, as well as Tycho Brahe on the great conjuntion of 1572-3...The conjuction and star also have further secrets to reveal, ‘which [are] to high and inscrutable for heathen Ptolomaeic conjectures’ to reach.... This higher science studies the astrological aspects of the new star and great conjuction in the light of various passages of scripture, principally the prophetic numbers of Daniel and the Apocalypse.

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, it quickly degenerates into the crudest kind of numerology... His text leaves no doubt that these celestial anomalies will have far-reaching terrestrial effects, culminating in the fall of Babylon prophesied in the Apocalypse chapter 18. But this is to be followed, not by the millennium of chapter 20... but by the coming pf the New Jerusalem of chapter 21...[Howard Hotsen: Paradise Postponed: Johann Heinrich and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism,2001] VD 17 23:290011E. Cenek Zibrt, Bibliografie Ceske Historie,1232. Rosenthal, Magica, 1079. Houzeau/Lancaster 5643. OCLC 63250268 (Columbia Univ. only copy). $1200

80. Du Choul, Guillaume.

Discours De La Religion des Anciens Romains, Escript par Noble

Seigneur Guillaume du Choul, Conseiller du Roy, & Bailly des montaignes du Daulphiné, Et Illustré d’un grand nombre de medailles, & de plusieurs belles figures retirées des marbres antiques, qui se trouvent à Rome, & par nostre Gaule. [with] Discours Sur La Castramentation Et Discipline Militaire Des Romains...Des Bains Et Antiquites Exercitations Grecques Et Romains De La Religion Des Anciens Romains.

Wesel:André de Hoogenhuys, 1672. 4to. 2 pts in 1 vol. A-Zz4; a-o4, A-G4.

312, [64] pp.; 55, [1] folia, 20, [8] folia.

Full modern calf, banded spine with title in gilt lettering. Red speckled edges. Very light browning, foxing, occasional dampstains. Bookplate on front pastedown. Notations in old hand on first blank and A1.A nice copy.

One full page engraved plate, one fold-out table, and 208 engraved text illustrations.

Printer’s device on both t.ps., engraved initials, head and tail pieces.

Du Choul (d. ca. 1555), humanist and antiquarian, was counselor to the

king and bailiff of the mountains of Dauphiné. His home in Lyon was the setting for several discussions among the prominent humanists of the day. “...it is a handbook on Roman religion in which the various deities and rituals are illustrated by hundreds of woodcuts of ancient coins, along with pictures of statues, reliefs, and sacred architecture...Du Choul’s book was the product of several decades of labor...”

[Cunnally, Images of the Illustrious,1999,p141.]

VD17 23:318452W. Cockle 702. Brunet II, 858. Graesse II, 441. Lipsius 82. $750

81. Du Mortier, Nicolas [Nicolo, Nicolaus or Nicolao].

La Megalogia Del Microcosmo Overo, Il Raconto delle Grandezze

del Mondo piccolo: Considerate nel Massimo tra gli huomini S. Gio. Battista. In otto Orationi...Con un’ Appendice, detta il Microscopio, in cui, oltre la spiegatione di alcune etimologie greche, & ebraiche...

Padua: Agostino Candiani for the Stamperia del Seminario, 1688.

Square 8vo.

A-V8. [16],291,[12]pp. First Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum, some small pinworm holes, head of spine damaged, inner hinges opened,black marks on top and bottom edges (old owner’s marks removed?), some foxing, small paper adherence on t.p.

Du Mortier (c1639-) French humanist who studied at Louvain and taught philosophy at the College du Lys. For a time he lived in Italy and entered the Camilliani. He was a student of Greek and Hebrew and the church. He was also the author of “Etymologiae Sacrae Graeco-Latinae, Seu E Graecis Fontibus Depromptae.”

He was an inquisititor and priest of the Camilliani, [the ‘Ordine dei Chierici Regolari Ministri degli Infermi’, or the ‘Fathers of the Good Death.’] [see the notice in Jean Noel Paquot, Memoires...Pas-Bas,24ff.]

This rare work on the microcosm and macrocosm is divided into eight sections: Ne’Corpi Sublunari, e nel Ciel della Luna, le Grandezze del nostro Massimo Microcosmo, cola Fede, si observano simboleggiate...; Ciel di Mercurio...e ferma Speranza...; Venere, lo stato angelico...la sua ardentissima Carita...; Sole, la Prudenza...sue parti fuggettive, e potentiali...; Marte, l’imperturbabile Costanza...; Giove. la Giustitia..., Saturno, l’Armonia della mirabile Temperanza; & Firmamento, tante vaghissime costellationi del Massimo tra gli huomini puri... Each sphere is discussed in religious, philosophical, astronomical, historical and philological terms. Some use is made of Greek and Hebrew types in the text. The work is apparently quite rare we could find no references to it in any of our bibliographic sources in print or on line. Nor could we find a biography of the author. It surely is a work which requires further study.

Two copies found in KVK (Italy & Regensburg).Not found in RLIN, OCLC, BL 17th Italian, Bruni/Evans, Viciniana, Houzeau/Lancaster, Thorndike, Riccardi, Olschki Choix, Graesse, or Brunet. $1200

82. Ercker, Lazarus.

Aula Subterranea Domina Dominantium Subsdita Subditorum Das Ist

Untererdische Hofhaltung...Oder Grundliche Beschreibung der ienigen Sachen so in der Tieffe der Erden wachen als aller Ertzen der Koniglichen und gemeinen Met-

allen auch furnehmster Mineralien... [Containing:] Christian Berward.

Interpres Phraseologiae Metallurgicae, Oder Erklarung der furnehmsten Terminorum und Redearten welche bei den Bergleuten Puchern Schmeltzen Probirern und Muntzmeistern...

Frankfurt: Paul Humm Heirs for Johann David Zunners (the younger), 1672-3. Folio. 2 pts in 1 vol. 305 x 192mm. π4,):(4, A-Ee6;a-d6,e2. [12],[2

blank],332,[4],[4],47,[1 blank]pp.

First Expanded Edition.

Modern white pigskin over paper covered boards, square paper pieces pasted on verso of t.p.s to cover old owner? (no text affected), neat calligraphic corrections (some by overlays), usual paper toning. Engraved extra-title with various mining operations by Peter Kilian & 41 woodcuts in the text.

“Ercker along with Agricola and Biringuccio, was the chief spokesman in printed form for most of the metallurgical knowledge of the sixteenth century and his influence on later assaying literature was enormous. Working as chief inspector of mines in Bohemia under Emperor Rudolf II, he systematically reviewed the methods of testing alloys and minerals, supervised smelting operations, and wrote with extraordinary clarity of the apparatus and operations involved.” [Hoover Cat].VD17 23:297970R. Lipperheide 1990. Ferchl 143. Ferguson I,243. Ferguson, Glasgow,I,214. Darmstaedter, Berg-und Probirbuchlein,92. Hoover 283. BL 17th German E455. Dekesel 17th, E22. $2850

83. Estienne, Charles.

Praedium Rustium, In Quo uiusuis Soli vel culti vel inculti plantarum

vocabula ac descriptiones...Opus Medicis, Pharmacopolis, Agricolis...

Paris: Franciscus Pelocarum, 1629. 8vo. a4,A-2T8,V2.

599,[1],[83],[1]pp.

Contemp. limp vellum, 2 ties present, two partial, owner’s name “Barthol..Grignen” on t.p. clored over, imprint rubbed causing small hole on t.p.,a4 tear in margin slightly touching text, light dampstains, and other minor foxing.

Headpieces, printer’s ornament, decorated initials.

The Praedium is a collection of Estienne’s texts on agriculture and horticulture and “represents the most complete account of agriculture and horticulture in the 16th century. It consists of Charles Estienne’s botanical works...[De re hortensi; Seminarium et plantarium fructiferarum; Vinetum; Sylva, Frutetum Collis; Arbustum, Fonticulus, Spinetum; & Pratum, lacus, arundinetum] which include the works originally issued as children’s books.” [Schreiber.]

It includes medicinal uses and has a lexicon of French names of plants and animals. the most complete agricultural text of the Renaissance in which all aspects of plant lore and cultivation are covered, including medicinal uses. The text is also of lexicographical interest containing the French names of plants and animals. Charles Estienne (1504-1562), a trained physician, was from 1551-61 head of the Estienne publishing house, the leading scholarly firm in France.

Vicaire 344-5. Bitting 146 (note.) $1000

84. Ettmuller, Michael.

Etmullerus Abridg’d: Or, A Complete System of the Theory and Prac-

tice of Physic. Being A Description Of All Diseases Incident to Men, Women and Children...

London: E[lizabeth] Harris, F[rancis] Hubbard, and A[ndrew] Bell, 1699.

8vo. A-L8,M7, [B2 duplicate], o-Z8,Aa-Vv8,Xx4. [M8 an N8 are skipped in collation, as in all copies]. Complete.

First English Edition Thus.

Contemp. calf, covers worn and detached, spine splitting, some worming (some text affected (Ff1-Gg2 text affected), some foxing and pages age toned.

Ettmüller (1644/9-1683) became a professor of Botany and medicine at Leipzig, where he also lectured on chemistry. “In 1666 he started on a long tour in Italy, France, England, and Holland, and was going to spend some months there when he was summoned home...He now devoted himself to practice and to study, wrote numerous dissertations, became a member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum in 1670...” [Ferguson.]

Wing E3385A. ESTC r216185. OCLC: 14326861. $1000

85. Evelyn, John.

Numistmata. A Discourse Of Medals, Ancient and Modern. Together

with some Account of Heads and Effigies Of Illustrious, and Famous Persons, Sculps, and Taille-Douce, Of Whom we have no Medals extant; And Of the Use to be derived from them. To which is added A Digression concerning Physiognomy.

London: Benj(amin) Tooke, 1697. Folio. A-2X4, 2Y-2Z2, 3A2. [8],342,[14]pp.

First Edition [Dekesel issue III].

Contemp. mottled calf, lacks front cover, gilt spine, lacks title-label, t.p. soiled, minor foxing, otherwise a fine clean crisp copy with good margins.

T.p. in red and black, 97 text cuts by Savage.

“Evelyn’s curiosity was unquenchable, and he was already an old man when he began in 1692 to collect notes for a work on medlas. He had found that little had been written on the subject in English, and, animated by a commendable regard for portraits and portraiture, sought in his Numistmata, A Discourse of Medals to remedy this defect...He intended that his book should be worthy of its subject, and his letter to Tooke illustrates well his solicitude for every aspect of its makeup...Numistmata is a handsome folio, and the engravings of medals are excellently done. But a pleasant appearance cannot compensate in a work of this kind for faulty scholarship and typography.” [Keynes] Wing E3505. TC III,52. Keynes 104. Hazlitt II,210. Lipsius 118. Gerlach Evelyn 1697.

Campe 615. Dekesel 17th E28, issue III with correct plate on p146.. $375

86. Fano, Menahem Azariah da & Judah Loeb ben Simeon.

[Hebrew Text:] Amarot tehorot : kolel hamishah ma’amarim ; ma’a-

mar hoker din, ma’amar im kol hai, ma’amar ha-midot, ma’amar `olam katan, uma’amar ha-`itim. Judah Loeb ben Simeon, into. & comm.

Frankfurt am Main: Johann Wust, 1698. 4to. 191 x 121 mm. 2 pts in 1 vol.

π2, A-2M4,2N3; (A)-(Z)4,(Aa)4, (Bb)2. [2],143,98ff=486pp. First edition with this commentary.

Later 1/2 cloth over cloth (imitation leather) boards, library label removed from spine; t.p. repaired in inner margin (with some loss of border) with central repair to border loss restored in a good ink facsimile; corner off first leaf (minor loss), wormtrack L2-Z3 with some text loss], occ stains; leaves at end restored in inner margin; marginal dampstains. T.p. in architectural woodcut border with angels and the Tablets of the Law. R. Menahem Azariah of Fano (1548-1620), Italian rabbi and kabbalist. The scion of a wealthy family and a prolific author, he was a recognized authority on rabbinic law and the foremost exponent in the West of the kabbalistic system of R. Moses Cordovero. Under the influence of R. Israel Sarug, who during his stay in Italy spread the knowledge of the mystical system of R. Isaac Luria, R. Menahem Azariah became an admirer of the latter, though without departing from the system of R. Moses Cordovero. A pupil of R. Ishmael Hanina of Valmontone in Ferrara, he was active in Ferrara, Venice, Reggio, and Mantua. Together with his brothers he aided the victims of the earthquake of 1570. He was a patron of Jewish learning, contributing funds for the publication of such works as R. Cordovero’s Pardes Rimmonim (Salonika, 1584) and R. Joseph Caro’s commentary Kesef Mishneh (Venice, 1574-76) on Maimonides’ Code.

R. Menahem Azariah’s fame as a talmudist is borne out by the collection of 130 responsa bearing his name which was published in 1600 in Venice and in 1788 in Dyhernfurth. His style of writing was precise and he displayed considerable originality in the views he expressed. He enjoyed great popularity as a teacher, attracting students from far and wide, from Germany as well as Italy. One of his disciples compared him to an angel of G-d in appearance. His gentleness and humility showed themselves in his refusal to answer adverse criticism leveled against him by a contemporary scholar on account of certain statements he made with regard to the ritual of the lulav on the festival of Tabernacles. Amadeo Recanati dedicated to him his Italian translation of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed; R. Isaiah Horowitz praised his theological treatise Yonat Elem (Amsterdam, 1648) saying of it, “the overwhelming majority of his words, and perhaps all of them, are true, and his Torah is true” (introduction to Novelot Hokhmah (Basle, 1631) by R. Joseph Delmedigo). Seventeen of his works have been published. These include a summary of the legal decisions of R. Isaac Alfasi and his own major work on the Kabbalah, entitled Asarah Ma’amarot (only parts have been printed, Venice, 1597); Kanfei Yonah (Korzec, 1786), a kabbalistic work on prayer; and Gilgulei Neshamot (Prague, 1688) on the transmigration of the soul. Many of his kabbalistic interpretations must have been made for the first time in the course of sermons delivered by him. Extant in manuscript are liturgical poems, elegies, comments on the teachings of Isaac Luria, and a voluminous correspondence. He passed on in Mantua.

CD-EPI 0148540..Steinschneider 6342:15. Cowley 424. Zedner 530 . Roest 794. Furst I,275. OCLC: 49790373 (1 copy in NYPL). Not found in Vinograd. $750

87. Fano, Menahem Azariah Da, & Moses ben Solomon Halevi.

[Hebrew Text:] Sefer Asarah Ma’amarot with commentary ‘Yoel Moshe’ by Moses ben Solomon Halevi.

Amsterdam: Judah ben Mordechai & Samuel ben Moses Levi, 1649.

4to. 158ff.

Modern red cloth, spine gilt,stamp of Jew’s College, London on t.p., t.p. soiled, some ‘dog-ears’ and pencil notes, light stains, edge tears; corners off last leaf, and tear in penultimate leaf with some loss. T.p. in fine architectural border.

The ‘Asarah Ma’amarot’, only parts of which have been published, is his major work on the Kabbalah.

Vinograd, Amsterdam, 160. Fuks, Amsterdam, 259. Cowley 424. Steinschneider 6342:13. $500

88. Ferrari, Ottavio.

De Re Vestiaria Libri Septem. Quatuor postremi nunc primum prode-

unt: reliqui emendatiores & auctiores. [with] De Re Vestiaria Pars Altera. Libri Quatuor.

Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1654. 4to. 2 pts in 1 vol. [a]4, b6, A-2H4, I6; §-2§4, A2G4.

[20],261,[1];[16],213,[1],[24], [2]p First Complete Edition.

Contemp. mottled calf over wood board, spine banded, gilt, boards slightly warped, stamp of owner [Luxdorph] on front board, armorial bookplate of the Luxdorph famlly on front paste-down, old bibliographic notes on verso of f.f.e.p., light dampstain at end, blank corner off H4 of first work, tear in margin of S3, piece torn from blank margin of 2C2 of second part.

2 engraved t.p.s & plates by Jacopo Giuseppe Ruphon (Ruffoni, Rufonio, Rufonus; see Thieme/Becker v29, p213.), printer’s marks on t.p.s, 32 engraved plates & one text engraving. Head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials. Complete.

Ottavio Ferrari (1607-1682) studied at the Ambrosian college specializing in “polite’ literature. He received the post of professor of rhetoric at the age of 21.

He was invited to Padua, six years later, to teach eloquence, politics, and Greek.

The school was in decline but Ferrari restored it to a flourishing state. His reputation procured for him pensions and presents from foreign princes, including Queen Christina of Sweden. “He was remarkable for the sweetness, sincerty, and affability of his temper..” [Chalmers] The first volume of this work which was the first real attempt at a serious study of Roman costume was printed in 1642. This edition added a second volume of 4 books to the work and is the first complete edition.

Borroni 13447:1. Cicognara 1647 (1667 edition). Colas 1055bis. Lipperheide Bc3 (149). Piantanida, 4472. Graesse, II, 572. Brunet, VI, 29005. Olschki, 247.BL Italian, 17th cent. F337. $1000

89. [Fine Binding] Jones, Inigo.

The Most Notable Antiquity Of Great Britain Vulgarly Called Stonehenge.

Graham Parry, Intro.

[London] Menston (Yorkshire): [James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman and Laurence Chapman]The Scolar Press, [1655] 1973. Folio. [8],[8],109,[1]pp.

Facsimile reprint of the 1655 edition.

Fine full black goatskin by Alan Winstanley, sides decorated with onlays of purple and mauve leather and gilt lines, which gives an image of Stonehenge when opened; spine lettered in gilt, brown leather doublures with marbled endleaves, a.e.g., in a morocco-backed linen covered fleece-lined box.

Port. of Jones, 7 folding plates, text cuts.

Alan Winstanley was initially taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts at Holborn, and then studied bookbinding and creative art at Luton and St. Albans. He worked first for Sidney Cockerell in Letchworth, before moving to Salisbury in 1959 at the invitation of Harry Bailey to take on his craft bookbinding business. Salisbury Bookbinders continued to flourish for forty-one years, until Alan Winstanley’s retirement in 2000. Examples of his conservation work and design can be seen in major collections around the world. His work was commissioned for wedding presents to Prince Charles and the late Princess of Wales, and he executed the prestigious job of creating and binding the donor record volume for Lord Mountbatten’s memorial at Broadlands. This binding is from Winstanley’s own collection. “ In 1620 James I while visiting the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton commanded Jones to investigate the history of Stonehenge. Webb found ‘some few undigested notes’ on the subject after Jones’s death, and at the solicitation of Harvey the physician and of Selden issued in folio in 1655 ‘The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stoneheng, on Salisbury Plaine, restored by Inigo Jones, Esquire, Architect-Generall to the late King.’ Jones’s theory was that Stonehenge was a Roman temple, which, ‘if not founded by Agricola,’ yet was erected ‘in the times somewhat after his government,’ and was dedicated to the god Celus, and he noticed in the monument a mixture of certain proportions proper to Corinthian and Tuscan work, together with the plainness and solidity of the latter order.” [DNB] $1500

90. Finella, Fillipo.

De Planetaria Naturali Phisionomia.

Naples: Jacob Gaffar, 1649. 4to. [*]4, A-Z4, [Aa]3-4, Aa1-2, Bb-Ii4.

[4]ff., 184, 189-192, 185-188, 193-254pp., [1]f.

P lain textured wrappers, some rough edges at rear, not affecting text.

Oval woodcut frontispiece of Finella facing p.1.

Finella (b 1548?) issued works on chiromancy, metroscopy, physiognomy and vipers. In this work Finella attempts to determine the characters and inclinations of individuals according to such physical characteristics as the eyes, nose and teeth, voice, beard, etc. in relation to planetary influences. [See Thorndike VIII,457460.]

Sabattini 207. Thorndike VIII,457. BM(Micro) vol. 9, p.292, 214. Riccardi I, col. 459 (1648?).Laehr 1,243. Baltrusaitis 127. Magli 156.Gerlach, Finella 1649. $500

91. Flisco [Fieschi, Maurizio di ] Maurtius de.

[Manuscript Copy] De Fato Decas De Fato Annisque Fatalibus Tam

Hominibus Quam Regnis Mundi.

1690 Late 17th c.—early 18th c. [1665 orig.]

Folio.364 x 225mm.

[2 blank],338 [including 4 (=8pp.) blank leaves], [4 blank]pp.

Modern 1/2 blue moocco over marbled boards, some slight rubbing, three leaves at the front are repared and folded at the edge with some minor losses, some blue paper used, untrimmed with deckled edges. Written in brown ink in a fine legible cursive hand, c34 ines per page. Watermarks: Fleur-de-lis; “scrollwork F?S”; Crown and arms? We have been unable to find any of these to match our identification sources.

Drawing on t.p. in imitation of the emblematic device on the printed t.p., large text genitures charts.

“The work which count Mauritius de Flisco published in 1665 on fate and fatal years of men and kingdoms was classed by Morhof under superstitious astrology. In its preface the author tells of his other youthful astrological writings.

Numerous genitures which are given include those of Giovanni Maria Visconti, born in 1388, Savonarola, Stoeffler, Pico della Mirandola, Cocles, Henries III and IV of France, and Gustavus Adolphus. A dozen pages or so are devoted to physiognomy, metoposcopy, and chiromancy, and as many more to prodigies and portents. Other topics considered are critical days and climacteric years, comets, and eclipses, fate in numbers and cubes of numbers, fate in kingdoms and the fall of Rome.” [Thorndike] This attractive manuscript is a transcription of the printed edition published by Schonwetter in 1665. Houzeau/lancaster and Caillet both call the work “rare” and that must have been the reason that an early student transcribed the whole work.

For the printed edition: Houzeau/Lancaster 5260. Caillet 4019. VD 17 23:2412805.

Strap, Schonwetter 280 (Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens I,38.) Gardner, Astrologica, 411. $1750

92. Fludd, Robert.

De Fluctibus Philosophica Sacra & Vere Christiana Seu Meteorolo-

gia Cosmica.

Frankfurt: Officina De Bry, 1626. Folio. ):(4, A-2P4.

[8],303pp.

First Edition.

Later 1/2 calf over paste-paper decorated boards, title on label, green stain on t.p.,slight fore-edge stain, some even paper aging (as usual). Engraved t.p. in compartments with symbolic elements and emblems (Joscelyn Godwin discusses this title-page in detail, see his Fludd,p54), portrait of Fludd, 28 text cuts all by Matthias Merian; with the large separate plate of the “Catoptrum Meteorographicum”.

“Fludd has been characterized as ‘a philosopher, physician, anatomist, chemist, mathematician and mechanician,’ and credited with ‘a rare gift of obser-

vation in the exact sciences.’ But he still thought it possible and advisable to combine with this science and medicine not only a cloak of religion but also much of the occult science that had come down from the past: magic and cabala, astrology and alchemy, phisiognomy and chiromancy, geomancy and weather signs. Natural, preternatural, supernatural, and things contrary to nature, were all closely related and even confused by him. Magic was science, and nature a mystery.” [Thorndike VIII,443-4.]

This was intended as a part of Fludd’s great work, the “History of the Microcosm” but he abandoned his original scheme and later works leave off the reference to the larger work.

“Fludd applies the word ‘meteor’ to any heavenly phenomenon from the weather to the planets and stars themselves. In this book entitled ‘The Holy and Truly Christian Philosophy’ he surveys them all, refuting Aristotelian notions and relating the macrocosmic events to man. “ [Godwin.]

“Fludd then (in this work) shadows forth his great idea that all divine knowledge in regard to nature and its hidden workings was revealed and known to Moses, ‘who was also learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.” [Craven.]

VD17 23:233326K. Craven 246. Shaaber F151. Ebert 7701:8. Gardner, Rosicruciana,226. DSB V,47ff. Wellcome I,2329. Ferchl 158. Houzeau-Lancaster 2969. Zinner 5029. Wüthrich I,638 and II,63. $6000

93. Fludd, Robert.

Integrum Morborum Mysterium: Sive Medicinae Catholicae Tomi

Primi Tractatus Secundus, in Sectiones distributus duas; Quorum Prior generalem Morborum Naturam, sive variam Munimenti Salutis hostiliter invadendiaq(ue) oppugnandi rationem, more novo & minime antea audito, sive intellecto describit.

Ultima, universale Medicorum sive Aegorotorum depingnit Catoptron: in Meteorum morbosorum signa tam Demonstrativa, quam Prognostica, lucide speculantur, & modo haud vulgari atque alieno plane designantur. [bound with] [Greek Text;] Katholicon] Medicorum [Katoptron]: In quo, Quasi Speculo Politissimo Morbi praesentes more demonstrativo clarissme indicantur, & futuri ratione prognostica aperte cernuntur, atque prospiciuntur. Sive Tomi Primi, Tractatus Secundi, Sectio Secunda, De Morborum Signis... [bound with] Pulsus, Seu Nova Arcana Pulsum Historia, E Sacro Fonte Radicaliter Extracta, Nec Non Medicorum Ethnicorum Dictis & authoritate comprobata.

Frankfurt: Wolfgang Hofmann for Officina Wilhelm Fitzer 1631.

Folio. 3 vols. in 1. ):(6, )(8 [)(8, blank, present], A-3R4; ¶2, a-3e4; AA-MM4 [lacks Mm4,blank? as usual] [26],[2],503,[1]; [2],413,[1]; 93.[1]p. First Editions.

Later vellum, yapp fore-edge; title in ms on spine, nedpapers renewed, t.p. in fine facs. on old paper with inner and top edges extended, browned — as usual, minor dampstains, three large folding tables in Pulsus in fine facs. on old paper. Numerous text engravings.

“Fludd’s longest work is his Medicina catholica of 1629-31; it is not clear why it was left unfinished. The book is an attempt at a universal account of medicine from a characteristically wide range of sources: some elements of the Galenic

system (notably the theory of the humours); the Old Testament; the neoplatonist theory of demons and spirits; occult and cabbalistic philosophy; and a theory of disease as wind-borne. For Fludd, all disease has its origin in sin. Because of the unbroken chain of being in the universe linking the deity with celestial and terrestrial spirits, the physical elements, and the humours of the body, God is said to be responsible for both illness and cure. Evil spirits who control the winds excite lesser spirits in the air; these enter the body through the pores or through respiration.

Health is portrayed as a fortress, assailed by disease-bearing winds and defended by angelic powers inside the human being. If these are for any reason impaired, an imbalance of humours (or disease) results in the patient, and may only be cured by sympathetic means. The text is set out in Ramist dichotomies, and is illustrated, although less copiously than earlier volumes.” [Oxford DNB] ‘The tract [Pulsus] is divided into five parts: 1. The radical mystery of the pulse is opened up. 2. Contains the essential definition of the pulse, both from sacred writ and the opinions of Ethnic doctors. 3, The mutiform difference in the method and progression of the pulse. 4. The different species of pulse, distinguished both by the sacred authority and by ocular demonstration. 5. How the pulse demonstrates the presence of disease. “ [Craven.] “The Pulsus includes Fludd’s first defence of Harvey.” [DSB] VD17 12:167435P, VD17 12:167442X, & VD17 12:167445V.Shaaber F147. Krivatsy/NLM 4139. Wellcome I,2330. Newberry 115. Osler 2627 & 2628. Craven, Fludd, 247-9. Ebert 7701:10 &14. BL 17th German F545. Gardner, Rosicruciana,229 & 230. Wuthrich IV,703. $6500

94. Fludd, Robert.

[Utriusque Comi Majoris Scilicet Et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica atque Technica Historia etc.]

Tomus Secundus De Supernaturali, Naturali, Praeternaturali Et Contranaturali Microcosmi historia... [With] Tomi Secundi Tractatus Primi, Sectio Secunda, De technica Microcosmi historia, in Portiones VII. divisa.

Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler for Johannes Theodor de Bry, 1619.

Folio, [Lacks A2 title-page, present in xerox facsimlie] A-2M4 [2M4, blank, present]; a-2a4, 2b6 [2b6 blank, present]. Printer’s name and date from original title cut out and pasted to half-title A1.

277, [3]; 191,[1], [10], [2]p. First Edition.

Contemp. elaborately blind-tooled calf, rebacked with original spine reused, ties renewed, edges red, old owner’s shelf label “Gustav Ucitelsky v. Praze” on f.f.e.p.; old name removed rom dedication leaf, browning, as usual, on some leaves, some head dampstaining, repaired tear on F2, corner of 2L2 bent and glued, occ. minor head-tears.

Numerous text engravings (some full-page). In the first part of the Utriusque, Fludd had described the universe in terms of the manifestations of God, in this parallel scheme we see in man, the little world, the reflections of the greater.

It would be hard to summarize all of Fludd’s sections but suffice it to say that it is a compilation of all the aspects of the inner man and his place in the larger scheme and of all the “occult sciences.”

“As a writer, Fludd is the chief English representative of that school of medical mystics which laid claim to the possession of the key to universal science.

With less of original genius than Paracelsus, he has more method, and takes greater pains to frame a consistent system. The common idea of this school, that the biblical text contains a storehouse of hints for modern science, has lost interest, its potency expiring with the Hutchinsonians. And since Fludd did not make, like Paracelsus, any permanent addition to the pharmacopeia, or foreshadow, like Servetus, any later discoveries in chemistry or physiology, his lucubrations have passed into oblivion. His writings obtained more attention abroad than at home, though Selden highly valued them, and an admiring writer (John Webster) esteems their author ‘one of the most Christian philosophers that ever writ.’ Kepler and Gassendi entered the lists against him. De Quincey, following Buhle, makes him oddly enough the ‘immediate father’ of freemasonry...Flood (sic) takes the position that all true natural science is rooted in revelation. He opposes the ‘ethnic philosophy’ of Aristotle, and is equally opposed to all modern astronomy, for he denies the diurnal revolution of the earth. Holding with the neoplatonists that all things were ‘complicitly and ideally in God’ before they were made, he advances to a doctrine of the divine immanence which betrays a strong pantheistic tendency.

[DNB]VD17 23:233307D. BL 17th German F550. Krivatsy/NLM 4144. Wellcome I,2326. Caillet 4042. Duveen 222. Neu 1453. Osler 2621. Partington II,325.

Casanatense 478. Gardner, Astrologica, 412. Gardner, Rosicruciana, 219ff. Graesse, Magica,113. Young 115. Hall, Alchemy,71. Mellon 74. Wüthrich, Merian,66.

Houzeau & Lancaster 2967.Craven, Fludd,244-5. Godwin,93. $5000

95. Fludd, Robert.

Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica. Physica

Atque Technica Historia In duo Volumina secundum Cosmi differentiam divisa.

Tomus Primus: De Macrocosmi Historia in duos tractatus divisa. [bound with] Tractatus Secundus. De Naturæ Simia seu Technica macrocosmi historia, in partes undecim divisa.

Oppenheim & Frankfurt: JohannTheodore deBry, Hieronymus Galler (vol. 1) & Kaspar Rotel (Vol. 2), 1617 - 1624.

Folio. 283 x 190mm.

π1 A4 [A1 signed ***]B-2B4,2C8; A-3G4,3H2, 3I-5H3 [lacks 3H4 blank]. [2],206 ( misprinted as 106), [10]; 788, [12]pp.First editon, second impression of part one; second ed. of part 2.

Early 20th.cc vellum backed marble-paper covered boards, leather label with gilt title, edges red, marbled endpapers, old owner’s name on f.f.e.p., stamps of Bibliothek des Goetheanum on end[paper and inserted plates (on blank versos); folding plate at p161 in pt. 2 repaired at folds; some margins folded to protect them from being cut short in binding; minor lower margin ; minor marginal wormhole with a few paper repairs; marginal repair in 5H3; some leaves are browned, as usual. Two engraved t.p.s,approx. 268 text plates (64 large) by Matthias Merian.Five inserted (not part of collation) plates in second part at p161, 2 (1 folding) after p408,and 2 (double-page) after p428; Plate on Bb4v (p 200) pasted-over with corrected plate. .

“Fludd has been characterized as “a philosopher, physician, anatomist, physicist, chemist, mathematician and mechanician,’ and credited with ‘a rare gift of observation in the exact sciences.’ But he still thought it possible and advisable to combine with this science and medicine not only a cloak of religion but also much of the occult science that had come down from the past: magic and cabala, astrology and alchemy, physiognomy and chiromancy, geometry and weather signs. Ntural, preternatural, supernatural, and things contrary to nature, were all closely related and even confused by him. Magic was science, and nature a mystery.” [Thorndike.]

“The first of Fludd’s philosophical works to appear was the account of the macrocosm and the microcosm, entitled Utriusque cosmi ... historia. It consists in two massive folios which are copiously illustrated with remarkable mystical emblems representing relationships between man, the cosmos, and the godhead. It is very likely that Fludd himself was the draughtsman of these illustrations with their recurrent geometrical motifs of concentric circles, triangles, pyramids, hemispheres, blazing suns, and the interplay of areas of dark and light. The significance of the emblems is revealed in accompanying texts, which bring together quotations from the Bible and hermetic lore. In these volumes Fludd expresses both his adherence to a Judaeo-Christian interpretation of world history based on the text of the Bible and his hostility to the learning of the universities in the form of Aristotelian natural philosophy and Galenic medicine. Fludd’s originality lay in his revival of the fifteenth-century neoplatonism of Ficino and Pico and their sources in the corpus hermeticum, and his uniting of these with an alchemical account of the creation based on a literal reading of the book of Genesis. The major explanatory mechanism of the workings and order of the world is the parallel between macrocosm and microcosm. Man is revealed to be the ‘ape of nature’, imitating and completing her work through the exercise of geometry, music, memory, astrology, physiognomy, chiromancy, and the mechanical arts, including cosmography, painting, and the art of warfare; all of these are in some sense founded on number. Fludd’s metaphysics postulates a complex and all-embracing correspondence between the world of spirits and the physical world; this entailed opposition to Copernicanism. For Fludd the sun, source of heat, light, and spirit, goes round the earth and vivifies it, just as the Holy Spirit vivifies man.” [Oxford DNB]

Though the first t.p. is unchanged and has 1617 as the printing date, it has been widely accepted that the first volume was reissued with some corrections to accompany the stated ‘second edition’ of volume two. Although usually found with the second title-page in the revised version with the top architectural border removed, unlike this copy which has the border intact.

VD17 1:045409G & VD17 1:649914H (t.p. variant with figures on architectural surround at top).Craven,Fludd, p243-4. Shaaber 163. BL 17th German F549. Krivatsy 4144. Caillet 4042. Duveen 222. Neu 1453. Osler 2621-22. Partington II,325.

Casanetense 478. Gardner Astrologica 412. Gardner, Rosicruciana,217-218. Graesse, Magica,113. Young 115. Smith & De Morgan 614.Wellcome 2324. Wüthrich II, 66.

Mellon 83.Ferguson I, 283. Houzeau/Lancaster I, 2925 & 2966. $17500

96. Fludd, Robert.

[Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica. Physica Atque Technica Historia In duo Volumina secundum Cosmi differentiam divisa.] Tractatus Secundus. De Naturæ Simia seu Technica macrocosmi historia, in partes undecim divisa.Editio secunda.

Frankfurt: Kaspar Rotelius for the Heirs of Johann Theodore de Bry, 1624. Folio. A-3G4, 3H2, 3I-5H4[5H4 blank lacking]. 408, [409-412 plates lack-

ing], 413-788.[10]p.{errors in pagination.].

Contemp. vellum, soiled,inner hinge opened some other tract has been removed from the binding which was placed before the Fludd, some leaves bowned, small hole in first two leaves causing one word lost on A2v, minor inner margin worming on last leaf.

Engraved t.p. signed by Matthias Merian,Over two hundred engravings in the text (some full-page), numerous woodcut diagrams. Numerous type-ornament head-pieces, woodcut initials, etc.

Lacks the 5 inserted plates.

VD17 1:045380L (t.p. lacks architectural border at top). Craven,Fludd, p243-4.

Shaaber 163. Krivatsy/NLM 4144. Caillet 4042. Duveen 222. Neu 1453. Osler 262122. Partington II,325. Casanetense 478. Gardner Astrologica 412. Gardner, Rosicruciana, 217-218. Graesse, Magica,113. Young 115. Smith & De Morgan 614.Mellon 83.Wellcome 2324. Wüthrich II, 66. $5500

97. Fludd, Robert.

[Katholicon] Medicorum [Katoptron]: In quo, Quasi Speculo Poli-

tissimo Morbi praesentes more demonstrativo clarissme indicantur, & futuri ratione prognostica aperte cernuntur, atque prospiciuntur. Sive Tomi Primi, Tractatus Secundi, Sectio Secunda, De Morborum Signis,

[Frankfurt:] [Wolfgang Hofmann for Officina Wilhelm Fitzer,] 1631.

Folio. 316 x 195mm. π2,a-3e4. [4],413p.

First Edition.

19th c, vellum-backed & tips over paper covered boards,title in ms on spine, edges red; light paper toning, very good copy. One folding table, one foldout plate (part of the collation with text), numerous text engravings, charts, tables, etc.

VD17 12:167434F. Shaaber F147. Krivatsy/NLM 4139. Wellcome I,2330. Newberry 115. Osler 2627. Craven, Fludd, 248-9. Ebert 7701:14. Godwin 94 (MC II,b). BL 17th German F545. $5500

98. Fludd, Robert.

[Katholicon] Medicorum [Katoptron]... [bound with] Pulsus...

[Frankfurt:] [Wolfgang Hofmann for Officina Wilhelm Fitzer,] 1631.

Folio. 2 works in 1 vol. π2,a-3e4. AA-LL4,MM3. [4],413; 93pp First Edition.

Late 19th c, vellum-back & tips over paper covered boards, leather title-labels, edges red; browned, lacks front flyleaf,old stamp on t.p., illustration on p50 cropped;.Two folding tables, one foldout plate (part of the collation with text), 30 text engravings, charts, tables, etc.

VD17 12:167442X & 12:167445V. Shaaber F147. Krivatsy/NLM 4139. Wellcome I,2330. Newberry 115. Osler 2627 & 2628. Craven, Fludd, 247-9. Ebert 7701:10 &14.

Godwin 94 (MC II,b). BL 17th German F545. Gardner, Rosicruciana,229 & 230.

Wuthrich IV,703. $ $6500

99. French, John.

[The Art Of Distillation, Or A Treatise of the choisest Spagyricall

Preparations performed by way of Distillation...Together With The Description of the chiefest Furances and Vessels...Also, A Discourse of divers Spagyrical Experiments and Curiosities, and of the Anatomy of Gold and Silver... Second Edition. To which is added, The London-Distiller.. all Sorts of Spirits and Strong-Waters: To which is added their Vertues...]

London: Printed by E. Cotes, for Thomas Williams, 1652-3.

4to.

A-2N4. Lacks A1-3 (first t.p. and dedication) and 2N4, blank.] [10 of 16], 191, [1]; 64, [16]pp.

Second Edition, first with London-Distiller.

Contemp. calf, worn, rebacked, title on leather label, old owner’s signature on A4 “william Read Pickering,”corner restorations on last index leaves (with a few numbers touched), old stains, foxing, marginal notes and “x” marks; ‘London Distiller’ bound before the ‘Art of Distillation.’

Numerous text cuts.

French, 1616?-1657, physician, “In 1633 he was entered at New Inn Hall, Oxford, where he took the degrees in arts, B.A. 19 Oct. 1637, M.A. 9 July 1640, then ‘entred on the physic line, practised his faculty in the parliament army by the encouragement of the Fiennes, men of authority in the said army, and at length became one of the two physicians to the whole army, under the conduct of sir Tho. Fairfax, knight. On 14 April 1648, at which time the earl of Pembroke visited this university, he was actually created doctor of physic, being about that time physician to the hospital called the Savoy.’ He died in Oct. or Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, at, or near, Bullogne in France, being then physician to the English army there.’ [DNB] “ ‘Spagirie” is derived from two contradictory Greek verbs meaning ‘to extract’ and ‘to combine’ and denoted early chemistry or alchemy. A spagisiste was

a doctor who diagnosed diseases purely on chemical theories...Many of the woodcuts in this work are also used in Glauber’s...” [Gabler] Wing F2170. Duveen 231. Ferguson I,292. Neu 1520. Pritchard 149. Wellcome II,67.

Krivatsy/NLM 4351. Linden,Cooper,153. Simon, Vinaria,150; Gastronomia 70.

Gabler,Wine,101. $1500

100. Fuller, Thomas The Holy State. [Including: The Profane State] London: Roger Daniel for John Williams, 1642. Small folio in 4s. A - P 4 ,

Q6, R-3G4,3H6, 3I-3K4 [-3K4, balnk].[8], 122, 119-436, 436-441pp. First Edition.

Contemp. panelled morocco, old rebacking, both covers detached, title on red morocco label, edges worn , old wner’s name and stamp on endpapers “William Pye, 1730,” signature of “Johnathan Mann, 1729,” in margins, calligraphic owner’sname on t.p. “ ? Pagani?”; dampstains, stains, soiling, penciled notes; port. of Joan of Naples mounted on old paper.

Extra engraved t.p. by William Marshall, royal arms by William Marshall, Cambridge arms on t.p., head- and tailpieces, decorated initials, 17 ports. in text, 2 ports. inserted all by William Marshall.

Thomas Fuller (1608-61), historian and Anglican clergyman, was noted for his staunch position against the innovations of the Presbyterians of his day. He was well known as an able preacher but was hesitant to committ to the patronage of one individual, and so spent his life travelling about England and collecting information for his various histories. “his actions and writings show that he was a person of firm political and religious convictions who took considerable risks to support the institutions he most cherished: a balanced constitution of monarch and parliament and a tolerant established church under episcopal leadership. His major historical writings were erudite, original in scope, and written with verve in a style distinctively his own.... One of Fuller’s most important and popular literary works, The Holy State, was published in London in May or June 1642. It was a rich collection of characters illustrating professions and states of life, along with short biographies of historical figures.” [Oxford DNB] There are biograhies of Paracelsus, Sir Francis Drake, Queen Elizabeth, and Joan of Arc among many others. It might seem curious at first to us, but Joan of Arc is given as the prototype of the evil witch, but not so curious if we remember that it was the English who burnt her at the stake.

Wing F2443. Pforzheimer 392.ESTC r21710. $450

101. Gadbury, John & Thomas Comber.

Gadbury: Cardines Coeli: Or, An Appeal To the Learned and Experi-

enced Observers of Sublunars and Their Vicissitudes, whether the Cardinal Signs Of heaven Are not most Influential upon Men and Things: proved by X. Remarkable Genitures, &c. In a Reply to he Learned Author of Cometomanitia: Wherein the Chartacter of Gassendus is Defended; And sundry other Starry Truths are Justified.

London: N.P., 1684. π4,a4,B-K4. [2 blank],[14],72pp. [bound with:] Comber: Roman Forgeries In The Councils During the First Four Centuries To-

gether with An Appendix Concerning Forgeries and Errors In The Annals Of Baronius. London: Samuel Roycroft for Robert Cavell, 1689. π4,a4,B-Z4.

[16],175,[1]pp. 4to. @ works in 1 vol. First Editions.

Contemp. paneled calf,spine worn and chipped, edges chipped, hinges opened but holding; armorial bookplate of “Hieronymi Gerimibo,” bookplate of Daniel Ruzo (Nostradamus collector), some modern pencil notes, an old note in Greek.some occ. foxing a few pages lightly browned; marginal wormtrack at end of Gadbury affecting some catchmarks and a few letters.. Text genitures.

Gadbury, John 1627-1704, astrologer. “He joined successively the presbyterians, the independents, and the ‘family of love,’ then under Abiezer Coppe.” He authored numerous works on astrology and started a series of yearly “Ephemerides”under his name that had a long run. “Gadbury was falsely accused, on the strength of papers intercepted at the post office, of being implicated in a plot (June 1690) against William III. He was detained in custody eight or ten weeks, and had certainly refused as a nonjuror to take the oaths of allegiance.” [DNB.] “Gadbury was entirely typical: a friend of Lilly and Ashmole, the Oxford scholar, he was a prolift author and commentator on the events of his time...The subject matter of Gadbury’s astrological treatises center entirely on worldly and mercenary ambitions: how to detremine whether a client will recieve honours or preferment, an expected legacy, a beneficial marriage or a profitable business transaction.” [Peter Whitfield, Astrology, a History,2001.]

Comber, Thomas, D.D. 1645-1699, dean of Durham. “ In the troubled reign of James II he became conspicuous as a champion of the cause of protestantism...When the king sent a silver crozier to York, and a congé d’élire with a recommendation of Dr. Smith, a Roman catholic, the precentor determined to accept the invitation formerly given him by the Princess of Orange to take refuge with her. When William and Mary were proclaimed at York, he preached in the cathedral to a crowded audience. He was an earnest supporter of the new order...” [DNB] “But a still higher stimulus to protestant learning was provided in 15881609 when the greatest of Roman Catholic researchers, cardinal Baronius, produced his twelve folios of Annales Ecclesiastici. ‘ The whole case,”‘ says Mark Pattison, ‘of the Romanists and especially the supremacy of the See of Rome was here set out in the form of authentic annals.... The Annales transferred to the Catholic party the preponderance in the field of learning which ever since Erasmus had been on the side of the innovators.’ It became the object of protestant learning to devote itself to the effective criticism and refutation of the statements and arguments of Baronius. No mere reliance on scriptural texts could meet the emergency. Learning could only be fairly and finally met by learning. Zealously English scholars strained themselves to the utmost. “ [Cambridge History of English and American Literature.]

Gadbury: Wing G78. T.C. II,102. Gardner, Astrologica, 455. Comber: Wing C5490.

T.C. II,282. $950

102. Gadbury, John.

Collectio Geniturarum: Or, A Collection Of Nativities, In CL Genitures;

Viz, Princely, Prelatical, Causidical, Physical, Mercatorial, Mathematical, Of Short Life, Of Twins, &c. With Many Useful Observations on them, Both Historical and Astrological...

London: James Cottrel, 1662. Folio. π2,A2, b2,,c2,B-Z2,Aa-3K2. Complete.

[16],219,[1]pp.

First Edition.

Late 18th c. 1/2 calf over marbled boards,spine blind-tooled title in gilt, rubbed, lacks lower leather corner from front cover, hinges cracked, lower margin worming (no text affected, a few collation marks touched), corner excised from first text page with loss of page number, a very good copy. Lacks port., many woodcut genitures, printer’s ornaments, t.p. and one leaf in red and black inks.

Wing G80. Gardner, Astrologica, 440. $1650

104. Gadbury, John.

[Ephemerides of the celestial motions and aspects, eclipses of the

luminaries, &c. for XX years. Beginning anno 1682. and ending an. 1701. Calculated according to art from new tables, agreeing to the most correct observations of the ablest astronomers in this mercurial age. Accommodated to the meridian of the honourable city of London; and for the service and benefit of all the sons of Urania, now made publick. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology.] P r e f a tory verses to Gadbury by John Partridge.

London : [J. Macock, for the Company of Stationers,] [1680.] 4to.

[Lacks A4, t.p. and prelims.] a-g4, B-3U4. [576 of 584]pp. First Edition Thus.

19th c. sheep backed marbled boards,leather worn, front cover nearly detached, first three leaves have damage in lower margin (no text lost), occ. foxing and stains, some leaves browned.

Wing A1737.ESTC r25856. Gardner, Astrologica,337. $375

105. Gadbury, John.

Genethlialogia [Greek Title], Or, The Doctrine Of Nativities,

[Containing] The whole Art of Directions, And Annual Revolutions...Also Tables For Calculatig the Planets Places for any time...Together With The Doctrine of Horarie Questions... Prefatory letter by John Lilly.

London: Ja[mes] Cottrel for Giles Calvert, William Larnar and Daniel White, 1658. Folio. 2 pts in 1 vol. π1,A-B4,B-Z4,Aa-Rr4,Ss6,Tt-Zz4,Aaa-

Zzz4,Aaaa-Eeee4 [4E4 blank].

[2],[16],276; 294,10pp.

First Edition.

18th c, vellum, soiled, splits in hinges but strong, title gilt on leather label, edges red, old owner’s names on f.f.e.p., frontis. laid-down, word “Containing” cut from t.p. and replaced with “Or”, occ. marginal stains, some tables cut close.

Port of Gadbury by Thomas Cross, t.p. in red and black, head-pieces, tables.

“He started professional life as a thoroughly traditional judicial astrologer; his first book, Genethlialogia..., bore the imprimatur from Lilly.” [Patrick Curry, Prophecy And Power,1989] Wing G84. Gardner, Astrologica, 432.Lowndes II,883. $1500

106. Gadbury, John.

Genethlialogia [Greek Title], Or, The Doctrine Of Nativities...

London: Ja[mes] Cottrel for Giles Calvert, William Larnar and Daniel White, 1658. Folio. 2 pts in 1 vol. First Edition.

Eighteenth century calf decorated in blind with cover divided into 9 compartments, rebacked, title on red morocco label, gilt, bookplate of Robert Russell Needham Baron and label of Elizabeth H. Frazer, frontis.laid-down and restored at lower margin with the lacking text replaced in a good facsimile; t.p. laid down with top of t.p. lacking (no text affected), owner’s name on A1r “Jo: Silvester,175[4] [see half-title on Ss4r for full date], 4 pages of astrological geniture chats and tables added between Ss5v and SS6r giving the geniture for “J. Sr”[i.e. Jo. Silvester] born 1726 and the table for 1754 on Ss6r, a binder has cut into the notes wth some loss of letters but the words can still be made out. Apparently Silvester sailed for Jamaica in 1757 from a note in red on the verso of the last leaf of inserted text.; some margins of the tables have been trimmed into with some minor losses;fome foxing and minor stains but a good copy overall. N.B. At the end of the text is a note “Yo.e udall notary John G(ad)bury” Could this be Gadbury’s signature? Port of Gadbury

by Thomas Cross, t.p. in red and black, head-pieces, tables.

Wing G84. Gardner, Astrologica, 432.Lowndes II,883. $1500

107. Galatino [di Galantini], Pietro Colonna [Columna] & Johann Reuchlin.

De Arcanis Catholicae Veritatis, Libri XII. Quibus Pleraque Religionis

Christianae Capita Contra Iudaeos, Tam Ex Scripturis veteris Testamenti authenticis, quam ex Talmudicorum commentariis, confirmare & illustrare conatus est. Item, Johannis Reuchlini Phorcensis, De Cabala, Seu De Symbolica Receptione, Dialogus tribus libris absolutus. Postrema haec editio mendis innumeris expurgata mentem authoris planius exhibet..

Frankfurt: Johann & Andreas de Marrne and Consort for Heirs of Claude de Marne, 1612. Folio. ¶8, A - Z6, Aa - Ll6, Mm4 [16], 775 [incorrect

pag],[32]p.

Contemp. calf, blind rules on covers, spine banded, title gilt on red morocco label, hinges started at ends,rubbing, fragment of medieval ms usec at ends edges red, tear in top of t.p.,minor marginal wormin at end, some foxing and light browning. Wechel Pegasus device on t.p.,head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.

Pietro Colonna Galatino, “renowned Jewish convert to Cristanity by way of the Cabala” [Beitchman] “Friar Minor, philosopher, theologian, Orientalist; b. at Galatia (now Cajazzo) in Apulia; d. at Rome, soon after 1539; received the habit as early as 1480, studied Oriental languages in Rome and was appointed lector at the convent of Ara Coeli; he also held the office of provincial in the province of Bari, and that of penitentiary under Leo X. Galatino wrote his chief work “De Arcanis Catholicae Veritatis”, at the request of the pope, the emperor, and other dignitaries, in 1516, at which time, owing mainly to John Reuchlin’s “Augenspiegel”, the famous controversy on the authority of the Jewish writings was assuming a very

menacing aspect. Galatino took up Reuchlin’s defence. Resolved to combat the Jews on their own ground, he turned the Cabbala against them, and sought to convince them that their own books yielded ample proof of the truth of the Christian religion, hence their opposition to it should be branded as obstinacy. He gave his work the form of a dialogue. The two conflicting Christian parties were represented by Capnio (Reuchlin) and the Inquisitor Hochstraten, O.P. In conciliatory terms, Galatino responded to the queries and suggestions of the former, and refuted the objections of the latter. He had borrowed largely from the “Pugio Fidei” of the Dominican Raymond Martini, remodelling, however, the material and supplementing it with copious quotations from the “Zohar” and the “Gale Razayya”. [Catholic Ency.]

Reuchlin (1455-1522) was one of the foremost humanists of the Renaissance. He believed that he could most successfully learn ancient wisdom through a thorough grounding in Hebrew and it is his work that founded Christian Hebrew studies. He also studied Kabbalistic disciplines and founded a school of Christian Kabbalah. He was frequently at odds with the church authorities over his “hebraizing.” He refused to join in Pfefferkorn’s crusade to destroy all of Hebrew learning. He was drawn into the “Battle of the Books” against his will but he fought to save Hebrew learning. He was even accused of heresy, but acquitted by Pope Leo X. VD17 1:083690N.Brunet II,447.Scholem, Biblio. Kabbalistica 401.Caillet 4304. $2000

108. Galle, Servatius [Sibylline Oracles].

[Greek Title:] Sibyllina Oracula Ex veteribus codicibus emendata ac

restitua... Accedunt etiam Oracula Magica Zoroastris, Jovis, Apollinis, &c. Astrampfychi Oneiro-Criticum...

Amsterdam: Heinrick & widow of Theodore Boom, 1689. 4to.[28], 791, [27]; 127p.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum with morocco lettering piece, marginal dampstaining, some foxing and light paper toning. Extra etched t.p. by Romeyn de Hooghe.

Galle (1627-1709), Dutch clergyman and philologist, brought together everything relevant to these famous pronouncements; it was his principal work.

The Sybils were the prophetesses of Greco-Roman antiquity, whose utterances were in Greek hexameter verses, the authenticity of which was said to be assured by the presence of acrostics within.

This also contains “Oracula Magica Zoroastris Cum Scolliis Plethonis Et Pselli”..ed. by Johannis Opsopoeus.STCN 168904. Brunet II, 1465. Caillet 10165.

Hoffmann III, 396. Landwehr, Hooghe, 72 . $675

109. Galle, Servatius [Sibylline Oracles].

[Greek Title:] Sibyllina Oracula... [with] Dissertationes de Sibyllis, Earumque Oraculis cum figuris aeneis.

Amsterdam: Heinrick & widow of Theodore Boom, 1688-9. 4to. 2 works in 2 vols. [38], 658, [26]. [38],658.[26]p. First Editions.

Contemp. calf, spine gilt, worn, hinges cracked but holding; edges speckled; some minor foxing and stains, paper occ. darkened. 2 engraved frontis. & 12 full-page plates & text cuts by Romeyn de Hooghe.

STCN 168904 & 168804. Brunet II, 1465. Caillet 10165 & 10179. Hoffmann III, 396 & 398. Landwehr, Hooghe, 72 & 75. Hollstein IX 46-55 (inc.) & 378?. $1000

110. Garzoni, Tom(m)aso.

La Sinagoga De Gl’Ignoranti.

Venice: Roberto Meietti, 1601. 8vo.

†4,A-2A4,2B6 + ††2 (mis-signed).

Index misbound between A4 & B1. [12],195[mispaginated actually 203]pp.

Modern boards, title in gilt on leather label; indicies are bound out-oforder between pp8 & 9; corner repair to t.p., final five leaves with wormtracks (not affecting text.), occ. dampstains, old library satamp on t.p. “Bibliotheca Privata Di Patrizio Antolini.” Old notes on endpapers. Printer’s device on t.p., historiated initials.

“Garzoni was born in Bagnacavallo in 1549, and he’s supposed to come from a wealthy family, since Ottaviano (this was Garzoni’s birth name) studied law in Ferrara, and then logic in Siena. In 1566 with the name of Tomaso he became part of the religious order “Canonici Regolari della Congregazione Lateranense” in Ravenna’s “Santa Maria in Porto” convent. Here he spent the rest of his life, except some short periods spent outside while travelling through Italy as a preaching friar; this activity led him to meet different cultural and social milieus. He died in June 1589 at the young age of forty. Garzoni started to write quite late, but with such a literary conscience that led him to produce a great amount of works in quite a short time. “ {Bagnacavolo on-line) This popular work “The Temple of the Ignorant” is the first work to classify and describe various forms of foolishness. First published in 1589 it went through several editions and translations. Full of citations of classical authors, his last section is filled with a humorous list of practitioners of magical and diabolical practices.

“The appearance of the printed books of secrets caught the attention of Tommaso Garzoni (1549-1589), one of the most astute, if eccentric, observers of Italian social and cultural life...Garzoni, who thought the world was filled with every possible kind of fool (and wrote a book on it), was amazed there were so many who would dedicate their lives to seeking such elusive and chimerical things” William Eamon, Science And The Secrets Of Nature.]

The text of this rare edition is misprinted — the pagination and catchmarks are correct and the book can easily be read by following their lead but the pages are printed out-of-order, begining with page 202 being printed on the verso of page193. A curious survival.

CNCE Venezaine G 272. Graesse III,32. OCLC: 47617353 (Villanova only) RLIN adds one copy at Yale CTYADEU8374-B. $950

111. Gassmann, Franz [Pantaleon.]

Pantaleonis Alchimistische Tractätlein: I. Das eröffnete Hermetische

Grab vom Philosophischen Quecksilber. II. Alchimistische Prüffung eines waaren Philosophi und betrügerischen Sophistens. III. Metallisches Zweyblatt vom Stein der alten Weisen. Welche erstlich vom Autore Lateinisch beschrieben und absonderlich gedruckt nunmehr ... ins Teutsche übersetzet und zusammen gedruckt heraus gegeben Christophorus Victorinus, Artis filius. Christoph Viktorin, trans.

Nuremberg: Christoph Gerhard for the Widow and Heirs of Paul Furst, 1677. 8vo. A-L8,M4, [Lacks A1, blank? Also missing from Young collection and

from the VD 17 copies] [3]-175,[1]pp.

First German Edition.

Disbound, contemp. marginalia and underlines, some light foxing.

Head- and tail-pieces.

“Pantaleon’s real name was Franz Gassmann. He was a native of Silesia, physician in Passau and afterwards in Vienna. He claimed to have made mercury ‘magnetic.’ so that it followed gold as a needle the magnet. He acquired considerable reputation by his operations with mercury, and by some he was believed in.

He certainly believed in himself...” [Ferguson] “The mercury-alone doctrine..was revived by an anonymous Pantaleon (the pseudonym of Franz Gassmann0... After reiewing the alchemical tenets of Geber, Raymond Lull, Arnald of Villanova, Bernard of Treves and Paracelsus, he decided that the best menstrum was mercury purged of earth and phlegm... True chemical science did not require all the recent frills and spirits, nor all the elaborate and clumsy apparatus. It could do the whole business in one simple distillation, because it followed nature and worked with its component occult instuments.”

[Thorndike] VD17 23:238921A. Bruning 2355. Ferguson II,164. Caillet 8273. Ackermann IV,68.

Gmelin II,15. $650

112. Gentile, Scipione & Apuleius, Lucius.

In L. Apulei Pilos. & Advocati Rom. Apologiam, Qua ae ipse defendit

Publico de Magia Iudicio, Commetarius. Eds.: Ritterhusius, Cunradus; & Piccartus, Michael.

Hannover: Claude de Marne & Heirs of John Aubry, 1607. 8vo.

[32],550,[70]pp. First Edition.

Contemp. calf,gilt spine in compartments, title on label, edges speckled red,foxing. Printer’s device on t.p. and verso of last leaf, head-pieces, decorated initials.

Apuleius (fl. c. A. D. 155) journeyed to Alexandria as a young man where he was accused of using magic to win a rich widow as his wife. He was interested in science and magic and many passages in his Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) show this interest.

Gentile (1565-1616) brother of Alberic Gentile studied at Tubingen, Wittenberg, and Leiden where he was a pupil of Lipsius. “He was profoundly learned in the civil law, of which he was professor at Altdorf, and was famous for the clear

method in which he taught.”[Chalmers] This is a rare work on the accusations against Apuleius’ magical interests.

He also authored a work on conjuring.

VD17 23:270395X. Graesse, Magica, 29,50. Rosenthal, Magica,2922. Schweiger I,15. $550

113. Gerard, John.

The Herball or General Historie of Plantes. Thomas Johnson, ed. &

emand.

London: Adam Islip, Joyce Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636.

Folio. ¶8, 2¶-3¶6, A-B8 ,C-6V6, 6X4 ,6Y-7B6. [¶1 & 7B6 blanks, as usual].

[38], 30, 29-30, 29-1630, [48]p.

Handsome modern antique-style paneled calf, title on red morocco label; opening (¶2-8) and final signatures (6y1-7b5), & 4L 3 &4 from another, slightly smaller copy; t.p. laid-down corner repair to last leaf with some text loss, occ. light dampstains, a few inner margins restored, lacks initial and final blanks (as usual).

Engraved t.p. by John Payne (d.1647?), c2766 woodcuts in text, most HAND-COLORED. Third Edition (first: 1597), in effect a reissue or reprint of the preferred second edition of 1633, edited by London apothecary and botanist, Thomas Johnson.

“Gerard is perhaps the best remembered of all the English herbalists.” (Garrison & Morton).

A barber surgeon, he supervised the gardens of Lord Burleigh and Theobolds and kept his own famous garden in Holborn for twenty years, for which he issued a list of plants cultivated, the first complete catalogue ever published of the contents of a single garden. According to Arber and the Osler catalogue, Gerard used as the basis of his herbal a translation of Dodoens begun by Robert Priest, but without any acknowledgment, while according to William T.Stearn (DSB), “to what extent Gerard was indebted to Priest’s work is quite uncertain..the Herball as published..was on the whole so massive a task that it seems charitable to credit [Gerard] with the whole. It remains a valuable source of information about the plants available in western European gardens at the end of the sixteenth century and about the Latin and vernacular names then applied to them.” The 1597 edition was illustrated mainly with woodblocks obtained by the publisher Norton from Nikolaus Bassée of Frankfurt, who had used them in the German herbal of Tabernaemontanus (Theodorus of Bergzabern), 1588-91. Several other cuts were added

by Gerard, notably one which is considered to be the earliest depiction of the potato, which Gerard believed was native to Virginia. In his revised edition, Johnson enlarged the text to include a total of 2850 plants, added a comprehensive historical introduction, “corrected many of Gerard’s more gullible errors, and improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin’s woodcuts.” (Hunt). Gerard’s herbal is listed in European Americana because it includes numerous descriptions and illustrations of American plants, including the previously mentioned potato.

STC 11752. Alden II 636/25. Arber 129ff. ESTC s122175. Henrey I 156. Hunt 230.

Nissen, BBI, 698n. Pritzel 3282n. Wellcome 2754. Other eds: Osler 2722 (1st Edn.).

Cole 358 (1633 Edn.).Garrison & Morton 1820 (1st Edn.). $6750

114. Gherardo Da Cremona. [Gerardus Sablonetanus, the younger.]

Geomancie Astronomique...Pour savoir les choses passees, les pre-

sentes,& les futures. Luc Antoine de Salerne, trans.

Paris: Chez L’Auteur, 1669.

12mo. a6, A-K12,L4 [Lacks all after page 248 (i.e.249-258, vi, index).]

[12],248 (mispaginations)p.

Contemp. limp vellum, soiled, old amatuer facial drawings on endsheets, front inner hinge opened, soiling. Tables and astrological charts.

Gherardo (1114-1187) “was one of the most prolific translators of scientific and philosophical works from Arabic in the Middle Ages...Through their abundance, subject matter, and quality, Gerard’s translations made a decisive contribution to the growth of medieval Latin science. The impact of his work was felt well into the early modern period.” There has been some discussion whether he is actually the author of this geomantical work (See the discussion in the DSB Suppl. p186 & 189. Also see:Therese Charmasson in her Recherches Sur Une Technique Divinatoire: La Geomancie Dans L’Occident Medieval, Geneva & Paris,1980 who also covers these discussions in some detail with a full discussion of the text.)

The number of texts in the Middle Ages of this text shows it was “tres utilise au cours du Moyen Age.” “Ce traite est sans doutr celui qui fait le plus de place a l’astrologie, et qui s’efforce de rattacher le plus etroitement la geomancie a l’astrologie.” [Charmasson.]

We know little of Luc Antoine de Salerne except for his translation of Gerard and his work on geomancy.

Gardner, Astrologica, 502. “A fine work on Astrological Geomancy, showing Geomantic Characters can be treated Astrologically. A number of modern works are copied from this.” Caillet 4489 “Tres rare ouvrage.” Esoterica 1852. Krivatsy/NLM 4670 (inc.). Wellcome II,107. Houzeau & Lancaster 4128. Charmasson 324 (1661 ed.) $300

115. Gherardo Da Cremona.

Geomancie Astronomique...Pour savoir les choses passees, les presentes,& les futures. [bound with] [La Geomancie Et Nomancie Des Anciens Ca-

balistique. Avec L’Heure Du Berger mises en Francois. ] Paris: Laurent D’Houry.1691[-1687]. 12mo. 2 vols. in 1. a5 [lacks a6 blank],AL12; [lacks a1, second t.p.]a2-6,A-F12. [10],258,[7];[10],138,[4], [1 errata],[1]p.

Contemp. vellum, title in later hand in spine,a few annotations, a very good copy.

Tables and astrological charts.

Both works are uncommon in institutional collections and are frequently found incomplete. $750

116. Gherardo Da Cremona.

Geomancie Astronomique...Pour savoir les choses passees, les presentes,& les futures. [bound with] La Geomancie Et Nomancie Des Anciens Cabalistique...

Paris: Chez L’Auteur & Laurent D’Houry, 1669-1687.12mo. 2 works in 1 vol.a6, A-L12 [lacks A12 blank?]. a6,A-F12 ][Lacks F10-12, table replaced by manuscript table.]

[12],258,[7].[12],138,[3 ms]pp.

Contemp. calf, spine banded, gilt, chipped in bottom compartment, hinges split but binding solid, corners opened; edges speckled red, lacks f.f.e.p., minor edge stains, paper lightly toned. Tables and astrological charts.

Gardner, Astrologica, 502. “A fine work on Astrological Geomancy, showing Geomantic Characters can be treated Astrologically. A number of modern works are copied from this.” Caillet 4489 “Tres rare ouvrage.” & 9841”rare.” Esoterica 1852 (bound as this is with both works). Krivatsy/NLM 4670 (inc.). Wellcome II,107.

Houzeau & Lancaster 4128. Charmasson 324 (1661 ed.) Goldsmith 17th c. French G340. $800

117. Gilbert, William.

De Magnete, Magneticis Que Corporibus, Et De Magno magnete tellure:

Physiologia nova, plurimis et argumentis & experimentis demonstrata.

London: Peter Short, 1600. Folio.*8, A-V6.[16],240pp. First Edition.

Modern antique-style full calf,with center-piece and rules in blind, spine banded title gilt; 8 ink corections, as usual, thought to be in Gilbert’s own hand; occ. foxing, a very nice copy; a leaf of contemporary notes is inserted between pages 126 & 127 in Latin.

Title with woodcut printer”s device on recto and Gilbert”s woodcut arms on verso. 88 woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text (4 full-page), one folding. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Gilbert”s (1544-1603) De Magnete is “a remarkable work in the history of scientific discovery. It cost the author 18 years of investigation and experiment. Large marginal asterisks mark what he considered great discoveries, and small asterisks minor ones.

There are 21 of the former and 178 of the latter. Gilbert shows that a freely suspended magnet is controlled by the earth and not, as supposed, by extra-terrestrial influences. His magnetic theory enabled him to explain the behavior of the compass-needle, the dip-needle, the magnetic condition of vertical masses of iron, and the magnetic properties of heated iron bars when allowed to cool while lying in the magnetic meridian... Gilbert is chary of prose and wrathful in denunciation; he was a staunch Coperican, and warm friend of Kepler and Galileo.” [Wheeler Gift.] “...it is with Gilbert, who was physician to Queen Elizabeth I, that the modern development of electricity and magnetism really starts. His book “On the Magnet” was the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research... He coined the terms “electricity,” “electric force,” and “electric attraction”... He contended that the earth was one great magnet; he distinguished

magnetic mass from weight; and he worked on the application of terrestrial magnetism to navigation...” [PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN.] STC 11883. PMM 107. Horblit 41. Sparrow 85. Dibner 54.Houzeau & Lancaster 2870.

Norman 905. Osler 675. Wheeler Gift 72. Durling/NLM 2099. ESTC s121112. $27500

118. Gilbert, William.

De mundo-nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova. Opus posthumum... William Gilbert, the younger, ed.

Amsterdam: Ludovico [Lowijs] Elzevier, 1651. 4to.*4,**3,A-Z4,Aa-Rr4.

[14],316,[4]pp.

First Edition.

Old calf, rebacked, title on red morocco label, edges speckled red, endpapers renewed; bookplate of John Crerar Library, old owner’s name on t.p. dated 1653 crossed-out, some pencil notes, very good copy. Elzevier device on t.p.

[Rahir #19], t.p. in red and black, decorated initials; text cuts, folding map.

“When the younger William Gilbert collected his half brother’s papers for presentation to Prince Henry and eventual publication, he divided them into two sections. The first of these, “Physiologiae nova contra Aristotelem,” is an expansion of the cosmology of the “De magnete’; the second, ‘Nova meteorolgia contra Arsitotelem,” follows the general pattern of Aristotle’s ‘Meteorolgy’...At the beginning of the “Physiologia nova” Gilbert denied the existence of the four terrestrial elements—earth, air, fire, warter—and replaced them with one element, earth.

This earth was the one substance from which all terrestrial bodies were made its primary attribute was its magnetic property...The second part of the ‘De mundo,’ “Nova meteorologia,” contains Gilbert’s discussion of comets, the Milky way, clouds, winds, the rainbow, the origin of springs and rivers, and the nature of the sea and tides...” [DSB] STCN 165104. Houzeau & Lancaster 2871. Willems 1128. DSB V,400-1. Berghman 383. Rahir 1146. $3750

119. Glanvill, Joseph, Henry More & Anthony Horneck.

Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning

Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts. The First Treating of their Possibility. The Second of their Real Existence.With a Letter of Dr. Henry More on the same Subject.

And an Authentic, but wonderful story of certain Swedish Witches; done into English by Anth. Horneck Preacher at the Savoy.

London: J. Collins & S. Lownds, 1681. 8vo.2 pts in 1 vol. A4,B-R8 [lacks R8, blank], 2A-2Z8, 3A4 [lacks 3A4, errata]. [8],58,[16],180,[16],310,[10].311-328p.

First Edition.

Modern antique speckled calf, spine banded, title gilt on red morocco label,perforated stamp of City Library of Springfield, Ma on t.p. & B1, old repair on verso of second frontis.,minor foxing and soiling. 2 Frontispieces by William Faithorne.

Glanvill (1636-1680) philosopher and author.

“There was no incompatibility between Glanvill’s beliefs in the progress

of science and in witchcraft. Glanvill was less concerned with witchcraft per se than with the reality of spirits and their interaction with matter. Like other Restoration natural philosophers, Glanvill believed that devils were real and could intervene in the natural world, and he corresponded about supernatural matters with such major figures as Robert Boyle, Henry More, and Richard Baxter. Opponents of witchcraft belief who denied the reality of demons and their effects on the world, he held, were contributing to the menace of atheistic materialism. Glanvill attempted to refute atheism and materialism through the collection and compilation of stories of witches and other supernatural phenomena. Since the stories had to be believable, Glanvill was careful to credit witnesses, and recount his own investigations, as in the famous case of the phantom drummer at the house of Mr Mompesson in Tedworth, Wiltshire, which Glanvill visited in 1663. After Mompesson had a wandering drummer arrested and his instrument confiscated, his house was regularly shaken by the beating of a phantom drum and he, his family, and visitors were subjected to poltergeist-type phenomena such as the throwing of furniture...The physician John Webster published The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft in 1677, asserting that God prevented evil spirits from making compacts with witches. Webster made Glanvill the main target of his attacks. Glanvill responded in the final version of his witchcraft book, posthumously published with material added by Henry More as Saducismus triumphatus (1681). Glanvill asserted that Webster, despite his proclaimed piety, was aiding materialists who denied a spiritual world. Glanvill was widely considered to have vanquished his opponent. After his death he continued to be seen in England, New England, and Europe as one of the greatest champions of the belief in witches. Saducismus triumphatus went through several editions through the first quarter of the eighteenth century, and was published in German in 1701.” [Oxford DNB] “The ‘ablest advocate’ of superstition and the author of the very popular Saducismus...’It was thought to have put the belief in apparitions and witchcraft on an unshakable basis of science and philosophy’...No other English work on the subject had a more powerful influence [Kittredge]...he may be regarded as the father of modern psychical research.” [R.H. Robbins.]

Much of this work consists of the commentary by Henry More (1614-87).

This also concludes with an account of Swedish witches, who kidnapped children and confessed that the Devil “committed Venerous Acts with them...”

Wing G822. Cornell, Witchcraft, 239. Caillet 4502 (Later ed.) Robbins 565:424. ESTC r25463.Coumont G38.4. Goodell 1806. $2000

120. Glauber, Johann Rudolf.

Miraculum mundi, Continuatio in qua Tota natura denudatur, et toti

mundo nude ob oculos poitur; imo dilucidi et aperti demonstratur, fieri posse, ut ex Sale petrae omnium Vegetabilium Animalium et Mineralium summa Medicina paretur, ac ideo Sal petrae jure ac merito verum subjectum solvens, sive Menstuum Universale (rumpantur ilia omnib. Farnerianis-Asinus) Miracula Divina manifestandi et Hermeticae Medicinae...

Amsterdam: Johann Jansson, 1658. 8vo. A-H8,I4. 133pp.First Latin Edition.

Full calf, gilt rule, title labels 3 folding plates.

Glauber (1603-1668) apparently self-taught, read books on alchemy, experimented, and conversed with others to educate himself. “After many years of travel, study, and experiment, during which he acquired an extensive knowledge of chemistry, pharmacy, geology, mineralogy, and technology, Glauber in 1646 went to Holland; he settled in 1648 in Amsterdam, where he had a large laboratory, called a ‘Hermetic Institute’...” [Partington,341.]

“Glauber has justly been called the best practical chemist of his day and the first industrial chemist...In his own estimation, however, the final goal of his labors was the perfection of the material world, capped by the prepartion of the philosopher’s stone. Glauber attempted to renew the hermetic art by tying it to specific aspects of laboratory practice...” [DSB] STCN 165808. Brunung 1946. Partington II,345. Duveen 254. Ferguson, Young, I,325 (not in Young coll.) Caillet 4577.Ferguson, Glasgow, I,273. $1000

121. Glauber, Johann Rudolf.

The Works...Containing Great Variety of Choice Secrets In Medicine and

Alchymy In the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals: Also, Various Cheap and Easie Ways of making Salt-petre, and Improving of Barren-Land and the Fruits of the Earth...

Christopher Packe, trans.

London: Thomas Milbourn for the Author, 1689. Folio. 12],372, 373-6ff,377First English Edition of the works.

440,[4],220,92,[12]p.

Modern 1/2 calf, spine banded, title gilt; t.p. slightly soiled, a very nice copy overall, with wide-margins, paper in goood crisp condition, the plates are very well struck.

10 fullpage illustrations (it lacks the duplicated frontispiece plate, and the folding plate has been trimmed to fit with a little loss to the border and the tops of the letterpress in the seal facing Rr1v). There is some confusion about the number of plates in the full complement. There are 10 different plates with the one facing Part 1, p189 duplicated and used as a frontispiece ( here used as the frontispiece). This matches the description of the Huntington and National Library of Medicine copies and the 11 plates called for by Ferguson. Many copies have only 10 plates, as this one (for obvious reasons) or only 6 (i.e. Hoover). One large text cut on Ss1.

Glauber (1603-1668) apparently self-taught, read books on alchemy, experimented, and conversed with others to educate himself. “After many years of travel, study, and experiment, during which he acquired an extensive knowledge of chemistry, pharmacy, geology, mineralogy, and technology, Glauber in 1646 went to Holland; he

settled in 1648 in Amsterdam, where he had a large laboratory, called a ‘Hermetic Institute’...” Partington,341. The “Furni Novi” is Glauber’s most famous work and his first, “This is certainly one of the most remarkable books on chemistry of the seventeenth century,” Ferguson. It “...contains most of his important chemical discoveries,” Partington. The work on potable gold was Glauber’s first published treatise and in it he stated that it, “...is next to the philosopher’s stone the most outstanding of all medicines, and that there is no difference between them.”

[Thorndike VII,201].

The complete works was published by subscription with 191 subscribers listed, including such luminaries as Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne, and William Penn.

Wing G845A.ESTC r177428. Bruning 2643. Ferguson I,322. Wellcome III,124. Krivatsy/NLM 4769. Hoover 367. Neu 1695. Sotheran 8466. Bolton I,483-4. Partington II, 344C. Pritchard 360. $5500

122. Godelmann, Johann Georg.

Tractatus De Magis, Veneficis Et Lamiis, Recte Cognoscendis &

Puniendis... Libri Tres.

Nuremberg: Johann Daniel Tauber 1676. 8vo.3 pts. in 1 vol.*6,A-2O8,2P2.

[12],162, 102,256,73,[1]pp.

Modern calf, covers blind-tooled in panel design, spine banded, gilt rules, title on leather label, edges blued, minor stains, otherwise a very good copy with paper in excellent condition. T.p. in red and black, printer’s devices on t.p.s,headand tail-pieces.

Godelmann (1559-1611) a German diplomat and Profesor of law at Rostock University. “He tried, without sucess, to distinguish various kinds of witches, some guilty, holding that those most often executed were simply foolish and deluded old women. At that period, although completely credulous, his opinions were more enlightened than those generally accepted. Godelmann nullified them, however, by admitting the power of the Devil, the existence of witches, and the reality of the pact. While their stories of sabbat and incubi resulted from delusions sent by the devil and from the hallucinatory effects of their ointments, yet witches could work maleficia...Godelmann’s sntimental defense of the harmless old crone could not protect her when judges held delusions equally culpable wit the acts...In attacking the flouting of legal procedures and the reliances on torture to secure confessions, however, Godelmann helped diminish the delusion.” [Robbins.]

“Godelmann was widely read in the literture of his subject and cites many past authors. If his work is a mixture of sanity and credulity, of religious prejudice and a feeling for law and nature, it was perhaps the more effective on that account than a strictly rational and scientific work would have been then in doing something to check the excesses of the witchcraft delusion.” [Thorndike.]

The work is in three parts, the first two on magic, sorcerers, and witches and the last on the legal procedures in witchcraft cases. Godelmann was strongly anti-semetic “He wonders that there are Christian princes and republics ‘who put up with and defend this blasphemous and magical people...’

This book was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1601. [Bujanda XI,394.]

VD17 1:062951Z. Rosenthal, Magica, 4030. Hayn/Gotendorf III,199. Stintzing I,646.

Ackermann V,809. Godecke II,507:30. Graesse, Magica, 59 & 133. Caillet 4626. Robbins 428. Engel 2630. Coumont 643.5. $2000

123. Godwin, Thomas.

Moses and Aaron. Civil & Ecclesiastical Rites, Used By The Ancient He-

brewes...Wherein likewise is shewed what Customs the Hebrews borrowed from Heathen people...

London: Richard Hodgkinson, 1672. 4to. [8],266,[10],[2 ads]p.

Modern paper boards, foxing,light browning, a few pencil notes.

Head-pieces and decorated initials. Godwin (d.1642) schoolmaster whose works on Hebrew customs was the text book for several generations of students.As late as the 19th century David Jenning’s “Jewish Antiquities” was based on Godwin’s work. Wing G981. $375

124. Gregory, John.

The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregorie, Mas-

ter of Arts of Christ’s-Church, Oxon. In two Parts: The First Containing Notes and observations Upon several Passages in Scripture; The Second his Posthuma, Being divers Learned Tracts upon various Subjects. The Fourth Edition Corrected.

London: M. Clark for Rich. Royston, Benj. Tooke, and Tho. Sawbridge, 1684. [With] Gregorii Posthuma: Or, Certain Learned Tracts...Together with a Short Account of the Author’s Life, And Eledies on his much-lamented Death. London: M. Clark for Benj. Tooke & Tho. Sawbridge,1683. 4to. 3 vols in 1.[24],

176; [24], 256, [2], 257-329pp.

1/4 modern calf, marbled pastboard boards. Leather label with gilt lettering on spine, decorative bands. Browning, occasional dampstains. 6 engraved text illustrations plus one engraving on a separate t.p. Engraved initials.

Gregory, John (1607-1646), orientalist. “Gregory was a versatile scholar, described by his friend, editor, and biographer John Gurgany, the future chaplain of Merton College, as ‘the Miracle of his Age’ (Gregory, pt 2, sig. A3v). Proficient in astronomy, geometry, and arithmetics, he wrote on globes and cartography, church music, ancient history, and chronology... Gregory’s most important contributions were in the field of biblical scholarship. Working in the humanist tradition of scriptural studies-philological and historical-associated with Lorenzo Valla and Erasmus, he compared as many recensions of the scriptures as he could find, in the many languages he knew. His conclusions were often well ahead of his time. He was one of the first serious scholars to realize that most of the Old Testament Apocrypha had originally been written in Hebrew or Aramaic, and in the course of his research in the Bodleian he discovered an Arabic manuscript of the apocryphal 2 Esdras which revolutionized the study of the book... In his Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture (1646) Gregory discussed themes ranging from the upper chamber of the temple and the separation of milk and flesh to amulets, sil-

ver shrines, and the mark of Cain. He proved remarkably conversant with Hebrew sources. Besides the standard rabbinic commentaries he was acquainted with texts little known among Christians, such as Isaac ben Arama’s commentary on the Pentateuch, and with various cabbalistic works from which he derived an unusual familiarity with Jewish mysticism. He also exhibited a wide reading in Arabic, which led him to make some curious comparisons between the textual tradition of the Koran and that of the Bible.” [Oxford DNB] This volume also contains his: De Æris & Epochis..Of Time Among All Nations; The Assyrian Monarchy; The Description And Use Of The Terrestrial Globe as well as his works on the Bible.

Wing G1915, G 1924, G1930. ESTC r12193. $600

125. Guidott, Thomas.

De Thermis Britannicis tractatus Accesserunt Observationes Hydro-

staticæ, Chromaticæ, & Miscellaneæ, uniuscuiusq; Balnei apud Bathoniam Naturam, Proprietatem, & Distinctionem, Curatius Exhibentes.. [with] Observationum Centuria... London: F. Leach for the Author, 1691.

4to. 2 pts. [28],412,[2,blank],[2 t.p.],28,[14]pp.First Edition.

Contemp. panelled calf, rebacked in morocco,new endpapers, marginal worm pinhole. Engraved t.p.by B. Loggan, 7 engraved plates (3 folding) by J. Savage.

Guidott, physician who practiced at the waters in Bath. “After being admitted M.B. on 14 July 1666 he practised about Oxford. In the following year he removed to Bath, where Dr. John Maplet, ‘a noted physician of that place,’ helped him to attain extensive practice, most of which he had lost in 1679 by his ‘impudence, lampooning, and libelling.’ He therefore retired to London, in the summer visiting Bath. In 1671 he performed his exercise at Oxford for the degree of M.D., but does not appear to have taken it. On 21 Nov. 1690 he was offered by Berencloa, the chief professor at Venice, the professorship of medicine at either Venice or Leyden. He preferred, however, to remain in England. Wood, who seems to have known Guidott well, describes him as a ‘person of good parts, well vers’d in Greek and Latin learning, and intelligent in his profession; but so much overwhelm’d with self-conceit and pride as to be in a manner sometimes crazed, especially when his blood was heated by too much bibbing’ (Athen Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 733-5).

Hearne calls him ‘an ingenious, but vain, conceited, whimsical physician’ (Collections, i. 123, Oxf. Hist. Soc.) Wing G2191. Krivatsy/NLM 5120. Wellcome III,178. $750

126. Harprecht, Johann, attrib. [ J.F.H.S Filio Sendivogi] also attrib. Josaphat

Friederich Hautnorton [probably a pseudonym] Lucerna Salis Philosophorum. Hoc est: Delineatio nuda desiderati illius Principii tertii mineralium Sendivogiani, sive Salis pontici... Ad contestandum animum officiosum erga prolem doctrinae... Tuis Ophir dono fert theca Saturni.

Annum publicationis continet famosum illud Paracelsi vaticinium...

Amsterdam: Henricus Betkius, 1658. 8vo. 167pp. First Latin Edition.

Modern marbled paper covers, t.p. trimmed with marginal loss of imprint at bottom and a few letters at fore-margin of t.p.

“The volume contains the whole of the German edition of 1657, bit Capp. ii & v have been enlarged. At the end of Cap. viii. has been introduced a ‘Recapitulatio,’ and a catalogue of the best and most useful authors, and a warning against the writings of Glauber to whom the author was uncompromisingly opposed. Then follows a harmony of authors on different parts of chemistry, in thirteen chapters, with an Epilogus. Next coes the ‘Dialogus praeparationem Lapidis Philosophici ampilius dtergens’ to which are added the Rhthmi... The appendix contains: Colloquim Spiritis Mercuri cum fratre Alberto Bayero...” {Ferguson I, 369). “ Thus the author of Lucerna Salis describes the gold of the Wise to be by no means vulgar gold; but it is a certain water clear and pure, on which is borne the lightning of the Lord; and it is from thence that all things receive their life. And this is the reason, continues he, why our gold is become spiritual; by means of the spirit it passes through the Alembic, its earth remaining black, which however did not appear before, but now dissolves itself and becomes a thick water. The which desires a more noble life, to the end it may be able to rejoin itself. By reason of the thirst it has, it dissolves and is dissevered, which benefits it very much; because if it did not become water and oil, its spirit and soul could not unite and mingle with it, as it then does; and in such a manner that of them One Thing is made which rises to a consummate perfection; the parts thereof being so firmly joined together that they can never after be separated. “ [Atwood.]

The author calls himself Sendivogius’ son but that is obviously metaphorical. Ferguson spends a good deal of space recounting all the ascriptions with the result that Johann Harprecht seems to be the author and Josaphat Friederich Hautnorthon another pseudonym. [J.F.H.S. = Johannes, Filius, Harprechti, Svevus.]

STCN 165808. Bruning 1958. Krivatsy/NLM 5265. Caillet 6831. Ferguson I,368. Bruning 1958 (incor. 4to.) See: Duveen 282. $600

127. Hartmann, Johann Ludwig.

Fränckische Blut-Geschicht Oder: Historischer und Theologischer

Bericht von dem neulich in Blut verwandelten Wasser im Stadt-Graben zu Kitzingen Auf Begehren eiligst vorgestellet von Joh. Ludov. Hartmanno...

[Nuremberg;] Germany: ]Wolfgang Moritz Endter & Heirs of Johann Andreas Endter,] [1676.] c 1890. 8vo. 77,[3]pp.

Late 19th c. 1/2 vellum over German marbled paper, title in ms. on spine, underlines in red pencil; stamp of “Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut fur deutsche Volkskunde.” From the Adolf Spamer Collection.

Maunuscript copy of a printed work in black ink in a clear German hand on fine paper, a few red pencil underlines.

Hartmann, Johann Ludwig , 1640-1684, Lutheran minister of Rothenberg . He studied theology in Strassburg and Wittenberg. He taught and became superintendent in Rothenberg. He wrote a number of theological works of which several dealth with occult subjects including a series of Teufelbuchs.

In a clear late 19th c. German hand from an unidentified scholar (sadly someone has removed the owner/scribe’s name from the front end-paper.

This is a copy of the edition in Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek / Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.

Copy of VD17 12:000223S. $250

128. Head, Richard.

[The English Rogue Described, in the life of Meriton Latroon; a witty

extravagant. Being a compleat discovery of the most eminent cheats of both sexes.

[London:] [for Francis Kirkman,] [1667.] 8vo. [Lacks t.p. A1] A3,B-U,V,Kk,AaHh8.[With Collation errors] Contemp. sheep spine defective at head, worn, bookplate of Henry Pennell Frank, other owner’s names, some light dampstains, minor soiling. Port. of the author with poem signed “I.F.” Full-page engraving “The English Padder or Hiway Robber Portrayd.”

“Head is chiefly known as the author of a pretended autobiography of a professional thief, entitled ‘The English Rogue, described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant, being a compleat history of the most Eminent Cheats of both Sexes.’ The book is full of indecent episodes, but many of the hero’s adventures are racily told. It appears that when the manuscript was first presented to the censors of the press, license was refused on the ground of its indecency, and that it was first distributed secretly and sold largely as a forbidden book (cf. Kirkman, Pref. to Rogue, pt. ii.). Winstanley states that afterwards the author ‘was fain to refine it, and then it passed stamp.’ If, as seems probable, the extant editions, with their coarse language and episode, present the expurgated version, Head’s original draft must have been singularly disreputable. The original work was published by Henry Marsh in an octavo volume in 1665, with a portrait of the author, and in the following year was reissued by Francis Kirkman the bookseller. Wood’s story that Head was for a time in partnership with Kirkman is disproved by the latter’s statement that he was only acquainted with him as the author of the ‘Rogue’ . In spite of its popularity, Kirkman applied in vain to Head to write a second part. His rogue’s adventures, he complained, were regarded as episodes in his own life.”

Kirkman then wrote several additional volumes. [Though Chandler accepts Head as a co-author of the third and fourth books.] [DNB] Wing H1247a ( 4 copies 1 in U.S.). ESTC r218004. Chandler, Roguery,II,211ff. $1500

129. Hedelin,François, abbé d’Aubignac.[Mdme. de Pompadour] Lettre D’Artiste A Cleonte, Contenant L’Apologie de L’Histoire de

Temps; ou La Defense du Toyaume de Coqueterie.

Paris: Denys Langlois, 1659. 12mo. A-P6, Q5. [2], 120, [6], 1-63, [1]p.

Full old calf, gilt ruling, gilt stamp crest of Mdme. de Pompadour on front and rear boards, front hinge split, rear hinge creased. Gilt stamp decorated spine with title in gilt lettering. All edges red. Browning and foxing with an occasional minor dampstain. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Engraved initial and head pieces.

Hedelin (1604-76), Grammarian, poet, preacher, archeologist, philologist.

“After completing his classical and theological studies, he was appointed by Cardinal Richelieu instructor to the latter’s nephew, the young Duc de Fronsac, to whose gratitude he owed a pension of 4,000 livres. This appointment, as well as his own inclination, led him to devote his time to literary studies especially to the classics. [Catholic Ency.]

“In it the French author uses an imaginary island as an allegorical setting in order to castigate the secular materialism and profligacy of the younger generation as embodied by its equally young and equally impetuous monarch. Despite the setting the author paints in very realistic terms a contemporary society which is classified in terms of superficial social types.whose sole goal is the pursuit of pleasure in its diverse manifestations. Particularly scathing is the criticism he directs at the overemphasis placed not only on appearance, for example on the elaborately decorated hats, long boots and canions of the dandified cavaliers and on the obsession of women with cosmetics and other beauty aids, but also on the elaborate courting rituals and social etiquette of an idle and self-indulgent society whose promiscuous attitudes lead to pre- and extramarital sex, with profound implications for the social and even cosmic order. These attitudes are reflected and reinforced in popular literature, in a school system where discipline is lacking, in church services which have become little more than social events, as well as in a legal and political system dominated by self-interest. The solution, the conservative author suggests, is an inner spiritual withdrawal from a morally decadent society and a return to the mainstream of Christian religion. “ [John Alexander, ‘Utopia Inverted...’in Neophilologus Vol. 84, #1, January 2000] . Cioranescu 35143. Negley, Utopian, 1240. Gay/Lemonnyer II, 799. $2500

130. Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van.

Alphabeti vere Naturalis Hebraici Brevissima Delineatio: Quae simul

Methodum suppeditat, iuxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, sed & ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant.

Sulzbach: Abraham Lichtenthaler,1667. 12mo. ):(, 2):(6,A-D12, E6.

[36],107, [72]p.

First Latin Edition.

Modern antique blind paneled calf with raised bands, blind decorated spine, title gilt; bookplate of masonic lodge in Frankfurt “Carl Zum Aufgehenden Licht” on front pase-down with circular stamp on t.p., old owner’s name on verso of t.p. “Georgii Ph. Helburgi, Heidelb. 1779”, frontispiece in a fine facsimile on old paper; some old stains and soiling, a few Latin words on verso of some of the plates,last page repaired in outer margin with no text loss. Frontis. in fac-

simile on old paper, 36 full-page plates printed on one side. “ In 1661 the Inquisition arrested Van Helmont trying to “pry from him some of the secrets of his remarkable abilities.” He was a prisoner for 18 months where “Between periods of questioning by the ecclesiastical court and trips to the torture chamber...Van Helmont thought out and set down in rough draft his thoughts and observations on language.” On his release he was offered by Christian August, elector of the Upper Palatine, a post in his privy council and thus Van Helmont became the Furstlicher Rath zu Sulzbach. In 1667 he published his work begun in prison in German and Latin. “In this book Van Helmont set himself two tasks: to show how the deaf may be taught to speak and to prove that the Hebrew speech is a ‘holy language’ because the characters of its alphabet are veritable diagrams illustrating the position of the lips and tongue in uttering the sounds which were first taught to mankind by the Father of Light. It is evident that the first of Van Helmont’s objectives was attained. his method for teaching mutes contained the basic principles upon which the later teaching was accomplished. His secondary objective, to prove the holy origin of the Hebrew tongue, is, of course, fantastic.”

[Grace B Sherrer, Francis Mercury Van Helmont: “A Neglected Seventeenth-Century Contribution To The Science Of Language.” in The Review of English Studies, 1938, pp420-427.]

There are two variants of the title page this has the “L” of the Roman date set close to the “X” see the VD 17 entry.

VD 17 7:6282495 (1 copy only). Krivatsy/NLM 5426. Wellcome III, 241. Guyot 5.

Ferguson I, 379ff. Waller 19735. Osler 2927. $3500

131. Helmont, Jan Baptista van.

A Ternary of Paradoxes: The Magnetick Cure of Wounds, Nativity of

Tartar in Wine. Image of God in Man.

Walter Charleton, trans.

London: James Flesher for William Lee,1650. Small 4to. A-2B4.[52],147p.

“Second impression, more reformed, and enlarged with some Marginal Additions.”

Modern antique calf in two-toned Cambridge panel design with blind rules and corner fleurons, spine banded, title on red leather label, endpapers renewed, edges red; margins closely trimmed affecting some catchwords and sidenotes; occ. paper toning and stains, but a very nice copy overall; institutional stamps of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (Osler gift.) on t.p.and last leaf. Extra t.p. with etched allegorical vignette.

“Upon this theory of “mumia,” or magnetic force, the sympathetic cure of disease was based. The weapon salve, the sympathetic ointment, and the famous powder of sympathy were the instruments through which it acted. The magnetic cure of wounds became the vogue. Van Helmont adopted these views in his famous treatise “De Magnetica Vulnerum Curatione,” in which he asserted that cures were wrought through magnetic influence. How close they came to modern views of wound infection may be judged from the following: “Upon the solution of Unity in any part the ambient air . . . repleted with various evaporations or aporrhoeas of mixt bodies, especially such as are then suffering the act of putrefaction, violently invadeth the part and thereupon impresseth an exotic miasm or noxious diathesis,

which disposeth the blood successively arriving at the wound, to putrefaction, by the intervention of fermentation.” With his magnetic sympathy, Van Helmont expressed clearly the doctrine of immunity and the cure of disease by immune sera: “For he who has once recovered from that disease hath not only obtained a pure balsaamical blood, whereby for the future he is rendered free from any recidivation of the same evil, but also infallibly cures the same affection in his neighbour . . . and by the mysterious power of Magnetism transplants that balsaam and conserving quality into the blood of another.” He was rash enough to go further and say that the cures effected by the relics of the saints were also due to the same cause—a statement which led to a great discussion with the theologians and to Van Helmont’s arrest for heresy.” [William Osler, The Evolution Of Modern Medicine].

Wing H 1402. Bruning 1770. Duveen 285. Pritchard 499. Wheeler 130. Mottelay 104.

Wellcome II,42. Krivatsy/NLM 5450. Gabler 126. Noling 199. $3000

132. Helmont, Jan Baptista van.

Deliramenta Catarrhi: Or, The Incongruities, Impossibilities, and Ab-

surdities Couched under the Vulgar Opinion of Defluxions. Walter Charleton, trans.

London: E[dward] G[riffin]. for William Lee, 1650. 4to. A4, a2, B-K4, L2.

[12], 75, [1]p.

First English Edition.

Modern full spotted calf, blind rules on covers, title gilt on spine; light marginal dampstains throughout, old marginal notations, good margins.

Some historians rank Helmont (1577-1644) as the greatest chemist before Lavoisier. Helmont drew his principles from Paracelsus, and similarly sought a cosmological and unified view of the natural sciences. “In the field of medicine his introduction of chemical ideas into this science tended toward the introduction of the scientific spirit as opposed to the empiricism of the Paracelsian school.” [Duveen, p. 286.]

Charleton, Walter (1620-1707), physician and natural philosopher. “Charleton embarked on his publishing career in 1650 with three small books, two of them (A Ternary of Paradoxes and Deliramenta catarrhi) being translations of works by Van Helmont and the other a Helmontian exercise in the causes and cure of ‘the stone’ (Spiritus gorgonicus, 1650). Charleton’s translations were the first of Van Helmont’s works to appear in English, and they drew attention to Charleton as a representative of the new iatrochemistry. This was then much in vogue with more radical thinkers, who saw Galenism in medicine as an ancient authority, which did more to bolster the authority of the church and the crown than to heal the ills of the people. As Charleton says in the preface to Deliramenta catarrhi, he was vigorously condemned by the more orthodox among his medical colleagues.”[Oxford DNB] “Charleton’s last publication of 1650 was Deliramenta Catarrhi... which contains a critical and well informed investigation into orthodox explanations of catarrhal defluxions. Despite his growing disenchantment with Helmontianism, the young author agrees with Van Helmont’s judgment that these explanations were almost entirely spurious.these three books established Charleton’s reputation in the medical world, since they were the first of Helmont’s works to be published in England. They represented a radical project both intellectually and professionally since

the chemical therapy advocated by Helmont, and hence by Charleton, was directly opposed to the Galenic tradition exemplified in the official pharmacoepia issued earlier by the College of Physicians.” [Lindsay Sharp, Walter Charleton’s Early Life... Annals of Science, v30, #3] Wing H1398.Buning 1769. Thomason E601[6]. ESTC r202434. Osler 2933. Waller 4304. Wellcome III, 242. Pritchard,Alchemy,496. Neu 180. $1250

133. Helmont, Jan Baptista van.

Ortus Medicinae. Id Est, Initia Physicae Inaudia.Progressus medicinae novus,

In Moborum Ultionem, Ad Vitam Longam. [with:] Opuscula Medica In Audita. I. De Lithiasi. II, De Febrius. III. De Humoribus Galeni. IV. De Peste.

Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, ed.

Amsterdam: Lowijs Elzevir, 1648. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. *4[-*4,port.],*-4*4,5*2,A-5I4; A-P4 [P4 blank, present], 2A-O4, 2P2, 3A-L4. [34 of 36],800; [8],110,[2], 115, [1],88p.

First Collected Edition.

Contemp. vellum,yapp fore-edge, minor foxing, good margins, very nice copy.

Lacks port.

This two-part work (which includes the four Opuscula Medica in part two: De Lithiasi, De Febribus, Tumoris Pestis, and De Humoribus Galeni) applies chemical principles to physiology and pharmacology, and guides the reader in the treatment of excess gas or acidity, foreshadowing iatrochemistry. Helmont drew his principles from Paracelsus, and similarly sought a cosmological and unified view of the natural sciences. “In the field of medicine his introduction of chemical ideas into this science tended toward the introduction of the scientific spirit as opposed to the empiricism of the Paracelsian school.”[Duveen, p. 286.]

STCN 164804. Willems 1141. Printing and the Mind of Man 135. Bruning 1741.Garrison/Morton 665. Heirs to Hippocrates 253-4. Norman 1048. Krivatsy/NLM 5447,5442. Waller 4306-7. Partington II,209ff. Thorndike VII, 218ff. $3500

134. Hickes, George.

Ravillac Redivivus: Being A Narrative Of the late tryal of Mr. James

Mitchel A Conventicle-Preacher, Who was Executed the 18th of January, 1677. for an attempt which he made on the Sacred Person of the Archbishop of St. Andrews.

To which is Annexed, An Account of the Tryal of that most wicked Pharisee Major Thomas Weir, who was Executed for Adultery, Incest and Bestiality. In which Are many Observable Passages, especially relating to the Cpresent Affairs of Church and State. In a letter from a Scottish to an English Gentleman.

London: Henry Hills. 1678. 4to. 185 x 148mm. A-K4 [Lacks K4, blank] 78p.

First Edition.

Late 19th c. 1/2 calf over marbled boards, title gilt on spine, spine ends chipped, pieces lost from backing leather on covers, hinges cracked but strong, rubbed, owner’s name “Thomas Lushman, Norwich” on f.f.e.p., old note on f.f.e.p.,2 small holes in inner margin of t.p.(no text loss), lacks final blank, marginal dampstain on gathering “D”, foxing and minor soiling.

Hickes, George (1642-1715), bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and antiquary. “After consulting John Fell, by then bishop of Oxford, Hickes accepted the position despite some misgivings concerning Maitland’s debauched courtly lifestyle. In Scotland it was Hickes’s task to introduce the liturgy and support Maitland’s policies. Thus Maitland commissioned Hickes’s Ravillac redivivus (1678), an account of the trial of the covenanter James Mitchell, who had attempted to assassinate James Sharpe, the archbishop of St Andrews. Through Sharpe, Hickes was offered a DD at St Andrews for this work.” [Oxford DNB] “...Mitchell resolved to assassinate the archbishop of St Andrews, James Sharp, who had betrayed his fellow covenanters at the Restoration and engineered the suppression of dissenters thereafter. Mitchell acquired ‘a pair of long Scots iron pistols, near musket bore’ (Justiciary Records, 2.308) and awaited his moment. On 11 July 1668 he shot at Sharp as the archbishop sat in his coach in the High Street in Edinburgh, but only succeeded in wounding the bishop of Orkney, Andrew Honyman. In the confusion that ensued Mitchell escaped... In January 1676 the council ordered that Mitchell be interrogated under torture in order to wring a confession from him. Mitchell stubbornly refused to confess, and was returned to the Tolbooth before being transferred to the notorious Bass Rock in January 1677.

In October 1677 it was decided to bring him to trial, and on 6 December he was brought from the Bass to Edinburgh.... Mitchell’s trial did considerable damage to the reputation of a government that was now associated with torture and perjury.

In the words of Sharp’s biographer, ‘Not only had he perjured himself, he had been seen to do so’ (Buckroyd, 103). On 3 May 1679 a gang of covenanter militants succeeded where Mitchell had failed and assassinated Sharp on Magus Moor outside St Andrews; before they killed him, they declared that they were avenging the death of James Mitchell. In 1681, Halton was indicted for perjury on the evidence of letters he had written in 1674 reporting Mitchell’s confession, ‘upon assurance of his life’ (State trials, 6.1263-4). However, Mitchell’s religious terrorism was exploited by tory propagandists to blacken the reputation of whigs and dissenters. In Ravillac redivivus (1678) George Hickes linked Mitchell’s story to that of the notorious covenanter Major Thomas Weir (who had been executed for bestiality and incest in 1670), in order to demonstrate that fanatical dissenters considered themselves to be above the moral law, and were capable of committing the most outrageous crimes in the name of religion.” [Oxford DNB] Weir, Thomas (d. 1670), criminal and reputed sorcerer. In 1670 Weir suddenly began to exhibit terror at the word ‘burn’, presumably in fear of the fires of hell, and began to confess to many sexual crimes. At first the authorities regarded him as mad, but after he had been examined by physicians he was judged to be sane. On 9 April 1670 he was tried before the justiciary court for ‘Incests, Adulteries, Fornications, and Bestialitys’. Charges included attempted incest with his sister Jean when she was aged about ten, and actual between 1620 (when she was sixteen) and 1624, at the family ‘House of Wicketshaw’, the relationship continuing intermittently for many years; incest with his stepdaughter Margaret Bourdoun; habitual adulteries, persisted in even when ‘he was of great age’; bestiality with a mare in 1651 at Newmylns in Ayrshire, and lying with ‘Cows and other beasts’.

His outward piety and professions of purity beyond other men were denounced as aggravating such offences (Scott-Moncrieff, 2.10-11)...

The confessions of Thomas and Jean Weir may have exaggerated their misdeeds, but they may be accepted as basically truthful. Their confessions in old age may simply have been the expression of long suppressed guilt which became intolerable, but it seems possible that the Weirs had fallen into the antinomian heresy, and believed that, as the elect of God predestined for salvation, they could do no wrong-but then lost conviction in their own election and collapsed into wild despair.

The story of Major Weir’s crimes was exploited for propaganda purposes as sensational evidence that the supposedly godly presbyterian dissidents in Scotland were immoral hypocrites. In time the propaganda value of his case vanished, but his name survived in popular tales of outstanding wickedness, their crimes being usually bowdlerized as unsuitable subject matter for oral or literary treatment. Weir was transformed into a sorcerer, though he had never been charged with any offences relating to the supernatural, the surviving tales drawing on his sister Jean’s confessions rather than his own. Her confessions to witchcraft, including dealings with ‘the Queen of the Fairie, meaning the Devil’ (Scott-Moncrieff, 2.11), alleged that Thomas too had had dealings with the devil, owning a magical staff that gave him power. As a result, even contemporary reports attributed ‘horrible witchcraft’ as well as sexual offences to ‘that monster of men and reproach of mankind’ (J. Lauder, Journals, 1900, 232).”[Oxford DNB] Wing H1860. McAlpin III,770. ESTC r10945. Not in Cumont, or Cornell, Witchcraft. $600

135. Hierocles of Alexandria & Pythagorus.

[Greek Title:] Hieroclis Philosophi commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina.Joan, Curterio interprete. [with 2nd part] Aurea Pythagoreorum

Carmina Latine conversa...Theodoro Marcilio. [with 3rd part] Hieroclis Philosophi Facetiae; De priscorum studiosorum dictis & facis ridiculis... [bound with:] Hierocles De Providentia & Fato: Una cum Fragmentis eiusdem Et Lilii Gyraldi Interpretatione Symbolorum Pythagorae...Notisque Merici Casauboni ad Commentarium Hieroclis in Aurea Carmina.

London: Roger Daniel, 1654-1655. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. *8,A-Z,Aa-Gg8,Ff2. *3*8,A-S8. [32],433. [60],271p.

Editio Princeps. First Greek Edition.

Old paneled calf, old rebacking in spotted sheep, worm holes, tears at front hinge, bookplate of “Robert Edward Way”, old name on t.p. binding opening between pp 320 & 321, first t.p. dakened.

Hierocles (b.412) was a 5th century Neoplationist who flourished in Alexandria;he tells us he was a student of Plutarch. His commenrtary on the “Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans” was an attempt to show agreement between the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle and to refute the systems of Epicurus and the Stoics. It was very influential in the Renaissance.

“Between 415 and 450 Hierocles occupied the Alexandrian chair. Few details have survived the oblivion which unsympathetic historians imposed upon the remnants of the old philosophical traditions, but they testify to his shrewdness and

suffering. Olympiodorus wrote that many of the school’s assets had been seized on different occasions during this period. Despite his efforts to live at peace with the Christian community, he was once exiled to Constantinople where a magistrate had him scourged for some allegedly disparaging comparisons between Christianity and the ‘old’ doctrines. As a pupil of Plutarch, he sought to harmonize the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. While Syrianus held that Aristotelian thought is a stepping-stone to Pythagorean-Platonic philosophy, Hierocles taught that Ammonius Saccas had demonstrated the substantial unity of the two schools. Rather than write metaphysical treatises or attempt a systematic integration of neo-Platonic thought like that undertaken by Proclus, Hierocles concentrated on preserving the spirit of the school in Alexandria. He wrote consolatory essays to friends and followers and a work on providence and fate, all of which have been lost, and he produced a carefully composed commentary on the Carmina Aurea, the Golden Verses of Pythagoras. Couched in language appealing to ethical sensitivity and moral aspiration, he touched a responsive chord in human beings regardless of their religious allegiances. The Commentary remained popular throughout the Middle Ages and well into the Renaissance, preserving for posterity the summation of Pythagorean teaching on the art of living as well as the neo-Platonic synthesis of philosophy and mysticism.” [Theosophy Site On-line] Wing H1933 & H1936. Hoffmann II,265. Caillet 5137. $850

136. Hoeping [Höping], Johann Abraham Jacob & Johann Ingeber.

Institutiones Chiromanticae, Oder Kurtze Unterweisung Wie man

Aus den Linien, Bergen, und Nageln der hande und denn aus der Proportion...[with] Chiromantia Harmonica, Das ist Ubereinstimmung der Chiromantiae.

Jena: Johann Adolph Muller for Matthew Birckner, 1701.

[bound with] Johann Ingeber. Chiromantia, Metoposcopia, & Physiognomia Curioso-Practica Oder Kurtze Anweisung Wie man Aus den vier haupt-Linen in der Hand...

Frankfurt-am-Main: Georg Heinrich Ehrling,1692.

8vo. 3 pts., 2 works in 1. A-I8,K7;A-Q8;A-L8,M4.

155,[7];183,[61];180,[4]p.

First Edition of Ingeber.

Old vellum, label on spine, soiled,old tape repair to edges of frontis. (causing stain), owner’s names on verso of t.p., and head of first chapter,and at end of first work;notes on chiromancy on rear endpaper; finger soiling. Frontispiece to first work showing metascopic face and planetary influences, numerous text cuts of chiromantic hands. Engraved t.p. to second work of chiromantic hand, and text cuts of hands.

Two rare early manuals on fortune telling by palms, moles, and faces. The Hoping was first published in 1673 and “found many readers” [Thorndike VIII,465.

A reprint of the Ingeber was issued in 1980.

Hoping:Fitzherbert 468. Wellcome III,282. Ackermann 554. Graesse, Magica,107.

Rosenthal, Magica,964.Sabattini 279-80 (1674 ed.)

Ingeber:VD17 23:620632U. Caillet 5403. Graesse 102. Wellcome III,329. Ackermann

IV,555. Sabattini 309. Fitzherbert 474 (1724 ed.) BL 17 (German) I53.: Laehr:1, 483, 518. Blankenburg 956. Campe 617. $1000

137. Hoerner [Hörner] von Dinckelspuehl, Johann.

Problema Summum, Mathematicum & Cabalisticum. Das ist:Ein

hohe versiglete Mathematische und Cabalistische Auffgab und Figur an alle Gelehrten unnd Kunstliebende Europae, Item. Ein Introductorium, oder Wegweiser zur geheymen Theosophischen Cabalae und Mathematic, dieselbe was sie sey erklärende. In zween Theil verfasset ... Sampt einem Colloquio und Discurs die Fraternitet R.C. betreffend ... Erstmals erfunden und in Truck gegeben. Durch Johannem Hörnerum von Dinckelspühl Philosophum und Medicum Chymicum, Burgern zu Heylbronn [part 2:] Der Ander Theil Nämlich die Cabalistische Practic oder das Speculum Cabalisticum : in welchem was Cabala sey und wie sie fundiert in H. Schrifft auch Cabalistice, mit schönen Exempeln erwiesen wird. ... Der Eingang dieses Theils ist ein Gespräch die Fraternitet deß R.C. fürnemblich betreffend Zwischen folgenden Personen dardurch der Autor in seinem proposito, etwas wird auffgehalten. Interlocutores, Johannes. Jehovah. Frater R.C. Suspicio.

Nurnberg: Johann Friderich Sartorio for Fuhrmännische Druckerey, 1619. [bound with:]

Extract der grossen Catholischen versamlung welche jüngsten zu Rom gehalten und was darauff geschlossen worden: Darinnen die Bäpstliche Practicken und Anschläg wieder die Evangelische Religion guter massen zu verspüren. Ausgabe:Auß dem Italianischen geschribnen Exemplar in Teutsche Sprach gebracht. N.P.: N.P. 1620. 4to. 2 works, 1 in 2 parts in 1 vol. )( - )()()(4, )()()()(2, *4, a - g4; A - Z4, Aa - Nn4, [Oo]2.A4, B2. Our copy agrees with the Wolfenbüttel and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin copies but there is a variant “A” with a folding plate and a 2 page added introduction by Daniel Schwenter und Melchior Rinder. [ 7 2 ] 56,[2], 284,[6]. [12]p.

First Editions.

Contemp. vellum, yapp fore-edge, edges blued, lacks f.f.e.p., tear in lower inner margin of t.p., light dampstain (heavier in added pamphlet), paper toned, trimmed close at top with some letters touched in added pamphlet, some contemporary notes, a few leaves with corner crease.

Hoerner of Dinckelspuehl was a Rosicrucian, philosopher, chemist and mathematician as well as burger in Heilbronn. He is mentioned briefly in Johann Ersch’s Allgemeine Ency. der Wissen, vol. 2,35 & Kenning’s Masonic Ency. p312 but we have no further biographical information.

Ruth Tatlow in her “Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet” [Cambridge U.P.,1991] discusses Hoener’s use of ‘Cabbala Speculativa’ in which the deeply hidden and sealed words and numbers of Holy Scripture” were revealed. “ In 1619 Hoerner believed that he was fulfilling his divine charge... by revealing the true interpretation of these numbers. “ Hoerner’s work, she believes was probably published by the Rosicruian brotherhood.” It seems probable that the Rosicrucians sponsored the publication... because of the essay by Johannes Jehovah, a

brother in the Rosicrucian Order, reproduced between the two parts.” [This is probably a bit of a misreading. The part she is citing is a discussion between Johannes, Jehovah, Frater R.C., and Suspicio all of whom are more than likely aspects of our author.]

Harsdorffer cites this work in his discussion of gematria [See: Balogh Endre, Die Rolle Kabbala in der Entwicklung der Kombinatorik der deutschen Barockpoetiken. on-line] Apparently, this work is sufficiently rare that it is overlooked in books on the Christian use of Kabbalah.

VD17 23:288849L [var. B without catchmarks on errata, plate, or extra pref. letter] Cimelia Rhodostaurotica 200. Gardner, Rosicruciana, 318. Wolfsteig 42140 “selten”.

Kloss 2582. OCLC: 63639408 [1 copy in US].

Extract: VD17 14:002926Y. $3500

138. Hoornbeek, Johannes.

De Conversione Indiorum & Gentilium. Libri Duo. Includes a life of Hoornebeek with a bibliography of his works Preface by David Stuart..

Amsterdam: Johann Jansson van Waesberge & widow Elizaeus Weyerstraten , 1669. 4to. A-2M4.[56], 259, [15], 260-265pp. First edition, second issue.

Contemp. vellum, paper label, with ink number partly erased on spine, yapp fore-edge, few minor stains on title, bookplate of Neander Library.

Lacks. port., as usual.

Hoornbeek, Johannes,(1617-1666) “Illustrious professor of divinity in the universities of Utrecht and Leyden... As a pastor, he often visited the members of his church: he encouraged the pious, instructed the ignorant, reproved the wicked, refuted the heretics, comforted the afflicted, refreshed the sick, strengthened the weak, cheered the drooping, assisted the poor. As a professor, he took care of the students in divinity, as if they were his own children; he often used to read not only public lectures, but even private ones, for them; and to hold ordinary and extraordinary disputations... He never departed one inch from the most strict orthodoxy; and was not less commendable for his integrity, than for his parts and learning.

Bayle, who had little in common with so sound a divine, exhibits him as the complete model of a good pastor and divinity-professor.” [Chalmers] This issue has the added chapter on the Indians of America mentioned in Sabin. Caput Tertium of Liber Secundus discusses the Sibylline oracles and the Pimander of Hermes Trismegistus.

STCN 166904 . Alden/Landis 669/117. Sabin 32886 “The supplemental chapter xxv [sic = xv]. after the index, relates to the efforts of Mayhew, Elliot, Shepard, and others among the Indians in New England.”. JCB (3) III:191. $1500

139. [Sammelband] Hoping [Höping, Hoeping] , Johann Abraham Jacob;

[with] Christian Moldenarius (Moldenhauer); [and with]Thomas Batholinus, Johann Henrich & Heinrich Meibom, Joachim Olahaf & Olaus [Ole] Worm.

Hoping: Chiromantia Harmonica. Das ist Uberrinstimmung der Chi-

romantiae oder Linen in denen Handen mit der Physiognomia oder Linien...

Jena: Matthaeus Birckner & Heirs of Samuel Krebs, 1689.

A-K8,L6. [9].163,[4]pp. [bound with:]

Moldenarius. Exercitationes Physiognomicae Quatuor libris compraehensae, quorum I. Physionomonia generalem to corporis, II. Cheiromanteiam seu manus inspectionem, III. Metoposcopiam seu frontis contemplationem, IV. Oneirocriticam seu somniorum meditationem breviter, distinctè & methodicè proponit, simulq; ostendit, quantum fidei divinationibus hisce debeantur....

Wittenberg, Zacharias Schurer, 1616. )(8, A-2C8. [14],398, [19]pp. [bound with:] Barthoinus: De Usu Flagrorum In Re Medica & Veneria Lumborumque & Renum offici. Accedunt Eodem Renum Officio Joachim Olhafii & Olai Wormii Dissertatiunculae. Frankfurt [& Copenhagen]: Daniel Pauli, 1670.

A-I8.144pp. 8vo. 3 works in 1 vol. First Edition of Moldenarius.

Modern 1/2 calf, spine banded, title gilt on red morocco label, even paper toning in Hoping & Moldenarius, fore-margin cut close with some letter losses to sidenotes and index leaves of Moldenarius. Hoping: numerous text cuts; Moldenarius: 2 full page and numerous text cuts & 4 folding tables.

Hoping: We can find no biographical information about Hoping.The Hoping was first published in 1673 and “found many readers” [Thorndike VIII,465.]

“The earliest mention of these ridges [Dactylomancy] in palmistic circles appears in the seventeenth century book Chiromantia Harmonica... “ [Gettings, Book of the Hand,1965] Moldenarius {Moldenhauer, Moldenauer]: We can find no biographical information about this author but that he was a doctor of medicine and is described as “Physicus Bernburgensis” in a work by Cyriacus Herdesianus. This is apparently his only work and is based on [according to the author] ancient Greek and Latin sources.

Meibom: Popular treatise on the use of the whip and flogging in love and marriage by Johan Henricus Meibom (1590-1655), dedicated to Christian Cassius, bishop of Lübeck. Meibom started his career as a physician in Basel in 1619. After a professorship in Helmstedt from 1620 till 1929 he settled in Lübeck...1660’s an edition appeared in Frankfurt which has been enlarged with a letter by Thomas Bartholinus addressed to Meibom (“De Flagrorum usu medico”), and with Meibom’s reply given at the end of the Latin text of his treatise. Only the treatises by both authors combined, are called De flagrorum usu in re medica et re veneria, and Gay-Lemonnyer obviously only considers these double-treatises as “complete”.

Hoping: VD17 23:244316L. Sabbatini 279 (1674 ed.). Graesse, Magica, 107. Rosenthal, Magica, 964. Ackermann IV, 554.Laehr, Litertur,:1, 427, 469 (1689), Fitzherbert 469. Thorndike VIII, 465.

Moldenarius: VD17 39:114479R. Sabbatini 389 “Raro.” Rosenthal 993.Laehr, Literatur:1, 162. Clarke 1987:193, Courtine (1988) 1992:48. Campe 1996:609 (incorr. 1606).

Fitzherbert 479. Thorndike VIII,448 note.OCLC: 38639738 [4 copies, 2 in US] Bartholini: VD17 12:186946G. Hayn/Gotendorf II,280 & 298. Gay/Lemonnyer I,890 & III,1227 (Tractatus). Krivatsy/NLM 7724.Rose, Register of erotic books, 2905-13. $2750

140. Horn, Georg.

Arca Moses sive Historia mundi. Quae complectitur primordia rerum naturalium omniumque artium scientiarum.

Leiden & Rotterdam: OfficinaHack, 1668. [32],220,[20]pp. [bound with} Historia naturalis & civilis. Leipzig:Johann & Friedrich Luder,1673.

374pp. [bound with] Ulyssea sive Studiosus peregrinans omnia lustrans littoria.

Frankfurt & Leipzig: Cornelius Driehuysen and Arnold Doude, 1671.

495pp.8vo. 3 vols. in 1. First Editions.

Contemp. vellum binding, dusty, tear in head of spine; some marginal dampstains to lower corner, some paper toning, inner corner missing from last leaf (no text affected). 2 Frontis. to Nturalis & Ulyssea but lacks frontis. to Arca.

Georg Horn (1629-70). “He visited most of the countries in Europe; was tutor to Thomas Morgan, a young English gentleman who lived at the Hague and appointed professor of history, politics and geography, at Harderwick [Hardevik]; afterwards professor of history at Leyden, where,having sustained a great loss by confiding in an alchemical impostor, he became deranged..” [Chalmers] “During the whole course of my investigation into this literature I have not come across any book more curious, less known, and scarcer, than one which was written by George Horn.” and: “It is on the secrets of creation, and includes a survey on natural history, and of the arts and sciences.”.[Ferguson] Arca: Ferguson, Secrets, III,79. Caillet 5258 “d’une grande rarete.” Rosenthal 457.

Graesse III,371.Ferguson, Glasgow, I,332. Guita 403. Historia: VD17 23:239297H (1671 e. 1673 is not listed) Ulyssea:VD17 3:604834F [var. imprint]. $1200

141. Hospinian, Rudolph [Rudolf Wirth].

De Templis: Hoc est, De Origine, Progressu, Usu et Ausu Templorum, Ac Omnino

Rerum omnium ad Templa pertinentium, Libri V. Editio Secunda... Zurich: In Officina Wolfiana, 1603[with] De Festis Iudaeorum et Ethnicorum: Hoc est, De Origine, Progressu, Ceremoniis et Ritibus Festorum Dierum Iudaeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum, Turcarum et Indianorum, Libri III. Zurich: 1611]. [with] Festa Christianorum. Hoc est, De Origine, Progressu, Ceremoniis et Ritibus Festorum Dierum Christianorum Liber Unus... Zurich: 1612. [with] Synodus Dioecesana Coloniensis Habita Anno Millesimo sexcentesimo vigesimo septimo decimo nono Aprilis. Cologne: apud Petrum Cholinum, 1627. Folio in 6s. 4 works in 1vol. *-**6, A-B6, A-SS6, TT4, VV6; aa6, bb-cc4, A-DD6, EE4, FF6; a-b6, A-Cc6, Dd8; A6, B4. [48], 510, [2] pp.; [14], 172 folia; [12], 164 folia; 18, [2] p.

Full old vellum, blind tooled ruling, banded spine with title in manuscript.

All edges blue. Browning, foxing, dampstains. Library stamps on front free endpaper and *2 of first work. Underlining, particularly in first work, with sources underlined in green and noted phrases in red ink; marginal notations in old hand throughout; and previous owner’s signature in red ink on t.p. of first work; hole in upper magin and in back cover about 1” deep caused by a nail or some similar pointed object.

Hospinian, (1547-1626) Swiss writer, who undertook to write a history of

the errors of “Popery.” He wanted to dispel the argument of tradition that was used against the Protestants. To that end he wrote a series of books which looked into the origin of the Catholic Church’s rites and ceremonies.

VD17 12:121775S; VD17 23:297424M; VD17 23:297419T; Synodus not found in VD 1117. Graesse III, 376 (1669 Geneva ed.). $650

142. Howell, James.

The Parly Of Beasts; Or Morphandra Queen of the Inchanted Iland:

Wherein Men were found, who being transmuted to Beasts, though proffer’d to be dis-inchanted, and to becom Men again; yet, in regard of the crying fins, and rebellious humors of the Times, they prefer the Life of a Brute Animal before that of a Rational Creture: Which Fancy consists of various Philosophicall Discourses, both Morall, Metaphysicall, Historicall, and Naturall touching the Declinings of the World, and late Deprevation of Human Nature...

London: William Wilson for William Palmer, 1660.Folio.A2 [lacks A3 & A4 ‘Key to enter more easily’] ,a-c2,B-Z2,Aa-Tt2. [16],152,[12]pp. First Edition.

Early 20th c. 1/2 morocco over marbled boards, spine banded, title gilt, some dampstains, old signature on verso of plate, marginal worming X1-TT2, date on t.p. has been altered by pen to “1663.”

Full-page engraving by Francis Barlow etched by Richard Gaywood., [Hodnett, Barlow,p97) lacks port. of author.

“Howell is one of the earliest Englishmen who made a livelihood out of literature. He wrote with a light pen; and although he shows little power of imagination in his excursions into pure literature, his pamphlets and his occasional verse exhibit exceptional faculty of observation, a lively interest in current affairs, and a rare mastery of modern languages, including his native Welsh. His attempts at spelling reform on roughly phonetic lines are also interesting. He urged the suppression of redundant letters like the e in done or the u in honour (cf. Epist. Ho-el. ed. Jacobs, p. 510; Parley of Beasts, advt. at end).” [DNB] Wing H3119. Wither to Prior 488. Hazlitt, Handbook,284:7. ESTC r5566. $650

143. Huarte Navarro, Juan de Dios.

Examen de Ingenios: Or, The Tryal of Wits. Discovering The great Dif-

ference of Wits among Men, and what Sort of Learning suits best with each Genius. Edward Bellamy, trans.

London: Richard Sare, 1698. 8vo. A4,a-b8,A-Z8,Aa-Ii8,KK4+π1 ( John Osborn ads).

[40],502,[4 ads]. First Bellamy translation.

Contemp. calf, gold rules on covers, rebacked, spine banded, title gilt on red morocco, some rubbing, Huarte (1530-90) was a native of French Navarre though he is often spoken of as a Spaniard. This work was originally written in Spanish though it went through seventy editions before 1700 in Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, and twice in English. This translation, the second in English, is taken from the enlarged edition of the work published in Baeza in 1594.

“The author maintained that much reading and the best masters would not make a person proficient in a study for which he had no natural aptitude. He traced all variations of human genius to the three primary qualities, hot, moist and dry. He contended that eloquence and elegance in speaking could not exist in men of great understanding, and that the theory of theology pertained to the intelligence but preaching to the imaginative faculty....The theory of medicine was partly a matter of memory and partly intelligence, the practice of medicine a matter of imagination....(He) further discussed how fathers could generate intelligent and talented children.” [Thorndike VI 413-4.]

Bayle did not trust Huarte’s maxims or authorities and said: “...he is not to be trusted...his hypotheses are frequently chimerical...many particulars (are) repugnant to modesty...and he deserves censure for publishing, as a genuine and authentic piece, a pretended letter...wherein a portrait is given of Jesus Christ..”

Wing H3205. ESTC r5885. Caillet 5288. Wellcome III,309. Krivatsy/NLM 6090.

Hunter Macalpine 46. Palau 116524. Garrison/Morton 4964. $750

144. Indagine [aka Rosenbach or Von Hagen], Johann.

Vrye Et Parfaicte Chyromancie Et Phisionomie...La diffinition des

faces des Signes. Reigles Astronomiques du jugement des maladies. Plus, L’Astrologie Naturelle. La cognoissance de la complexion des hommes selon la domination des Planettes.

Antoine Du Moulin, trans.

Paris: Jacques Villery, [1620?]. 8vo. [10],380,[1]p.

19th. c French morocco-backed pebble-grained boards, edges speckled, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Petri Guyot, some light foxing.

Numerous text cuts, head-pieces, decorated initials.

Indagine [ a.k.a. Rosenbach, or Johannes Von Hagen] (ca.1467-1537) from Hain near Darmstadt, “was an extremely learned man in many fields, and at one time acted as an ambassador to the Pope, though it appears that he had many sympathies with the revolutionary theories of the day...” Gettings p177. His work, first published in 1522, had a great effect on the study of chiromancy and is quoted to our own day. It was frequently reprinted Northof the alps but was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books.

“Presumably the combination of astrology, physiognomy and chiromancy with humanistic bias and some approach to Protestant partisanship accounted for its long and widespread currency north of the Alps.” [Thorndike] Goldsmith, BM 17 French, C948. Esoterica 2200 “tres rare.” Gardner, Astrologia, 598. Sabattini 305. Krivatsy/NLM 6144. Wellcome 3407. Not in Caillet. $800

145. Ingber, Johann, Niccola, Spadoni, Ronphile, & Johann Sigismund Elsholtz.

Hochstfurteffliches Chiromantisch Und Physiognomisches Klee-

Blat Bestehend Aus drey herrlichen Tractaten Und zwar erstlich Des Kunstberuhmsten Ronphyle Hand-Wahrsagung; Zum andern Niclas Spadons Schauplatz der Curiositaten; Und dann drittens D. D. Johann Sigmund Eltzholtzens Anthropometrie oder Mess-Kunst des Mess-Kunst des Menschlichen Corpers Welchen

wegen Gleichheit der Materie Dominici de Rubeis Physiognomische Tafeln, Cardani Metoscopie und Melamps von den Mahlern des menschlichen Corpers miteingeruckt... I.G.D.T. & S.T.D.N. trans.

Nuremberg: Johann Ziegers, 1695. 8vo. 3 vols. [30],112;208;550p.

First Edition thus.

Handsomely bound (recent) in 15th c. illuminated vellum manuscript leaves (decorated in red, blue and yellow), with ties; minor light age-toning, and a little light dampstaining, else a very nice copy of a rare set.

Emblematic frontis. of scholar using books of chiromancy, physiognomy, and metascopy while putti measure a human body by J. L. Honnig of Nurnberg,t.p. in red and black, 6 fullpage chiromantic hands in Ronphile; 6 full-page (most with two images) in Spadoni; 8 full-page plates in Elscholtz.

“The Anthropometria of Johann Sigismund Elsholtz (1623-1688) was intended to be of use to painters and sculptors as well as to students f medicine and physiognomy, and considered the analogy of the human body with the universe, and what its proper proportions were, and the symmetry of its different parts. But he not only touched upon physiognomy but also on astrological chiromancy and gave figures of planetray lines in the hand and on the sole of the foot. His final chapter was on moles, based upon his own experience as well as such previous writers as Melampus, Haly Abenragel, and Ludovivo Settala...” [Thorndike] Spadoni “...treated Physiognomy, Chiromancy, Metoposcopy...It is held that one should prognosticate from the time of conception rather than that of birth, and that celestial causes concur in the fabric of man’s complexion or temperment...Sleep and dreams...are also treated...the interpretation of moles and warts, is discussed...” [Thorndike] Of Ronphile, who may be the poet Rampalle who signs the dedication, we know nothing. “C’est un des meileurs traités de chiromancie qui existent, orné de nombreuses figures finement gravées,” [Caillet] VD17 3:606185S. Graesse, Magica, 101. BL 17th c. German H1240 (inc.) Krivatsy/NLM 5755. OCLC 14307449. Gerlach Ingeber 1695.Laehr i,505. Campe 600.

Not in Caillet, Rosenthal, Esoterica, or Sabattini. $2000

146. Issac ben Judah Levi.

[Hebrew Text:] Paneiach Raza.{Commentary on the Torah in the style of

numerical values of letters and initials.]

Judah Levi ben Joel Levi, Judea of Posnen, and Samuel ben Seeb Wolf of Cracow, and Soloman ben David Kohen Borger,etc. commentaries.

Amsterdam: Caspar Steen, 1698. 8vo. [2],66 ff=136p.

Old vellum and marbled paper over wood, some paper stripped from boards; marginal repair with old paper to I1 and joining leaf, obscuring some text; short tear in first two leaves, some corners bent, good paper.

The Raza Rabba was a work of Merkabah mysicism of antiquity, while it no longer exists as a separate entity portions of it are found in 13th century manuscripts and it influenced the Seper ha-Bahir. In the 13th century in Provence the first centers of Kabbalistic study were founded and they were influenced by the

these works in their formulatons of kabbalistic theories. This work by a thirteenth century Kabbalist shows its numerological thought. Approbations from the Rabbis of Amsterdam including Yakov Sasportas, one of the leading opponents of Sabbetaianism. Old signature on t.p. “Zanvil son of Rabbi Y. Hanover,5549.”, There is also the seal of the Altona Kloiz in Homburg. Joseph Hanover was an eminent Torah sage.

Vinograd,Amsterdam,666. Steinschneider 5362:2. Cowley 268. Zedner 369. $750

147. James I, King of England (a.k.a. James VI, King of Scotland).

[Opera] Serenissimi Et Potentissimi Principis Iacobi, Dei Gratia, Magnae

Britanniae, Franciae, Et Hiberniae Regis, Fidei Defensoris, Opera...James Montague, Bishop of Winchester, ed. Translated and revised by Thomas Reid & Patrick Young.

London: Bonham Norton & John Bill, 1619. Folio. [44],609.[1]p.

First Collected Latin edition, first state.

Contemp. mottled calf, rebacked and restored with spine banded and with title in gilt on red leather label, large gilt armorial device on covers with central shield (quartered: demi-lion rampant over wavy lines and 6 escallops with bend barry) surrounded with 2 decorated ovals made up of fleur-de-lis decorative elements and the letter “H”, with a cross patee quadrate suspended from a circle with the archangel Michael brandishing a sword; edges speckled red; endpapers renewed; some minor marginal dampstains and damp wrinkling.Full-page coat of arms, engraved port. of Prince Charles at a; many printer’s devices, head- & tailpieces, and large historiated initials.

Contains King James’: Paraphrasis Apocalypseos; Daemonolgiæ; Basilcon Doron; Ius liberæ Monarchiæ; Miscopanus, de abusa Tobacci; Coniuratio Sulphrea; Apologia pro iuramento Fidelitatia; MonitoriaPræfatio; Protestatio Antivorstia; Pro iure Regio; Sex Orationes; Meditatio in Orationem Dominicam.

This volume contains James’ attack on the use of tobacco, his treatise on Demonology, and his paraphrase of the apocalyptic books of the Bible, as well as works on royalty and speeches. This is the first issue of this book without the added leaves found in later issues.

STC 14346. ESTC s105024. [The 4 unsigned prelim. leaves vary in number present and arrangement; see Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, III (1948), pp.17-30. Here: π1r 1/2 title “Opera Regia, π1v blank; π2r t.p., π2v blank; followed by full-page woodcut coat-of-arms,] Caillet 5475 (Demonologia). McAlpin I, 314.

Lowndes 1180. Casanatense 665. Arents II,143. Not in Cornell,Witch. Cat. $2000

148. James I, King of England & Magna Carta.

Opera...[issued with] Inclytae Nationis Anglicanae Magna Charta, Sive

Capita Privilegiorum Nationalium Et Ius Status In Anglia, Publicum, Notis, Ex ipsis Anglicorum Ictorum Fontibus Illustratum. James Montague, ed.

Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig: Christian Gensch, 1689. Folio. π2,a3, )(3, 2)(4, A-1L4,2M6, ¶-3¶4. [34],283, [1]; 24p. First Edition published in Germany.

Contemp. vellum, title in old hand on spine, edges speckled red, book-

plate of Ayntoun of Inchdairnie, foxing and light browning. Engraved vignette on t.p., t.p. in red and black, 4 full-page engraved royal ports. Prince Charles of England; Frederick, Duke of Saxony; Fredericks’s son; and Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxony. There is a reported frontis. port. of James which is not present in this copy.

This Latin edition of King James’ works includes his work on the Apocalypse, Tobacco and his Demonology, as well as, all the other materials of the later English editions of his works. It also contains a version of the Magna Carta which was not in the earlier editions.

VD17 1:046722N. $500

149. Jant, Jacques Chevalier de. [Nostradamus] Predictions Tirees Des Centuries De Nostradamus Qui vray sem-

blement se peuvent appliquer au temps present, & a la guerre entre la France & l’Angleterre, contre les Provinces Unies. Avec l’explication des Medailles en Francois. [containing: Suitte de Medailles Inscriptions, Emblesmes, [Peintures iniurieusses des Provinces unis. Avec la reponse la France [&] Prophetie de Nostradamus. Sur la longueur des jours, et la felicitie du Regne de Louis XIV.] [Rouen?] N.P., 1673. 12mo. A8, B4, C8, D4,E8,F4,G4,H2.

53, [3], 83,[1]p.

First Enlarged Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum, title in ms. in old hand, bookplates of ReneCharles Guilbert de Pixerecourt (1773-1844 dramatist) & Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991) Peruvian archaeologist and Nostradamus authority,Lenghty PRESENTATION inscription from Jant on t.p. and f.f.ep (verso) & on p 80; long note in the hand of Abbe Pierre-Jacques Sepher (c1710-1781) vice-chancellor of the university of Aix-enProvince & famous collector of occult books which were sold in 1786) on f.f.e.p.(recto) with note identifying his hand; some foxing 3 folding plates of medals The chevalier de Jant (1626-1676) French historian and Nostradamus commentator was born in Dijon. He was treasurer of finances for Dijon,the official in charge of the Cabinet des Raretes of Phillippe d’Orleans and held several important posts in the French government. He was a chevalier of the Order of Malta.

Comarat 264. Benazra 264.Buget 1863,472. Caillet 5513. Cioranescu 36063.

Guaita1483. Leoni 92. Houzeau/Lancaster 5283 “Tres rare.” See: Dekesel 17th J3. $2000

150. Jaubert, Etienne, attrib. [more likely— Jean de Giffre De Rechac,a.k.a. Jean de Sainte Marie] [Nostradamus] Eclaircissment des veritables Quatrains de Maistre Michel Nos-

tradamus... grand Astrologue de son temps, & specialement pour la connoissance de choses futures.

[Paris? Amsterdam? ] N.P., [Sebastien Cramoisy & Edmond Couterot] 1656. 12mo. †6 [-†6,blank],A-T12. 9,[1],408, 405-426, 437-458,[2errata]p.[numer-

ous errors in pagination and collation].

First Edition.

18th c. polished calf, gilt rules, spine banded, extra-gilt in compartments

with repeated floral device, title gilt on red morocco label, spine ends lightly chipped, edges red, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991) Peruvian archaeologist & Nostradamus collector, his pencil notes on errors in pagination, also the bookplate of famous the book collector Nicolas Yemeniz (sold 1867 lot 936) light inner margin stain. Fine copy. Lacks port.as often.

The commentator in his long preface gives a life of Nostradamus with a defense of astrology and calls him divinely inspired. It says that this is intended to be part of a series of volumes of which this first (all published) is on the affairs of France.

This is the first biography of Nostradamus after the one by Chavigny.

This work covers 71 quatrains applied to the period 1555-60. “The first and last of an intended series of 19... better constructed than Chavigny’s and hence the model for all subsequent commentaries.” [Leoni,p91.]

The ascription to Etienne Jaubert is problematic. Jacques Halbronn has pointed out that nothing is known about him other than a reference to him being a physician of Amiens. Halbronn believes the first ascription of this book to Jaubert was by Buget in his 1860-2 bibliography in the Bulletin du Bibliophile. Halbronn notes that on page 66 the editor/author refers to other works of this author on religion that may point instead to Jean Giffré de Réchac, (1604-1660) or Jean de Sainte Marie. Quetif & Echard in the Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum II,594ff also list this work as by Jean de Griffe “Propheties de Nostradamus expliquees, voll. duo in 4 Mss. I. P. prodiit Pariis typis Sebast. Cramoisy & Edmundi Couterot 1656 in 12 pp 458, sed auctoris nomine supresso.” [page 597]. also see, Dictionnaire de biographie française sous la direction de Prevost, Roman d’Amat et Tribout de Morembert (1982, tome 15, col. 1496 - 1497)] We do not know where the assertion that it was printed in Amsterdam referred to by Chomarat comes from but a Parisian source seems more likely.

Chomarat 225. Benazra 231. Barbier II,7c. Esoterica 2267( no mention of port.) “rare”. Casanatense, Magica 526 [under Jean de Giffre De Rechac]. Caillet 5516.

Cioranescu 36151.Leoni 13. Guaita 1484. Gardner, Astrologica, 607. Houzeau/Lancaster 5220. Not in STCN. $2500

151. Judah Aaron Moses Altschuler ben Abraham Enoch Rabbi of Krumenau.

[Hebrew Title:] Sefer Vichal Moshe. Prof. Beckmann, ed.

Frankfurt on the Oder, 1691. 4to. 64ff. Second Edition.

20th c. cloth, title on red label, old hebrew inscription on verso of t.p., minor stains, a nice copy. T.p. in woodcut surround.

Altschuler was a rabbi at Kromau (Moravia) in the beginning of the 17th century. His most famous work the "Vichal Moshe" is a kabbalistic ascetic treatise on devotion. The second part "Torat-ha-Asham" (Precepts Concerning the Sin-offering) enumerates the varius modes of penance for each transgression of the Jewish law. Discussion of Exodus XXXII, chap 11 ethics and aesthetics and a second part on the “Lex Sacrificii de poenitentia.”

Vinograd, Frankfurt on the Oder, 44. Zedner 402. Cowley 355. Steinschneider 5682 $300

152. Jungken, Johann Helfrich.

I. N. J. Chymia Experimentalis Curiosa, Ex rincipiis Mathematicis

demonstrata; quâ Ex Triplici Regno, Remedia generosiora à Neotericis & aliis hactenus inventa fideliter exhibentur : Adjunctis Singulariorum Remediorum Formulis, adversus omnes tam internos quam externos corporis affectus.

Frankfurt: Jan Andriesz Cloeting for Hermann von Sand, 1681. 8vo. 175 x 95mm. )o(8, )o()o(4, A-3K8,3L4 [3L2-4 blanks]. [22],898p.

First Edition.

Contemp. mottled calf, spine banded, gilt, title in gilt on red leather labwl, edge rubbing, tear at foot of spine, bookplates and embossed stamp of Macclesfield library [see below], old owner’s names on t.p. inked over, edge browning.

Engraved t.p. of alchemical laboratory by Johann Philipp Aubry cut to plate and mouted on rear of f.f.e.p., full-page plate of apparatus facing p28; t.p. in red and black Jungken,1648-1726, studied at Marpurg and then Heildelberg and graduated in medicine in 1671. “He went to Switzerland and in 1675 was appointed court physician to the Duke of Birkenfeld. In 1677 he left on account of the war and became physician of Count Witgenstein. He left for Frankfurt in 1680 and travelled with Count von Hohenloh the Imperial Ambassador. He next spent three years in Speyer, and afterwards settled at Frankfort in 1689...”[Ferguson] “The Curious Experimental Chemistry... observes the division into animal kingdom, vegetables, minerals and metals; then adds another part on medicaments or methodus medendi...I noted a passage on how to make artificial gems, five pages of panaceas, and that the final medical section, which is longer than the other five put together, closes with astrological observations.” [Thorndike] The famous scientific library of the Earls of Macclesfield formed on the collections of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749).

VD 17 23:241505P. Bruning 2481. Krivatsy/NLM 6300. Wellcome III, 370. Partington II,303. Ferguson I,445 (note; not in Youg Collection). Duveen 314 (1683 ed.).

Ferguson, Glasgow, 358. OCLC: 6772139 & OCLC: 44828092. $1200

153. Karl Ludwig (Charles Louis), Elector Palatine of the Rhine, [pseudo.Philotheus]

Philothei Symbola Christiana Quibus Idea Hominis Christiani Ex-

primitur.Paul Hachenberg, intro.

Frankfurt: Johann Peter Zubrod, 1677. Folio. 15 x 9”.

)(4,)()(2,A-Z,AaBb4,Cc2. [10],204pp First Edition, Large Paper Copy.

Modern cloth, title in gilt on spine, signature of “Petri Schmitt” on t.p.; dampstains (mostly marginal), tears in edges (some repaired with cellotape, some with old paper (engraved extra-tiltle has repair in upper edge of engraving, otherwise it is mostly out of the text), Bb4 torn with loss of upper 1/3 of the page (text and image affected). Engraved extra t.p. after Johann Georg Wagner by Martin Hailler; large emblematic vignette on t.p.,t.p. printed in red and black; 100 brown circular engraved emblems.

“Prince Charles Louis, her (Elizabeth of Bohemia) eldest surviving son,

heir to the electoral title and to the Palatine...was an intellectual, alive to new ideas about education and utilitarian application of science, and he inclined to the Parliamentarian side, where new ideas proliferated, and where he had many friends who were interested in restoring him to his domain.” [Yates, Rosicrucian Enlightenment p174] He was Hartlib’s patron and was closely associated with Van Helmont.

“A folio edition was published by Zubrod at the same time (as the 4to. regular edition) with the text of the preface set in a larger fount; the title-page and the text were leaded to adapt to the large size, probably used for a few presentation copies.” [Landwehr.]

VD17 3:006635Y. Praz 454. Landwehr German 477. BL STC 17th German C519 (4to ed.) $750

154. Khunrath, Heinrich.

Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternæ Solius Verae Christiano-Kabal-

isticum, Divino-Magicum, nec non Physico-Chymicum, Tertriuntum, Catholicon: instructore Henrico Kunrath Lips. Theosophiæ amatore fideli, et Medicinae utriusq(ue) Doct: Hallelú-Iáh! Hallelú-Iáh! Hallelú-Iáh! Phy diabol! È Milibus Uix Vni. Hannover: Wilhelm Anton, 1609. Folio. 285 x 195mm. a-g4,h2,A-Z,Aa-Ee4.

60,222,[1],[1]pp. First Complete edition.

Modern light brown morocco over paper boards with title in calligraphic letters with decorative borders; edges blued; endpapers and paste-downs covered with old (early 19th?c.) calligraphic symbolic manuscripts with what appears to be numerological significance in use of capitalized Roman numerals. T.p.. and portrait laid-down on old paper; upper right corner of t.p. missing with some image loss; small expert repairs to blank versos of some plates; plates on tabs; some old stains; some age-toning; first gathering loose. In general a fine copy with large margins and fine dark rich impressions of these famous plates.

Engraved emblematic t.p.; portrait of Khunrath by Jan Diricks van Campen; eight (of 9) double-page illustrations (one of Khunrath in his study has the right side replaced by a facsimile on old paper); [This copy lacks the “wise old owl” plate and “Stone of the Philosophers” [replaced with loose facsimile on old paper],2

double-page tables; grotesque tail-pieces, head-pieces, decorated initials {see Mellon for a full description of the decorative elements.

Stanislaus De Rola in his “The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century” states that he believes that the seven square plates, who he assumes are also by Jan Diricks van Campen, are the original illustrations designed for the work as these are the only ones mentioned in the text. The four undated oval plates by Paullus van der Doort (the plate of the Laboratory is after a design by Hans Vredeman de Vries) were, he surmises, added in 1604. He does not state in his text, but has in conversion,that the ‘owl’ plate was added after the original 1609 edition was printed which would explain it being missing from many copies. In this opinion he seems to agree with Guita as quoted in Verginelli p179.

Khunrath (1560-1605) was a celebrated physician, alchemist, and Kabbalist. He practiced medicine in Hamburg and Dresden, and was a follower of Paracelsus. He believed himself to be an adept of various spiritual traditions of alchemy dominated by the Paracelsian belief in the divine science of medicine as a privilege of the initiated (scientia arcanorum)...Khunrath ardently sought to find and demonstrate the secret, divine primary matter endowed with the universal virtue of ruling all natural processes...These efforts would, he claimed, afford eternal wisdom...”

[DSB] “Khunrath’s ‘Amphitheatre’ forms a link between a philosophy influenced by Dee (whom he met!) and the philosophy of the Rosicrucian manifestos.

In Khunrath’s work we meet the characteristic phraseology of the manifestos, the everlasting emphasis on microcosm and microcosm, the stress on Magia, Cabala, and Alchymia as in some way combining to form a religious philosophy which promises a new dawn for mankind.” [Francis Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment,1972,p38.]

“I am particularly impressed with Kuhnrath’s pursuit of the Philosopher’s stone for the avowed end of merging with Divine Wisdom, his combined use of Kabbalah, music and alchemy and his bold interpretation of the holy scriptures.

His emblems are a veritable treasure-house, and a prolonged study will constantly yield subtler levels of meaning.” Stanislaus De Rola p30. “Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ may justly be referred to as one of the best known alchemical works: the plates with which it is illustrated are remarkable both for their subjectmatter and their execution...” [Duveen, The Library,5th series,1,56.]

VD17 1:078059R.& VD17 12:120903N. Bruning 951. BL German 17th, K183. BPH, 500 Years of Gnosis,26b. Brunet III,658. Caillet 5747. Casanetense 676. De Bure II,248.

De Rola,29ff.Esoterica 2363 “Rarissime.” Ferguson I,463. Graesse, Magica, 113.

Guita 1494. Hall/Alchemy 90. Krivatsy/NLM 6371.Jouin 157.Lenglet du Fesnoy III,198. MacPhail 62. Mellon 62. Rosenthal 482. Verginelli 170. Wellcome 3560. $9750

155. Kircher, Athanasius & Benedetto Benedetti Tariffa Kircheriana Id Est Inventum Auchoris Novum expedita, et mira

arte combinata methodo, universalem Geometria e& Arithmetica Practica Summam continens.2 Prefatory letters one by Benedetti and one in Greek by Johannes Theodorus Fritzer.

Rome: Nicolai Angelo Tinassi, 1679. 8vo. 2 vols. A12 [A1 blank], (2)A-V8.

[Including A1 & V8 blanks]; A-Bb8, Cc2 [Cc2 blank]. Text complete.[24],316, [2]; [203]ff = 406p.

First Edition.

Original paper boards, old title in ms on spine covered over by (fragmentary) paper with titles in gilt, front hinges opened internally, uncut with edge deckels. Lacks the 24 added tables. 150 text cuts.

“The Tariffa, perhaps the rarest of all Kircher’s works and his least characteristic, is entirely mathematical. It treats primarily geometrical figures and simple trigonometry. The work is organized in the traditional format for mathematical works, with problems, propositions, and proofs. The term tariffa, was used in Kircher’s day for compilations of tables used by navigators “from which valuable knowledge might be had without labor,’ but, as is explained in the preliminary pages, Kircher titled his book Tariffa ‘not only because valuable knowledge might be had, but because one may understand [from it] the universal art of mathematical computation.” [Merrill] The author of the volume of tables is ascribed to the Bolognese professor of mathematics Benedetto Benedetti who Merrill claims is a pseudonym for Kircher himself! Dunnhaupt 33.1 & 2. Merrill 28. De Backer/Sommervogel IV.1070.37.

Brunet III,669. Graesse IV, 22. [See:Riccardi II,92 for Benedetti.] $2000

156. Kircher, Athanasius.

Arca Noë, In Tres Libros Digesta, Quorum I. De rebus quae ante Dilu-

vium, II. De iis, quae ipso Diluvio eiusque duratione, III. De iis, quae post Diluvium a Noemo gesta sunt, Quae omnia nova Methodo, Nec Non Summa Argumentorum varietate, explicantur, & demonstrantur.

Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1675. Folio. •-2•4, A-Z, Aa-Ii4.[Ii4 list of Kircher’s Works]. Text Complete.

[14],240, [14]. [2]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. Dutch calf over thick boards, blind panel design on covers, gilt spine banded, defective at spine ends, worn; contemp. owner’s names “Carmelii Brugensis” on engraved t.p., t.p., and verso of r.f.e.p., ink stain on O1r, old paper supports to folds of plates — crude on large folding plate of the ark where old printed papers are used, some edge tears and wear, some foxing and light browning, marginal damp stains, some old sketches of animals in margins.. A good copy of a rare work.

Engraved t.p., map, topographic plan (double-page), large folding plate of the ark, 9 double-page plates, 4 full-page plates, 2 small plates, 9 engraved text cuts, & 102 textcuts woodcuts . [Lacks port. of King Carlos, 1 double-page plate? and 1 double-page map “Post-Diluvian World”]. 5 tables, tail-pieces, decorated initials.

“The most famous and elaborate account of the Ark produced in the seventeenth century was by the Jesuit polymath of the Collegio Romano, Athanasius Kircher. Not only was he concerned to reconstruct the story of the Ark in every detail, but he came to personify the impulse for collecting natural history - given sacred purpose through Noah - as he brought together and accommodated the extraordinary Museum Kircherianum in Rome. The connection was evident for

Kircher: he described Noah’s Ark as the first museum.

For Kircher the authority of the Ark as a blueprint derives from its divine origin: unlike other memorable creations of the ancient world, such as the pyramids of Memphis, the walls of Babylon, the statue of Jupiter at Olympus or the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Ark was designed by God. Since God was the architect, the design embodies the divine laws of symmetry and proportion, qualities the Ark shares with the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon.

But God also made man, and in his own image. Thus the proportions of man are reflected in the Ark. The length of 300 cubits to the width of 50, for example, is in the same proportion as the height of a well-proportioned man to his width.

Such relationships are illustrated by Kircher’s diagram, ‘Proportio humani corporis ad Arcam comparata’.

As for the shape of the Ark, Kircher says this is controversial, and he relates some of the conclusions of other commentators. His proposal, which had benefited from experimental reconstructions of scale models, is a three-storied box with a double-pitched roof. Kircher owes much to Buteo, but every aspect is elaborated into a detailed description supported by an engaging narrative. In one dramatic illustration of the progress of the Flood, the general arrangement of the scene and the disposition of the condemned people are clearly related to those in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as Kircher would have known it in Rome, but he has replaced Michaelangelo’s Ark with his own design.

Kircher comes into his own when enumerating, describing and illustrating the animals. Just as Noah had learnt the science of geometrical proportion from God, so had he also learnt the divine science of animals. Organization and taxonomy were critical to the management of a successful Ark, which had to be divided up into quarters proper for all the animals and their provisions. This Kircher does with obsessive thoroughness and loving detail. Birds and humans were on the top story, quadrupeds on the bottom, and food and water stored in the middle. Serpents were left to languish in the bilge, while there was no need to provide space for creatures that generated spontaneously, such as the insects and frogs.

A further natural philosophical aspect of the story of Noah’s Ark, more evident in Kircher’s account than in earlier ones, is the set of meteorological, cosmological and perhaps astrological issues surrounding the phenomenon of the Flood - issues that come together in the discipline later named by Thomas Burnet the ‘Theory of the Earth’. Kircher’s interest in the subterranean world gave him a rich resource for speculation on the origins of the diluvial water.

After the Flood, Noah lived a further 350 years and died at the age of 950, and Kircher continues his story to the end. He himself had only five years after the publication of Arca Noë to pursue his mission to recover and display Noah’s divine science in his museum in Rome.” [The Garden, The Ark, The Tower, The Temple...Catalogue by Jim Bennett and Scott Mandelbrote; Bodleian Library, 1998.]

STCN 167502. Dunnhaupt 2346:29. Merrill 26. Adelung III,379. Caillet 5768.

Graesse IV,20. Nissen, Z 2195. De Backer I, 430.26. Sommervogel IV1068-69:33. .

BMCC CXXIII,711.Bennett /Mandelbrote 37. Mustain/Hinman 157. $5500

157. Kircher, Athanasius.

Ars Magna Sciendi, In XII Libros Digesta, Qua Nova & Universali

Methodo Per Artificiosum Combinationum contextum de omni re proposita plurimis & prope infinitis rationibus disputari, omniumque summaria quædum cognitio comparari potest. Ad Augustissimum Rom. Imperatorem Leopoldum Primum, Justum, Pium, Felicem.

Amsterdam: Apud Jannem Janssonium à Waesberge, & Viduam Elizei Weyerstraet, 1669. Folio in 4s. *-**4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Ooo4, Ppp6. [16], 482,

[10]pp. First edition.

Full contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid over new, corners worn. Banded spine, gilt stamped decoration, title in gilt lettering. Red speckled edges. Light to moderate browning and foxing, with occasional dampstains.

Repair work to three leaves, with no loss of text. Volvelle plate (fig. 4) supplied in fine facsimile on old paper.Extra engraved title to both volumes, volvelle on p 13 has parts in facsimile on old paper, engraved tree plate in volume two, and portrait of Emperor Leopold I on *12. 4 folding tables.

“Un des bons ouvrages,” - Caillet.

“Ars magna sciendi is Kircher’s elaboration and adaptation of the ‘Combinatoric Art’ of Ramon Lull, the thirteenth-century Majorcan philosopher. Kircher attempts nothing less than the categorization of all knowledge under the nine ideal attributes or dignities of God. These attributes, he argues, are the superstructure of the universe, the pattern for all creation. The universe, if it is to be comprehended in toto , must be organized in the mind according to the same pattern. The modus operandi of the art is, therefore, to move, like Plato’s dialectic, from universals to particulars. Kircher consequently designs a system and method for teaching all disciplines in the style of the encyclopedic movement. However, like Lull’s Ars demonstrativa , the emphasis of Kircher’s work is not pedagogical. Kircher advocates an ambitious scientific method, a type of logic applicable to all branches of learning, a method of finding truth. Much of the book applies the ‘Combinatoric Art’ to a vast variety of disciplines from theology to medicine to logic, rhetoric, and debate.

The Ars magna sciendi represents the seventeenth-century search for a universal language that would allow scientists and philosophers to describe and circumscribe all knowledge into a unified system. The Lullian Art was at the center of the search. Philosophers realized then, as they do now, that common language is inadequate for discovering and conveying truth and that a language patterned after the basic structure of the universe could be the key to the exact ordering and verification of all knowledge. For the sake of facility and objectivity, words would have to be replaced by symbols or some type of notation,” -[Merrill, p.56.]

STCN 166902. Merrill 22. Sommervogel IV, 1066. Caillet 5771. Bibliotheca Esoterica 2380. Ferguson I, 467. De Backer I, 429-30. Clendening 10.17. Brunet III, 666. $3750

158. Kircher, Athanasius.

Historia Eustachio-Mariana Qua Admiranda D. Eustachii, Socio-

rumque Vita ex variis Authoribus collecta; locus in quo eidem in Monte Vulturello Christus inter cornua cervi apparuit, noviter detectus...

Rome: Typographia Varesii, 1665. 4to. †6,A-Z4,2A6.[Lacks †1, frontis., present in facsimile] [10],184,[11],[1]pp.

First, and only, edition.

Contemp vellum, slightly sprung, light marginal dampstain at front, foxing, This is a PRESENTATION COPY to the Jesuit College of Setini “Collegii Setini Soc.is Jesu Ex dono Pris Athanasii Kircheri.” Lacks the frontispiece (replaced in facs. on old paper), 6 (5 folding ) engraved plates, 1 (made up of 2) folding tables, 5 text cuts (1 full-page).

“Kircher recalling the debt he owed to the Blessed Virgiin for his recovery long ago from his illness in Paderborn, felt inspired to do what he could to restore the shrine (of St. Eustachius) and make it a place of prayer and pilgrimage once more... To help his fund raising, he wrote a book about St. Eustachius and the origin of the shrine...Kircher had the church repaired and painted and also built a residence for priests and a hostel for pilgrims... The commencement of services were announced with a mighty blast on jis ‘Tuba Stentoro-phonica’ which echoed for many miles through the surrounding hills.. Kircher spent as much time as possible during his latter years at the shrine, seeing to the needs of the visitors and pilgrims... He loved the work, and as a sign of his devotion, wished to have his heart buried at the foot of the statue of Our Lady after his death.” [P. Conor Reilly, Athanasius Kircher S.J.,] de Backer/Sommervogel IV,1063. Dunnhaupt 2340:17.OCLC: 6286400. Adelung III,379. BL 17th (Ital.) K461. Not in Merrill, Not in Bruni/Evans. $4000

159. Kircher, Athanasius.

Magnes Sive De Arte Magnetica Opus Tripartitum, Quo Praeterquam

Quod Universa Magnetis Natura, Eiusque In Omnibus Artibus & Scientiis usus nova Methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque & prodigiosis effectibus Magneticarum, aliarumq(ue) abditarum Naturae motionum in Elementis, Lapidibus, Plantis & Animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita Naturae arcana per Physica, Medica, Chymica, & Mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur.

Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1643. 4to. [28],797,[27 of 39, lacking part of index]p. Second Edition.

Old vellum, soiled, old dark stain on front cover; first few leaves are edge worn, moderate browning and foxing; ll 5M3 &4 coming away at inner margin and bent; plates are good strong impressions.

26 (of 30, lacking frontis., & 3 plates) engravings “...one of the most interesting works of father Kircher’s wonderful and all-embracing scientific genius (or at least industry) and most valuable as a storehouse of all that was known of the magnet at the time...It contains moreover several original observations, i.e. the influence of volcanic eruptions on the magnetic needle, numerous experiments...the first use of the term ‘electro-magnetism.”

[Zeitlinger] ‘Kircher’s Magnes is filled with curiosities, both profound and frivolous.

The work does not deal solely with what modern physicists call magnetism. Kircher discusses, for example, the magnetism of the earth and heavenly bodies; the tides; the attraction and repulsion in animals and plants; and the magnetic attraction of music and love. He also explains the practical applications of magnetism in medicine, hydrolics, and even in the construction of scientific instruments and toys. In the epilogue Kircher moves from the practical to the metaphysical — and Aristotelian — when he discusses the nature and position of God: ‘the central magnet of the universe.’...Kircher’s Magnes contains all that was known in his day on electricity and magnetism.’ [Merrill].

VD17 23:255233C. Dunnhaupt (2) III,2331; 5.2. Ferguson I,467. Caillet 5779. Brunet III,667. Partington 2. Thorndike VII,269. Adelung III, 377. Poggendorf I, 1258. Sommervogel IV, 1048. Merrill/BYU 5. $2500

160. Kircher, Athanasius.

Magnes Sive De Arte Magnetica ...

Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1643. 4to. *4,**4,¶4,¶¶4,A-5M4,Nnnnn2. Com-

plete.

[28],797,[39]pp. Second Edition.

17th c. English calf with blind tooling, rebacked with title on red morocco label, some offsetting from leather turn-ins, some minor paper darkening, a very good copy; Contemporary ownership inscriptions: “Robert Pierrepont 1652; and “ex dono Dni Georgii More Liber Guilielmi Cartwright” on f.f.e.p. [See Below.]

29 (of 30) engraved plates, lacks frontis. , as often, 178 text cuts.

Kircher’s fame was international but he was particularly famous in England where he had several close friends. The contemporary inscriptions and binding of this copy show that it must have passed immediately after printing to his enlightened readership there. The William Cartwright could well be William Cartwright, 1611-1643, dramatist and divine. “ The king, who was then at Oxford, being asked why he wore black on the day of Cartwright’s funeral, replied that ‘since the muses had so much mourned for the loss of such a son it would be a shame for him not to appear in mourning for the loss of such a subject.’ Fell said of him, ‘Cartwright was the utmost man could come to;’ and Ben Jonson declared ‘My son Cartwright writes all like a man.’ Langbaine gives him this character: ‘He was extremely remarkable both for his outward and inward endowments; his body being as handsome as his soul. He was an expert linguist, understanding not only Greek and Latin, but French and Italian, as perfectly as his mother-tongue. He was an excellent orator, and yet an admirable poet.’ [DNB] VD17 23:255233C. Dunnhaupt (2) III,2331; 5.2. Ferguson I,467. Caillet 5779. Brunet III,667.Thorndike VII,269. Adelung III, 377. Poggendorf I, 1258. Sommervogel IV, 1048. Merrill/BYU, 5. $4000

161. Kircher, Athanasius.

Mundus Subterraneus, in XII Libros digestus; Quo Divinum Subter-

restris Mundi Opificium, mira Ergasteriorum Naturae in eo distributio...

Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Filios, 1678. Folio. 2 vols in 1. Engraved t.p.,[16],366,[6];t.p.,[6],507,[18]pp. Third Edition.

Contemp. Dutch vellum over thick boards, bind-tooled with center lozenge, t.p. on paper label (chipped and defective), edges speckled red, signature of “J. Caspar Lindermann,1767 on t.p.; light inner upper margin dampstain; some foxing and browning, a usual, but generally light; a piece torn from the blank margin of the plate of Aetna (outside the plate mark); a few small fold tears mended with invisible archival tape; in all a fine clean copy with strong crisp paper.

Engraved t.p. by Theodore Matham after Joseph Paul Schor, vignette on t.p.,8 maps, 14 (8 folding) plates, includes plate of volvelles, 5 tables: 228 text cuts and 96 engravings. [Lacks port., as is often the case] “The Mundus subterraneus, perhaps the most popular of Kircher’s works in his day and the best known in ours...The basis and impetus...was Kircher’s visit to Sicily in 1637-38, where he witnessed an eruption of Aetna and Stromboli. He prefaced the work with his own narrative of the trip, including his spectacular descent into Vesuvius upon his return to Italy...But the work is not solely geologic. Kircher continues with fantastic speculations about the interior of the earth, its hidden lakes, its rivers of fire, and its strange inhabitants. Major topics include gravity, the moon, the sun, eclipses, ocean currents, subterranean waters and fires, meteorology, rivers and lakes, hydraulics, minerals and fossils, subterranean giants, beasts and demons, poisons, metallurgy and mining, alchemy, the universal seed and generation of insects, herbs, astrological medicine, distillation, and fireworks, In this work he discloses his experience with palingenesis...Much of the work deals with alchemy....”[Merrill].

This is the last revision of the work with new illustrations and is considered the most complete version.

STCN 167802. Dünnhaupt 1006:16b. Bruning 2389. Adelung III,379. Brunet III,667.

Caillet 5783. Casanatense 687. Duveen 322. Ferguson I,467. Ferchl 272. Graesse IV,21. Graesse, Magica, 49. Hoover 483 (1st). Koch 254. Merrill/BYU 17 Sabin 37967.

Sinkankas 3421.Sommervogel IV,1060. Wellcome III,395 $11000 162. Kircher, Athanasius.

Musurgia Universalis Sive Ars Magna Consoni Et Dissoni...Tomus I. Rome: Heirs of Francisci Corbeletti & Ludovico Grignati, 1650. Folio. 2 vols. †4, 2†6, A-4R4, 4S2; A-3M4,3N6 [3N6 blank, present], [2]3N-3O4.

[20],690; [2],462, [36 both indicies bound at end]p.

First Edition.

Modern full calf, banded, title gilt on spine, volume 2 is slightly larger; volume one has lower margin dampstains throughout with some old mold marks, last leaves (4R2-4S2) slightly defective (repaired with archival tissue) with some text loss to last leaf; volume 2 is quite fine, one plate has an archivally repaired tear, a few plates are browned (as usual). Plates (Iconismus) Volume one:1-10 (#s4 & 5 are on one plate) & 13 (engraved table); Volume two: Iconismus11 & 12 are the frontis. to the second volume (present), 14-23. [four are folding]Numerous text cuts (some full-page).Lacks port. and frontispiece to the first volume.

“Musugia universalis is one of Kircher’s most important, enduring, and informative works. Kircher attempted to compile in this book all the musical knowledge available in his day, making it the first exhaustive encyclopedia of music. For musicologists it has long been an invaluable source of information on baroque concepts of style and composition. Kircher wrote Musurgia at the time of the great transition when the old Renaissance polyphony, still in use in the Church, was giving way to the new baroque style in secular music, most notably in opera.

Kircher reveals an outstanding knowledge and understanding of contemporary music and of this transition. Indeed, he gives the earliest account of the ‘doctrine of the affections,’ the baroque idea that music should imitate emotions. Kircher reproduces many complete musical pieces of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to illustrate various styles—he even includes a three-part fantasy of his own—and musicologists have Kircher to thank for preserving many instruental pieces of Frescobaldi, Froberger, and other early baroque composers....The Musurgia is also interesting for the history of instrument-making. Many of the plates are of ancient and contemporary instruments...Kircher also discusses many of his own inventions, like the talking statue, the meaphone, and numerous mechanical music-makers...Kircher’s Musurgia gained immediate and lasting popularity...The Musurgia remained the standard exhaustive encyclopedia of music into the eighteenth century. “ [Merrill] Dunnhaupt 2332:8. Merrill/ BYU 8. De Backer/Sommervogel IV,1051. RISM B VI 449. Caillet 5785. Brunet III,668. Clendening 6.5. Graesse IV,21. Ebert 11409. Gregory/Bartlett 135. MGG VII, 938. Wolffheim I, 732. Eitner V, 369. $5500

163. [Kircher, Athanasius]; & Giorgio de Sepi .

Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum Celeberrimum, Cujus

magnum Antiquariae rei, statuarum, imaginum, picturarumque partem...

Amsterdam: Johannes & Gilles Jannsonius van Waesberge, 1678.

Folio. *4, A-I4. [10],66, [6]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum biding, spine nicely repaired, old owner’s catholic library stamp on engraved t.p. with two removed stamps at bottom; a few of the plates have been carefully cleaned and with expert fold-tear repairs,minor foxing and paper toning, a fine copy.

Engraved extra-t.p., port. of Kircher, 17 engraved plates [8 folding], text engravings.

“The imaginary portrayal of the Collegio Romano museum (our frontispiece) reflected Kircher’s desire to make his museum, as the frontispece suggests, a ‘theater of nature and art. Combining nature and art, both defined in a broas

sense, was a central goal of the early modern cabinet of curiosities. Kircher did this in ways that the description of his museum, more than its depiction, captures in its totality... De Sepibus’s catalog, which appeared only two years before Kircher’s death, described the museum when it was already in its twilight years. It selected images from his numerous other publications to create a catalog of a museum Kircher had been describing for decades in his learned treatises.” [Paul Finden, Science, History, And Erudition: Athenasius Kircher’s Museum At The Collegio Romano, in The Great Art Of Knowing: The Baroque Encyclopedia Of Athanasius Kircher... Stanford U.P.,2001.]

“The plates, and indeed the whole production is an impressive work, and gives an excellent idea of what the museum was like in the latter years of Kircher’s life. De Sepibus was well axquainted with all the exhibits and had helped to prepare and position many of them... Besides the objects... the museum contained, De Sepibus tells us, a complete set of Kircher’s publications to date as well as a great collection of his correspondence.” [ P. Connor Reilly, Athanasius Kircher, S.J., Edizioni Del Mondo,1974.]

STCN 167802. Dunnhaupt 2347,31. Caillet 5784. De Backer/Sommervogel IV, 1076.

Wellcome III,396. Cicognara 3399. Rossetti 5891. $9750

164. Kirchmann, Johann & Nicolai Rigalti.

De Funeribus Romanorum Libri Quator...Accessit Et Funus Parasiticum Nicolai Rigaltii. [with] Kirchmann. In Funere V. Cl. Pauli G.F.P.N. Mervlae Historiarum Professoris In Academia Batavorum...Oratio.

Amsterdam: Cornelius, Jacobus & Petrus Hackius. 1672. 12mo. 2 works in

one volume. [46],641,[17],[28],[2 blank],24.[8],64p.

First Hooghe Illustrated Edition.

Contemp. vellum,yapp fore-edge, title in old hand on spine,Lacks f.f.e.p.,light inner margin dampstain towards end, pice out of blank margin of one plate.

Engraved extra-t.p. & four finely engraved plates (folding) by Romeyn De Hooghe.

Kirchmann (1575-1643) born at Lubeck, studied in Jena and Strassburg.

He worked as a traveling tudor but settling finally in Rostock were he gained fame as a professor of poetry. He first published this work in 1604 and with a work on “De Annulis” he won much acclaim. In 1613 he became rector of Lubeck’s college.

He published treatises on logic and rhetoric, funeral orations (such as that here), and a horoscope for Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Mecklenberg.

Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) Dutch engraver, one of the greatest book artists of his period.

STCN 167212. Borroni 13445:4. Landwehr, Hooghe,20. Hollstein IX 649-651(incorr.) $400 165. [Sammelband] Kirchmann, Johann, Jacob Herrenschmidt, & Johann Seyffert. Johann Kirchmann & Nicolas Rigaltio..

De Funeralibus Romanum...Accessit & Funus Parasiticum Nicolai Rigaltii.

Lubeck: Samuel Jauch, 1625. [40],737,[34];31p. [bound with]

Jacob Herrenschmidt. Romanensium Dalia sceletolatrica phaleris suis ascititiis denudata. hoc est, Dissertatio Brevis ac scholastica convellens prodigiosas Romanensium absurditates in Reliquiarum cultu, Oppoista Jesuitis... Wittenberg: Laurent Seuberlichs for Paul Helwig, 1609. [16],96p. [bound with] Jacob Herrenschmidt [aka.Nicolas Fabri.] Papa Mulier sive Vera Et Infallibilis Narratio De Papa Ioanne VIII. foemina, in qua De Coelibatu Sacerdotum contra Franciscum Costerum...Wittenberg:Laurent Seuberlichs for Paul Helwig, 1619. [6],70p. [bound with] Johann Seyffert (aka Philander Philanax). De Natura Fine Medis Jesuitarum. In gratiam simplicorum Mortalium quotquot hucusque Politicos istos callidissimos, Atheos, Magos, Veneficios, Regicidas...N.P.[Bremen?]: N.p., 1619.

72pp.(last gathering misbound).

8vo. 4 works in 1vol.

Contemp. blind-tooled vellum over wood board, title on spine in ms., tear in upper part of rear hinge, piece lacking from rear cover, edgess blued, inner front hinge opened, text browning, pieces torn from margins of Rr8, Zz3, Zz 5 & 6 (all in Kirchmann’s work, with some text losses), a few marginal notes,piece cut from first t.p. (removing old owner’s name?) Printer’s devices, tail-pieces.

Herrenschmidt (1578-1641) Lutheran author and sub-deacon of Oetingen wrote this anti-Jesuit work with a preface by Leonard Hutter. The second work is on the apocryphal Pope Joan in response to a work by Jesuit author FranciscusCoster.

Seyffert (fl 1641-1669) miscellaneous writer and printer (1st pub. in 1611).

Kirchmann: Brunet VI,29176.Borroni 13445. Herrenschmidt see Jocher II,1556. [Herrenschmidt]: Backer/Sommervogel II,1534. BL 17th German H949. Seyffert: OCLC: 31598635. BL 17th German S2003. $600

166. Knittel, Caspar.

Via Regia Ad Omnes Scientias Et Artes. Hoc est: Ars Universalis Scien-

tiarum omnium Artiumque Arcana facilius penetrandi... Et cum adjunctis thesibus philosophicis curiosis propugnata... a J. F. Morak.

Nuremberg: Johann Zieger, 1691. 12mo. )(12,*4,)()(6,A-N12,O11 [lacks O12 blank). [34].286,[48]pp Second edition.

Contemp. calf, blind rules on covers, small piece lacking from head of spine, small wormhole in spine, marginal dampstain, fold tear in large folding plate, owner’s name on verso of printed title.Allegorical frontis., engraved allegorical extra t.p. (possibly by G. Groar after F. Necker as in the first edition),2 folding tables.

Knittel (1644-1702), Jesuit, born at Glatz, chaplain to the ambassdor to Holland, and procureur of the province of Vienna.Later he taught at the University of Prague.

Knittel begins his work by asking if there can an be a single universal language for science and art. The combinatory art he projects is based on analogy and the kabbalah whose souces are found, by our author, in Lull and Kircher. He gives

tables of these combinations and demonstrates their use in theology, law, chemistry, philosophy, mathematics, rhetoric and poetics. This volume also contains, with a separate title: “Mantissa Thesium Curiosarum hilosophicarum Pro Suprema Philosophiae Laurea propugnatarum.” In this small work in 33 thesis he discusses illicit magic and science, and discusses such figures as Agrippa, Kircher, Del Rio, etc.

This is a rare book and lacking from many of the standard reference books.

See:K. Hubka, “The Late Seventeenth-Century Lullism in Caspar Knittel’s” Via Regia, in Collectanea Franciscana 51 (1981), 65-82.

VD17 12:135053W. Backer/Sommervogel IV,1133:2. Scholem, Bib. Kabbalistica 667.

Young, Memory,187. Rogent-Duran 278. OCLC: 15214964 (1 copy) Daly, Emblematum, J827. Jocher III,561,2. Not in Rosenthal, Esoterica, Caillet, Graesse/Magica, Thorndike, Casanatense, Galland, BL 17th German. $1500

167. Knorr Von Rosenroth, Baron Christian.

Kabbala Denudata, Seu Doctrina Hebraeorum transcendentalis Et Metaphysica Atque Theologica Opus.

Sulzbach and Frankfurt: Abraham Lechtenthaler & Balthasar Christoph Wust for Johannes David Zunner, 1677-84.4to. 3vols.

[34],740.312,[8],255.[1]; [2],38,[2],598,[2 blank];478p.

First Edition of the First Latin Translation of the Kabbala.

First 2 vols in contemp.mottled sheep, banded,gilt spines, edges speckled in red and blue, marbled paper paste-downs,edge foxing and typical occ. browning, marginal worming at head on leaves M1-N1 in second volume, clean tear on )(1; the 3rd vol. is in modern cloth with old leather label laid-on, old owner’s stamp on verso of t.p.and on folding plate a few edge lines in red, paper in good condition with no bowning. This copy lacks, like most, the added seventy page “Adumbratio” which was issued with its own title-page as a supplement and is a summary of Christian Kabbalah by Van Helmont.

Frontispiece to volume 1 by J.C.S. (Johann Christoph Sartorius?, 16 folding plates; Magic table bound before title in volume 3, folding plate at 242.

Knorr Von Rosenroth (1636-89) met Helmont in Holland and Henry More in England and “Under their influence be began to find, through the study of natural science, mysticism, and cabala vitalistic explanations for the most obscure phenomena of nature...Leibnitz considered van Helmont’s influence on Knorr so profound that he thought van Helmont was joint author of Kabbala Denudata...”

[Faber Du Faur I,333.]

“In his lifetime Knorr was reputed to be the most profound Christian scholar of Kabbalah. His studies were summarized in the two bulky volumes of his main work Kabbala Denudata...This work, which had a widespread influence, was superior to anything that had been published on Kabbalah in a language other than Hebrew. It gave non-Jewish readers a broad view of the first sources to be translated into Latin, and these were accompanied by explanatory notes. Here too, appeared long disquisitions by More and Van Helmont on kabbalsitic subjects (some of them anonymously), with Knorr’s replies to them...His book...served as

the principle source for all non-Jewish literature on the Kabbalah until the end of the nineteenth century...” [Encyclopedia Judaica 10,1117-8.]

VD17 3:008491E. Dunnhaupt 2378:13. Scholem, Kabbalistica, 668. Casanatense 701.

Guita 432 “Ouvrage rarissime.” Fürst III,370. Herlitz-K. III,742. Rosenthal, Magica, 3797. Dorbon, Esoterica, 2395. Faber Du Faur 1312. Du Prel 1740. Caillet 5815 “Extrémement rare et recherchée.” Seebass III,578. $10000

168. Knorr Von Roseroth, Baron Christian.

Kabbala Denudata...

Sulzbach: Abraham Lichtenthaler, 1677.4to. Volume 1 only. [xxxvi], 740, 312p.

First Latin edition.

Contemp 1/2 vellum over mottled paper boards,title gilt,stamp of “Bibliotheca Univ. Heidelbergensis” on verso of t.p., very minor foxing, an usually clean crisp copy with minimal foxing.

Engraved frontispiece by J.C.S. (Johann Christoph Sartorius?.

Volume one, parts one & two only of this scarce and important Christian Kabbalistic work. The Kabbalah Denudata is a translation of the Zohar “The Book of Splendor” with parts of the Hebrew text and commentary. This volume contains two parts: 1. Loci Communes Kabalistici.

2.Aparatus In Librum Sohar Pars Secunda Cujus Contenta Exhibet Versa Pagina (in 11 sections several by Henry More).

VD17 3:008491E. Dunnhaupt 2378:13. Scholem, Kabbalistica, 668. Casanatense 701.

Guita 432 “Ouvrage rarissime.” Fürst III,130. Herlitz-K. III,742. Rosenthal, Magica, 3797. Dorbon, Esoterica, 2395. Faber Du Faur 1312. Du Prel 1740. Caillet 5815 “Extrémement rare et recherchée.” $2750

169. Kornman[n], Heinrich.

De Miraculis Mortuorum, Opus Novum Et Admirandum in decem

partes distributum: In quo mirabilia Dei miracula & exempla mortuorum...quaestiones naturales, Physicae, Medicae, Theologicae & Iuridicae...

[Frankfurt:] Johann Wolf for Johann Jacob Porsius, 1610. 8vo. A-Y8.

First Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum,soiled, with ms. title on spine,old shelf label & owner’s label, f.f.e.p. restored, t.p. repaired at outer margin (no text loss) old owner’s name on t.p. (incl. Ex dono Geo.Keith; marginal worming (heavier F1-4), some marginal soiling.

Head-piece, decorated initial.

Kornmann (d.1620) German lawyer and author. After studying the law he traveled to France and Italy. He returned to Germany and settled in Frankfurt where he published works on miracles of the elements, miracles of the dead, miracles of the living, and on virginity “which resemble one another in several ways and especially in their emphasis upon natural marvels and their inclusion of superstition and magic....Magical bits from the Miracles of the Dead are that the owl is a fatal omen and the peacock a presage of disease, that suffumigation with the

tooth of a dead man expels witchcraft and impotency, that the herb betony protects cemeteries, and that if a mother kisses her dead child, the other children will soon die too...The size and weight of resurrected bodies is discussed, how men who have been eaten and the cannibals who ate them can both be resurrected in the body, whether abortions will rise again, and whether monsters will be resurrected...”

[Thorndike VII, 278-80.]

VD17 23:254715C. Krivatsy/NLM 6485. Osler 3134. Wellcome 3850. Caillet 5827 “Curieux et recherche.” BL 17th German, K682 $850

170. Kornman[n], Heinrich.

Tractatus Tertius continent Templum Naturae Historicum...ex Kir-

chaya Chattorum; In Quo, De natura Et Miraculis Quatuor Elementorum; Ignis, Aeris, Aquae Terrae...

[Frankfurt am Main:] [Officina Genschiana,] [1694?] 8vo.A-2D8. 432pp.

Disbound,loose in old wrappers, uncut and unopened, last leaf with small tear in inner margin (a bit has adhered to rear wrapper, a few lines affected), paper age darkened.

Kornmann (d.1620) German lawyer and author. After studying the law he traveled to France and Italy. He returned to Germany and settled in Frankfurt where he published works on miracles of the elements, miracles of the dead, miracles of the living, and on virginity “which resemble one another in several ways and especially in their emphasis upon natural marvels and their inclusion of superstition and magic...The work on the miracles of the four elements has the alternative title, Historical Temple of Nature, an is largely drawn from antiquated authors...A type of divination is also listed for each element. but in the case of earth there are eleven others besides geomancy. Besides miracles of each element, there are alphabetical treatments of birds, quadrupeds, mountains, bodies of water, forests, gardens, trees, herbs, flowers, fruits, cities, temples, towers, bridges, and so on, passing from the realm of nature to that of art...” [Thorndike, VII,280ff.]

This is one volume of the collected works published in 1694 and reprinted in 1696, although this appears to match the photo supplied with the VD 17 entry on line.

VD 17 39:139563X. Caillet 5830. Guaita 1502. Ferchl 283 (1696 ed.) Rosenthal, Magica, 8703. Graesse, Magica, 82. $400

171. Krauss, Johann Ulrich.

Biblisches Engel- u. KunstWerck; alles das jenige, Was in Heiliger

Göttlicher Schrifft Altes und Neuen Testaments Von den Heiligen Engeln Gottes Dero Erscheinungen Verrichtungen Bottschaffte u Gesandschaffte[n], Auf mancherley Art und Weise auss Göttlicher Verordnung Zu finden ist Also, dass auch, was von dess Engels dess Bundes und Grossen Raths Jesu Christi dess Sohns Gottes unsers Herrn und Heylands, in Englischer Gestalt und Erscheinung, Thaten Worten und Wercken gemeldet wird, So dann, was die erschaffene Ertzengel u. Engel in dem Geist-Weltliche[n] und Hauss Stans, Zu Unterweisung, Leitung u Beschirmung, im Lebe[n]- Leide[n] und Sterbe[n] der Gottselige[n], wider Gottes u ihre

Feinde, die böse Geister, und böse Menschen gutes erwisen. In Zierlichen Kupffern, mit beygefügten Teutschen Erklärungs und Andachts-Reimen vorstellend...

Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Krauss, 1694. Folio. A2,)(-2)(2.A-C2, [12],[12]p First Edition.

19th c. Cloth, spine ends rubbed, front hinge slightly torn; first three leaves remargined in inner margin with a stain caused by the glues used; marginal repair on plate 6,repair on verso of plate 24, margin repair on plate 37; occ. stains and soiling.

Engraved frontis.; engraved t.p.; engraved dedication leaf; engraved port. of Leopold The Great, Emperor of Hungary, Bohemia & Austria; large engraved text head-piece vignette and initial letter, & 30 full-page engraved plates.

Krauss,1655-1719,designer and engraver was born and died in Augsburg.

He was a pupil of Melchior Kusel. He is most famous for his baroque engravings of religious and biblical subjects though he also engraved many landscapes and perspective views. His famous work on angels was later incorporated into his larger, and even more renowned, collection of illustrations of the books of the Bible {Historischer Bilder Bible.]

VD17 12:647829P. BL (German) K748. Berlin Cat. 4295. Augsburger Barock 596. Praz 389. Landwehr 391.Brunet III, 697. Ebert I, 11544. Graesse IV, 48. $1000

172. Kuiper, Gijsbert. [Gisbertus Cuperus.] & Stephen Le Moyne.

Harpocrates, Sive Explicatio imagunculae argenteae perantiquae; quae

in figuram Harpocrates formata representat Solem. Eiusdem Monumenta Antiqua Inedita...Accedit Stephani Le Moine Epistola de Melanophoris.

Utrecht: Franciscus Halma,1687.4to. *4,A-2P4,2Q2.[8],294,[14]p.

Second, expanded edition.

Contemp. mottled calf, spine gilt, hinges just cracked, corners rubbed, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Henry Polissack, light stians, wide margins.

Engraved extra-t.p., 41text engravings, lacks the added 6 plates described in Sinkankas.

“An involved, exhaustive treatise on the diety Harpocrates, originally the Egyptian Heru-p-Khrat or ‘Horus the Child,’ usually depicted as a young boy, symbolizing the young Sun, and holding one finger to his lips as if to enjoin silence. The cult worshipping this diety flourished during the late Roman empire....the second edition is preferred to the first (1676)” [Sinkankas] Sinkankas 1517. Goodland 147. Lipsius 93. Cicognara 3212. $350

173. La Bellière, Claude De, Sieur de la Nolle.

La Physionomie Raisonnée ou Secret Curieux pour connoitre las in-

clinations de chacun par les regles naturelle.

Paris: Edmé Couterot, 1664. 12mo. a12, A-M12 [M12 blank, present] [24],235,[53]pp. First Edition.

Contemp calf, gilt spine (mostly worn off), worn at spine ends, short tear in front hinge; smae piece cut out of f.f,e.p. ; old owners signature scored out on

t.p.,very good copy.

“The popularity of physiognomy is to be accounted for by the fact that, while other forms of divination, including for many even judicial astrology, were condemned as superstitious, it was regarded as having a natural basis,’(Thorndike VIII ,p449) La Bellière’s treatise on the subject was published in both French and Italian editions in 1664, with a Latin edition, translated by the author, appearing in 1666.” [Norman Cat.] There are two variants of the printer’s device on the t.p. This one has Couterot printer’s mark with a figure of Jesus with a lamb on his shoulders and the last line of the author’s credentials is “& Aumonier du Roy”.

Caillet 5874 “curieux et rare.” Norman 1246. Thorndike VIII;449,467-8. Gerlach La Belliere 1664. Laehr I,697. Courtine 1992:60,3. Magli 255:19. Campe 617. $600

174. La Bellière, Claude De, Sieur de la Nolle.

[La Physionomie Raisonnée ou Secret Curieux...]

[Paris:] [Edmé Couterot,] [1664.] 12mo. a2-12 [lacks a1 t.p. replaced in 19th c.

ms], A-M12 [M12 blank, present]. [24],235,[53]pp. First Edition.

Contemp. vellum,old owner’s names on f.f.e.p. dated 1667.

175. La Bellière, Claude De, Sieur de la Nolle.

La Physionomie Raisonnée.ou Secret Curieux...

$375

Paris: Edmé Couterot, 1664. 12mo. First Edition.

Contemp. calf, spine partly restored, edges speckled red.

There are two variants of the printer’s device on the t.p. This version has a floral device and the last line of the author’s credentials is just “du Roy”. $600

176. Lana Terzi, Francesco.

Magisterium Naturae, Et Artis. Opus Physico-Mathematicum... In

Quo Occultiora Naturalis Philosophiae Principia Manifestantur, Et Multiplici Tum Experimentorum, Tum Demonstationum Serie Comprobantur...

Brescia (vols. 1 & 2) & Parma (vol. 3): Giovanni Maria Ricciardi (vols. 1 & 2) & Ippolito Rosati (vol. 3), 1684-1692.Folio. 365 x 237mm. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: π4 a4 A-3V4 ; Vol. 2: π4 a-b2 c-d4 e2(-e2) A-3T4 3V6(-3V6); Vol. 3: π2 A-2F4 2G2 2H-2Q4 2R2 2S-4C4 4D2 a-c4. In volume 1, G1 & G4, quires Kk & Xx are excised with stubs left in place; also lacks final blanks in vols. 1 & 2; lacks e2 in volume 2 (blank?). [16],48,51-54,57-256,265-344,353-494, [error in pagination] 497-526; [34], 512, [18]; [8],23.[1],571,[1]pp First Edition.

Contemp. gilt calf, spines gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-pieces, red speckled edges, turn-ins are coming loose, lower compartment of volume 1 damaged; bookplates and embossed stamps of the Macclesfield Library [see below]; tear in left column of opening quires with a small hole in A2 caused by adherance to following leaf of volume 1 with a loss of a few letters; old repair on A4r obsuring a few letters; pencil notes designating plate references pp 88-106; a few other minor flaws but the paper is remarkably clean and crisp with good margins

throughout.

57 full-page plates: Vol 1:24. Vol 2: 20.Vol 3: 13. Decorated tail-pieces, & initials “Francesco Lana, born 10 Dec., 1631, at Brescia in Italy; died in the same place, 22 Feb., 1687. Mathematician and naturalist, he was also the scientific founder of aeronautics. He belonged to the ancient family of the Counts of Lana-Terzi, which had come to Brescia as early as the fourteenth century from the neighbourhood of Bergamo. Trained by able teachers in his native city, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Rome on 11 Nov., 1647, and made his philosophical and theological studies in the Roman College of the Society. He later taught the humanities for a short time at Terni, where the town council through gratitude to him and his family granted him the freedom of the city. After this he was mainly engaged as professor of physical science and mathematics, principally at Ferrara, until delicate health necessitated his return to his native Brescia. He there performed the duties of confessor, and was engaged at the same time on the publication of his great work on physical science, “Magisterium naturæ et artis”. Eliminating everything that was uncertain, this work was to treat in nine volumes the entire field of the natural sciences on strictly geometrical principles and on the basis of carefully made experiments. Unfortunately Lana himself could publish but two of these volumes (1684, 1686), but a third appeared at Parma after his death. The work found favourable notice in the learned publications of the time, though Lana’s principal achievement lay in another direction. “ [Catholic Encyclopedia] “The long Latin title emphasizes the more occult principles of natural philosophy, experimentation and demonstration.... The second and third volumes in twenty-five books discuss as many varieties of motions of natural bodies, manifest and occult... In each of these books there are normally three chapters: the first devoted to observations and experiments; the second, to Doctrina in the form of propositions, in order to give the impression that mathematical as well as experimental method is being employed; the third consisting of inventions and artificia...It is with the artificia that we are here concerned as mild specimens of artificial magic.” [Thorndike] The famous scientific library of the Earls of Macclesfield formed on the collections of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). Jones arefully read his books and often annotated and ‘metamorphosed” them. Why he excised these leaves we cannot tell but it is worth further investigation. Riccardi II,13 “questa importantissima opera, che può considerarsi come una estesa enciclopedia fisico-meccanica.” . Caillet 6093. Wheeler Gift 197. $4750

177. Lancre, Pierre de Rosteguy, Sieur de.

L’Incredulite’ Et Mescreance Du Sortilege Plainement Convaincue.

Ou Il Est Amplement Et Curieusement traicte, de la verite ou Illusion du Sortilege, de la Fascination,de l’Attouchement, du Scopelisme, de la Divination, de la Ligature ou Laison Magique, des Apparitions: Et d’une infinite d’autres rares & nouveaux subjects.

Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1622. 4to. a. e, i, o, u4,*4, 2*2, A-4Z4, 5A8, 5C4. [skip 5B

in collation]. 841,[10]p. [673-762 & 826-7 skipped in pagination] First Edition.

Contemp. vellum, lacks ties, short tears in spine, yapp fore-edge, large engraved bookplate by Giovanni Battista Lapi (d 1772)with classical themes (satyrs, musicians, dancers, etc) incorporating royal arms, bookplate of Daniel Ruzo (19001991) Peruvian archaeologist and Nostradamus authority; inner hinge opened, some staining, some (mostly light) browning, foxing. last leaf of index worn and laid-down (some text affected), small tears in penultimate leaf (minor losses).

Printer’s device on t.p., engraved portrait of Louis XIII. head-pieces, decorated initials.

Pierre de Lancre (1553-1631) was the French judge of Bordeaux who conducted a massive witch-hunt in Labourd in 1609. In 1622, he published a second book: L’incredulité et mescreance du sortilège, that is an extension of his first one.

Thanks to these books we know something of what happened in the process that de Lancre directed against the people of Labourd, because the judicial records vanished during the French Revolution.

P.G. Maxwell-Stuart, Witch Hunters writes on De Lancre in his “Witch Hunters” that:“...L’incredulité et mescreance du sortilège plainement convaicue (1622), produced twelve years after his long personal engagement with witches and witchcraft, spends an impressive amount of learning upon showing that magic of any kind is not an illusion and should not be dismissed by those who are pleased to think otherwise. This work aroused the ire of Gabriel Naudé, at one time physician to Louis XIII and later librarian to Cardinal Barberini, who in 1625 published a fierce response, Apologie pour tous les grands personages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnés de magie, to which De Lancre, duly irritated, replied two years later with his final work, Du sortilège. (p. 38)” The Labourd witch-hunt of 1609. The process began with a dispute between the Lord of Urtubi and some people that had accused him and his men to be witches. This dispute evolved in sporadic fight and soon the authorities of Donibane-Lohitzune asked for the intervention of the Judge of Bourdeaux, who happened to be de Lancre.

Soon he put all Labourd upside down and in less than a year some 70 people were burnt at the stake, among them several priests. De Lancre wasn’t satisfied: he estimated that some 3,000 witches were still at large (10% of the population of Labourd in that time). But the Parlement of Bordeaux eventually dismissed him from office.” [Wikipedia] Cumont L13,12. Caillet 6063. Wellcome 3646B. Brunet III,810. Graesse IV, 94. Guaita 459. Yves-Pleassis 1009. Robbins 586. $3000

178. Le Loyer, Pierre, sieur de La Brosse.

Discours des Spectres, ou Visions et Apparitions d’Esprits, comme

anges, demons et ames, se monstrans visibles aux hommes, ou sont rapportez les arguments et raisons de ceux qui reuocquent en doute ce qui se dit sur ce subjet, et autres qui en approchent en doute ce qui se dit sur ce subjet , et autres qui en approchent comme le voix, et sons prodigieux, Signes, Ectases et songes admirables et encores les Histoires des Apparitions, et semblabes prodiges advenus en chasque

siecle, prinses des meilleurs autheurs; et puis finalment les moyens de discerner les bons et mauvais Espirits, ensemble les remedes et exorcismes pour chasser et conjurer les Demons. Le tovt en huict livres.

Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1608. 4to. a,e,2e4, A-6M4,6N2,6O2. Lacks 4A2 [see below]. [24],979,[44]pp. Lacks pp 555/6- cancelled? Second revised and corrected edition . [Third overall] 19th c.morocco, gilt rules on covers, gilt spine, rebacked with old spine laid-on; edges speckled red, decorated endpapers, f.f.e.p. laid-down with inscription “Hunc Librum dedit Author Eius D. Petro Bohir nopoti etia Ex soror. Annon 1609;” [This copy was given to his nephew by his sister.] at the foot of the t.p. is the inscription “Ex Dono Auctoris,” the top of the t.p. is excised and replaced, old inscription about the book on t.p., repaired tears in t.p., Kkk1, Tt1, small hole in Ff2 (minor loss), some authorial? annotations and ink cancels (see end of p. 555), minor stains, light paper toning,. T.p. in red and black, printer’s device on t.p., head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials. Some Greek and Hebrew letters. PRESENTATION COPY from the author of this famous work on witchcraft, apparitions, demons, sorcery, etc.

“The problem of the appearance or materialization of spiritual beings was further reviewed in 1586 by Pierre Le Loyer (1550-1634)...Le Loyer was a Roman Catholic and a lawyer at Angers who passed as one of the most learned Frenchmen of his time and was something of a poet...In his work on specters he displays a wide range of reading, including such medieval authors as the pseudo Raymond Lull, John of Rupescissa and Johann Nider or such sixteenth century writers as Pomponazzi, Cardan, Levinus Lemnius and Sprenger’s Malleus Maleficarum.”

Thorndike VI, 531-533 (see for a full examination of Le Loyer’s text.)

This copy lacks the last page of the text of the section on “Ce que les Barbares & Indiens ont creu, & croyent des ames apres la mort du corps.” As this copy cancels the line before this leaf it seems possible and even likely that the offending leaf was intentionally removed.

Caillet 6457. Esoterica 2590. Goldsmith/ BM 17th French L797.Graesse, Magica, 82.

Yves-Plessis 391. Cornell, Witchcraft, 344. OCLC: 13119280. Robbins 623 (1605).

Coumont L50.3. Not in Krivatsy, Wellcome, Newberry, Casanatense. $2750

179. Le Pot [Lepot, De Pot], Laurent, [Histoire Veritable Arivee De Notre Tems en la ville de Beauvais,

touchant les conjurations et exorcisms fait a Denise de la Caille, possedee du diable. Avec les actes et proces-verbaux faits sur les lieux par le commandement de M. l’eveque du dit Beauvais.]

Paris: Pierre Baillaine, 1623. 8vo. ¶4 [¶1,t.p. in ms of the 18th c.], A-P8,Q6.

[6 of 8],252p.

First Edition.

18th c. mottled French calf, spine banded, gilt, title on red morocco label, paper label in top compartment; edges specked, marbled endpapers, old dealer’s description on front endpaper from Ludwig Rosenthal with second desriptive note on rear endpaper; t.p. in ms. facsimile, minor foxing, very good copy.

Laurent Le Pot [Lepot] “pere Religieux, Prestre dudit Convent, natif dudit

Beauvais, homme de bonne vie, & de bonne reputatio, lequel benignement & charitablement auroit entrepris de metre peine...” conducted the exorcism of Denyse de La Caille, de la Landelle with the assistance of Germain Carre, Licentier es loix, Archdiacre & Chanine de Beauvais; Leonor le Boucher, Licentier es driits, Chantre & Official de Beauvais; & Claude Dadu,Licentier es loix, Chanoine de ladite Eglise de Beauvais, Vicaires reneraux de Monseigneur l’Euesque & Comte de Beauvais... beginning in August 1612 and ending in December.

The demon Briffault had entered Denyse’s body and was forced to leave it by the exorcists having to sign, with his claws, the sentence of the exorcists.

This volume gives a day by day account of the exorcism.

[See: Collin De Plancy, Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863 p396. who reprints sentence which was signed by Beelzebut, Satan, Motelu, & Briffault which appears at the end of our text.] This is a rare text.

Coumont H64.1. Yves-Plessis 649. Caillet 6559. $1500

180. Lead[e], Jane.

Ein Garten-Brunn Gewassert durch die Strohme der gottlichen Lust-

barkeit und hervorgrünend in mannichfaltigen Unterschiede geistlicher Pflantzen : die durch reinen Anhauch zu einem Paradiese Aufgeblasen und nunmehro ihren anmuthig süssen Geschmack und starcken Geruch zur Seelen-Erquickung von sich geben. oder Ein rechtes Diarium und ausführlich Tag-Verzeichnus alles desjenigen was sich mit dieser theuren Autorin ... vom Jahre 1670 her zugetragen... [Volumes 1 & 2] [bound with:] Ursachen und Grunde Welche hauptsachlich Anlass gegeben Die Philadelphische Societät aufzurichten und zu befördern : Nunmehro Auß dem Englischen ubergesetzt und zum Drucke befördert; So wol auch Aus denenselben ausgezogene und in Heiliger Schrifft gegründete Propositiones. Und denn endlich Der zustand und Beschaffenheit dieser Societat: oder Die Gründe worauf sie stehet pro und contra genauer und zu Abwendung aller Missverständnussen offentlich an Tag gegeben Amsterdam:Henrich Wetsein, 1697-[1698]. 8vo. 3 works in 1 vol. π1 A-Z8 2A6 2B8 2C4; A-2D8 2E4 2F-2G8; A-D8.

[2],382,[22]; 440,[32];64p.

Contemp. vellum, stained, covers loose, bookplate and stamp of “Bibl.

Prov, Germ. Inf, C. SS. R.” first & last leaves, some 19th c. pencil notes, verso of last leaf darkened.

Lead [née Ward], Jane (1624-1704), mystic and author.

“Lead had made a spiritual pact to live as ‘fellow labourers’ in the ‘Paradisical Husbandry’ with John Pordage, sometime rector of Bradfield, and a leading exponent of the theosophy of the German mystic Jakob Boehme...Lead met Pordage in 1663, but it was not until 1674 or 1675 that she and Pordage joined together in the same household as co-seekers after Divine Wisdom, a figure that looms large in the sapiential books of the Bible as well as in Boehme’s writings...Although her first two books had been largely ignored in England, Lead was beginning to attract a devoted following on the continent. A German benefactor named Baron Kniphausen commissioned Loth Fischer of Utrecht to translate Lead’s manuscripts; accordingly, by 1696, six of her tracts and an autobiography appeared in German editions.

Kniphausen also granted Lead a pension and set her up in a house in Hoxton (Hogsdon) Square, probably in 1695, so that she could carry out her work more conveniently... This spiritual household became the nerve centre of the international theosophical movement known as the Philadelphian Society, an ecumenical and millenarian movement whose main aim was to work together to build a culture of peace, receptive to the coming of Virgin Wisdom.

All of Jane Lead’s writings bear testimony to the imminent entry into history of an androgyne God, so full of sympathy and love for creation that the groans of the fallen earth can no longer be ignored. At the same time Lead offers her readers a method, authenticated by her own long course of trials, for reclaiming the imagination as the one faculty capable of overcoming the narrow and materialistic perspective of reason and achieving visionary access to true nature. The most influential of Lead’s books is her three-volume spiritual diary, Fountain of Gardens, which presents the daily prophecies given to Lead, along with their interpretations, for the period April 1670 to August 1686. Even with its missing entries the printed diary is some 2500 pages long; it was published in four stages: volume one in 1697; volume two later the same year; volume three, part one, in 1700; and volume three, part two in 1701....” [Oxford DNB] VD17 3:302203F; VD17 3:302206D; & VD17 3:603941R. Ackermann III,273. Bruckner 518. STCN 169708 (vols. 1 & 2)& 169808. $1000

181. LeBrun, Pierre, Abbe.

Lettres Qui Decouvrent L’Illusion Des Philosophes Sur La Baguette, Et Qui Detrruisent Leurs Systemes.

Paris: Jean Boudot, 1696. 12mo. *12,2*2,A-K12,L8. [28],255,[1]pp.

Modern marbled paper-covered boards, title in ms. on paper label, bookplate of R. Rickaert; .p. repaired with piece in margin excised and replaced, some stains, some pages coming loose, generally very clean.T.p. in red and black, 2 ullpage engravings.

Pierre Lebrun (1661-1729) French priest of the oratory “who made considerable approaches to liberality and good sense in his writings...became celebrated for his knowledge of ecclesiastical history and antiquities; on which subjects he lectured in the seminary of St. Magloire, at Paris, for thirteen years. His first publication appears to have been against the illusion of the divining rod...”

[Chalmers] Caillet 6323 “En somme tres interessant ouvrage” Ellis, The Diving Rod,30. $400

182. Leibnitz, Friedrich.

Extract Einer Anno Tausend vierhundert acht und achtzig also bald

vor zweyhundert Jahren geschriebener Weissagung welche theils In dieser bißhero verlauffenen Zeit erfüllet theils noch zu vermuthen neben einer ... erlangtem und in dieser Weissagung zugleich verkündigtem Friede nach Abzug der Schweden Ihrer Churfürstlichen Durchleuchtigkeit zu Sachsen ... übersendeten Gratulation Von dero unterthänigstem Diener so erachtet den Friede über nützlich. Im Iulio

Anno 1650.

Leipzig: Timotheus Ritzsch, 1651. 4to.

A-E4.

[40]p. First Edition.

Disbound, paper toned.

Liebnitz (1597-1652) German philosopher, jurist,professor of moral philosophy and registrar of the Univ. of Leipzig and father of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.

This anonymously published pamphlet discusses Johannes Grumbach’s [Lichtenberger] prophecies in Latin with a German side-by-side translation.

“One would suppose that, so far as the Pronosticatio was to be taken seriously at all, it could not but lose all practical interest when that year [1576] was out. And yet, at the beginning of the Thirty Years War, in 1620/21, no fewer than six extracts from his book appeared in print... We may safely assume that most of those who re-published him cared little for such problems; that his prophecies seemed intrinsically applicable to the events of their time was enough for them.”

[D. Kurze, “Prophecy And History: Lichtenberger’s forecasts of events to come (from the fifteenth to the twentieth century); their reception and diffusion. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1958, pp63ff.]

VD 17 32:682207U (1 copy only). Cenek Zibrt, Bibliografie Ceske Historie 16258.Bircher A5083. $450

183. Leonardus, Camilius [Camillo Lunardi]; Peter Arlensis De Scudalupis, Petrus Constantius Albinus & Franz Gassmann [Pantaleon].

Speculum Lapidum, Et Petri Arlensis De Scudalpuis, Presbyteri Hierosolymitani, Sympathia Septem Metallorum Ac Septem Selectorum Lapidum Ad Planetas. Accedit Magia Astrologica Petri Constantii Albinii Villanovensis.

Hamburg: Christian Liebezeit, 1716-7. a-b8,A-Hh8,Ii8 [Ii8 blank]. [32],390; 84,[36]pp. [bound with:] Gassmann [Panteleon] Disceptatio de lapide physico, in qua Tumbam Semiramidis ab anonymo phantasticè, non hermeticè sigillatam: ab anonymo reclusam, si sapiens inspexerit ipsam, promissis regum thesauris vacuam inveniet.

N.P [Frankfurt].: N.P.,1678. A-H8. [2[,95;[2],28p. 8vo. 2 works in 1 vol.

First Collected Edition of Leonardus; first edition of Gassmann.

Contemp. vellum, title in old hand on spine, first two t.p.s folded at edge to preserve original large size, trimmed close at bottom of t.p. and port. (some text affected), light browning in first work, darker in Gassman; nice copy.Engraved port. of Petrus Arlensis, full-page woodcuts of rings & manets [p198], t.p. in red and black.

Leonardus [Lunardi] of Pesaro “Very little is known of this author, he seems to have been a learned doctor of medicine and arts, practicing medicine and astrology in Italy, and highly esteemed by his patron, Cesare Borgia, to whom he dedicates the work, other works by him are mentioned in Thorndike VI,298....’Camilo jutified the writing of it by the assertion that he had not found the subject treated completely by any previous author...More than a third of the space is devoted to an alphabetical listing and description of particular stones, while an-

other third is occupied with astrological and magic images carved on gems and is in large part made up of chapters drawn from various books of magic.’ “this Petrus Arelensis, who is styled a priest of Jerusalem, while condemning the ‘false magic’ of the Arabs, approves of natural magic and of ‘holy and divine wisdom’...In essence, the Sympathia discuses the possible connections and influences of the seven planets on the seven gems and the seven metals, and, presumably, according to astrological superstition, the wearer of a ring made of the proper metal and set with the proper gemstone, and selected according to the astrological sign under which birth occurred, being then most effectively protected against all evil influences.”

The Magia astrologica is intended to expand on Arlensis’ work. “...despite the other’s work’s rejection of them, Albinus gives various rings of the planets, seals of the twelve signs, and other images, which he assured the reader were strictly astrological, not magical.”

[Thorndike/Sinkankas] “The Tomb of Semiramis...appears to have first been published in Latin in 1674, H.V.D. Tumba Semiramidis hermeticè sigillata..., and shortly after in English printed in London. A third edition was included in Franz Gassman [Pantaleon], Disceptatio de lapide physico, Hamburg, 1678. This book claims to reveal the secrets of the physical work of the philosophers stone, however, though it stays close to its theme it uses metaphorical and philosophical allusions to the process, rather than approaching it directly in physical terms. The author indicates in the preface the reason for the title of his book “We therefore... do raise this knowledge, buried and obscured under the pretext of the Tomb of the most wise Semiramis, formerly Queen of Babylon...” [Alchemy on the Web] “The Disceptatio was written against the Tumba Semiramidis. It was published anonymously, but is ascribed to Pantaleon by Manget...[Gassmann] was a native of Silesia, physician in Passau and afterwards in Vienna. He claimed to have made mercury ‘magnetic,’ so that it followed gold as a needle the magnet. He acquired considerable reputation by his operations with mercury, and by some he was believe in. [Ferguson] [Caillet’s ascription to Heinrich Pantaleo (1522-1595) of Basle, also mentioned by Ackermann, seems a confusion based on the Latin pseudonym.]

Leonardus: Bruning 3653. Sinkankas 3895, 5110 & 60. Ferguson II,27. Duveen 352.

Roentahl, Magica,519. Neu 2337. Ferchl 309. Caillet 6544. Ferguson, Glasgow,405.

Gassmann: VD17 1:641840G. BM STC German 17th, G97. Bruning 2383. Ferguson II,164. Duveen 49 & 448. Wellcome IV,291.Neu 1577.Partington II,642,XVI. Ferguson, Glasgow,256. $1500

184. Leybourn, William.

An Introduction To Astronomy And Geography Being A plain and

easie Treatise Of The Globes. In VII Parts. I. The Definitions of the Lines, Circles, &c...II. The Problems in Astronomy Methodically digested...III, The several affections of Triangles...IV. The whole Art of Dyalling...V. The Erection of an Astrological Figure of the Heavens, according to the several ways of the Ancient and Modern

Astrologers. VI. & VII. The Explanation and Uses of the Terrestrial Globe...

London: J[ames] C[ottrell] for Robert Morden and William Berry,1675.

8vo.162 x 102mm. A4,B-P8,Q4.[G8 is in facsimile on old paper, a little shorter at the fore-edge] [8],176,178-234p.

First Edition.

Modern 1/2 morocco over marbled boards in an antique style, spine banded, gilt titles, t.p. laid-down, archival marginal repairs to last two leaves (no text affected), some stains and minor edge repairs, some old notes, erased stamp on verso of t.p.

3 inserted plates each with two illustrations, text genitures.

Leybourn (1626-1700?) teacher of mathematics and prolific author of scientific and practical works on measuring and related practical science. “Leybourn’s works all grew out of his teaching, and were deservedly popular. They are clear and attractive in style, and are the work of a man of considerable ingenuity and uncommon industry.” [DNB.] He was one of the surveyors immediately after the Great Fire. He was a good friend of several astrologers: Vincent Wing, John Booker and John Gadbury who described him as ‘a facetious, pleasant, and cheerful disposition.

This is one of his rarer works with no record of a sale in the last 25 years in ABPC. It was over-looked by Gardner in his Astrologica.

Wing L1915.ESTC r898 (reporting only 1 folding plate, probably these cuts before they were correctly placed in the text). $1500

185. Liceti, Fortunio.

Allegoria Peripetatica De Generatione Amicitia et Privatione In Aristotellicum Aenigma Elia Lelia Crispis.

Padua: Gaspar Crivellarius, 1630. 4to. [16],321,[31]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. calf front cover loose,rear hinge opened, binding chipped,duplicate sale stamp from the British Library sale of 1787 on verso of t.p., edges red with title in ms. on front edge,browning to edges of endpapers caused by leather turn-ins, else a very clean crisp copy. Large allegorical device on t.p.repeated on b4v,Text woodcuts, 1 full-page.

Licetus (1577-1657) was an Italian physician and scholar. He taught at Padua and Pisa and was involved in numerous disputes. He wrote on a variety of subjects—astronomy. mysticism, numismatics, gynecology, monsters, light, phosphorescence and gems. “there is an epitaph cut on a block of white and red marble, which exists in Bologna. As it is a complete enigma, it has exercised the wits of many persons for three hundred years to find out its meaning and application,” Ferguson I,6. In the “Theatrum Chemicum” it is seen as alchemical and related to the philosopher’s stone. [See Ferguson I,6 for a discussion.]

“Licetus reads the whole philosophy of Aristotle into the monument. He mentions the report that it was ‘sculptured in stone, formerly set in a high position on the walls of St Peter’s,’...He thinks the inscription contains the summation of a serious philosophical theory about the origin of mundane things, a theory that was ‘scientifico-moralis’ or ‘etico-physica.’’ [C.G.Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, p85.]Bruni/ Evans, Cambridge,2987. Graesse IV,202. $850

186. Liceti, Fortunio.

Hieroglyphica, Sive Antiqua Schemata Gemmarum Anularium, Quae-

sita Moralia, Politica, Historica, Medica, Philosophica & Sublimiora...

Padua: Sebastainus Sardus, 1653. 4to. [[20],440,[20]p. First Edition.

Modern 1/4 green morocco over cloth boards, banded spine, title gilt, blind stamped ornaments on spine; repairs to outer margins on V3 and Kkk3 (no text affected); light stain on Xx2,3;a very nice copy.

Engraved titlepage vignette

by Giovanni Georgi (Benezit,IV,210), full-page portrait (also by Georgi), 66 large textual engravings most after Peter Stephan; head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials; plate on 281 printed upside-down.

The “Hieroglyphica” is dived into 60 schema and considers the many aspects of human intellect. More than 500 authors are cited in his index.

“Large, elaborate, detailed series of explanations & discussions concerning the subjects portrayed upon 60 engraved gems set in rings and shown in the engravings.” [Sinkankas] Sinkankas 3952. Furtwänger III,404. U. Cat. of Art 1192. Caillet 6667. Piantanida 2201. $1500

187. Liceti , Fortunio.

Hieroglyphica... Padua: Sebastainus Sardus, 1653. 4to. 335 x 22mm.

First Edition.

Contemp vellum, front hinge split, title on green leather label,minor foxing, a very good copy. $1500

188. Lilly, William.

An Astrological Prediction Of The Occurances in England, Part of the

Yeers 1648. 1649. 1650. Concerning these Particulars, Viz. 1. The effects depending upon the late conjunction of the two malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars. 2. What successe may be expected from the present intended Treaty between his Majesty and the Parliament. 3. The standing oe falling of this Parliament, and the Army under the command of his Excellency the Lord Fairfax. 4. Our imminent distrurbances generally handled...5. The product of the Scots Army: With some Observations upon Duke Hamiltons Nativity. 6. What may succeed the apparition of three Suns in Lancashire, seen of many, the 28. Febr. last.

London: T[homas] B[rudenell] for John Partridge and Humphrey Blunden, 1648. 4to.

A-K4. [8], 69, [1]pp.

First Edition.

Disbound, cut close at top, light browning, old paper wraps, stab holes from original binding. Housed in a clamshell cloth case.T.p. in border, astrological charts in text.

Lilly, William 1602-1681, astrologer. “Fairfax seems to have suspected that Lilly was applying his art improperly, and sent for him and another astrologer, John Booker, to come to him at Windsor, and entreated them to discontinue their practices unless they could convince themselves that they were lawful, and agreeable to God’s word. Hugh Peters supported Fairfax’s arguments, but their appeal did

not prevent Lilly from procuring a saw and some aquafortis to send to the king, to enable him to escape from Carisbrook Castle, in 1648. In September 1648 Lilly claims to have rendered Charles further assistance. Meanwhile Lilly was ostensibly serving the parliament. In 1648 he obtained political information from France, which the parliament rewarded with a gift of 50l., and the council of state with a pension of 100l., which was paid him for two years. He attended the king’s trial, and on 6 Jan. 1648-9 he published ‘A peculiar Prognostication astrologically predicted according to art, whether or no his Majestie shall suffer Death this present yeare 1649: the Possibility thereof discussed and divulged.’ In August 1648 Lilly and Booker were ordered to attend the parliamentary army engaged in the siege of Colchester, so as to encourage the soldiers with predictions of speedy victory.”

[DNB] [In this printing, line 13 of title page ends: un-].There are three variants of the t.p. with line 13 ending “un-”, “under”,or “Army” no preference identified.

Wing L2211. Gardner, Astrologica, 681.Abbott 279.Thomason, E.462[1]. ESTC r205058. $850

189. Loanz, Elijah ben Moses, called Baal-Shem.

[Hebrew Text:] Michol Yofe. [Kabbalistic Commentary on Ecclesiastes.]

Amsterdam: Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb, 1695. 4to. [1],33ff=68p.

First Edition.

Contemp. wood with vellum spine and marbled paper overlay, most of spine gone, paper partly stripped from covers; booklabel of Daniel David Wallichs Klaus of Hamburg; stamp of the Kloiz of Rabbi Yechiel Wallach in Homburg [Photocopy of Sages of Altona, Homburg, Wandsbek.Hpmburg:1908 describing him laid-in], very minor dampstain at edge, good copy.

T.p. in architectural surround.

Loanz (1564-1636) one of the outstanding kabbalists of Germany in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Grandson of Joseph Joselman ben Gershom of Rosheim and student of Akiva Frankfurter, Jacob Guenzberg of Friedberg, Judah Loew of Prague and Menahem Mendel of Cracow. “Because he was well known as a writer of kabbalistic amulets and incantations, early in his career he acquired the cognomen Elijah Be’al Shem.’ [Ency. Judaica.]

This is his kabbalistic commentary on Ecclesiastes. He was a correspondent with Johannes Buxtorf.

The date is in verse form and has a unique inscription in memory of a martyr by the name of Hadassah. It has the approbation of Rabbi Yaakov Sasportas, president of the court of the holycommunity of Spanish Jews in Amsterdam. This is apparently the last approbation that was issued by the initiator of the debate against the Sabbatians.

Vinograd, Amsterdam,632. Cowley 182. Zedner 230. Steinschneider 4961:1.$750

190. Loanz, Elijah ben Moses, called Baal-Shem.

[Hebrew Text:] Rinat Dodim. [A Kabbalistic Commentary on the Song of Songs with the biblical text.]

Basle: Konrad Waldkirch, [1600.] 4to.

a-g4,h3.

First Edition.

Modern imitation morocco over marbled boards; some pin wormholes (some letters affected), old notes on endpapers, marginal dampstains; old end-papers preserved. T.p. in decorative borders, tail-piece.

This was the only of his works published in his lifetime; a kabbalistic interpretation of the Song of Songs.. He was a correspondent with Johannes Buxtorf.

Vinograd, Basle,203. Prijs, Basle,166. Cowley 182. Zedner 230. Steinschneider 4961:3. $850

191. Lucian of Samosata Part of Lucian Made English From The Originall. In The Yeare 1638.

By Jasper Mayne... To Which are adjoyned those other dialogues of Lucian as they were formerly translated by Mr. Francis Hicks.

Oxford: H(enry) Hall for R(ichard) Davis, 1664. [bound and probably issued with] Certain Select Dialogues of Lucian: Together with His True History, Translated from the Greek into English. By Mr. Francis Hickes. Whereunto is added the lift of Lucian...by T(homas) H(ickes)..

[London:] for Richard Davis, 1663. Folio. 2 vols. in 1.

A8,B-3E4;A-2D4.

[16],398; [16],200 pp.

First Complete English Edition.

Contemp. motted calf, blind rules on covers, spine banded, front hinge cracked, ends of spine slightly worn; edges marbled; ownership inscription of “Henry Duke of Newcastle his booke 1676” (Second Duke,1630-1691),” with note in Latin “Dux superscriptibus illustrissimus propriis manibus[?] librim mihi dedit Heb:25/?9 Jo: Knight.” on front paste-down; minor foxing, fine copy.

Port. of Lucian by William Faithorne, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials, & printer’s marks.

Lucian (cA.D. 115-c200) rhetorician who earned his living by traveling and declaiming. At the age of forty he gave up that life and settled down to write his satirical “dialogues”. These satiric pieces, which were a new form of literature, were to be what he is most famous for. For modern readers, his “True History” which is a parody of the “cock-and-bull tales of adventure put foward by ancient writers” [OCCL] is considered the first science-fiction work in literature with its tale of a Moon voyage.

Wing L3435 & L3425. Madan III,2664 & 2642. ESTC r23081& r13598. Moss II,268.Hoffmann II, 564. $2000

192. Lucian of Samosata.

[Greek Title:] Opera Omnia Quae Extant cum Latina doctiss. virorum in-

terpretatione...Adiecta sunt eiusdem Bourdelotti, Theodori Marcilii eloquentie Professori Regii, Gilbert Cognati Notae...

Jean Bourdelot, ed.

Paris: Louis Febvrier, 1615. Folio. 350 x205mm. a6,e6,A-5D6,4E-4F4,q4,AF4,A-C6,D4.

[26],1158,[18],52,[44]pp.

First Bourdelot Edition.

Handsome modern 1/2 green morocco ovr marbled boards, spine gilt and blind stamped, bookplate of Curtis Colleection of Columbia Univ. with deaccession stamp, some marginal worming in first leaves, t.p. remargined at inner mar-

gin, insignificant damage at bottom of some leaves in middle of volume (no text affected), large margins.

“A well printed, and accurate edition, compiled by the Editor, when a young man, and does very great credit to his critical abilities; besides the notes of Bourdelot, which are very concise and chiefly critical; it contains some by Micyllus, Guerinus, Marcilius, and Cognatus. It is very highly and justly esteemed by Critics.”[Moss] Hoffmann II,537. Moss II,262. Dibdin II,57 “This is a very elegant and respectable edition.” De Bure 4033. Brunet II,275. $950

193. Lucian of Samosata.

[GreekTitle:] Opera Omnia. Jean Bourdelot ed.

Paris: Julian Bertault, 1615. Large Folio.355 x210mm. First Edition thus.

Contemp. French calf with gilt center device and triple gilt lines,rebacked, worn at edges and hinges cracked but holding; bookplate of William Markham of Becca Lodge, Yorkshire; piece lacking from t.p. inner margin, large margins. $750

194. Magini, Giovanni Antonio [Joannis Antonii.]

Ephemerides Coelestium Motuum, Ab Anno Domini 1608. usque ad

Annum 1630. secundum Copernici observationes...Eiusdem Isagoge Astrologiam, itemq(ue) de usu Ephemeridum, de annuis revolutionibus, & de stellis fixis tractatus absolutissimi...Nec Non Astrologicae circa Agriculturam & Navigatoriam observationes...

Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter for Johann Theobald Schonwetter, 1610.

4to. [8],367,[1],752pp. Pagination agrees with VD 17. First Frankfurt Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum, stains, yapp fore-edge, tears in vellum but sond, t.p. worn at edges, light upper inner margin dampstain, other light soiling.

T.p. in woodcut allegorical borders, text woodcuts and astrological charts.

“Tiraboschi spoke of him as one of the best astronomers of the time and a friend of Kepler. Tomasini represented him as making correct predictions to the leading men of Bologna from their nativities, as abandoning the Alphonsine hypotheses for the Copernican theory, and as addressing his new Tables to Gregory XIII and influencing that pope’s calendar reform...In 1582 he published Ephemerides for the years 1581-1620 with an animadversion against Stadius, an introduction to judicial astrology, and further tracts on the use of Ephemerides, annual revolutions, and fixed stars...” “he took the position that Copernicus had so reformed astronomy that no correction of equal motions, or a very slight one, was now required, whereas the Ptolemaic and Alphonsine calculations had been shown unsatisfactory not only by Copernican arguments but by daily observations of many persons...He has had to change entirely the theories of the sun and moon but has adhered to the Ptolemaic system for the other five planets, except that he has added some new movements and orbs which seem to have escaped Ptolemy.” [Thorndike] This is the first Frankfurt edition based on the revised edition of 1607.

There is also a supplement published in 1615 which is not present here.

VD17 7:659139U. Gardner, Astrologica, 343. Riccardi 68,11:5. Houzeau/Lancaster 14857. BL 17th c. German M67. $750

195. Magiri (Magirius), Johann & Caspar Bartholin.

Physiologiae Peripateticae Libri Sex Cum Commentariis...Quibus ac-

cesit Caspari Bartholini Malmogii Dani Metaphysica Major...Accessit denique Johannes Magiri De Memoria artificiosa...

Cambridge: R(oger) Daniel, 1642. Small 4to. π4,A-3F4,a-k4,l2.

[8],412,[4],[2],53,[1],26pp First publication in England.

Modern calf-backed marbled boards, banded spine, gilt designs, titles on labels, t.p. darkened at edges, minor dampstains at front; top of t.p. excised (no txt affected) signatures of “William Collins Jesus College, Oxford” and “James Gibson, M.D.” on t.p., some worming in center of the book with some text affected [O2-Ff]. T.p. in red and black.

Magiri (d. 1598?) was from Coblenz [some souces say Wetzlar] and studied medicine at Marburg where he was a professor of medicine from 1596 until his death.

Caspar Bartholin (1585-1629) Danish born physician and court priest in Malmo (Denmark). He was trained in medicine at Padua and was court physician in Copenhagen. He also taught medicine and was eventually dean at the University of Copenhagen.

Magiri’s work is a treatise on physiology based on Aristotelian thought.

It has sections on the senses, astronomy, meteors, the soul, gems, dreams, medicine, etc. His second work is on artificial memory. Bartholin’s work is a metaphysical philosophical treatise.

Wing M251.Young, Memory,224. Krivatsy/NLM 7256. Wellcome IV,26. $500

196. Maier, Michael.

[Arcana Arcanissima Hoc est Hieroglyphica Aegyptio-Graeca,Vulgo

necdum cognita, ad demonstandam falsorum apud antiis quos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex uno Aegyptioram artificio, quod aureu(m) animi & Corpis medicamentum peregit, deductam: Unde tot poetarum allegoriae, scriptorum narrationes fabulosae & pertotam Encyclopaediam errores sparsi clarisima veritatis luce manifestantur, suaeq(ue) tribui singula restituuntur, sex libris...]

[London?] [Thomas Creede?] [1614?] 4to. Lacks π1 t.p.[supplied in facs. on old paper), A-2P4,2Q2.

[8 of 10], 285,[15]pp.

First Edition.

Fine modern calf in an antique style, title on red morocco label, gilt; ft.p. in facs. on old paper, first leaf darkened, some foxing, dampstains at end, occ. light browning, old notes on rear ens paper from earlier binding (not part of the collation).

Watermarks: There are at least three separate types (which didn’t help us in locating place of publication): including Grapes and a pot with initials “PLE” [see: R4 & Gg2]

Maier (1568?-) The Arcana was Maier’s first publication which he dedicated to Sir William Paddy, physician to King james I of England. “In his preface, the author, after referring to the false worships of old ascribed to the gods, and the aborrence in which such cults are to be held by Chrsitains, who have bee taught the truth by the key-word of God, inquires whether these old stories may not have some other meaning, a meaning more secret and arcane. He desires a more original, a deeper, a truer meaning to be found in the old hieroglyphics and stories of these gods and daemons....These old allegories, stories, and adventures of the gods may be properly understood as referring to scientific, philosophic, and chemical ecrets; their labours and researches into the powers of Nature, and even their wars and quarrels, may have reference to the labours, the strifes, and the convulsions in Nature, and natural substance, for the evolution of new births...Under all these old stories and hieroglyphics an arcane, hidden meaning lies.” [J.B.Craven, Count Michael Maier, 1910.]

There has been some discussion of the actual place of printing of Maier’s work. It is listed in the Stationer’s Register in 1613 as being printed by Thomnas Creede of London and thus the STC and RLIN list it as an English book. Other traditions have it being printed at Oppenheim and it is listed as a German publication in the VD17. There are two issues of the book. One with a dated t.p. [1614]has no leaf after the t.p.; the other has an added leaf for dedications and the t.p. is undated.

As our copy lacks the t.p., we cannot completely ascribe it.

STC 17196.3-.5. ESTC s1358 or s111892. VD17 23:262072A. Bruning 1095. Caillet 6987 “Extremement rare.” Ferguson, Glasgow 438.Rosenthal, Magica,565.Gardner, Rosicruciana, 416. Ferguson II,66 (not in Young Coll.) Gottlieb 188. Verginelli 203.

Galland 117. $4500

197. Maiolus [Maiole de Asti], Simone, Bishop of Volturra.

Dierum Canicularium Tomi Septem Colloquiis Quadraginta sex,

Physicis novis ac penitus admirandis, nec non lectu jucundus & super fidem recreabilibus ac cognitu omnini necessariisque absoluti... Opus hac ultima editionie revisum & plane novum...

Frankfurt: Johann Gottfried Schonwetter, 1642. Folio.333 x 210mm. )(4,A-4L6, A-V6,a-g8,h4. [8],960,164,[62],[2 blank]. “Best edition.”

Contemp. vellum, yapp fore-edge,title in ms. on spine. spine has crease marks, old owner’s stamp on t.p.and half-title, corner off )(4 (minor border loss), occ. paper toning and foxing; pages tabed for chapter references with occ. small tears.

Engraved t.p.,with emblematic insets and costumed figures; double-page table.

Simone Maioli (1520-1597) was born in Asti in Piedmont. In 1572 he was made bishop of Volturra where he was recognized for his wisdom and learning.

He published several historical and religious works the most famous of which was this massive encyclopedia of miscellaneous knowledge. It was first printed in Paris in 1610 but later printings kept adding more sections to it, until it reached the massive seven volumes in this edition.

There is too much to cover in a brief listing but he covers science, plants

& herbs,oracles, dwarves, dragons, the perfidy of the jews, law, angels and spirits, devils, demonology,women, pigmees, posession, apparitions, etc.

VD 17 :109663T. Sabattini 369. Brunet III,1323. Alden 642/75. Sabin 44056n.

Houzeau/Lancaster 2867. Riccardi I,73. Other eds: Ackermann I,155 . Caillet 70235. Chorinski 722. Esoterica 2856-8. Rosenthal, Magica, 580. $950

198. Majoragio, Marco Antonio [Antonius Maria de’Conti] & Morhof, Daniel

Georg.

Philochrysus Sive De Laudibus Auri Orationes duae,: Omnis generis hominum, praecipue Ecclesiasticorum, vitia salse traducentes, quarum Priorem inter Maioragii anekdota Mediolani repertam, & Ultraiecti Anno 1666 primum editam, nunc recusam sistit, Posteriorem eiusdem argumenti, ipsis Kalendis Septembribus Anno 1690 Kiloni habitam [issued with:] M. Antonii Maioragii Philochrysus Sive De Laudibus Auri Oratio,: Qua omnis generis hominum, praecipue Ecclesiasticorum, vitia salse traducuntur, inter anekdota Autoris Mediolani, Ultraiecti Anno MDCLXVI primum editam, nunc recusa, cum Praefatione Danielis Georgi Morhofi.

Lubeck: Peter Bockmann, 1690. 8vo.A-D8,E4; A-D8,E4.

72;70,[1],[1]pp.

Disbound, old stamp on t.p., very good copies.

Marco Antonio Maioragio (1514-1555), Italian humanist, philosopher,and jurist, born in Majoragio, a small town not far from Milan. After completing his education with difficulty because of the Italian wars that ruined his family’s finances, he went to Milan to continue his interest in the classics, mathematics and rhetoric.

He was a student of philosophy under Vincent Madius. In 1541 he was named to chair of eloquence at the college at Milan and later taught also in Ferrara (1543-55).

He taught rhetoric and eloquence and published a series of classical treatises and translations and is most remembered for his work on Aristotle. This treatise was not printed with his other works, probably because it criticizes church authorities, and remained unpublished until Marquard Gudius found a copy in Milan and caused it to be printed in Utrecht in 1666. Morfof reprints the work with a new preface and with his own oration on gold. It is a rare work and Thorndike was unable to locate a copy (See V,547.) [For other references to Majoragio see Lohr, Latin Aristotle Commentaries, II,239ff.]

Morhof was born at Wismar, 6 Feb., 1639. From 1660 to 1666 was professor of poetry at Rostock, in 1666 he removed to Kiel as professor of history. In 1680 he was made librarian, an office for which he was admirably fitted, and which he turned to the best account of his writings...He was a man of very great learning, and of sound critical judgement.” [Ferguson] VD17 14:645231T [Including: VD17 3:306642P.] Bruniibg 2664. Ferguson, Glasgow,442 [1 part only]. Niceron, Memoires, V2,22ff. Not in Caillet, Ferguson (Young), Ackermann, Rosenthal, Duveen, or OCLC. $650 199. Marsollier, L’abbé Jacques.

Histoire de L’Inquisition Et Son Origine.

Cologne [Holland?]: Pierre Marteau, 1693. 8vo. [2],502p. First Edition.

Contemp. vellum, side damaged at edge, some foxing, interesting early note on pp.235-7, some age toning of paper, edges colorde blue, title on label, old roundel bookplate. Basket of flowers device on t.p.., and floral tail-piece.

Marsollier (1647-1724) French historian, provost and later archdeacon of Usez. His histories are noted for their style which was lively and flowing. Chalmers calls this anonymously issued book— “A curious work, and in some respects a bold one.” Caillet says,”Cette histoire est une des plus curieuses sur ce tribunal, c’est en somme un excellent abrégé du Directorium Inquisitorum de Limborch. Malgré cela, il fut jugé trop libre et mis à l’index. Ouvrage dirigé l’authorité papale.”

VD17 1:012566F. Caillet 7172, Van der Vekené 289a “Falsche Angaben von Drucker und Druckort.” Brunet 21678. De Bure 4694 “bien écrit.” Barbier II,688. Quérard V,563. $500

200. [Marsollier, L’abbé Jacques].

Histoire de L’Inquisition Et Son Origine.

Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1693. 12mo. A-V12,X13. [2],502pp.First Edition.

Contemp. French mottled calf,spine gilt, banded, rubbed, spine chipped at ends, edges red, armorial bookplate”Ameline de Quincy, Conseiller-Corredent en la Chambre des Comptes,” oc. foxing & minor stains. Astrolabe device on t.p. $500

201. Martini, Jakob.

Disputationum De Messia Judaeorum blasphemiis Oppositarum

Decas. [Disputatio I-X.]

Wittenberg: Johann Gormann, 1615-1616. 4to. a4,b2,A-C4; A-C4; A4,B2; A-

D4,E2; A-B4; A-D4; A-C4; A-B4,C2; A-B4.

Unpaginated.

First Edition.

Modern vellum backed paste-paper German boards, paper flaw (a paper imperfection white stain) on [2]B2v obscuring some text. Otherwise a fine copy with wide margins. T.p. in historiated border of angels, religious scenes, etc., headand tail-pieces, decorated initials.Some Hebrew text.

Martini, Jakob, (1570-1649) important representative of Lutheran school philosophy. Martini began in 1590 to study arts and theology at Helmstedt and continued his studies after1593 in Wittenberg, the principal place of the training of Lutheran orthodoxy. After 1597, he worked as a teacher and as a minister in the north (East Frisia). In 1602 he became a professor of the logic and Metaphysics at Wittenberg. As a pupil C. Martinis, whose humanistic ideals he maintained, he became one of the most successful advocates of the school of rhetorical-dialectically oriented logic. Martini, just as energetically, promoted the re-establishment of Metaphysics as the most essential discipline in philosophy This new School-metaphysics was aristotelian in its tenor, but it didn’t have the form of the older Aristotelian critiicism, but instead a systematic characteristic with an ontological end. It served, with the systematic elaboration of logic, theological interests. This excluded the critical reception, for instance, of the Spanish scholastics and Ramistic humanism.

After 1613, Martini, was additionally professor of Ethics at Wittenberg and after

1623, professor of theology which post he held until his death. [See: BiographischBibliographisches Kirchenlexikon V, 944.]

These disputations were given in a series commencing on the 22nd of July, 1615 and ending on the 13th of January 1616. The pamphlets must have been issued separtately and finally gathered together and reissued with a new title-page and prefatory letter.These are all quite rare.

VD17 23:329506G. [Containing: VD17 23:329519M;VD17 23:329524E;[#3 not in VD 17]; VD17 23:329528L;VD17 23:329531;VD17 3:016940M;VD17 23:329534M; VD17 23:329541V;VD17 23:329547R;VD17 23:329552K —based on a single set located in theWolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek which lacks Disputatio #3.] Furst II, 232. Jocher III,229. Adelung IV,851ff. No copy in RLIN or OCLC. KVK adds one set in the National Library of Scotland and another in the BVB. $2000

202. Martius, Johann Nikolaus & Jacob Wolff [Lupius.]

Martius: Unterricht von der Magia naturali und derseiben Medicin.

Gebrauch auf Magische Weise. Bey-gefuget ein Neu-eroffnestes Kunst-Cabinet und A. Mizaldi Curieuse Kunst-Stucke.

Frankfurt & Leipzig: Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai, 1717. )(8.AU8.[14],296,[24]pp. [bound with] Wolff: Schatzkammer der Natur: Grundliche Erklarung dreyer grossen Geheimnussen. N.P., N.P.,1651. A-D8,E8 [E7 present blank but lacks E8 blank]. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1.

Modern vellum binding, small sun & star device in center of front cover, title in hand on spine, paper age darkened, light dampstains in rear. Engraved emblematic frontis., t.p. in red and black; 2 folding plates in Wolff, head- and tailpieces.

Martius was a celebrated medical practitioner at Brunswick.”A last word in the seventeenth century on magic was said by Johann N. Martius in a Dissertation concerning natural magic and its use in medicine in curing magic and magically. He divided magic into three kinds: natural, artificial or mathematical, and diabolic. He accepted various legendary instances of artificial or mathematical magic...On the other hand, he despaired of the aeronautical art’s ever succeeding.

He approved of the cabbala, but regarded geomancy as without any natural foundation....Martius felt that it was necessary to build up a new astrology based on experience..” [Thorndike] Jacob or J.W. Wolff (1642-1694) was a physician and member of the German Academy of the Curious as to Nature. In 1690 he became a professor of medicine at Jena and in the same year published his Scrutiny of Amulets, a book which shows faith in this relic of magic persisted at the close of the seventeenth century.

Martius: Brunung 3654. Graesse 128. Ferguson II, 82 & 547.

Wolff: VD17 39:115672C. Bruning 1801a. Caillet 6877. Krivatsy/NLM 7199. $1200

203. Maynwaring, Everard.

Tutela Sanitatis: Sive, Vita Protracta. The Protection of long Life, and

Detection of its brevity, from diaetetic Causes and common Customs. Hygiastic Praecautions and Rules appropriste to the Constitution of bodyes; and various Diserayes or Passions of Minde; dayly to be observed for the preservation of Health and Prolongation of Life. With A Treatise of Fontinellws or Issues. Whereunto is Annexed: Bellum Necessarium Sive Medicus Belligerans The Military or Practical Physician Reveiwing his Armory; Furnished with Medicinal Weapons and Munition against the secret invaders of life; fitted for all persons and assaults; with their safe and regular use, according to medical art and discipline.

London: Peter Lillicrap for S. Thompson and T. Basset, 1664. 8vo. π1,A-I8, Lacks I8 list of medicines with prices, facsimile of missing leaf laid-in,] [28], 118 (of 120)p. Second Edition.

Modern morocco, upper outer corner off penultimate leaf affecting pagination,minor stains and soiling.

Maynwaring, 1628-1699?, medical writer.

“By 1663 Maynwaring had moved to London, where he established himself next to the Blue Boar, on Ludgate Hill as a ‘doctor in physic and hermetick phylosophy’.

An advocate of chemical medicine, Maynwaring dedicated his first works to two prominent patrons of Helmontian medicine: Tutela sanitatis (1663) to Prince Rupert, and Solamen aegrorum, sive, Ternarius medicamentorum chymicorum (1665) to George Villiers, duke of Buckingham... In 1665 Maynwaring was entrusted with the care of the pest-house of the society for employing the poor in Middlesex. His treatment of patients seems to have been successful, as he claimed that out of the eighty patients in his care, fifty-six recovered. In the same year Maynwaring was among the proponents of the Society of Chymical Physicians, which was meant to challenge the authority of the College of Physicians. Maynwaring adopted Jean Baptiste van Helmont’s medical theories, favourably quoted from the works of Helmontians such as George Thomson, and became acquainted with George Starkey.

He accepted van Helmont’s view that the archeus or vital spirit was responsible for the main functions in the human body, and endorsed the Helmontians’ criticism of the doctrine of the chemical principles. He singled out Thomas Willis’s version of this theory as his target. An anonymous pamphlet (possibly written in 1668-9) attacked Maynwaring together with Robert Boyle and Christopher Merrett as enemies of learned medicine and of the College of Physicians. None the less Maynwaring never participated in the Helmontians’ violent attacks on traditional medicine, and often censured unlearned chemists as well as empirics. In addition, unlike most of the Helmontians, he did not entirely rule out the use of phlebotomy.

Like other advocates of chemical medicine Maynwaring defended the respectability of chemistry by arguing that it was part of the ancient learning which originated in Egypt with Hermes Trismegistus.” [Oxford DNB] Wing M1517. Krivatsy/NLM 7561. Hunter/Macalpine 171-2. $1200

204. Merbitz, Johann Valentin.

Biga Disputationum Physicarum Quarum Prima de Infantibus Suppositiis Vulgo Wechsel-Bälgen. Altera de Nymphis Germanis Wasser-Nixen.

Johann Gotfried Jahn, ed.

Leipzig: Johann Christoph Mieth, 1678. 4to.

A-F4.

First edition.

Later 1/2 calf over marbled boards, paper age-toned, some light underlining.

Rare pair of dissertations, one on changelings, which the author considers to be of diabolical origin; the other on water-nymphs, considered spectral. These two treatises were originally defended in 1671 and 1673, but were first printed in this edition.

Merbitz (1650-1704) German educator. He studied philosophy and theology in Leipzig. He was the rector of the Krezschule at Dresden and was an instructor of the Polish and Saxon prince. His doctoral dissertations were on Changlings and Water-Nymphs.

VD17 3:305863R [there are 6! different citations for this work in the VD17]. Jöcher III,449. Graesse, Magica,21. Krivatsy/NLM 7757. Laehr 408. $375

205. Merbitz, Johann Valentin.

De Varietate Faciei Humanae Discursus Physicus. Appendicis loco

accedunt Carmina Figurata Rabani Mauri...Imensium aestimatione, in facie vultuque nostro, cum sint decem vel paulo plura membra, nullas duas in tot millibus hominum discretas effgies existere, quod ars nulla in paucis numero praestet affectando.

Dresden: Widow and Heirs of Melchior Bergen for Martin Gabriel Hubner, 1676.4to. a4,A-I4,K2,)(4,2)(2. [20],69,viii,[4]pp. First Edition.

20th c. marbled boards, leather title-label, restorations to margin of first leaves (incl. frontis.), marginal dampstains, some softening to fore-margin.

Engraved frontis., t.p. in red and black, engraved text plate, acrostics printed in red and black, text charts.

“Merbitz’s book takes features of the human face and describes them by mathematical and alphabetical schemes, constructs cipher systems, and reproduces figured poems by the medieval encyclopedist Hrabanus Maurus (780-856). “ Norman, Cyberspace. [Norman notes that Charles Babbage owned a copy—see Norman Cat 28 (1994) # 431.]

VD17 12:141099D. Norman, Origins of Cyberspace,8 [var. collation K4? without 2)(2, possibly an error?]. Wellcome IV 115. Krivatsy/NLM 7758. BL 17th c. German M884. Not in Galland. $1200

206. Milton, John.

Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books.The Fifth Edition, Adrorn’d with Sculptures.

London: for Richard Bentl[e]y and Jacob Tonson, 1691. Folio.

323 x 192mm. [A]2 B2, C-2U4, 2X2.

[4],336p.

Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, covers and corners worn)endpapers renewed;plate [facing p 83] slightly defective at fore-corners with no loss, very small hole in O4, old repaired tears in Aa1, Ff1 & 2 and Rr1, upper inner corner of Xx1 torn away with slight loss, last two leaves slightly cut at fore-margin,last leaf frayed at edges; some staining, soiling and spotting). Provenance: Bookplate of

Paul H. Beves.

12 fine copperplate engraved plates by Michael Burghers and Peter Paul Bouche after John Baptiste Medina, Bernard Lens, and others. [Lacks, as often, the portrait of Milton], “...in rescuing from obscurity or oblivion the masterpieces of English authors His first and best triumph in this neglected field was the fourth edition (this is a reprint of that edition) of Milton”s Paradise Lost, which Tonson published with Bentley in 1688 The 1688 edition, in the style of all of Tonson”s more elaborate books, was distinguished by excellent paper, large, clear type and ample margins.”

[Kathleen Lynn, Tonson, Kit-Kat Publisher, p128] “Tonson seems to have considered this book his crowning effort for in his portrait, painted by Kneller, he holds a copy.” [Pforzheimer] The 1691 edition is scarce.

Wing M2149. ESTC r42173. Shawcross 357. $1250

207. Mirabel, Celestin de Le Palais du Prince Du Sommiel, Ou Est Ensignee L’Oniromancie Autrement L’Art De Deviner Par Les Songes.

Lyon: Jean Paulhe, 1670. 12mo.134 x75mm. [22], 140pp.

First Edition.

Contemp. red morocco, gilt rules on covers, spine gilt, a.e.g., marbled paste-downs, frontis. repaired at fore-edge (no losses),paperflaw A9, some slight foxing & stains. Frontis. of man in bed with the standing figure of the dream-doctor. Catalogue slip from Interlibrum Vaduz for this copy laid-in.

Celestin de Mirbel , advocate of parliament, we cannot find any biographical information on him. “Contenant d’interessants et curieux chap. tels que les suivants: ‘De l’abus qu’il y a en ceux qui disent estre possedes des Demons. Que les songs des Roys sont differents de ceux des autres hommes,’ etc.” Caillet. quoting Guaita.

This copy seems to be the same one listed in Guaita # 1628 bought from Morgand from the library of Yemenitz. “On trouve difficilement cet ouvrage en reliure ancienne de maroquin. La condition du present examplaire est exceptionnelle.

Il provient de la bibliotheque Yemenitz.”

Caillet 7595 “tres rare et fort singulier.” Cioranesacu 17th 47672. Guita 727 & 1628 (this copy?). Ouvarov 1833. Laehr 335. $1000

208. Mizauld, Antonio.

Centuriae Memorabilium, Utilium, Ac Iucundorum in Aphorismos,

Arcanorum omnis genris locupletes, perulcre digestae...Accessit His Appendix Nonnullorum Secretorum, Experimentorum, Antidotorumq(uae) contra varios morbos...Seorsum Excusa, Harmonia Coelestium Corporum & humanorum, dialogis undecim Astronomice & Medice...Item Memorabilium aliquot naturae Arcanorum Sylvula variarum Sympathias & Antipathias...

Frankfurt: Nicolas Hoffmann, 1613.

Small 8vo. 3 parts in 1 vol. )(8,2)(8,A-2E8. [2E & &8 blanks, present] [32],443,[1],[4]p.

Contemp. limp vellum, lacks ties,tear in rear hinge, bookplate of Dr Carl Wurth, light paper toning, occ. stains.

“The first compiler I have to mention is the French naturalist, Antoine Mizauld, or Antonius Mizaldus, who was born at Monlucon in Bourbonnois, early in the sixteenth century. He studied medicine in Paris, graduated and entered upon practice, in which he was so successful, as to have merited the epithet of the French Aesculapius. Under Orance Fine, he acquired skill in astrology, working it as a branch of medicine, after the custom of those days. He was summoned to the Court, was a friend of Princess Marguerite de Valois, and was a man of some rank. Persuaded that he had a nobler mission than that of healing, he relinquished his profession to devote himself to investigating the secrets of nature and to writing books.

In the latter he succeeded, but in spite of his endeavours, nature kept her secrets still undivulged. He was devoted to astronomy and astrology, but escaped the pitfall of alchemy. After what must have been a laborious life, he died in 1578.” [Ferguson, Secrets, IV,3-4] .VD17 23:237596H. Ferguson, Secrets, IV,6. Ferguson, Glasgow,467. Rosenthal, Magica, 2990. BL Germ. 17th M1167. Krivatsy/NLM 7942. $850

209. More, Henry & Kenelm Digby.

More:Tetractus Anti-Astrologica, Or,The Four Chapters in the Expla-

nation of the Grand Mystery Of Godliness, Which contain a brief but solid Confutation Of Judiciary Astrology, With Annotations upon each Chapter: Wherein the wonderous Weakness of John Butler, B.D. his Answer Called A Vindication of Astrology...London: J[ohn] M[acock] for Walter Kettilby,[1681]. [2],viii,171,[1]p. [bound after] Digby: Two Treatises: In the one of which, The Nature of Bodies, In the other, The Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into: In Way Of Discovery Of The Immortality of Reasonable Soules. London: John Williams, 1665. [48], 429, [1], [8],143,[1],144,[3 blank]p. 4to. 2 works in 1 vol. First Edition of the More.

Contemp. paneled calf, rebacked with most of old spine laid-down, title in gilt, bookstamps of English library on Digby, Digby t.p. reinforced, some minor stains, occ. browning, More cut into lower margin with some losses of catch- and collation marks. More t.p. in red and black.

“More belonged to that little band of Christian Platonists which was formed at Cambridge in the middle of the seventeenth century, and the distinctive traits of their school of thought are perhaps best brought out in his writings. The ‘occult science,’ of which such men as Van Helmont and Greatrakes were in More’s time the apostles, had a singular fascination for him; but he was saved from its extravagances by the firmly implanted conviction which tinges all his life and all his writings that holiness was the way to knowledge, ‘being well advised,’ he says, ‘both by the dictates of my own conscience and the clear information of those holy oracles which we all deservedly reverence, that God reserves his choicest secrets for the purest minds.’” [DNB] “This work caused John Butler to publish his book “Agiastrologia’ which is written in favour of the Art, and More replied to it..” [Gardner] “In his philosophical writings, More’s energies were largely devoted to

demonstrating the existence and providential nature of God, by proving the existence of incorporeal substance, that is spirit.” [Dict. of 17th c. British Philosophers].

“Digby’s Two treatises is a landmark work in several fields of early science. It is the first fully developed expression of atomism or corpuscular theory; the first important defense of Harvey on the circulation in English; a modern presentation of the nervous system predating Descartes; and a ground-breaking work in embryology. It also contains the first recorded patch-test for allergy; the fullest early account in English of teaching lip-reading; and material on conditioning anticipating Pavolv. The Two Treatises was initially published at Paris, while Digby and his family were in exile.” [Rubin] More: Wing M2679. Gardner, Astrologica,819.

Digby: Wing D1451. Rubin 26 [Our copy does not have the poem by John Sergeant described in Rubin as (*)4.] $875

210. More, Henry.

An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness...

London: J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden, 1660. Folio. xxx [i.e. xxviii], 412, [lacks pp 413-6] 417-, [28]pp. First Edition.

19th c. 1/2 morocco, byH.Maine with label, spine worn and brittle, chipped at top, joints cracked; scattered minor foxing; owner’s signatures on t.p. including “Edmund Beeston”, inner margin damp stain on a few opening leaves.

Wing M2658. Gardner, Astrologica, 818. $1000

211. More, Henry.

Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; Or The Revelation Of St John the Divine

unveiled. Containing A Brief but perspicuous and continued Exposition From Chapter to Chapter, and from Verse to Verse of the whole Book of the Apocalypse.

London: J.M. for J(ohn) Martyn and W(alter) Kettilby, 1680.

4to.

A4, a-c4, B-2Z4,2A2. xxxi, [1],358,[5 ads],[1]p. First Edition.

Contemp. paneled calf, dampstains on spine causing leather to darken, hinges cracked, some minor leather losses but strong; later 17th or early 18th c. stamp “Belonging. To. Libra/ry. Of. Rhoad [sic] Island” in gilt on front cover; modern bookplate on front paste-down, some dampstains but paper in good crisp condition. Engraving on 2Y3r. “...More along with his contemporaries, was part of a third force in seventeenth century though which combined mystical, rationalist, and scientific views based on the firm conviction of the Scriptural prophecies that the Millennium was imminent... More’s apocalyptic writings were a central feature of his attempt to construct a Christianity grounded in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, compatible with the new science, and religiously guaranteeing a stable and permanent social structure.” [Philip C. Almond, ‘Henry More and the Apocalypse” in Journal of the History of Ideas,1993,pp189-90.]

Wing M2641. ESTC r7100. $850

212. More, Henry.

Philosophical Poems.

London: Roger Daniel, 1647. 8vo. 166 x 105mm. a4,B-Hh8.

[28],436,[2]pp.

First Edition.

Contemp. calf,rebacked, title on label, rubbed; armorial bookplate of Philip Earl Stanhope, booklabel of John Sparrow,corner off R5 (no loss). C a m bridge device on t,p. head-pieces, decorative angel devices on half-titles, decorated initials; scientific woodcuts to ‘Notes upon Psychothanasia.’

“Like many others he began as a poet and ended as a prose writer. His first work, published in 1642, but written two years earlier, was entitled ‘Psychozoia Platonica: or, a Platonicall Song of the Soul, consisting of foure severall Poems.’

This was followed in 1647 by his full collection of ‘Philosophicall Poems,’ which includes ‘The Song of the Soul,’ much enlarged, and is dedicated ‘to his dear father...

Coleridge, as might be expected, had a high opinion of More’s theological writings, declaring that they ‘contained more original, enlarged, and elevating views of the Christian dispensation than he had met with in any other single volume’ (Lit. Rem.). Principal Tulloch, in his valuable sketch of the Cambridge Platonists, treats More as at once the most interesting and the most unreadable of the whole band.”

[DNB] The Psychozoia was revised, enlarged, and annotated when it was reprinted in this volume. Wing M2670. Hayward 94. $2750

213. Moreau, B(ertrand).

Considerations Morales Tirees Des Ouvrages De La Nature Et De

L’Art. Remplies De Quantite De Maximes Et D’Exemples...

Liege: Guillaume Henry Streel, 1683. Folio. [24],618 (620),[34]pp.

First Edition.

Contemp. calf, worn but solid; some chewing at foreedge of cover and to margin of first leaves; old remark on front pastedown stating this copy was bound in 1684; else a good copy. Full-page engraving of Mary and the infant Jesus surrounded by angels, well struck and dark by J. Francois de Ruelles, t.p. in red and balck, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.

Moreau, curate of Busancy, moral writer, chanoine of the Egilse Collegiate de Sainte Croix de Liege. A large collection of moral discussions on a vast variety of subjects such as: charlatans, sorcery, art, science, absynthe, fables, ruins, the fidelity of dogs, gardens, butterflies, Venetian women, etc. It is a rare book with no copies in OCLC, RLIN, KVK. Goldsmith BM 17th French BM M1381. $500

214. [Mussard, Pierre].

Historia Deorum Fatidicorum, Vatum, Sibyllarum, Phoebadum, Apud

Pricos Illustrium: Cum eorum Iconibus. Praeposita est dissertatio De Divinatione Et Oraculis.

Geneva: Peter Chouet, 1675. 4to.[[8],169,180-249,[5]pp. (Mispaginated) First Edition.

Contemp. vellum, title in old hand on spine, edges speckled red, owner’s stamp on t.p. “Biblio. De M. Denis, Byeres,” top of half-title excised (no text affected.) Vignette engraving on t.p.by H. Durant, 50 full-page cuts most by de Bry. Chouet had acquired the 33 illustrations that Theodore de Bry had done for Boissard’s posthumous Tractatus posthumus de divinatione et magicis prestigiis, Oppenheim: Jerome Galleri,n.d.) He wanted Mussard to write a work describing the oracular figures and includes Mercurius Trismegistus, Pythagoras, Iamblichus as wel as the sibylls, tiresias, serapis, etc.

Mussard was born in Geneva was a Protestant theologian who was exiled by the Calvinists because of his belief in universal salvation. He had ministries in Lyon and else where and died in London in 1686. He wanted in his works to demonstrate in his works that Roman Catholic customs were derived from pagan sources.

Cioranescu II,50793. Praz 370. Esoterica 3214 “Bel et rare ouvrage.” Caillet 5191 (1680 ed.) Rosenthal, Magica, 1413 “Livre rare.” Barbier IV,1272. Jouin 719 (p311:IV). Adams/Rawles/Saunders F441. $1250

215. Naude, Gabriel.

Apologie Pour Les Grandes Personnages qui ont este faussement

soupconnez de Magie.

Paris: Francois Targa, 1625. 8vo. a8, e4, A-2T8. [24], 640, 607-615,[1], [22]p. [Errors on pagination.]

First Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum,lacks ties, bookplate of “FO?UR” browning, old owner’s stamp on t.p. “Bibliotheca J. Richard, M.D.”and elsewhere, minor paper corrosion along edges of last two leaves, lacks f.f.e.p., a few leaves browned, some minor stains.

Head-pieces, historiated initials Naudé (1600-53) father of French bibliography, physician, librarian to Richelieu and to Mazarin, wrote this defense of great men of the past who were falsely accused of magic. He separates magic into four categories; Divine which is beyond human control, White which includes which is under the aegis of religion, Black which includes witchcraft and is illicit, and Natural which includes astronomy, astrology, chemistry, alchemy, geomancy, and other arts which are unobjectionable. Naudé defends, among others, Agrippa, Merlin,Nostradamus, Roger Bacon, Michael Scot,Cardan, Geber, Arnaldus of Villanova, and Paracelsus.”The book is preceded by poems in honour of the author, among which a poem in Hebrew and one in Latin by Jac. Gaffarelus and a tetastich by Guy Patin...” [Duveen]Caillet 7923 “Edition princeps de cet ouvrage celebre.” Coumont N5.3.

Yves-Plessis 1647. Guaita 753. Cornell, Witchcraft, 408. Chimaerica 7. Duveen 423.

Goldsmith, BM 17th French, N75. Brunet Suppl. II,9 “ C’est un volume d’une certaine rarete, ou plutot d’une rarete certaine...” Thorndike VII, 301. $1750

216. Naude, Gabriel.

Apologie Pour Tous Les Grands Personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de Magie.

The Hague: Adriaen Vlacq, 1653. 8vo. *8, 2)(4, A-2T8. [24],640,607-615, [1],[22]p.

Contemp. blind-ruled speckled calf, spine gilt, lacks title-piece, chip from head of spine; bookplate and blind-stamps of the Earls of Macclesfield, quote from Pierre Gassendi on f.f.e.p.,marginal wormtrack heavier in gatherings 2E-2F (no text loss),occ. browning but a nice copy.

STCN 165308. Graesse IV,650. Brunet VI,22. Yves-Plessis 1647.Blake 320. Engel 31.Coumont N5.4. $1250

217. [Nicole, Pierre] & Anton Arnauld. Causa Janseniana, Sive Fictitia Haeresis, Sex Disquisitionibus A Paulo Irenaeo Theologicè, historicè, explicata, & explosa.

Cologne:[Holland] Peter Marteau,1682. First Edition. [bound with] Arnalud. ...Defuit Petro Tentato Gratia Sine Qua Nihil Poterat, Dissertatio Theologica, In qua exhibetur NORMA tum loquendi;tum sentiendi, circa possibilitatem Praeceptorum, & Gratiae efficacis necessitatem...

Cologne: Peter Marteau,1656. 8vo. 2 works in 1 vol.[16],332,[4 blank];[12],186p.

Old vellum, opening at fore-edge; edges red, old stamp on t.p..

Nicole (1625-1695) celebrated French divine. He studied at the Sorbonne and prepared himself for the licentiate “but was deprived from it by the dispute which arose about the five famous propositions of Jansenius, added to his connections with Mr. Arnauld...In France he suffered much by undertaking the defense of Jansenius, whose opinions were condemned by the Sorbonne, the clergy of France, and indeed the whole church.”[Chalmers] Arnauld (1612-1694) doctor of the Sorbonne, he supported the tenants of the Jansenists with great zeal and was attacked by the Jesuits. He retired for 25 years writing a number of books on grammar, geometry, logic, metaphysics and theology. In 1668 he came forth from his retreat and was accepted as a father of the church. However, controversy still surrounded him and he fled to the Netherlands.

VD17 23:239499K. Willaert 4347. Barbier Supp. Latine,1186.Cioranescu 51229. $375 218. Nicquet, Honorat.

Physiognomia Humana Libris IV. Distincta. Editio Prima.

Lyon: Heirs of Petri Prost, Philipp Borde, Laurent Arnaud, 1648.

a4, e4, A-2V4.

[16], 320, [24]pp. First edition.

Contemp. vellum, with original ties, title in ms on spine, top margin dampstain throughout with old support repairs a number of leaves with some text and one head-piece affected, T.p. in red and black. Title vignette with the allegorical figures of Fortune, Time, and Athena.

Nicquet (1585-1667) was a Jesuit father founder at Rouen of the Oeuvre de la Misericorde. He taught rhetoric and philosophy and all his other works are theological. Nicquet follows Aristotle and tries to remove from the study of physiognomy and chiromancy the undesirable accretions of rash practitioners. “The fourth...book is on such bodily functions as the voice, sleep and laughter, and conjectures from the dreams which the different humors of the body produce,” 4to.

[Thorndike VIII,462.]

Bib. Esoterica, 3249 “Ouvrage rare, que ne cite aucune bibliographie.” Krivatsy 8311. Graesse, Magica,151. Casanatense 887. Sabattini 406. Laehr 661. Campe 610.

Gerlach Nicquet 1648 [other refs.]. $650

219. Norris, John.

A Collection Of Miscellanies: Consisting Of Poems, Essays, Dis-

courses & Letters, Occasionally Written.

London: J. Crossley & Samuel Manship, 1692. 8vo. a8, A-2F8,2G4.

[[2 blank], 14],467,[1],[4 ads]p.

Second Edition, Corrected.

Contemp. mottled paneled calf, hinges opened, front cover attched by glue, old library mark on spine, top of spine defective, bookplate of Warrington Museum, owner’s name John Jeeves dated 1757 on front paste-down, marginal wormtrack on last leaves a few letters touched, old pencil notes, blank margin defect on Cc2, fore-edge trimmed on O5—7 (no text affected),some light foxing, & browning.

Norris, John (1657-1712), Church of England clergyman and philosopher. “ His early writings show him to have been at that time a strong tory and highchurchman, but also show that he deliberately turned aside from political involvement. All the writings that he considered to be worth preserving were included in A Collection of Miscellanies, which appeared in 1687. His thought at this period already shows a combination of Platonist and Cartesian elements, which was always to be characteristic of him, and several of the essays in the Miscellanies express ideas that he developed further in his later writings. The Miscellanies also includes almost all of Norris’s poetry. In the final poem he bids farewell to his muse, but he later composed two further poems, one in each part of his Theory of the Ideal World. The Miscellanies was to prove the most lastingly popular of all Norris’s writings with the general public, and even in the nineteenth century it was reported that ‘this is the most popular of all his works, and affords the picture of a truly amiable mind’ (Watt, Bibl. Brit., 2.710). .. He has been better treated by historians of literature, who see his poetry, much of which continues to be republished, as marking especially clearly the transition from the spirit of the Renaissance to that of modern times. Much of Norris’s poetry, which has its roots in the metaphysical tradition, is somewhat laboured. At his best, however, he has a lyrical spirit, often inspired by Horace’s ideal of rural retreat, and his last poems, in the Theory of the Ideal World, seem to foreshadow the hymns of Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley...In contrast to the Cambridge Platonists he adopted wholeheartedly the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter. His theory of knowledge was a Cartesian Platonism similar to that of Malebranche, to whose more developed theories he was at times too inclined to defer. In the history of English philosophy, religion, and literature he deserves to be remembed.” [Oxford DNB] Wing N1249. ESTC r3831. $400

220. Norris, John.

An Account Of Reason & Faith: In Relation to the Mysteries Of Chris-

tianity.

London: S. Manship, 1697. 8vo. [14],346,[1], [4 ads]pp.

First Edition.

Library buckram, X-Univ. of Chicago copy.

Norris (1657-1711) was a disciple of Malebranche, and expounds his master’s doctrine of the vision of all things in God, in opposition to the philosophy of Locke. He is interesting as the last offshoot from the school of Cambridge Platonists, except so far as the same tendency is represented by Shaftesbury. His Platonism was radically opposed to the methods which became dominant in Locke’s exposition...” [DNB]. This work is in answer to Toland’s “Christianity Not Mysterious.” Wing N1243. $400

221. [Offenburg Devil] Frusius [Des Freux], Andre.

Gernsprachter Engel und Offenburgischer Teufel...Zweyer

Romisher Catholisher ... Anagrammatismo Andreae Frusio...

[Christlichen= Basle?] Germany: N.P. [1606.] c1890. 8vo.

43,[6 blank]pp.

Late 19th c. 1/2 vellum over German marbled paper, title in ms. on spine, underlines in red pencil; stamp of “Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut fur deutsche Volkskunde.” From the Adolf Spamer Collection.

Maunuscript copy of a printed work in black ink in a clear German hand on fine paper. Witch and demon on t.p.

The first major Offenburg witchcraft trial was that of Elsie Gwinner in 1601. Offenburg (modern Baden) was a town of some 2,000-3,000 inhabitants, rigidy Catholic and Jesuit directed (through its schools). It was ruled by a town council (Rath) of 22 members with 2 ex-officio priests. “Offenburg continued its witch hunts, for they were profitable to the judges, and the trials became even more lawless and brutal. The judges introduced the iron witch’s chair, on which the victim was bound and roasted into confession. This new device quickly proved the wealthiest persons witches.” [Robbins, Ency. of Witchcraft & Demonology.]

Unrecorded work in dialogue form taken from a copy that was in a libary in Frankfurt am Main at the time. It is a attack on the witch-mania in Offenburg. It is interesting to note they have reused the woodcuts from the official report of 1603.

In a clear late 19th c. German hand from an unidentified scholar (sadly someone has removed the owner/scribe’s name from the front end-paper.

See: De Backer/Sommerogel III, 1046ff. (for Frusius), not listed. $450 222. [Offenburg/Baden Witchcraft & Exorcism] Einfeltiger Christlicher unnd nützlicher Bericht von den Exorcismis

und Teufels Beschwerungen so dieses verschienene 1603. Jhar zu Offenburg furgenommen worden: Darauß ein jeder Einfeltiger Christ klar abnemmen wird daß die Papisten mit den zweyen Offenburgischen Exorcisten zween Narren uber Eyer gesetzt und anders nichts zu wegen bracht...

[N.P.] Germany:[N.P.]

[1603.] c1890. 8vo. 116, [4 blank]p.

Late 19th c. 1/2 vellum over German marbled paper, title in ms. on spine, underlines in red pencil; stamp of “Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut fur deutsche Volkskunde.” From the Adolf Spamer Collection.

Maunuscript copy of a printed work in black ink in a clear German hand on fine paper, damp wrinkled, mold stain on rear blanks.

Fine ink illustration of witch with demon on t.p.

This copy is taken from a copy of the book that was once in the Karlsruhe library. Bibliographic information on 2 pages following text. Spamer gives 1603 as the date but VD 17 only finds 1605 editions. Asthe t.p. differs in its setting from both known versions this may well represent a ‘lost’ edition.

Manuscript copy of unrecorded edition.See for 1605 edition: VD17 39:144064K & VD17 1:001179F. $300 223. Orchard, N. [or Thomas Ady?] The Docrine Of Devils, Provd To be the grand Apostacy of these later

times. An Essay tending to rectifie those Undue Notions and Apprehensions Men have about Daemons And Evil Spirits.

London: for the Author, 1676. 8vo. A1, t.p. [Lacks A2-4 prelims.] B-O8 [lacks O8 blank].

[2],205,[1 blank]pp.

First Edition.

Modern sheep, rubbed, hinges slightly opened, old dealer’s description on front paste-down; t.p. laid-down, cellotape repair on G8, tall copy with minor foxing.

The debate over the reality of witch belief occupied much print in the seventeenth century. Scot, Webster, Wagstaffe, Ady and even Robert Filmer cast doubts on its reality and it was in turn defended by Casaubon, Henry More, Glanvill, Richard Baxter,etc. Orchard, supposedly a New-Englander, and also said to be Thomas Ady wrote this work in support of Wagstaffe’s anti-witch position. Orchard held witch-mongering to be idolatrous. He is rather vehement and humorous in his decrying of the defenders but he has some coarse jokes to make about his side as well saying of Reginald Scot—”“Ergo, Reginald must be supposed a Sot, as well as a Scot.”

Wing O366A. TC I,250.ESTC r19438. Cornell, Witchcraft 424 (asserting the Ady ascription). Diabolica 10 “very rare”. Robbins 298. Coumont D99.1. Kernot 1678. $1000 224. Origen[es]; Celsus; St. Gregory of Nazianzus & St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea.

[Greek Title:] Contra Celsum Libri Octo. Eiusdem Philocalia. [Including with separate title] Origenis Philocalia De Obscuris Sacre Scripturae locis...edited by Jean Tarin. William Spencer, ed. & comm. Sigmund Gelen, Latin trans. Philocalia: Jean Tarin, ed. David Hoeschel notes.

Cambridge: William Morden for John Field, 1658. 4to.228 x175 mm.

[12],428,[2 blank],[6],110,[2],98,[38]p. First Greek Edition published in England.

Contemp. reversed calf decorated with blind rues & fluerons, rebacked in calf, gilt decoration to spine, green leather title label; repairs to outer corners of first

gathering; some foxing and minor stains. T.p. in red and black, decorated initials.

Greek and Latin text in 2 columns.

Celsus was a 2nd c. pagan philosopher whos “True Discourse” is the oldest literary attack on Christianity. We have lost the work and only know it through Origen’s reply which dates from the middle of the 3rd century, which preserves 90% of the work by Celsus. Though Celsus praises the Logos doctrine and the Christian code of morals, he objects to the exclusive claims of the Church. “Making his own some of the Jewish objections to Christianity, he criticized much in Biblical history fot its miracles and absurdities, and expressed his repugnance to the Christian doctrines of the Incarnation and Crucifixion. Objecting that Christianity, by refusing to conform to the State, undermined its strength and powers of resistance, he made an impassioned appeal to them to abandon their religious and political intolerance.” [ODCC] Wing O424.ESTC r4559. Hoffmann III,22. Dibdin (4th) 190 “the notes of Spencer are ... learned and ingenious...” $800

225. [Sammelband] Pace, Gulio; Prospero Farinacci; Johann Michael Beuther.

Pace (1): Artis Lullianae Emendate Libri IV. Quibus doceur methodus,

per quam magna terminorum generalium, attributorum, propositionum argumentorumque copia, ad inveniendum sermonem de quacunque re, amplificandum orationem; inveniendas quaestiones, ea idemque dissolvendas, suppetat.

Valencia (France): Petrus Pinellus, 1618. *4, A-E8. [8], 79p. [bound with:]

Pace (2): De Domino Maris Hadriatici discepatio...

Lyon: Bartholomaeus Vincentius, 1619. A-F8. [10],83,[2]pp. [bound after:] Farinacci: Decisiones Variae Rotae Romanae, Sive Sacri Palatii Romani, Cum Declarationibus Concilii Tridentini... Lyon: Jean Royaulx for Claude Landry, 1618. A-2K8,2L4. 495,[1],[40]p. [bound with:] Beuther: Consultationum Sive Responsorum De Jure Praelationis seu

Prioritatis inter plures concurrentes Creditioris. Libri Duo. Das ist Aussfuhrliche Fundamenta... Strassburg: Johannn Carolus, 1615. (:)8, A-2H8. [16].139ff=278; 102ff=204,[12]p. 8vo. 4 works in 1 vol.

First Edition of Pace. First edition of Beuther.

Contemp. elaborately blind-tooled pigskin, lacks ties, spine banded, title in old hand, edges blued, E1 of Farnacci paper folded, tables in Pace (1) bound upside-down with first table trimmed into, paper flaw in margin of E4 of Pace (1) no text affected; nice copies. Pace (1) has 2 tables (one double-page) Farnacci t.p. in red and black, printer’s marks on all volumes.

Pace was born in Vicenza in 1530 and studied law and philosophy in Padua. He was professor of civil law in Valencia. Deeply affected by the Reformation, he eventually moved to Geneva and became a Protestant. He died in 1635.

According to Schmidt (Aristotle and the Renaissance ), his edition of the Organon became standard. He also wrote a great many legal titles. In addition to this introduction to Lull, he performed a similar service for Ramus. There is some confusion about the first edition of this work but Rogent/Duran spends some time discussing

references to earlier printings but finally comes to the conclusio that this is the first edition (V II,158).

First Latin edition of this pocket summary of the Lullian art, by the Italian born Aristotelian and legal theorist Giulio Pace. Hillgarth groups Pace’s introduction with that of another jurist, Pierre Grégoire, as being somewhat exceptional among 17th century interpreters of Lull: both avoid digressions into alchemy, cabalism and magic, and stick more closely to Lull’s traditional interests (Ramon Lull and Lullism, p. 294).

“The most distinctive characteristic of Lull’s Art is clearly its combinatory nature, which led to both the use of complex, semi-mechanical techniques that sometimes required figures with separately revolving concentric wheels”volvelles” in bibliographical parlance-and to the symbolic notation of its alphabet.

These features justify its classification among the forerunners of both modern symbolic logic and computer science, with its systematically exhaustive consideration of all possible combinations of the material under examination, reduced to a symbolic coding.” - Pring-Mill in DSB VIII.549.

Prospero Farinacci, born October 30, 1544, Rome; died October 30, 1618, Rome. “Italian jurist whose Praxis et Theorica Criminalis (1616) was the strongest influence on penology in Roman-law countries until the reforms of the criminologist-economist Cesare Beccaria (1738-94). The Praxis is most noteworthy as the definitive work on the jurisprudence of torture. After studying law at Padua and earning a reputation as an advocate, Farinacci entered papal service under Clement VIII and was procurator general to Paul V. A staunch churchman, Farinacci upheld the inviolability of the confessional seal (i.e., the guarantee that a confession is between the confessor, the priest, and God alone) against all theories of state necessity.” [EB 11th.]

Beuther, Johann Michael (1565-1618) Jurist, professor of jurisprudence in Strassburg.

Pace (1) Palau 208040. Rogent/Duran 184. Young 265. Risse, Logik I, 118. Goldsmith, BM 17th French, 79. Pace (2) Goldsmith, BM 17th French, P80.

Farnacci: Ferreira-Ibarra, L.C. Canon Law 1970 (later ed.) Not in OCLC or RLIN. Beuther: VD17 1:059793G. Not in OCLC or RLIN. $3750

226. Palingenius, Marcellus [Pietro Angelo Manzolli, attrib].

Zodiacus Vitae, Hoc Est. De Hominis vita, studio, ac moribus optime

instituendis, Libri XII.

Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius, 1628.16mo.

A-Y8. 315,[37]p.

Contemp. vellum, soiled, front hinge cracked, repair to upper outer corner of t.p., puch-hole trough first 20 leaves in blank lower margin, paper toninglight.

Engraved t.p. with strological figures.

This is an astrological poem by Palengenius (ca.1503-1543)-a favorite of Gabriel Naudé’s. The first Latin edition appeared in ca. 1531, and it was suppressed by the Inquisition because of its critique of the church and the Pope. The inquisitors followed up on this action by disinterring Palengenius’ body and consigning it to the flames. The seventh book focuses upon the plurality of worlds and dis-

cusses the cause of motion and the purpose of pain. The eleventh book deals with astronomy, while the twelfth offers an original theory of light, which was partly followed and partly rejected by Giordano Bruno.

Chomarat in his recent edition (he utilizes this text as one of the basis of his own) argues that this is really a moral text in the tradition of Erasmus.

STCN 162816. Gardner, Astrologica, 893 (other eds.) $350

227. Palladius Galata, Bishop of Aspuna [& Helenopolis], Pseudo-Saint Ambrose et al.

[Greek Title:]Peri ton Indias ethnon kai ton Bragmanon. Palladius De Gentibus Indiae Et Bragmanibus. S. Ambrosius De Moribus Brachmanorum.

Anonymus De Bragmanibus.

Sir Edward Bysshe, ed.

London: T[homas] Roycroft, 1668. 4to. a-f4,B-O4.

[46],104pp.

Modern 1/2 calf over paper boards,title gilt, fine clean copy.

5 historiated engraved head-pieces & 6 engraved initials.

The medieval romance of Alexander and Dindimus is based on a reported series of letters from Alexander the Great to Dindimus, King of the Brahmans.

Alexander, reaching the banks of the Ganges, sends messengers across the river to Dindimus. There are five letters that pass between them which describe the people of that land, their lives and customs, and their beliefs. After the correspondence, which contrasts the active and contemplative life, Alexander erects a pillar of marble to mark his farthest spot on his trek and he turns to return home. This volume is a collection of ancient texts which includes the famous correspondence as well as related texts on Brahmin and Hindu subjects. The Palladius section comprises the first section of his Lusianic History which contains the letters and is recognized as the major source for the Alexander Romance. The Pseudo-Ambrose describes the Brahmin religious life. The anonymous tract also gives a version of the Alexander correspondence. There are also selections from Strabo, Cicero, Pliny, Plutarch, Arrian, Apuleius, Clement of Alexandria, Porphyry, Philostratus, and later writers.

Palladius Born in Galatia, 368; died probably before 431. “A disciple of Evagrius of Pontus and an admirer of Origen, he became, when twenty years of age, a monk on the Mount of Olives under a certain priest, Innocent...In 417 he changed his Diocese of Helenopolis for Aspuna in Galatia (Socrates, loc. cit.). In 420 he wrote his “Historia Lausiaca”. After that he disappears; but he died apparently before 431, in which year a certain Eusebius was Bishop of Aspuna.” [Catholic Ency.]

Bysshe, Sir Edward 1615?-1679, Garter king of arms. A modern and less prejudiced writer remarks that the praise of being a profound critic in the science of heraldry cannot justly be denied him. He is more learned and more perspicuous than his predecessors, and was the first who treated the subject as an antiquary and historian, endeavouring to divest it of extraneous matter (Dallaway, Science of Heraldry in England, 342).

Wing P211. Hoffmann III,38.Schweiger I,222. Ittig 693. $950

228. Paracelsus, Hohenheim, Philip Aureol Theophrast Bombast von; Adam Haslmayr & Valentin Weigel Philosophia Mystica, Darinn begriffen Eilff vnterschidene TheologicoPhilosophische, doch teutsche Tractätlein, zum theil auß Theophrasti Paracelsi, zum theil auch M. Valentini Weigelii, gewesenen Pfarrherrn zu Jscopaw, bißhero verborgenen manuscriptis der Theosophischen Warheit liebhabern. An jtzo in zweien Theilen zum Christlichen Vorschub, beyde Liechter, der Gnaden vnd der Natur, in vns zuerwecken, in offenen Truck gegeben. Deren Titul vnd Nahmen, wie ein jedes insonderheit von den Authoribus selbst genennet, die nachfolgende seite zeigen wirdt.

Newstadt [Frankfurt:] Lukas Jennis , 1618. 4to. A-2L4. 272p.

First Edition, variant “a”. Early 20th c. 1/4 calf and cloth;marbled endpapers, edges red, old stamp on t.p. “R. G.”, a few marginal annotations, some light browning and foxing, a small wormhole in blank margin, one small edge tear. T.p. in red and black.Head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials, one text diagram.

This work is made-up of 4 texts by Paracelsus; 2 by Adam Haselmayr 4 by Valentin Weigel.

“What Paracelsus was aiming at with his theological writings was not to establish a new sect, but on the contrary to try and deny all religious parties combating each other the very reason to exist, since he strove for a church of the spirit, subject only to God and nature. Paracelsus himself knew best that such an attempt was hopeless, as he prophetically wrote in his book De imaginibus on the subject of religious schisms: “Then soon after Luther appeared with his doctrine and one sect after the other under the guise of Lutheran doctrine, and still there is no end to this. Because there will be more sects, and each one wants to have the last word and be better and holier than the other with respect to its doctrine. And there will be no cohesion and peace in religion and in the churches, until the golden and last age”. His solution, therefore, was not to get involved with the religious factions, but to maintain silence with regard to the outside world until the completion of his medical, philosophical and theological work, and to show only few people, what “has been in my pen”. ..As a result of this enforced clandestinity, theological Paracelsism of necessity established contacts with other marginal religious movements such as the Osiandrists, Schwenckfeldians, Castellionists and other adherents of Tauler or the Theologia Deutsch. That this confrontation was an enrichment for Paracelsism needs hardly be questioned.

But it also caused a further radicalisation, as the common factors in these movements, the spiritual attitude regarding the established churches, the practiceoriented ethics and the prophetic-eschatological world view were now mutually reinforced....

Here it may already be noted that some of Haslmayr’s works even appeared in print, and under the name of Paracelsus. These are the “Astronomia Olympi Novi” or the “Theologia Cabalistica von dem volkommenen Menschen,” which were included in the Paracelsian-Weigelian compilation Philosophia Mystica of 1618. The pseudonymous publisher Huldrich Bachmeister of Regenbrunn, alias Johannes Siebmacher of Nuremberg, obviously took these two works for works by

Paracelsus. Only in the case of the added ‘Particulae’ did Siebmacher express doubts as to its Paracelsian authorship, because he could not decide whether this was only the work of a ‘disciple of the holy Theophrastia’...”Haslmayr understood the ‘Theophrastia Sancta’ to be a sort of perpetual religion, practised in concealment since the days of the apostles until the time when the ‘German Trismegistus, Philippus Theophrastus’, began publicly to expound its meaning. The basis for this true Theophrastia (and at the same time the way and the method for a true progress in all arts and sciences) were the ‘Tria cabalistica prima.

A discussion of Valentin Weigel’s writings nowadays is no easy matter, as recently the number of works definitively to be attributed to Weigel has been drastically reduced. For the evolution of Paracelsism into a religion, however, the distinction between genuine and spurious works by Weigel plays a secondary role, as first of all the entire corpus of “Weigelian” works had a simultaneous and integral effect, and secondly both Weigel as well as his collaborators, continuators and/or forgers were all enthusiastic readers of the theological and nature philosophical works of Paracelsus. Whether Weigel’s collaborators also meddled with the works of Paracelsus cannot be ruled out entirely. Had they done so, however, they merely continued an already existing tradition of both impatient radicals and able propagandists, who used Paracelsus as a stepping stone to finally rid themselves of the double yoke of the Roman Antichrist and the apocalyptic beast (this is how the old Paracelsist Johannes Montanus used to characterize the Augsburg confession).

[Carlos Gilly, Theophrastan Theophrastia Sancta. BPH on-line] VD17 3:604297L[ This is variant “a”with “Praemonitio ad Lectorem on p 47.]. Sudhoff 306. Not in Caillet, Ferguson, Wellcome $3950

229. Paracelsus: Hohenheim, Philip Aureol Theophrast Bombast von.

Chirurgische Bücher und Schrifften deß Edelen Hochgelehrten unnd

Bewehrten Philosophi und Medici, Philippi Theophrasti Bombast von Hohenheim Paracelsi genandt Jetzt auffs New auß den Originalen ... und ... Handtschrifften ... an tag geben: Auch ... in vier underschiedliche Theil ... verfasset: Sambt einem Appendice ... und volkommenen Register. Durch Johannem Huserum Brisgoium ...

Johannes Huser, ed.

Strassburg: Heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1618. Folio. 4 parts & appendix in 1 vol.):(6, A - L6, M - N4, O - Z6, Aa - Dd6, Ee8, Ff - V6, Xx8, Yy - Zz6, Aaa - Yyy6, Zzz4, Aaaa4, Bbbb5, [lacks 4B6, blank, as usual.] [12], 148, [2], 149-329, [2], 330-523, [3], 525-795, [39]p.

Second Collected Strassburg Edition with added materials.

Contemp. elaborately blind-tooled pigskin with original clasps present but lacks 1 piece of the front cover clasp-end, f.f.e.p. torn from damp and repaired, owner’s entry dated 1717 on t.p.; light dampstain & occ. mold (at rear) in lower margin throughout, some browning and foxing.

Woodcut t.p. in red and black by Ludwig Frig after Christoph Murer, port of Paracelsus on recto of ):(2 , 3 large printer’s devices, 3 text illus.

“Paracelsus was one of the most controversial and dazzling figures on the threshold between the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Trained as a physician and

surgeon, he tried to overcome certain medical and philosophical concepts common at his time. He replaced them with a natural philosophy comprising a peculiar mixture of Neoplatonic lore and Christian thought based on the Biblical word. Deeply influenced by the ideas of medieval alchemy, both theoretical and practical, he believed in the importance of experience in contrast to mere speculative theories. Following alchemical guidelines, he introduced a number of new medicinal preparations which would become influential for centuries. His attempt to explain bodily processes as alchemical operations smoothed the way for a new insight into the physiological functioning of the human body. Disappointed by the lack of approval by his colleagues, Paracelsus at times resorted to theology, wandering about as a lay-preacher, philosophically interpreting the Bible and writing religious tracts.

During his lifetime only a very few of his writings appeared in print, the bulk to be edited after his death, between 1560 and 1600. Surpassed in Early-Modern times only by Martin Luther, Paracelsus as a German language writer produced a multiplicity of treatises, the medical and natural philosophical tracts equalling the theological ones in number.” [Urs Leo Gantenbein, The Zurich Paracelsus Project] “Dieser chirurgische Band der deutschen Folioausgabe ist ganz anders zu beurteilen als die beiden medicinisch - philosophischen Bände: er ist abgesehen von der Großen Wundarznei ein vollständig neues Werk, nach Husers Handschrift gedruckt und von allergrößtem Werte für die Kenntniss Hohenheims, für die er mit den 11 Bänden der Baseler Quartausgabe die wichtigste Grundlage bildet” (Sudhoff).

VD17 3:301630V. Sudhoff 302. Bruning 1262. Ferguson, Paracelsiana, 146. Mook 192. BL 17th German B1812. Wellcome I, 4812. Krivatsy/NLM 8568. Brunet IV, 357.

Graesse V, 127. $5500

230. Partridge, John.

Defecio Geniturarum: Being an Essay toward the Reviving and Prov-

ing The True Old Principles of Astrology, Hither To Neglected...In Four Parts. The First shewing the Ground and Cause of Error. The Second contains an Examination of those Nativities by Morinus. The Third considers those done by Argol: And, The Fourth those by Mr. Gadbury, in his Collection...

London: Benj(amin) Tooke, 1697. 4to. A4,a4,b3,B2Z4. Text complete, lacks b4 blank? Catchmark correct.. [22],360pp.

First Edition.

Modern 1/4 calf over cloth, spine gilt and banded, t.p. soiled and laiddown with some marginal losses (no text affected), following leaf worn at foreedge, browning, upper margin light dampstain. Woodcut astrological charts.

Partridge, John 1644-1715, astrologer and almanac-maker. “...he issued his chief work, ‘Defectio Geniturarum, being an Essay towards the reviving and proving the true Old Principles of Astrology, in four parts,’ which remains one of the most elaborate systematic treatises on the subject. By the end of the century Partridge had won a position at the head of his profession, and drew a substantial income from his almanacs, in which the phraseology of equivocation was carried to a pitch of rare perfection.” [DNB] “All the best parts of .. this...are taken from the book written by Didacus

Placidus de Titus and published A.D. 1650 at Milan, although I am unable to find any acknowledgment of this in the Preface, &c...Probably this explains why these books are so much sought after in the present day, as they are held in high estimation...” [Gardner.] Wing P617. Gardner, Astrologica, 914. TC 3:39. $1000

231. Partridge, John.

Opus Reformatum: Or, A Treatise Of Astrology. In Which The Common Errors

of that Art are Modestly Exposed and Rejected. With an Essay towards the Reviving the True and Ancient Method laid down for our Diection by the Great Ptolomy; and more agreeable to the Principles of Motion and Nature, than that commonly Practiced and Taught. In Two Parts.

London: For Awnsham and John Churchill, 1693. 4to. A4,a4,B-Y4.

[2],xiii,[1],168pp. First Edition Contemp. mottled morocco blind rules and corner fleuron, some rubbing, rear hinge spli at bottom, small piece of leather chipped off bottom corner of rear cover, label on paper; t.p. has piece excised from top to remove old owner’s name, some contemporary astrological notes, as well as some from a later 19th century hand , a manuscript geniture of “W. W. Blanchard born July 8th 1806...died Sept.

28,1806” on front paste-down; a table of the textual genitures of famous men on the rear paste-down; bottom margin dampstain, paper evenly age toned. “...Partiridge was the acknowledged leader of this second and very different reform program. Its substance was contained in his two principal works, Opus Reformatum, appeared in 1693, and announced his intention of ‘Reviving the True and Ancient Method...by the Great Ptolemy.’ He lamented all the cheats and frauds, especially Gadbury and ‘his crowd of Errors,’ and described his own study of astrology as ‘no otherways than a Branch of Natural Philosophy...” [Patrick Curry, Prophecy And Power, 1989.]

“All the best parts...are taken from the book written by Didacus Placidus de Titus and published A.D. 1650 at Milan...Probably this explains why these books are so much sought after in the present day, as they are held in high estimation...”

[Gardner.]

Wing P625. Gardner, Astrologica,913. $1350

232. Paullini, Christian Franz.

Lycographia, Seu, De Natura & Usu Libesslus Physio-Historico-

Medicus...

Frankfurt-am-Main: Johann David Zunner, 1694. 8vo.

)(7,)(1,A-N8,O6.

[16], 214, [4]pp. First Edition.

19th c. vellum backed paste-paper boards, speckled edges, bookplate of ‘Legato Scheffeliaano,’ bookstamps of Bibliotheca Marburgensis, and Konigl.

Preussisches Haus-Archiv with release, evenly paper toned.

Emblematic engraved extra t.p., t.p. in red and black.

Paullini (1643-1712) published a series of books on the nature and folklore of animals: the dog, toad, eel, hare, ass, and wolf were all subjects of his studies. They were submitted to the ‘German Academy of the Curious as to Nature.’

Paullini was a physician with a ‘thoroughly facile pen,’ who managed to quickly gain positions at court and just as quickly lose them. Faber du Faur notes that this book ‘Contains an astoundingly long list of the fore-names and surnames compounded with the word for wolf.” In the section of supersitions surrounding wolves, he discusses werewolves.

VD 17 39:117603Y. Dunnhaupt 3091:41. Faber du Faur 782. $750

233. Pettus, John & Lazarus Ercker.

Fleta Minor. The Laws Of Art and Nature, In Knowing, Judging, As-

saying, Fining, Refining, and Inlarging the Bodies of confin’d Metals. In Two Parts.

The First contains Assays of Lazarus Erckern,,,The Second contains Essays on Metallick Words, as a Dictionary to many pleasing Discourses.

London: for the Author by Thomas Dawks, 1683. Folio. [44],345 (pp89-92 in facs.),[142]pp. First Edition.

Early 20th c 1/2 calf over marbled boards,spine repaired at head, hinges started,bookstamp of W.Ahrens on endpaper. Lacks. port., 43 large (1 in facs.) engraved illustrations.

Pettus, Sir John 1613-1690, deputy governor of the royal mines,”Originally a man of considerable wealth, he had purchased Cheston Hall, Suffolk, and other estates; but he lost more than 20,000l. in the royal cause, and in later life he appears to have been several times imprisoned for debt. In July 1679 he wrote to Sancroft from the king’s bench prison, begging for a loan of 20l. to set him free, and in 1683 he was said to be ‘now reduced to nothing.’ He was deputy governor of the royal mines for more than thirty-five years.”[DNB] Pettus composed the translation while he was in prison in the Fleet, which explains the pun in the title. The dictionary is entirely new and is the first metallurgical dictionary in English.

Ercker was inspector-general of the mines of Hungary,Transylvania, and the Tyrol, which position he held under three consecutive emperors in the 16th century. “His book was highly prized at the time, for it was a record of practical experience, and was not burdened with theories and hypothesis...The English edition is sumptuously printed with large engraved capitals, ana...’44 sculptures’ of apparatus and operations. These have been re-engraved on copper (the originals are on wood), with a change of costume in the operators from the sixteenth century to that of a hundred years later...’[Ferguson] Wing P1906. Honeyman 2461. Hoover 633. Wightnan 511. Duveen 468. Ferchl 407.

Ferguson 1,245 & II,185. Dibner 89 note. $1500

234. Pettus, John.

Foedinae Regales. Or The History, Laws And Places Of The Chief

Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland. As also of the Mint and Mony. With A Clavis Explaining some difficult Words relating to Mines, &c.

London: H. L. and R. B. for Thomas Basset, 1670. Folio. [12],108,[7],[1]pp.

First Edition.

19th c. 1/2 calf over marbled boards, rebacked, banded spine, title on red leather label, long bibliographic inscription by Gilbert R. Redgrave (bibliographer) with his bookplate; booklabel of J.A.Freilich; port. laid down with repaired tear and blank part of margin repaired,soiling and marginal dampstains. Port. of Pettus

by William Sherwin,text engravings, 2 full-page plates (small repairs to margin of one plate).

Wing P1908. Hoover 634, Sweet & Maxwell 467:4. $1500

235. Pezron, Paul-Yves. L’Antiquité des tems rétablie et défenduë. Contre les Juifs & les nouveaux chronologistes.

Paris:Widow of Edme Martin, Jean Boudot, & Estienne Martin, 1687.

4to. [12],295,[1blank],36pp. Second edition.

Contemp. vellum, leather label, colored edges, ex libris inscrip.

“Batholomei Najyrini Romani Ex Dono...Joannis Ciamyrini Die 25 Junii 1688.”

Paper lightly age-toned. Emblematic engraving on t.p., large vignette engraving on A1,head-& tail-pieces, decorated initials.

Pezron (1639-1706), Cistercian, wrote a number of works on theology and linguistics. “...a learned and ingenious Frenchman...His design here is to prove, upon the authorities of the Septuagent and profane history, that the world is more ancient than modern chronologers have supposed; and that, instead of 4000 years between the creation of the world and the birth of Christ, there were almost 6000.

The great principle on which this supposition is built is, that the Hebrew text has been corrupted, since the destruction of Jerusalem by the Jews, who otherwise must have been forced to acknowledge,upon their own principles, that the Messiah was actually come.” Chalmers xxiv,430ff.

Barbier I,220. Brunet VI,21214. Cicognara 54636. $750

236. Philo Judeaus.

Opera Exegetica in libros Mosis, De Mundi opificio, historicos &

legales, quae partim ab Adriano Turnebo...partim a Davide Hoeschelio...edita & illustrata sunt...Nunc Græce & Latine in lucem emissa ex accuratissima Sigismundi Gelenii interpretatione.

Ed. Sigismund Gelenius.

Geneva: Petrus de la Roviere, 1613. Folio. [12],904,[24]p.

Editio princeps of the complete works.

Old vellum, tears at top of hinges, title in gilt. Some dampstains, foxing and browning. Some pencil notes in margins of opening leaves.Engraved titlepage with various mythological figures represented with grotesques. Elaborate head-pieces and tail piece and decorated initials. Text in Greek and Latin.

Philo of Alexandria (ca. 25 B.C.-ca. 50 A.D.), a hellenized Jew, was known for his two embassies to the imperial court at Rome as well as his love for Platonic philosophy. His own thoughts are the fusion between a high ethical monotheism and the transcendentalist theology of Platonism, and they laid the groundwork for the Christian philosophy which was to follow. His mystical platonism was to influence Christian neo-platonism.

Gelenius (ca.1498-1554), a native of Prague, was a specialist in Greek, working for the Froben Press (Basel) as scholar, editor, corrector, and translator from the Greek. He is closely associated with both Erasmus and Melancthon, even dedicating his edition of Aristophanes to the latter, and is noted for his editions of Josephus, Appian, Velleius Paterculus, etc. as well as his edition of Philo which is offered here.There is also evidence that he also collaborated on several editions of Erasmus.

Goodenough & Goodheart, Philo, 398. Caillet 8611 “Excellente édition de texte grec..”. Hoffmann III,67. Graesse V,269. Brunet IV,614. $1750

237. Pimentel, Abraham Cohen.

[Hebrew Text:] Sefer Minhat Cohen.

Amsterdam: David De Castro Tartas, 1668. 4to. 150ff.

First Edition.

Old vellum, soiled,stamp of Jew’s College, Londonj on t.p., some marginbal soiling, good copy.

T.p. in architectural surround, tail-pieces.

“Abraham Cohen Pimentel (d.1697) celebrated rabbi of Amsterdam. He was a student of Saul Levi Morteira. He also served as hakham of the Synagogue in Hamburg. His name is associated with some of the Sabbatean rabbis of Amsterdam."Foy naõ fómente observante professor das cerimonias, e ritos judaicos, mas profundamente douto na intelligencia dos seus mysterios, como manifestaõ as obras seguintes. Oblatio Sacerdotis ex Levit. cap. 6. v. 16. consta esta obra de tres livros. “[Bibliotheca Lusitana Historica, Critica, e Cronologica. Diego Barbosa Machado, [1741].

Vinograd, Amsterdam, 360. Cowley 26. Steinschneider 4287:1.Fuks 449. Kayserling 89. $500 With Dürer Illustrations

238. Pirckheimer, Willibald & Johann Im Hoff.

Theatrum Virtutis & Honoris: Oder Tugend Büchlein Auß etlichen

fürtrefflichen Griechischen und Lateinischen Scribenten ins Teutsch gebracht.

Durch Herrn Wilibald Pirckheymern weiland Keys. May. Maximiliani I. und Caroli V. Rath und Senatorn zu Nürmberg. Auß desselben hinderlassenen Bibliothec durch einen vornemmen gelährten Man[n] mit fleiß zusam[m]en getragen/ und jetzo erst an tag geben. Mit vorgesetztem Leben deß Auctoris. ...Johann ImHoff, ed. & author of the life of Pirckheimer.

Nuremberg: Paul Kaufmann, 1606. 8vo. a-b8,a-g, A-Y8, Z4.[K8 blank, present]. [32], 110, 360p.

First Edition.

Contemp. blind-ruled vellum, lacks ties, some worm damage to front cover, yapp fore-edge, f.f.e.p. renewed, bookplate of Hanns & Irmgard Tucher von Himmelsdorf, inner margin worming in last 3 leaves (letters slightly touched), repairs to lower margin of large folding plate (some minor losses and stain at the lower edge from repair), small expert repair to one other plate, small stain on port. of Pirckheimer, in very good condition.

Pirckheimer portrait by Durer (folded), [Hollstein 103b; Meder 103]; arms

of Pirckheimer by Heinrich Ulrich (folded) ; folding table of Antedotarium; plate of Tribulatio, Spes, Tolerantia, Invidia with a triple hammer and a heart on an anvil which bears the Pirckheimer arms after Durer; and car of Maximilian (folding) reduced size after a sketch

by Durer “...of which P[irckheimer] was the inventor, and which brings him within the roll of emblematists” [Praz] Pirckheimer (1470-1530), “ ...he acquired a comprehensive humanistic education in the fields of literature, philosophy, history, and science. The thoroughness of his learning would later assure him a leading position among the German scholars of his day...[He] was unencumbered by business concerns, and as a man of considerable wealth pursued his personal tastes and scholarly interests whenever his civic duties left him at home to do so. He spent his money on the promotion of arts and letters as well as on the enlargement of the sizable library he had inherited from his father.”

“Hans ImHoff, Willibald’s great grandson, published a ‘Tugenbuchlein’ which contained some of Pirckheimer’s German translations and a short biography based in part on his own notes.” [Contemporaries of Erasmus] “Being a man of varied interests, Pirckheimer became interested also in art and antique architecture. This is reflected in his keeping a sketchbook with drawings and developing a close friendship with the painter Albrecht Dürer. Pirckheimer provided Dürer with a link to the elite group of German humanists who tended to disassociate themselves from the artists and craftsmen. This link had a bearing on Dürer as an artist. Engraving became Dürer’s favorite personal artistic medium, and for his humanist friends he engraved sensuous female nudes. Dürer also provided illustrations for Pirckheimer’s own writings and translations of the Classics.[ Eliza Choo Poh Ling on line] The work is rare with the four plates complete.

VD17 12:114668N. BL 17th c.German P679. Praz 456. Graesse V,303. Heyse 191. Fairfax- Murray, German, 334. OCLC: 26788861. $7500

239. Plato.

De Rebus Divinis Dialogi Selecti Graeci & Latine, Socratis Apologia,

Crito, Phaedo, E. Libb. Legum Decimus, Alccibiades Secundus, De Religione, De Justo, De Animae Immortalitate, De Dei Existentia, De Precibus: In commodas Sectiones dispertiti...Editio Secunda, Auctior & Emendatior. John North ed. & Marsiglio Ficino, Latin trans.

Cambridge: John Hayes & John Creed, 1683. 8vo.

A-R8. [16],256pp.

Second edition of the first collection (1673) of Plato’s dialogues printed in England.

Modern morocco-backed marbled boards, edges speckled red, small ink stain on last leaf, nice copy.T.p. in red and black, printer’s ornaments.

North, D.D., 1645-1683, professor of Greek and master of Trinity College, Cambridge. “He was a diligent student from his boyhood, and, after proceeding to the usual degrees, he was made fellow of his college in September 1666, and began to get together a huge library, which he continued to add to during all his life.

‘Greek,’ says his brother Roger, ‘became almost vernacular to him.’ ...There can be no doubt that North read himself to death, and overtaxed powers which appear to have been of a high order,” [DNB] Wing P2407. Hoffmann III,124. $500

240. Plattes, Gabriel.

A Discovery of Infinite Treasure, Hidden Since the Worlds Begin-

ning. Whereunto all men of what degree soever, are friendly invited to be sharers with the Discoverer G.P..

London: J[ohn].L[egat]., 1639. 4to. 176 x 123mm.A4,a4,B-P4,Q2.

[2, blank], 33, [1], 92, [1 errata], [1 blank]pp. First Edition.

19th c. 1/4 blue calf, lightly rubbed; trimmed along fore-edge with minor loss, some soiling.

Plattes, Gabriel fl. 1638, writer on agriculture, said to have been of Dutch extraction, was one of the earliest advocates in England of an improved system of husbandry, and devoted much time and money to practical experiments.” [DNB] First edition of this rare work by Plattes. It is occasionally listed as a variant edition of his Discovery of Subterraneall Treasure but that is an error. It is a completely different work of “an orginal genius in husbandry who began his observations in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth’s reign...” [Ferguson] Among his references are mention of the newly founded plantations in America, and new agricultural machines.

This copy has the cancel t.p. with “ver.” in the Biblical quote and with the errata leaf.

STC 19998. Ferguson, II,208 (not in Young Collection). Ferguson, Glasgow, II,567.

Wellcome I,5100. Partington II,103. Sotheran 907,31. ESTC s114836. Not in Duveen, Hoover. $2000

241. Pococke, Edward [& Edward Bernard.]

A Commentary In The Prophecy Of Micah. [bound with:]

A Commentary On The Prophecy of Malachi. [together with:] A Commentary In The Prophecy of Hosea. [contains:]”A letter of Dr. Edward Bernard professor of astronomy in Oxford to Dr. Edward Pocock ...”

Oxford:At the Theatre, 1677-1685. Folio. 2 vols. contaning three works.

Micah: *-2*4, Aa-Oo4. Malachi: *2, 6A-6O4, 6P2. [6N2-6P2 bound out-oforder]Hosea: (*) [*1 imprimatur bound at end], A-Z 2A-2Z 3A-3Z 4A-4Z 5A-5K 5L-5M (a)-(h) . [16],110, [2]; [4], 109, [6],[1]; [8], 816 (misnumbered716), [7], [1], [30]p. First Editions.

Micah/Malachi bound in contemp. mottled calf, spine banded, rubbed, front hinge cracked at ends, marbled edges,hole repairs in both t.p.s (minor losses),t.p.s soiled. text clean. Hosea in handsome contemp. patterned calf with blind rules, spine banded, edges speckled in colors, occ. underlines, fine clean, crisp copy. Both volumes have presentation inscriptions on f.f.e.p.s to Eric von Roland (1675-1754) diplomat from Johann Ihre (1707-1780) prominent Swedish humanist and philologist dated February 2, 1736 with von Roland;s signatures on t.p.

Engr. vignette of Oxford Theatre on t.p.s, engraved chart on (h)2 of Hosea. Some use of Hebrew and Arabic fonts.

Pococke, Edward (1604-1691), oriental scholar. “Pococke was the finest European Arabist of his time (only Golius could compare with him), and among the greatest of all time. He possessed not only a breadth and depth of learning astonishing in an age when most Arabic literature still had to be read in manuscript, but also a sympathy and understanding for Islamic culture almost unique in an intellectual climate in which suspicion and hatred for other sects and religions were the norm. His published work was long influential, and is still instructive. He was also an accomplished Hebraist, well read in rabbinical writings... He produced a series of commentaries on the minor prophets, beginning with Micah and Malachi in 1677, and ending with Joel in 1691, the year of his death. The commentaries were in English, but contain much oriental learning, with quotations in the original languages.” [Oxford DNB] Bernard, Edward (1638-1697), mathematician and Arabist. “Guided by Edward Pococke’s lectures, he mastered Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and later Coptic; his personal library catalogue of 1658 already listed Arabic and Hebrew books (now Bodl.

Oxf., Lat. misc. MS f.11, fols. 14-17). In 1661 he contributed Arabic verses to Epicedia academica Oxoniensis on the death of Princess Mary, and Edmund Castell asked him to join in preparing the Lexicon heptaglotton, which he declined. He then studied Hebrew privately with Isaac Abendana, and mathematics with John Wallis; after proceeding MA on 16 April 1662, he became college reader in mathematics in 1663...Pococke’s Commentary on the Prophecy of Hosea (1685) included Bernard’s substantial appendix on ancient weights and measures, which he corrected and enlarged as De mensuris et ponderibus antiquis (1688).” [Oxford DNB] This work was seemingly the first (and only) book to use Oxford’s English Samaritan (cf. Hart 184) & Pica Coptic (Morison 161) types cut by de Walpergen. These are found in the final section: A treatise by E. Bernard, Prof. of Astronomy at Oxford, on ancient weights and measures.

Micah: Wing P2663. Madan III,3157. ESTC r8469.

Malachi: Wing P2661A. Madan III, 3158. ESTC r216989.

Hosea: Wing P2660. ESTC r30110. $1500

242. Porphyry [Prophyrius].

[Greek Title] De non necandis ad epulandum animantinus Libri IIII. Francis de Fogerolles,ed.& trans.

Lyon: Claude Morillon, 1620. 8vo. [72],464,[8]p.

First Greek-Latin Bi-lingual Edition.

Early 19th c. full calf, gilt rules, spine gilt, title label, edges marbled to match marbled endpapers; minor edge worming at end, several pages of early notes on the blanks at the end. Small medallion portrait of Porphyry on t.p.., headand tail-pieces, decorated initials.

Porphyry (A.D. 232/3-c305) scholar, philosopher, student of religion, and vegetarian. He wrote numerous works on philosophy, religion, philology, harmony. embryology, logic, etc.

This is his famous work on the abstinence from the eating of animal flesh with some smaller works, and a life of Porphyry by Eunapius.

Schweiger I,274. Caillet 8841. Vicaire 704. Bitting 377. Bagnasco 1352. $1000

243. Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della.

Della Celeste Fisonomia Libri Sei. Nei Quali Ributtata La Vanita Del-

l’Astrologia Giudiciaria... Salvatore Scarano? trans.

Padua: Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1616. 4to. ¶4,A-S4,T2, ¶¶2 [Last signature bound out-of-order.]

[8],144,[8]pp.

First Italian Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum,tear in spine, lacks ties, bookplate of Kurt Seligman and Bibliotheca Terzi, t.p. soiled, some foxing, a few minor stains, a few old pen additions to the cuts.. Large printer’s device on t.p.,large text woodcut portraits, physiognomical cuts, zodiac signs, full-page portrait of Porta, etc. “An article by Casey A. Wood (New York,1935) draws the conclusion from Porta’s book, The Celestial Physiognomy, that the Neapolitan physician believed in astrology.

Wood attributes this ‘superstition’ to the influence of the Church. But both assertions are erroneous. The Church by no means appointed herself a promoter of astrology, and in the book mentioned, Porta states repeatedly that neither complexion nor inclination derives from the stars but rfrom man’s humors...” [Seligman, The Mirror of Magic.]

This is the first Italian trnslation of Porta’s Coelestis physiognomoniae.

BL 17c Italian 700. Bruni/Evans 4216. Rosenthal, Magica, 1003. Casanatense 355.

Krivatsy/NLM 9173. Wellcome 5210. Gottlieb 234. Other eds.: Garrison/Morton (4) 150. “He was the founder of physiognomy.” Caillet 8849. Gardner, Astrologica,1030. Esoterica 3725 “Le plus rare des ouvrages de Porta.”Houzeau/Lancaster 5013. $1500

244. Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della.

Natural Magick By John Baptista Porta, A Neopolitane: In Twenty

Books: 1. Of the Causes of Wonderful things. 2. Of the Generation of Animals. 3. Of the Production of new Plants. 4. Of increasing Household-Stuff. 5. Of changing Metals. 6. Of counterfeiting Gold. 7. Of the Wonders of the Load-stone. 8. Of strange

Cures. 9. Of Beautifying Women. 10. Of Distillation. 11. Of Perfuming. 12. Of Artificial Fires. 13. Of Tempering Steel. 14. Of Cookery. 15. Of Fishing, Fowling, Hunting, &c. 16. Of Invisable Writing. 17. Of Strange Glasses. 18. Of Statick Experiments.

19. Of Pneumatick Experiments. 20. Of the Chaos. Wherein are set forth All the Riches and Delights Of the Natural Sciences.

London: Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658. Folio. π1,2π1,C2,D-3I4.

[8],128,[131],130-384,381-388,393-409.[1],[6]pp. [Incorr. pagination, state 2 with pp.

133 & 120 correctly numbered].

First English Edition.

19th c. 1/2 calf over marbled boards, spine banded, decorated in blind, title gilt, corners rubbed; edges sprinkled, marbled endpapers, bookplate of John R. de Premorel,small chip from corner of t.p., some pages foxed and others age toned, a few spots, a very good copy. Engraved t.p. by Richard Gaywood, text cuts. T.p. in red and black.

“Porta’s Magiae naturalis, his best known work, was first published in four books in 1558, and then in an expanded twenty-book version in 1589, from which the present translation is derived. The treatise epitomizes the combination of credulity and empiricism typical of the late Renaissance: uncritical reports of the marvelous and miraculous and holdovers from medieval books of secrets are mixed with attempts to define natural magic and to apply mathematical and experimental techniques to science. In this latter category fall Porta’s investigations of the magnet, agriculture, animal breeding, and most especially his contributions to the study of optics. Although he did not, as he claimed, anticipate Galileo in the invention of the telescope, Porta was the first to add a concave lens to the aperture of the camera obscura, and his comparison of the camera lens to the pupil of the eye provided an easily understood demonstration that the source of visual images lay outside the eye, thus ending a centuries-old controversy.” [Norman Cat.] Wing P2982. Bruning 1964. Toole-Stott, Conjuring, 576. Wheeler Gift 646. Ferguson II,216n. ESTCr033476. Norman 1726. Krivatsy/NLM 9193. Wellcome IV,418. Galland, Cryptography, 148. Simon, Gastronomy,116. Henssler, Gastronomy,592. $8000

245. Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della.

Natural Magick ...

London: Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658. Folio. π1,2π1,C2,D-3I4.

[Lacks P2 & P3, pp 91-94.]

First English Edition.

Contemp. sheep, blind ruled, title on red morocco label, rubbed and worn, endpapers renewed; engraved t.p. laid-down with some loss to inner margin, a worn and with a softening of the paper due to damp, loss to inner margin of last index leaf, occ. tears, minor stains, etc. A good copy only of a very rare and desirable book. $2500

246. Praetorius, Johannes [Hans Schultze] Philogemata Abstrusa De Pollice: In Quibus Singularia Animadav-

ersa: vom Diebes-Daume Et Manu: Item De Patibulo, Virgula Mercuriali, Alruna, Esu Casei magico &c. Gerrae Profanorum Refutatae Cum Revelata Origine Vera Et

Admiranda Superstitionum; Et Virga Critica Castgata Habentur Aliquot Loca Ambigua Prlmaria Celeberrimorum Grammaticorum.

Leipzig: Johann Ockel in Sagen for Eliae Fiebig, 1677. 4to. A-2D4.

216pp. First Edition.

19th c.,paste-paper boards, rubbed a few pencil notes and underlines in red, a very good copy.

Raised thumb and hand on t.p.

“Praetorius [1630-1680] had an open eye and a sharp ear for all wonder stories, witch tales, and accounts of ghosts and sorcery current among the people.

He indefatigably collected all information on remarkable subjects and happenings, and was fond of popular gossip, even of the uncouth type...[Philologemata] Deals with the superstitious belief that a finger cut off from the hand of a hanged thief serves as a good luck charm, and with vagabonds, diving rods, etc.” [Faber du Faur].

“Kompilation interessanter Materialien zur Geschichte des Aberglaubens, darunter der im Titel hervorgehobene Volksglauben, das der abgesachnittene Daumen eines gehangten Diebes Gluck bringe.” [Dunnhaupt.]

“Ce curieux traite donne, 3 siecles a l’avance une idee de la mensuration actuelle du ponce des criminels.” [Caillet.]

VD17 3:009744R. Dunnhaupt 3182:58. Faber du Faur 764. Caillet 8951. Bruckmann, Bibl. Anima. 195. Hayn, Praetorius, 83. Rosenthal, Magica, 1904. Seebass II,761.

Waiber 1089. Zancke 528. Zedler XXIX,147.Graesse, Magica, 31 & 106. BL 17th c.

German S1487. $1250

247. Praetorius, Johannes.[Hans Schultze].

Storchs und Schwalben Winter-Quarier, Das ist, Eine ungemeine

Vergungung der curiosen Gemuther, durch einen vollstandigen Physicalischen Discurs, von obgedachten Sommer-Boten, wie auch andern unstet-lebenden Vogeln und Thieren.

Frankfurt & Leipzig: Christian Weidmann, 1676. 8vo. A-2F8,2G7. [Lacks )(4 (dedication), 2G8, blank, and index.] Text complete. [32 of 40],445pp. Lacks 1 blank and 7pp index. First Edition.

Contemp. 1/2 vellum,printed paperlabel, edges red,old owner’s stamp on t.p., browning and foxing, some minor marginal worming, VD17 3:304628N. Hayn, Praetorius, 86. Dunnhaupt 54:1. Bruckmann, Bibl. anim.

196. Goedeke III,239:15,12. Graesse V,432. Haydinger I,2,825. Heyse 1950. Kreysig, Bibl. Venat.,162. Waibler 1083. Zarncke 528. Rosenthal, Magica, 1907 (var. t.p. as mentioned in Dunnhaupt). $600

248. Praetorius, Johannis (Hans Schuze) & Robert Fludd.

Ludicrum Chiromanticum Praetorii: seu Thesaurus Chiromantiae,

Locupletissimus: multis Iocis & amoenitatibus, pluribus tamen seriis instructissimus: Ex omnibus, qui proparum litterarum monumentis consignarunt, Scriptoribus refertissimus: plurimis perspicuis Iconibus,evidentibus experimentis, & singulari Mnemonica Methodo elaboratissimus: in quo utilitas cum jucunditate

pari passu amblant; uti praefamen ulterius declarabit... [includes, as issued] Centrifons Idolum Jani Hoc est: Metoposcopia Seu Prosopomantia completissima & hactenus desideratissima...Arnstadt & Leipzig:1661.

Leipzig & Jena: Johannes Bartholomeo Oehler & Kaspar Freyschmidt, 1661. 4to. a-e4,A4, B2, C-7K4, )(4 - 5):(4, A4, B2, a-f4. [4], 36, 156, 157 - 190 folia,

215 - 10026 [i.e. 1026],[2],14, 301 - 340, [60]pp. First edition.

Contemp vellum,title in old hand,browning ( as usual), minor wormingto end-sheets; 2H4. 4F4, & 6Y1 folded to prevent loss from trimming. Large copy with very good margins.

Elaborate engraved title incorporating palms, celestial physiognomy and figures of Hermes Trismegistus, Indagine, Goclenius, as well as text from the Bible taken to refer to palmistry by J. B. Paravitinus. Many woodcut text figures illustrating palmistry, metoposcopy, etc.Folding plate of magical alphabets, Praetorius’ (1630-1680) work is a compilation of works on chiromancy.

“Perhaps the most remarkable chiromantical work of the seventeenth century...As a whole, Ludicrum Chiromanticum is invaluable to the study of early palmistry; little of the material is new, but the assembled texts represent almost all shades of teaching on chiromancy, and between them they are a fairly complete commentary on the art as it was practiced up till that time.” [Gettings 181]. Fludd’s work on chiromancy occupies much of the first part of the volume (pp157-190).

VD 17 identifies two variant printings of this complex bibliographical book. This version has no dedcation to Johann Georg III, Duke of Saxony at the beginning and the side-note on A1r reads “In imprefso/ exemplari Ro-/ daploita no ha-/ bentur seqq.” The treatise “Centifrons Idolum Jani...” is bound after the page (incorrectly numbered) 10026 in this copy. Faber du Faur comments on this inclusion indicating it as an error but as all copies have it in this form, it seems intentional.

VD17 1:063431P. Dunnhaupt 3153:8.1(same collation as ours). Sabattini 443 “Raro”.

Caillet 8950. Krivatsy/NLM 9254. Graesse, Magica,104.Casanatense 1001.

Esoterica,3772. Faber du Faur 745b. Hayn, Praetorius, 81. BL 17th German S1483. $3750

249. Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco de.

The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Bellegas, Knight of the Order of St. James. Made English by R. L. Roger L’Estrange, trans.

London: for Henry Herringman, 1667. 8vo. A4, B-Y8, Z4. [8], 344p.

18th c. calf, gilt rules, spine cracked in center; armorial bookplate of Sir William Abdy & his signatures.Second edition.

Don Francisco Quevado Y Villegas (1580-1645) one of the greatest of Spanish authors who wrote poetry, satires, novels and moral treatises. This work on the seven visions of Algouazil, the demon, after Dantesque themes The “Suenos” were written between 1606-1622 but did not appear until 1627 as they were not approved by the censors. These satiric “Visions” attack many of man’s foibles from greed to sexual license.

Wing Q196a. Palau 244176. Caillet 9044. $400

250. Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco de.

The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Bellegas, Knight of the Order of St. James. Made English by R. L. Roger L’Estrange, trans.

London: for H. Herringman, 1667. 8vo. A2-4, B-Y8, Z4.

[6], 344p.

First English edition.

Full contemporary calf, blind tooled ruling, corners chipped and worn.

Spine creased, with some damage to head and tail. Red speckled edges, lacks endpapers. Browning, foxing, occasional dampstain. Upper right corners of M2 and Z4 missing, only effecting border heading on the former and a bit more on the latter.

Wing Q196. Palau 244176. Caillet 9044. $500

251. Raemond [Raymond], Florimond de.

Historia De Ortu, Progressu, Et Ruina Hæreson Huius Sæculi. Auctore

Florimundo Ræmundo Galliarum Regis Curiua Burdigalensi Cionsiliario. E Gallica in Latinum conversa.

Cologne: Gerhard Grevenbruch, 1614. 4to.[8], 615; [8], 1-639. [7]p.

Blind-gilt pigskin, original binding, both clasps removed.

Raemond (1540-1602), humanist and jurist Bordeaux,one of the most widely read French authors of his age. He was converted to Protestantism in his youth but he returned to Roman Catholicism and became a fervent defender of the faith and wrote in opposition to Protestantism. This work was a partisan attack on Luther and even moreso on Calvin.This work sought to establish the cultural and religious superiority of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.”

VD17 23:236286F. BM(Micro), vol. 21, p.44, 958. $350

252. Raguseo, Giorgio.

Epistolarum Mathematicarum Seu De Divinatione, Libri Duo. Quibus

non solum Divinatrix Astrologia, verum etiam Chiromantia, Physiognomia, Geomantia, Nomantia, Cabala, Magia, caeteraeque huius generis superstitiosae disciplinae tanquam inanes exploduntur, & naturalibus rationibus a fundamentis penitus euertuntur. His accessit eiusdem autoris disputatio de puero, & puella, qui superioribus annis Patauij, occasione magni cuiusdam incendij, e ruinis extracti...

Charles Annibal Fabrot (1580-1659, ed.

Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1623. 8vo. a4,A-2T8,3V4.

[8], 643,[33]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum backed in calf, spine gilt, title gilt on leather label, spine defective at top, rear hinge opened, lacks ties, miniscule wormtrack in blank margin of a few leaves, some old notes and pencil marks, a few leaves lightly toned; good margins.

Raguseo [von Ragusa], 1579-1622, studied in Venice and Padua, Professor of philosophy at Padua. He studied the astrology of the Chaldeans and Arabs under Ottavio da Ganda e Barocio. He was a philologist, mathematician, and physician. His philosophical specialty was Aristotle.

This work is quite rare.The occasionally reported 1620 edition is a ghost.

Gardner, Astrologica 1053. Caillet 9107. Casanatense 1030. Sabattini 446 (inc. date) “poco comune.” Riccardi I,336 (not seen.)Lohr II,372. Campe 611. Gerlach Raguseo 1623. $3750

253. Ramesey [Ramsey], William.

An Introduction To The Judgement of the Stars. Wherein The Whole

Art of Astrology Is plainly Taught...[Astrologia Restaurata; Or, Astrologie Restored: Being An Introduction To The General and Chief part of the Language of the Stars.

In Four Books.]

London: Robert White, 1653. Folio. π 2 of 4 [Lacks t.p. & dedication leaf, G1 half-title has been placed in the front as a t.p.], (a)-(d)4, B-F3 [Lacks blank F4], [G1 is used as a t.p. at the front], G2-6, H-P4,Q6,R-2C4,2D6, 2E-2S4,2T6, 2U-2X4.

[4 of 8], 29, [3], 39, [14] , 49-112, [12], 121-333, [19]p.

First Edition?

20th c. calf in Cambridge panel design, spine banded, title gilt, ink stain at edge of some pages, some foxing, light corner dampstain at end, corner of last leaf restored with no loss of text, occ. soiling, stains or fingermarks but a nice copy overall. Lacks. port.

William Ramesey (1627-1675) was physician in ordinary to Charles II. “He spelt his name Ramesey (which, he said, meant ‘joy and delight’), because he thought his ancestors came from Egypt” [DNB] This edition contains Ramesey’s answer to some earlier criticisms written in the form of a postscript. The work deals with all of the knowledge of astronomy at the time, names of stars, biblical references, eclipses, comets, blazing-stars, signs of the zodiac. There is a long introduction where, “Ramesey discourses on the fashions and frivolities of the Commonwealth period.” [Mellon, p.361.]

As this copy lacks its proper t.p. and the pagination of the first two editions are the same we cannot tell if it is the 1653 or 1654 edition.

Gardner, Astrologica, 1063. Wing R201? Mellon, 105. ESTC r20735. $1000

254. Ramesey [Ramsey], William.

An Introduction To The Judgement of the Stars....

London: Robert White, 1653. Folio. π 2 of 4 [Lacks t.p. & dedication leaf, G1

half-title has been placed in the front as a t.p.], (a)-(d)4, B-F4 [with blank F4], [G1 is used as a t.p. at the front], G2-6, H-P4,Q6,R-2C4,2D6, 2E-2S4,2T6, 2U-2X4.

Contemp. polished sheep, rebacked, endpapers renewed, marginal dampstains. Lacks. port.

As this copy lacks its proper t.p. and the pagination of the first two editions are the same we cannot tell if it is the 1653 or 1654 edition.

Wing R201? ESTC r20735. Gardner, Astrologica, 1063. Mellon, 105. $1000

255. Ramesey [Ramsey], William.

Astrologia Restaurata; Or, Astrologie Restored: Being An Introduction

To The General and Chief part of the Language of the Stars. In Four Books.

Folio. π2 [of 4,Lacks t.p.(supplied in facs. in

London: Robert White, 1653?

old paper), & dedication leaf], (a)-(d)4, B-H4 [H4 blank present], G6, H-P4,Q6,R2C4,2D6, 2E-2S4,2T6, 2U-2X4.

Contemp. sheep, old rebacking using original spine, title on paper label, corners broken, endpapers renewed when it was rebacked,ownership of Robert Bridges dated 1859 pn B1r and facing page, some contemporary and later 19th c. marginalia, minor wormingin inner margin, occ. stains. Lacks. port.

As this copy lacks its proper t.p. and the pagination of the first two editions are the same we cannot tell if it is the 1653 or 1654 edition.

Gardner, Astrologica, 1063. Wing R201-3. Mellon, 105. $1000

256. Rivière, Lazar de la. [Riverius.]

[Opera Omnia:] Opera Medica Universa Quibus Continentur.I. Institu-

tionum Medicarum...II.Praxeos Medicae...III. Observationum Medicarum & curationum insignium, Centuriae quatuor cum observat....Editio Ultima Auctior Et Correctior.

Johann Daniel Horst, ed.

Frankfurt: Johann Peter Zubrodt & Paul Humm, 1669. Folio. [4],700,39p.

Second Collected Edition.

Contemp vellum, yapp fore-edge, red edges,old stamp on half title,signature on t.p. corner,pages evenly toned.

Emblematic engraving on t.p..

Riviere (1589-1655) professor of medicine at Montpellier. “Rivière introduced Paracelsian iatrochemistry into the curriculum of the University of Montpellier, and added Potio Riveri to the pharmacopeia. It was under his auspices that Alexander Fraser introduced the Hareian theory of the circulation of the blood...Rivière is best remembered for having been the first to describe stenosis of the aortic valve.” [Norman] His work “observationes medicae” was attacked by Gui Patin while it was still in the press. “The book of M. Rivière is the most miserable work I have seen. He is neither a philogian, nor a philosopher nor a physician.

His whole book teaches nothing but charlatanism.” (as quoted by Thorndike VII,527) Thorndike adds, “Evidently many readers of medical works did not share Patin’s views...”

VD17 12:168956R. Krivatsy/NLM 9691. Hirsch IV,830. Garrison-Morton 2727 (1674 ed.) $650

257. Riviere, Lazare de la.

Les Observations e Medecine... Qui Continnent Quarte Centuries de

Guerisons tres remarquables: Ausquelles on a joint des Observations qui luy avoient ete communiquees. Ouvrage tres-utile non seulment aux Medicins mais encor aux Chirgiens & Apothicaires.Francois Deboze, trans.

Lyon: Guillaume Chaunod for Jean Certe, 1680. 8vo. a4, A-3L8. [Wellcome & NLM reports 8 opening leaves with the first blank which does not agree with ours. Another copy on-line also reports 8 pages before the text. It may well be that there are two variant editions as the other copies do not list Chaunod as the printer.] [8],823,[89]p.

First French Edition.

Contemp French mottled calf, spine banded & gilt, head of spine a little

worn, edges speckled red, manuscript index in an early hand on endsheets; name crossed-out on t.p., small hole in t.p. (no text affected), some light foxing and browning, owner’s signature on rear paste-down with medical bookplate of “W. M. Weber,” Wellcome III, 534. Krivatsy/NLM 9721. $500

258. Rothman, Johan, attrib.

Tabulae Chiromanticae Lineis Montibus Et Tuberculis Manus Constitutionem hominum, & fortunae vires ostendentes. Nunc primum uci datae.

N.P. [Frankfurt am Main?] N.P. 1613. 4to. a-c4. 23,[1]p. [incorrect pagination]

First Edition.

19th c. mottled calf,spine banded, gilt title, some foxing and minor stains.

Full-page woodcut of chiromantic hand, device on t.p., head-piece.

“Johann Rothmann, a physician and philosopher of Anhalt who is mentioned several times in the correspondence of Tycho Brahe, published at Erfurt in 1595 a work on chiromancy and its agreement with astrology... He has tried to se forth the canons of chiromancy in a brief systematic form, to contribute some observations of his own, and to substantiate the asserted harmony of chiromancy and astrology by a number of living examples.” [Thorndike] “Questo opusculo non porta il nome dell’authore, ma non e che la riproduzione quasi testuale dell Chiromantie Theorica del Rothmann.” [Sabattini] VD 17 23:257460U. Sabattini 475 “raro.” Fitzgerald 494A. Campe 601. Gerlach Anon.

1613. BL 17th German R1158. $750

259. Rovenius (Rouveen), Philipp, Apostolic Vicar of Utrecht.

Reipublicae Christianae Libri Duo, Tractantes de variis Hominum stat-

ibus, Gradibus, officiis, & functionibus in Ecclesia Christi...Accessit eiusdem auctoris Tractatus de missionibus instituendis.

Antwerp: Arnold a Brakel, 1668. 4to. 2pts in 1 vol.

[46],573,[1],53 (mispaginations.)

Third Edition.

Contemp. vellum, edges red, minor stains, very nice copy. Religious device on t.p., t.p. in red and black.

Archbishop and later Apostolic vicar of Utrecht, Rovenius (1575-1651), Jansenist. The Diocese of Utrecht, Holland, was founded in AD 722 by St. Willibrord. The right of the Chapter of Utrecht to elect the bishop of The Diocese was recognized in AD 1145. In AD 1520 the Bishop of Utrecht was given the right to adjudicate matters in his diocese without appeal or recourse to Rome. In AD 1559, when the war with France had ended, Philip II of Spain, the hereditary ruler of the Netherlands, persuaded the Pope to elevate The See of Utrecht to an archbishopric, with five new dioceses under it (Haarlem, Deventer,Groningen, Leeuwarden and Middelburg). Having survived the Calvinist Reformation in Holland as an underground Church, the Dutch Roman Catholic faithful were suddenly subjected to the political ambitions and maneuverings of the Jesuits, who fought to have Rome declare The See of Utrecht a missionary district under their control. At first failing in this battle to gain control of The Church in Holland, the Jesuits adopted a new tac-

tic in AD 1691 by accusing Peter Codde, The Archbishop of Utrecht, of espousing the so-called heresy of Jansenism.

Roverius was made archbishop by Pope Paul V in 1614 but in his reformation of the chapter in 1633 was founded as an apostolic vacarage. [Cf DTC v15,2393-5; Nieuw Neder. Biog. Woordenboek, IV,1172-1178] His Reipublicae Christianae was a popular treatise in its time giving the duties of churchmen, politicians, and the people in the “Christian Republic.” It discuses the duties and obligations of all the orders of society from the highest to the most common from the king to children. It even discusses the arts, philosophy, and science. A long section is devoted to astrology, superstition, divination, demons,, magic, and exorcism.

Appended is a work on the mission for conversion of infidels and heretics.

Since the Church of Utrecht was accused of Jansenism by the Jesuits this is an interesting piece. BNCI 12452. $500

260. Ruland, Martin, the Elder.

Lexicon Alchemiae Sive Dictionarium Alchemisticum Cum obscurio-

rum Verborum & Rerum Hermeticarum, tum Theophrast-Paracelsicarum Phrasium, Planam Explicationem continens.

Frankfurt am Main: Zacharias Palthenius, 1612. 4to. ):(4, A-3P4.

[8],471,[1]p. Pagination errors.

First Edition.

Contemp. German calf-backed paste-paper boards, rear hinge cracked, rubbed; old label on front paste-down, owner’s name “Godfridus Vogler,Francof,” leaf M1 creased so it would not be cut short in binding; wormtrack in later part of volume (no affecting text); light browning (much better than the usual copies).

Alchemical symbol on t.p.,2 marginal woodcuts; head-pieces, decorated initials.

Ruland (1532-1602) physician at Lauingen in Swabia “where he is said to have taught medicine in the gymnasium, and he was physician of the Pfalzgraf Philip Ludwig, and of the Emperor Rudolph II... He was in favour of Paracelsus’ reforms but he dealt greatly in secret remedies..” [Ferguson] “This lexicon is very full, less mystical and more practical than some later ones. Useful in explaining early terminology” [Bolton].

VD17 23:292766X. Bruning 1040. Ferguson II,303. Ferguson, Glasgow, 613. Duveen 592. Bolton I, 1041. Rosenthal, Magica, 8873 “fort rare.” Sudhoff, Paracelsica, 291. $2250

261. Rustingh, Salomon van.

Duvels Leven On Der De Duvelen; Ofte Duvels Dispuyt Om’t Opper-

Duvelschap, tervvijl den Groten Opper-Duvel (als een Boeren Hond) aan de Keten leyt. [issued with:] Barbarologia, Sijnde de Sleutel der Grandiloquentia Paganismi, Ofte Boeren-Latyn. So als by Voorname Boeren, en fommige Stedelingen, in Zuyden Noord-Holland, seer geleerdelijk van haar gesproken wort. Als mede en KroegPraatjen, Daar al de aardigheden van’t Boeren-Latyn in getoont werden.

Amsterdam: Jan Claez ten Hoorn, 1693-4. 8vo. 2 works in 1 vol.

A-O8; AD8. A-O8, [2]A-[2]D8 [Lacks 2E-F8.] 224;64 [lacks pp 65-93.]

First Editions.

Later decorated paper boards, covers detached; some light dampstains, foxing, last leaf soiled.

2 Engraved extra-titles.

Salomon van Rustingh (1652-c1710), surgeon and author, apparently born in Amsterdam. He served as a surgeon in the army of the Prince of Orange, but apparently without formal training. He had a medical practice in Zuid-Schermer. He created a popular plaster called “emplastrum Rustingii.’He wrote several works on medicine as weel as these humorous works. The first is a “Devils’ Life” in verse which personifies the lives of different types of devils. The second work, frequently found incomplete, in the copies cited by the STCN is a treatise on Latin used in “common” speech. The dictionary of words is complete but the “Toe-Gift” section is not.

STCN 169408 & 169308. Klaversma/ Hannema 1255 & 1253. Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 250 & 231. Muller 447. Waller 1456. Scheepers II, 890. Not in Cumont, Caillet, or Cornell. $650

262. Sammes, Aylett.

Britannia Antiqua Illustrata: Or, the Antiquities of Ancient Britain,

Derived from the Phœnecians: Wherein the Original Trade of this Island is discovered, the Names of Places, Offices, Dignities, as likewise the Idolatry, Language, and Customs of the Primitive Inhabitants are clearly demonstrated from that Nation, many old Monuments illustrated, and the Commerce with that People, as well as the Greeks, plainly set forth and collected out of approved Greek and Latin Authors. Together With a Chronological History of. this Kingdom, from the first Traditional Beginning, until the year of our Lord 800, when the Name of Britain was changed into England; Faithfully collected out of the best Authors, and disposed in a better Method than hitherto hath been done; with the Antiquities of the Saxons, as well as Phœnecians, Greeks, and Romans. The First volume. [All Printed].

London: Tho[mas] Roycroft, for the Author, 1676. Folio. [1], A4, B2, CFfff4.[Lacks M2&3.]

[10], 582, [6].{lacks pages 79-82] First edition.

Modern 1/2 leather over cloth boards, title label; library stamps on t.p.. and in text “Grimsey Library”, soiling, old repairs, edge tears,last leaf laid-down, but generally a good copy. One double-paged map of Europe by Thomas Burnford (repaired), plus 25 engraved text illustrations by W. Dolle. Printer’s device on t.p.., engraved initials, head and tail pieces.

Aylett Sammes (ca.1636-ca.1679) is scarcely known beyond his education at Cambridge and the present volume, published shortly before its author’s death, and therefore never continued into a second volume. “In 1676 Sammes published, at his own expense, Britannia antiqua illustrata, or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians. The volume was licensed by Roger L’Estrange in March 1675, printed by Thomas Roycroft, and dedicated to Heneage Finch, the lord chancellor, who was also of the Inner Temple. Sammes’s book, which traces British history from earliest times to the Saxons of the eighth century, is one of the odder antiquarian productions of the seventeenth century, for it maintains that Britain was originally settled by the Phoenicians, who established a flourishing culture there:

Not only the name of Britain itself, but of most places therein of ancient denomination are purely derived from the Phoenician Tongue, and ... the Language itself for the most part, as well as the Customs, Religions, Idols, Offices, Dignities of the Ancient Britains are all clearly Phoenician, as likewise their instruments of war. Much of the evidence Sammes offers is philological, and the book is full of misleading etymologies. Nowhere does Sammes look for evidence in the field, or produce a single object of Phoenician origin to substantiate his claims. His opinions are initially derived from his reading of Strabo’s Geography, and they echo the views of the Tudor historian John Twyne that were published in De rebus Albionicis (1590). The largest influence on the book was the work of the French scholar Samuel Bochart, whose Geographia sacra (1646) gave an extravagant account of the voyages and colonies of the Phoenicians.” [Oxford DNB] It is one of the key sources for ‘Druidomania” and Sammes added several elements to the legends. One section deals with Stonehenge.

Wing S535. $600

263. Sammes, Aylett. Britannia Antiqua Illustrata...

London: Tho[mas] Roycroft, for the Author, 1676. Folio. [1], A4, B2, C-

[10], 582, [6]p.

First edition.

Contemp. paneled calf, old rebacking, hinges started, title on leather label; t.p. soiled and part of blank upper margin slightly defective; last four leaves defective at head with old repairs (some text affected); fold tear in map. some minor marginal dampstains, else quite clean. One double-paged map of Europe by Thomas Burnford , plus 25 engraved text illustrations by W. Dolle. Printer’s device on t.p., engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Wing S535.ESTC r19100. $900 Ffff4.

264. Sammes, Aylett. Britannia Antiqua Illustrata...

London: Tho[mas] Roycroft, for the Author, 1676. Folio. [1], A4, B2, C-

[10], 582, [6]pp. First edition.

18th c. calf, gilt roll on covers, rebacked in pigskin, spine banded, gilt title, marbled edges, endpapers renewed, last leaf shorter, light edge darkening, large copy, paper in very good condition. One double-paged map of Europe by Thomas Burnford , plus 25 engraved text illustrations by W. Dolle.

Wing S535. ESTC r19100. $900 Ffff4.

265. Scarlattini, Ottavio.

Homo Et Eius Partes Figuratus & Symbolicus, Anatomicus, Rationalis,

Moralis, Mysticus, Politicus, & Legalis, Collectus Et Explicatus Cum Figuris, Symbolis, Anatomiis, Factis, Emblematibus, Moralibus, Mysticis, Proverbiis, Hieroglyphicis, Prodigiis etc.

Matthias Honcamp,trans.

Augsburg & Dillingen: Johann Kaspar Bencard, 1695. Folio.

352 x 215mm.

[50],342,[44],[28],250,[28]p. First Latin edition.

Full blindstamped pigskin over wood boards, front joint split through but

holding, lacks metal part of clasps; library stamp and bookplate, foxing,light browning, minor dampstains, blank margins of two preliminary leaves with tears, lacks final blanks to both volumes. Ownership inscription “Bibliotecæ Sanchi Georgii Aug. Vind. 1746.” on t.p. T.p.s in red and black, emblematic devices on t.p.s, 42 large emblems within cartouches, lacks frontispiece.

Scarlattini born in Bologna in 1623 , abbot of the Canonici Regolari Lateranensi in 1639. In 1667 he was the arch-priest of the church of Maggiore di Castel S. Pietro. “Nel 1699 si imiccò nel granaio della canonica, chi dice in seguito a vessazioni fattegli dal cardinale arcivescovo.” [Sabattini.] “Savant ouvrage illustré de magnifiques figures gravées sur cuivre, et oú l’home est approfondi dans sa double nature, externe et interne, c’est-à-dire spirituelle et matérielle...C’est un ouvrge unique en son genre.” [Caillet].

VD17 3:301593B. Caillet 9948. Landwehr, German,530. Paisey/BM S382. Praz 490.

Sabattini 493. BMC 25:761. $1600

266. Scheffer [Schefferus]. Johannes.

Histoire De La Laponie, Sa Description, L’Origine, Les Moeurs, La

Maniere De Vivre de Ses Habitans. leur Religion, leur Magie, & les choses rare du Pais. Avec plusieurs Additions & Argumentations fort curieuses...Augustin Lubin, trans.

Paris: Widow of Olivier De Varennes, 1678. 4to. a4, e3, A-3E4.

[14],408p.

First French Edition.

Contemp. French mottled calf, spine banded, gilt, front hinge cracked at top, headcaps worn, covers sligtly warped; edges colored, tear in folding map repaired. Engraved extra-title, folding map, 19 plates (some unnumbered) and 8 text engravings.

“Schefferus, (1621-1679), was born in Strasbourg but was summoned in his youth to Uppsala in Sweden and the Skyttian professors’ chair in rhetoric and politics. He was a linguist and the first “Swede” to gain international renown as a classical philologist. In Sweden he achieved fame as our first literary historian with the posthumously published bibliography Suecia literata and furthermore as the author of the first Swedish work on archaeology, De orbibus tribus aureris. Its subject was an earth find from Skåne consisting of three gold bracteates.In 1671 as Marshal of the Realm, Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie commissioned Schefferus to produce a realistic and descriptive account of the Laplander’s manners and customs. The reasons behind this commissioned work was to dispel untruthful rumours, circulating in Europe at the time, Spread by less serious and scientific publications, concerning magic and witchcraft among the Lapps. This was to Schefferus’ own point of view, “mer liknade sådant som käringfabler än sanning”, implying that it was more akin to old wife’s tales than the truth. As Schefferus had never been to Lapland, De la Gardie attended to the matter of making sure that the priests of the northern districts wrote down accounts of the Lapps in their parishes.

These reports were then forwarded to Schefferus for editorial rewrites (see Bidrag till kännedom om..., 1897-1905).

The work commenced during the spring of 1671 and by 1673 was com-

pleted and prepared for the printers.Schefferus had access to the collections of De la Gardie and Antikvitetskollegiet, both of which he treated as his private museums for the study of objects from Lapland. Among the more important written sources there was Olaus Magnus’ Historia Om de nordiska folken and Tacitus, the Roman historian’s description of the Germanic peoples. There were also the medieval Nordic authors, Saxo Grammaticus, Snurre Sturlasson and Ericus Olai.Schefferus work has been of the utmost importance for later writings and descriptions on the subject of Lapland.

In the typographically superior French edition, Histoire de la Laponie, printed in Paris 1678, the woodcuts were replaced with copperplate engravings which were also made in Paris. Some of these are reproduced for comparative purposes (see the menu bar to the left on the screen). The well-known geographer Augustin Lubin produced the map belonging to the French edition.” [Kungliga bibliotehet Sveriges on-line] Cox I,178. Chavanne 3121. $1200

267. Schott, Andreas, Carl Lange, Proclus, & Cicero.

Observationum Humanarum Lib. V. Quibus Graeci Latinquae,Scrip-

tores, Philologi, Poeta, Historici, Oratores & Philosophi emendantur...Eiusdem Nodi Ciceron, Variorumque Lib IV. Item Caroli Langi In Ciceron Annotat. Eiusdemquae Carmina Lectiora. Seorsim Vero Edita Procli Chrestomathia Poetica, cum Scholiis And. Schotti & Petr. Ioan. Nunnesit. Andreas Schott & Juan Pedro Nunnez (d1602) eds.

Hanover: Wechel for Heirs of Johann Aubry, 1615. 4to. * - * * 4 , A 3 T 4 , A L4,N4 [N4 blank].[16],468,[52],[2],103 (errors in pag.] First Edition thus.

Contemp. calf, blind rules on covers, rebacked, browned with edges darker, minor marginal worming; this copy belonged to Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun with his signature on rear board and an old ownership note on front padtedown “ April the 4th 1632 paid for this books to Greene the bookseeler 6s6p.”a few old marginal pen trials, marginal piece laking from 3N3.[Fletcher, Andrew 1655-1716, Scotch patriot, Fletcher became one of the most accomplished Scotchmen of his time... The strict Wodrow , after speaking of him as ‘one of the brightest of our gentry, remarkable for his fine taste in all manner of polite learning, his curious library, his indefatigable diligence in every thing he thought might benefit and improve his country,’ praises the ‘sobriety, temperance, and good management’ which he exhibited in private life.” [DNB] T.p. in red and black, Wechel devices on t.p.s., port of Lange on 3D4.

Schott (1552-1629) of Antwerp “...was, like Lipsius, a pupil of Cornelius valerius, professor of latin at Louvain...After visiting Douai and Paris, he spent several years in Spain, as a professor at Toledo and Saragossa. Threupon he entered the Society of Jesus, ans was a teacher in Rome at the Collegio Romano. In 1597, at the age of 45, he returned to Antwerp, which remained his home for the rest of his life...Although he was a Jesuit, he was on friendly terms with Casaubon...”

[Sandys].

Lange (d1573) Belgian,Canon of Leodiensis (Liege). This volume contains Schott’s edition of his “In Ciceronem Annotationes: Quibus lectiora eiusdem

carmina accedunt,” with a short life of Lange, his commentaries on Macrobius, and a poem on “In navalem Christianorum de Turcis victoriam, hymns etc.

This edition of Schott’s works also contains Proclus’ Chestomathia in Greek and Latin, Schott’s annotations on it, and Nunnez’s notes, as well as Louis Carrion ‘s (1547-1595) translation of the “Fragmentum Scriptoris Incerti, Antea Censorino tributum, & cum De die natali libro” with Nunnez’s notes.

Hoffmann III,292. VD17 23:000205N. De Backer/Sommervogel VII,888,40. RLIN shows 4 copies ( 2 of which lack the Proclus). $600

268. Schott, Gaspar (Caspar, Kaspar) Schola Steganographica,In Classes Octo Distributa quibus, praeter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur Artificia Nova, Queis quilibet, scribendo Epistolam qualibet de re, & quocunque idiomare, potest alteri ablenti, eorundem artificiorum conscio, arcanum animi sui conceptum, sine ulla secreti latensis suspicione manifestare & scriptam ab aliis eadem arte,quacunque lingua, intelligere & interpretari.

Nuremberg: Jobus Hertz for Johann Andrea Endter & Heirs of Wolfgang Junior, 1665. 4to. 207 x 156mm. [)(4], 2)(-4)(4, 5)(2, A-2X4,2Y2. [ 3 6 ] ,

346,[10]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. mottled calf, blindruled with small fleurons, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece, upper joint splitting, small piece chipped from head and tail, binding rubbed, slight foxing. From the great scientific library of the Earls of Macclesfield with bookplate, blind stamp and ms. index on front -patedown, minor edge toning, minor marginal ampatain at end, a very clean copywith minimal paper toning, of a work usually found quite browned. T.p. in red and black, engraved arms of Ferdinand Maximilian Margrave of Baden-Baden, 8 engraved plates (6 double-page, 2 folding), 3 tables (1 folding, 1 double-page), text engravings, woodcut initals, head- and tail-pieces.

Schott (1608-66) Jesuit, student and assistant of Athanasius Kircher. During the last years of his life he decided to publish the mass of material he had collected on scientific subjects both from his own researches and those of others. He produced in a period of eight years (1658-1666) eleven books. He taught mathematics and physics at Mainz and Würzberg. He “...yearned for the intellectual delights of Rome, and after twenty-five years in Italy he suffered from German winters and had to have his own hypocaust installed...Exhausted, it is said, by overwork on his books, he died in 1666.” [DSB XII,211.]

“Depuis Schott, la science d’écrire en chiffres a tellement été perfectionnée que son ouvrage, quoique plus complet et plus curieux que ceux de Trithème, de Porta, de Vigenère et de Gustavus Selenus est à peu près intutlle.” Biographie Universelle quoted in Galland. [See Umberto Eco, “Kircher Tra Steganografia E Poligrafia,” in Athanasius Kircher S.J. Il Museo del Mondo,Rome,2001, p211-213, for a discussion of Schott’s revision of Kircher’s work on secret-writing.]

VD 17 3:006423R. Dunnhaupt (2ed.) V,12.1. Caillet 10007. Graesse VI,pt 1 315.

Hirsch III,551. Jantz II,2262. De Backer/ Sommervogel VIII,910. Wheeler Gift I,190.

BL 17th German S1254. Galland 163. $3500

269. Schott, Gaspar (Caspar, Kaspar) Schola Steganographica...

Nuremberg: Jobus Hertz for Johann Andrea Endter & Heirs of Wolfgang Junior, 1680. 4to. [)(4], 2)(-4)(4, 5)(2, , A-Z,Aa-Xx4,[2X4, blank], Yy2.

[34],346, [4], [2 blank], [2],[2, Bibligraphy of Schott’s works]p. Second Edition Contemp vellum, a few small wormhole in rear cover, light stain;edges blued, lower margin dampstain, light browning (better than usual,) 5 small edge repairs, 2 faint owner’s stamps , small tear in G3. Full-page engraved coat-of-arms of dedicatee Ferdinand Maximillian, Count of Baden; extra-engraved t.p., both by J.F.Fürk; decorated initials and head- & tail-pieces; t.p. in red and black, 4 pages with music staves. 4 folding plates, 6 folding tables, 5 engravings in text.

VD17 39:119198B. Dunnhaupt (2nd ed.) V,12.2. Caillet 10007. Graesse VI,pt 1 315.

Hirsch III,551. Jantz II,2262. De Backer/Sommervogel VIII,911. Wheeler Gift I,190.

BL 17th German S1254. OCLC: 35175268. Galland 163. $3750

270. Schott, Gaspar (Caspar, Kaspar) & Athanasius Kircher.

Pantometrum Kircherianum, Hoc Est, Instrumentum Geometricum

novum, a Celeberrimo Viro P. Athanasio Kirchero ante hacinventum, nunc decem Libris, universam paene Practicam Geometriam complectentibus explicatum, perspicuisque demonstrationibus illustratum...

Frankfurt & Wurtzberg:Heirs of Johann Godefrid Schonwetter & Jobus Hertz, 1660. 4to. π1,)o(4, )o()0(4,)0()0()0(4, A-3G4,3H2. [26],408.[20]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum spine banded, title in ms, stain on rear cover, edges blued, browning as usual, some worm minor tracks (pre binding).

32 plates (one folding).

Kircher first described his “Instumentum pantometrum” (universal measuring device) in his “Magnes”. The device, Kircher claimed, would solve all cartographic measuring tasks utilizing magnetism. His device first gained fame when it was used by the Elector of Mainz in 1624 to chart a road over some mountains.

Kircher also used his device to measure the dimensions of the crater and inner structure of the volcano at Vesuvius. The Pantometrum is a measuring table with which one can measure distances and height. Schott has named the instrument after its inventor and has written this work to explain to all scientists and laymen who might have use for it how to use the device.

VD17 12:178981A. Dunnhaupt 5.1. BL 17th German S1248. Roller/Goodman II,412.

Sotheran Suppl. II,2412. Graesse IV,22. Poggendorff I,1259. Smith, Hist of Math.,I,422. Sommervogel IV,1058. $3750

271. Schott, Gaspar (Caspar, Kaspar).

Magiae Universalis Naturae Et Artis.

Vol 1.Sive Recondita Naturalium & Artificialium rerum Scientia, cuius Ope per variam Applicaionem activorum cum passiuis, admirandorum effectuum Spectacula...Opus Quadripartitum. Continet Pars I. Optica. II.Acoustica. III, Mathematica.

IV, Physica.

Vol 2. Acustica...Quibus ea, quae ad Auditum, & Auditus objectum spectant, methodicè, ac summa varietate...

Vol 3. Quibus plerque quæ in Centrobaryca, Mechanica, Statyca, Hydrostatica, Hydrotechnica, Aërotechnica, Arithmetica, & Geometrica, sunt rara, curiosa, ac prodigiosa...Thaumaturgus Mathematicus.

Vol 4. Thaumaturgus Physicus...Quibus pleraq(uae) quæ in Cryptographicis, Pyrotechnicis, Magneticis, Sympathicis ac Antipathicis, Medicis, Divinatoriis, Physiognomicis ac Chiromanticis...

Bamberg: Johannes Martin Schönwetter, 1677. 4to. 4 vols in 2.

T.p..,[38],538,[14];t.p..,[24],432,[15];t..p.,[16],732,[12];T.p..,[32],670,[17]p. [Engraved t.p.].π1 ¶3,¶¶4,3¶2,A-5A4; T.p.,)(-4)(4,A-4R4. Second edition.

Contemporary pigskin over boards, elaborately blindstamped covers, Lacking metal portion of clasps.Few worm holes. First volume with cut marks from knife in first 100 pages and in last 50 pages without any loss. Tears in last three leaves with minor loss. Stains to first gathering. Second volume corner of t.p.. torn off, no loss. First gathering worn, Some light stains occasional browning as usual but in all a very good copy 90 plates, complete (8 supplied from another copy). 4 engraved titlepages.

Schott (1608-66) Jesuit, student and assistant of Athanasius Kircher. During the last years of his life he decided to publish the mass of material he had collected on scientific subjects both from his own researches and those of others. His industry is impressive with this work on “Magic” being one of his most important works. Often uncritical of his materials and with a taste for the unusual and esoteric, he was involved with some slight difficulties with the censors.

“Athanasius Kircher himself had planned to write such a work as Magia Universalis, but was too busy to do so, and hence put his plan and notes at the disposal of his disciple, Schott. The four tomes deal respectively with optics, acoustics, mathematics, and Physica or natural phenomena and marvels.” “ They still emphasize the marvelous, ‘curious hidden wonders and foreign to the vulgar ken,’ and ‘whatever in the universal nature of things is occult, paradoxical, prodigious, and like to a miracle,’ ‘things rare, curious and prodigious, this is truly magical.”

[Thorndike VII 591.]

Magia Universalis treats chromatic magic, magic with mirrors, dioptric magic, telescopic magic, phono-campic magic, phonoiatric magic, musical magic, symphoniuric magic, thaumaturgic magic, static magic, hydrostatic magic, cryptographic magic, pyrotechnic magic, magnetic magic, medical magic, physiognomicla magic, chiromantic magic, etc.See Thorndike VII 598ff for a discussion of the separate books and their contents.

Caillet 10003 “Ouvrage recherché.”. Esoterica 4437 “Ouvrage tres rare”.

Casanetense 1103. Wheeler Gift 184. Mottelley 125. Krivatsy/NLM 10625. Sabattini 498. Gregory & Bartlett, LC/Music,sup.98. Ferguson II,340. De Backer VII.905.

Galland, Cryptology,164. Dunnhaupt 4.1.3, 4.II.3,4III.3,4IV.2. $7000

272. Schott, Gaspar (Caspar, Kaspar).

Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica, qua praeterquam quod Aquei

Elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occuktus cum aere conflictus, a primus fundamentis demonstratur; omnis quoque generiis Experimenta...Pars I. Mechanicae Hydraulico-pnematicae Theoriam continet. Pars II. Eiusdem Praxin exhibet, Machinasque Aquarias innumeras, uti & Organa, aliaque Instrumenta...Accessit Experimentum novum Magdeburgicum...

[Wurtzberg & Frankfurt] Heinrich Pigrin for the Heirs of Johann Godfried Schonwetter, 1657. 4to. a4,e4,i4,o2,A-Z,Aa-Zz,Aaa-Rrr4. [28],487,[14]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum, spine with old hand title; marginal wormhole in t.p., bottom of t.p.cut off (no text afffected),fold tears in plate xxv,& xviii (misnumbered), tears and wormtrack in folding plate facing 429 and in facing text page, old corrections in plate numbers; foxing and browning (as usual).

[Lacks engraved extra-title], arms on verso of t.p.; 42 of 46 (lacks plates 30-33) plates engraved (some folding); 60+ text cuts, head-pieces, decorated initials.

First edition of the first publication of Gaspar Schott.

“The appendix to Schott’s work contains the first published report of Guericke’s experiments with the vacuum pump. Guericke had communicated the results of his experiments to Schott in 1657, but did not publish his own account until 1672. The sucess of Mechanica Hydraulico-pneumatica caused Schott to become the center of a network of correspondence from both Jesuit and lay scientists, who wrote to inform him of their inventions and discoveries; this material formed the basis of Schott’s later publications.” [Norman Cat.] VD17 39:119196M. Norman 1910. Dibner 55 (note). Baillie 51. Sommervogel VII,904.

Wheeler 142. Dunnhaupt 3. $3750

273. Schott, Gaspar (Caspar).

Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica...

[Wurtzberg & Frankfurt] Heinrich Pigrin for the Heirs of Johann Godfried Schonwetter, 1657. 4to. a4,e4,i4,o2,A-Z,Aa-Zz,Aaa-Rrr4.

[28],487,[14]p.

First Edition.

19th c. paper boards, stamp of the Fuerstenberg Library at Donaueschingen on verso of t.p. & on verso of last leaf ,small hole in M1, Aa 3-4 upper margin restored (no text affected), some manuscript corrections to plate numbers in an old hand, tear in plate XXV repaired. An unusually clean copy with little or no foxing and browning except Plates 30-33 which are supplied from another copy and are lightly browned as usual.Engraved extratitle, arms on verso of t.p.,46 plates en-

graved plates (many folding), 60+ text cuts, head-pieces, decorated initials. Complete.

VD17 39:119196M. Norman 1910. Dibner 55 (note). Baillie 51. Sommervogel VII,904.

Wheeler 142. Dunnhaupt 3. $6500

274. Schott, Gaspar (Caspar).

Physica Curiosa, Sive Mirabilia Naturae Et Artis Libri Comprehensa, Quibus plerq(ue) quae de Angelis, Daemonibus, Hominibus, Spectris, Energumenis, Monstris, Potentis, Animalibus, Meteoris, etc., rara arcana curiosaque circumferuntur, ad Veritatis trutinam expenduntur, Variis ex Historia ac Philosophia...

Nuremberg & Würtzburg: Jobus Hertz for Johann Andreas Endter, 1697.

4to. [40],1389,[21]p.

Third edition.

Contemp. calf with initials “F.P.D.E.” on front cover, spine gilt,title-label, front joint cracked,edges speckled red, browning, blank corner of G2 restored (no text affected), piece torn from outer margin of plate 46 (slightly affecting image), folding plate facing page 1331 reinforced on verso;dampstain in lower margin in rear.

T.p. in red and black, extra engraved title by Jacob von Sandrart, full-page armorial arms on verso of t.p..; 59 (of 61, lacking plates 9 & 50) .

“Ouvrage fort recherché pour ses nombreuses et extraordinaires figures a’ètres monstrueux et l’espèce humaine qu’on trouve dans la mer, les bois, les phénomènes tératologiques (on y remarque l’homme sans tète, l’homme à téte d’elephant...) C’est encore et surtout un traité de démonologie des plus complets d’une érudition remarquable...Tout serait à citer de cet énorme ouvrage véritable encyclopédie du merveilleux et de l’occulte.” [Caillet.]

The “Physica Curiosa” contains his most complete discussion of angels, demons, and witchcraft in his survey of the angelic worlds. He also discusses the animal, and physical world, always with an eye to the curious and bizarre.

VD17 14:637093S. BL 17th German S1252. Brunet V,219. Caillet 10005 “le plus complete”. De Backer/Sommervogel VII,909:8. Dünnhaupt 7.3. Ferguson II,340. Graesse 6.1,314. Thorndike VII,Chap. 21.Alden 697:159. Coumont S31.3. $2550

275. Schott, Gaspar (Kaspar, Caspar) Physica Curiosa...

Würtzburg: Jobus Hertz for Johann A. Endter & heirs of Wolfgang the younger, 1662. 4to. 2 vols. 207 x 161mm. a-g4, A-5D4,5E1;[ π1, Bookbinder

note], (2)5E-9R4. [54], 770,[4],771-1583, [24]p.

First edition.

Early 18th c. calf, spine banded, titles in gilt on leather labels, joints cracked, edges marbled, occ. short margin tears,occ. foxing (but less than usual); from the famous scientific Macclesfield Library with bookplate and embossed stamp, a few old notes on endpapers (index).

T.p. in red and black, extra engraved title by J. Sandrart, full-page armorial arms on verso of t.p.., 57 (three folding) copper-plates. Dünnhaupt and Nissen call for 60 plates but this is apparently a confusion with the second edition for the

first. (which adds three unnumbered plates) All copies of the first edition that we can trace have 57.

VD 17 2:010260L. Dünnhaupt 7.1. Coumont S31.1. Brunet V,219. Caillet 10005. De Backer/ Sommervogel VII,909:8. Esoterica 4440. Ferguson II,340. Graesse 6.1,314.

Krivtatsy/NLM,10627.Libri Rari 250. Nissen 3746. Brown, Meteorites, 1662, S1.Thorndike VII,Chap. 21.Wheeler Gift, 150. Casanatense 1104. $4500

276. Schott, Gaspar (Kaspar, Caspar).

Anatomia Physico-Hydrostatica Fontium Ac Fluminium Libris VI

explicata, Et Figuris Æri Incisis exornata; Quibus, præmissa fontium ac fluminum historia, primo eordundem principium & matrix accurato scrutinio inquiritur; deinde modus quo è matrice præcipua (quæ Mare est) oriuntur, ex Sacræ Scripturæ, Philosophiæ naturalis, & Hydostaticæ principiis detegitur; postremo variæ proprietes ac veluti miracula in variis fontibus elucescentia discutiuntur. Accedit in fine Appendix de vera origine Nili.

Würtzberg [& Frankfurt am Main]: Jobus Hertz for the Widow of Jo(hann) Godofr(ied) Schönwetter, 1663. 8vo. )?(8,†2,A-Ee8.[20],433,[15]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. mottled calf with blind panel & fleurons, three small pinwormholes in spine, slight hinge cracks, edges speckled red, signature of John? Tyrwhitt on engraved t.p.,inner margin wormtrack T1-V6 not affecting text, other than some very minor foxing this is a tall, virtually uncut, copy with paper in fine white condition.

Extra engraved title,14 engraved illustrations (one folding with map of Nile reusing #XI). Complete.

“In a treatise on the then popular theme of the origin of springs. his own opinion, when finally expressed, amounted to saying that everyone was right: some springs are due to precipitation, some to underground condensation, and some connected directly to the sea.” [DSB.] The section on the discovery of the source of the Nile contains material related to the discovery of the “true source of the Nile” in 1618 by the Jesuit Pierre Pays.

Provenance: Spencer [Spenser; alias Tyrwhitt], John (1600-1671), Jesuit and religious controversialist,Protestants, according to Spencer, conceded that they could not withstand Catholic arguments based on historical succession, tradition, patristics, and so on. But scripture, the word of God, was a more powerful weapon and it was firmly held in protestant hands. However, Spencer argued that protestants tortured scripture to support their arguments which, upon detailed examination, rested on nothing but errors, mistakes, and faulty translations. His work was intended to demonstrate the veracity of traditional Catholic teaching on justification by faith, good works, purgatory, and real presence.” [Oxford DNB] VD17 23:271045C. [There is a second variant imprint see: VD17 12:643646A.] Dünnhaupt 3819, 10.De Backer/Sommervogel 910:10. Hilmy II,221. BL German 17th S1235. Graesse VI:1,315. Brunet V,219. Bibli. Dt. Museum 249. Gay, Afrique, 2326. Honeyman 2815. Paulitschke, Afrika, 556. Roller/Goodman II,412. Poggendorf II,838. $3000

277. Schott, Gaspar [Caspar, Kaspar] Organum Mathematicum Libris IX. Wurtzberg: Jobst Hertz for Johann Andreas Endter and the Heirs of Wolfgang the Younger, 1668. 4to. 192 x 166mm.):(-4):(4, 5):(2, A-5Q4,5R2.

[34],858,[8],[1 errata]pp. First Edition.

Contemp. calf, rebacked with old spine laid-down, head of original spine lacks 1/2” piece at top, spine gilt, endpapers renewed; some browning (much better than usual). Engraved additional t.p.by C.N.Schurh & Joannes Baptista, two portraits of Johann Capar and Carl Joseph, Archduke of Austria, 90 engraved plates and tables (43 folding). T.p. in red and black.

Schott’s survey covers Arithmetic, Geometry, Fotifications, Chronology, Horology, Astronomy, Astrology, Steganography, and Music. In this work he demonstrates one of Kircher’s mathematical devices that improves upon “Napier’s Bones” an early computing device.

VD17 12:196964H. Dunnhaupt V,14. Dt. Museum 250. Cantor II,724. Poggendorff II,838. RISM B VI.2. Roller II,412. Sommervogel VII,911. Sotheran 1st Supp. 1774.

Galland 164. $4500

278. Schott, Gaspar [Caspar, Kaspar] & Athanasius Kircher.

Technica Curiosa, Sive Mirabilia Artis, Libris XII. Comprehensa; Quibus

varia Experimenta, varia´que Technasmata Pneumatica, Hydraulica, Hydrotechnica, Mechanica, Graphica, Cyclometriracula, Chrnometrica, Automatica, Cabalistica, alia´que Artis arcana ac miracula, rara, curiosa, ingeniosa, magnamque partem nova & antehac inaudita, eruditi Orbis litati, delectationi, discetationique proponuntur...

Nuremberg: Johann Jobst Hertz for Johann Andreas Endter and the heirs of Wolfgang [Endter] the younger, 1664. 4to. ):(—5):(4, A-6R4,6S2.

[40],1044,[16]p. First Edition.

Contemp. calf, rebacked, title gilt on leather label,marbled edges, f.f.ep. frayed at edge; a exceptionally clean copy (none of the usual browning) with wide margins, plate #7 in the second series has a tear in the outer margin (no image loss), plate #35 is upside-down . Extra-engraved t.p., t.p. in red and black,port.of Johann Phillip von Schoenborn Prince Elector; his coat-of-arms (both by J. F. Fleischberger), & 59 engraved plates (of 60—plate 36 Machina pneumatica Anglicanae in facsimile on old paper),16 folding. The plates are numbered as follows: Part 1:IXVI, XVI( used twice), XVII-XXXIX, plates 38 and 39 printed on one leaf;Part 2: IXXI, plate #17/18 is one leaf. The question of the proper number of plates in the first edition is confusing, if #36 was available for this issue (several reported copis do not have this plate) there would be 60 plus the 3 = engraved t.p., port. & arms= or 63 in all.

“The subjects treated are as follows: Guericke’s Magdeburg experiments; Boyle’s experiments; experiments of Torricelli and others with mercury vacua; hydro-pneumatic experiments; mechanical marvels; secret writing; problems in cyclometry; chronometers; perpetual motion; miscellaneous marvels; cabalistic writ-

ing.” [Wheeler Gift] Schott also discusses minerals, serpents, medical purgatives, etc. The long section on the Kabbalah (148pp.) gives an etymology of Hebrew and its Kabbalistic uses. The treatise “mirabiblia chronmetrica” gives the first description of a universal joint and a classification of gear teeth.

“Encumbered by Schott”s taste for the supernatural, his works contain much useful knowledge, descriptions of scientific instruments and mechanical technology. The first two sections of Technica curiosa are devoted to the aerostatic researches of Guericke and Boyle, and the treatise “Mirabilia chronometrica” gives the first description of a universal joint and a classification of gear teeth” (Norman).

Pages 427-477 have a reprint of Athanasius Kircher’s Specula melitensis. & 482-579 Kircher’s ‘Polygraphia Nova Et Universalis, Ex Combinatoria Arte Detecta.

VD 17 23:232569Q. Dunnhaupt 3820,11:1 (calling for 60 plates).Berlin Kat. 1780.

Caillet 10009. Esoterica 4444 “Tres Rare ouvrage.” Baillie, Clock & Watches,115 “This book contains a remarkable collection of horological movements...” Sotheran I,4277. Poggendorff II,838. Bromley, Clockmaker’s Library, 768. Partington II,333.

Duveen 537 (lacking also plate 36) Norman 1911. Wheeler Gift 155. De Backer VII,910. Galland, Cryptology,164.Rosenthal, Magica, 3055. BL 17th German S1255.

Dekesel S87. $5500

279. Schultz, Gottfried & John Chamberlayne.

Schatzkammer rarer und neuer Curiositaten, [in den aller-wunder-

bahresten Wurckungen der Natur und Kunst...Der andere Druck. Jetzo mit dem Dritten Theil von vielen Chymischen Experimenten und anderen Kunsten vermehret. Deme angehenget Beschreibung Der Coffee, Thee, Chocolate, Tabacks und dergleichen...] Johann Lange trans. of Chamberlayne.

HamburgGottfried Schltze, 1686. 8vo. )(2-3 [Lacks )(1 letterpress t.p.] A-z8, Aa-Oo8, Pp4, Qq8.[Regiser misbound.] [6 of 8],592,[24]p.

Second Edition.

19th c. 1/2 vellum over paste-paper boards, edges marbled, decorated endpapers, paper toned, some foxing.

Engraved t.p. with seven cuts of various scenes—fishing, cooking, horses, wine, etc.

Schultz (1643-1698) went to Leipzig to study medicine where he stopped his study there and travelled to Padua where he was given his medical degree in 1671. He returned to Breslaw to practice but was appointed to collect and edit the contributions of the medical practitioners of Breslau to the Academia Naturae Curiosorum. He was elected to the Academy in July 1676. “His knowledge of languages enabled him to write a number of works.”[Ferguson,Young,II,347] “...his work is a thorough going receipt-book and a typical specimen of its class...This work is of the most comprehensive and catholic description, including medicines, perfumes, fireworks, painting, fishing, insects, gardening, gilding, and what not.” [Ferguson, Secrets,II,44.]

Appended to this work is Johann Lange’s translation of “Health’s Grand Preservative, London:1682) a work on Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, & Tabacco and their benefits (sic)”.

VD17 23:240653N. Bruning 2649 (1689 ed)Bibl. Dt. Mus., Libri rari, 244. Krivatsy/NLM 2356 (under Chamberlayne). Ferguson, Secrets, II,43. Arents 380a.Hunersdorff 1328. Schoene 11071. $950

280. Scioppus (Schoppe), Caspar.

Astrologia Ecclesiastica, Hoc est, Disputatio De Claritate ac multiplici

virtute Stellarum in Ecclesiae firmamento fulgentium, id est, Ordinum Monasticorum. Accessit Astrum Inexstinctum id est, Cause Dictio Ex Divino Humanoque ire pro veterum Ordinum honore ac patrimoniis adversus famosum volumen Pauli Laimanni...

[N.P.:Germany] Officina Sangeorgiana, 1634. 4to. 2 pts. in 1.

294p.

First Edition.

Early vellum backed marbled boards,edges speckled red, Nordkirchen bookplate,rear inner hinge opened, first two leaves supported at top edge, browning.

Scioppe (c1576-1649) “a learned German writer, and one of the most arrogant and contentious critics of his time...In 1599, he embraced the Roman catholic religion, but had an extraordinary antipathy to the Jesuits...Nor was he more lenient to the Protestants, and solicited the princes to extirpate them by the most bloody means...After he had spent many years in literary contests, he applied himself to the prophecies of holy scripture, and flattered himself that he had discovered the true keys to them.”[Chalmers] “Noch im Juli 1630 hatte er einem römischen Freund, dem Rota-Auditor Cornelius Heinrich Mottmann, aus Augsburg geschrieben, daß er die Übertragung klösterlicher Ländereien an die Jesuiten und die Umwandlung der württembergischen und anderer restituierter Klöster in Seminarien unter jesuitischer Leitung trotz seiner Vorbehalte befürworte, da sie nach Gott das meiste für die Kirche im Reich getan hätten. In Weingarten aber kam er zur Überzeugung, »daß die Wegnahme der Klöster aus der Hand ihrer früheren Besitzer ein Frevel« und die gesamte Tätigkeit der Jesuiten »ein Unheil für die Christenheit« sei. (Auch Rom war für die Rückgabe an die alten Klöster). Wahrscheinlich war Sch., möglicherweise auch der Ochsenhausener Mönch Romanus Hay, der Verfasser der im Herbst 1630 anonym erschienenen »Defensio contra judicium duorum theologorum«, in der die ursprüngliche Instruktion des kaiserlichen Botschafters in Rom, Fürst Paolo Savelli, in der Klosterfrage (14.4. 1629) gegen zwei Jesuiten verteidigt wurde. Deren Widerlegung durch den Beichvater Maximilians I. von Bayern, Adam Contzen SJ (1571-1635; s. Bd. I), und den Dillinger Moraltheologen Paul Laymann SJ (15741635; s. Bd. IV) zeitigten die 1634 in 1 Band erschienenen Entgegnungen Sch.s (»Astrologia Ecclesiastica«) und Hays (»Astrum inexstinctum«), die herausstellten, daß die monastischen Orden die hellsten Sterne am kirchlichen Firmament seien und das kanonisch verbriefte Recht besäßen, ihre Klöster wieder in Empfang zu nehmen. Eine ausführliche Grußadresse ist an Ferdinand II. gerichtet. Laymann antwortete 1635 mit seiner letzten Schrift, »Censura Astrologiae Ecclesiasticae et Astri inextincti, a Gaspare Scioppio in lucem editi«.Anders als Bireley (»Religion and Politics«) halte ich für die Schärfe von Sch.s Haß weniger sach-

liche Gründe verantwortlich, als vielmehr (mit anderen Autoren) rein persönliche, nämlich die tiefe Verletzung der Eitelkeit des an starken Minderwertigkeitskomplexen leidenden Sch. durch das - wie er glaubte,von den Jesuiten betriebene Scheitern seiner Bemühungen um eine kaiserliche Pension und seines Versuchs, den früheren Einfluß auf Ferdinand II. zurückzugewinnen.”[Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikons.]

VD17 23:236761G. Dünnhaupt 3775,79:1. $450

281. Scot [Scott], Reginald.

The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Con-

tracts of Witches with Devils and all Infernal Spirits or Familiars, are but Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions. Also discovering, How far their Power extendeth in Killing, Tormenting, Consuming, or Curing the bodies of Men, Women, Children, or Animals, by Charms, Philtres, Periapts, Pentacles, Curses, and Conjurations. Wherein Likewise The Unchristian Practices and inhumane Dealings of Searchers and Witch-tryers upon Aged, Melancholly, and Superstitious people, in extorting Confessions by Terrors and Tortures, and in devising false Marks and Symptoms, are notably Detected. And the Knavery of Juglers, Conjurers, Charmers, Soothsayers, Figure-Casters, Dreamers, Alchymists, and Philterers; with many other things thst have long lain hidden, fully Opened and Deciphered. All With Are ver necessary to be known for the undeceiving of Judges, Justices, and Jurors, before they pass Sentence upon Poor, Miserable and Ignorant People; who are frequently Arraigned, Condemned, and Executed for Witches and Wizzards... Whereunto is added An excellent Discourse of the Nature and Substance Of Devils and Spirits, In Two Books: The First by the aforesaid Author: The Second now added in this Third Edition, as Succedaneous to the former, and conducing to the compleating of the Whole Work: With Nine Chapters at the beginning of the Fifteenth Book of the Discovery.

London: for A[ndrew] Clark, and are to be sold by Dixy Page at the Turks-Head in Cornhill near the Royall Exchange, 1665. Folio. π1,a-b4,

B-Z, 2A-2B6, 2C-2D4;3A-3F6. Lacks π1 half-title [reported by Toole-Stott but lacking from all copies we can find]; Y1 (pp 241/2),3G1-2 (pp71/2 & Catalog of Authors page with verso blank).

[18],95, [60], 97-138, [136], 140-219, [221], 221-254, [256-257], 257-292,[14],72,[2]p.

Fine modern antique paneled calf, spine banded, gilt with title gilt on red morocco label; old signature on t.p. “J.Whitmore his book 1706,” t.p. remargined, pages 241/2 in pen facsimile [early 20th c?), Y2 has 1/ 34 x 3 3/4” piece excised and replaced in pen facsimile; Y4 has middle of the page excised and replaced in pen facsimile, last two pages lacking and replaced by pen facsimile; occ. minor soiling and stains, a few text notes.

Scott [Scot], Reginald (d. 1599), writer on witchcraft. “The Discoverie of Witchcraft, his most important work, was published without licence in 1584 and reprinted in 1651, 1654, and 1665... Scott’s objective was to refute the Démonomanie of Jean Bodin (1580) and to go well beyond the arguments of the most radical author on witchcraft known to him, Johann Weyer, whose De praestigiis daemonum (1566)

had been attacked

by Bodin. Scott made a number of remarkable claims.

He maintained that there were no witches in contemporary England and that all those executed for witchcraft were innocent-he had tried to find anyone who would offer instruction in witchcraft without success. He asserted that none of the terms used in the Bible which had been translated as ‘witch’ had that meaning in the original languages, thereby undermining the claim that there was a biblical sanction for the execution of witches, and he is thus a significant figure in the history of biblical criticism. According to Scott, witchcraft was an impossible crime, because words could not work upon the world. His arguments thus implied a radical separation between mind and matter. He contended that where curses or spells were followed by unpleasant events the link between the two was entirely coincidental.

Scott went beyond a systematic attack on the intellectual foundations of the belief in witchcraft because he described witch accusations in England as resulting out of a particular type of social encounter: old women begging for food or other assistance would curse their neighbours when they were turned away empty handed; if something bad then happened-the death of a child, perhaps-the old woman would be taken to be a witch. Witchcraft accusations in England thus arose in the context of disagreements over expectations and obligations relating to charitable giving. This sociological account was persuasive to contemporaries and has been adopted by modern historians. As far as Scott was concerned, those who confessed to being witches were either deluded or the victims of torture, while much

of what Bodin had taken to be evidence for the existence of witchcraft in different eras and diverse cultures Scott was prepared to dismiss as mere fable and fiction.

His book was a remarkable triumph of erudition for an obscure country gentleman with little formal education: he listed 212 Latin and 23 English authors on whom he drew. He had clearly taken an interest in contemporary English trials, but there is no evidence to support the suggestion that he was a JP, beyond the fact that he claimed the title of esquire.

Scott bolstered his study of witchcraft with attacks on other forms of credulity and superstition, under which heading he included Catholicism and astrology. He dismissed alchemy as a type of confidence trick. He reproduced from a manuscript detailed procedures for conjuring up demons, presumably with the idea that his readers could demonstrate for themselves that such techniques were ineffective. And he set out to show how easy it was to confuse an observer. To this end he dedicated book 13 to the first significant account of how to perform conjuring tricks. The book, with some revisions, was republished as The Art of Juggling (1612; repr. 1614) by S. R., which was itself absorbed into Hocus Pocus Junior (1634); this had numerous editions in the seventeenth century (one calling itself the thirteenth edition appeared in 1697) and was the basis of later manuals on legerdemain which continued to appear into the twentieth century.

The Discoverie ended with a ‘Discourse on devils and spirits’ (which is unfortunately omitted from some modern reprints; the 1665 edition contains a spurious second discourse). Although this discourse avoided a full-frontal attack on orthodoxy, it appears from it that Scott was not a Trinitarian and did not believe that the account of the fall in the book of Genesis referred to a historical event. He seems to have held that the idea of good and evil spirits was simply a metaphor for internal promptings towards good and evil experienced by the individual and that the individual could overcome evil and become truly good. The discourse was incompatible with orthodox protestant Christianity, which stressed predestination, and it, together with Scott’s association with Abraham Fleming (who worked with him on the Discoverie and published a familist prayer book in 1581), suggests that he may well have been a member of the Family of Love. Familists are known to have denied the reality of the devil. Thomas Basson, publisher of the Dutch translation of the Discoverie, published familist works. Yet Scott obviously believed he could call on the protection of leading figures in the kingdom: as well as to Sir Thomas Scott, the Discoverie is dedicated to Sir Roger Manwood, chief baron of the exchequer, to John Coldwell, dean of Rochester (afterwards bishop of Salisbury), and to William Redman, archdeacon of Canterbury (afterwards bishop of Norwich).

Scott was very widely read in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries-Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe refer to him, and William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton were evidently familiar with the Discoverie. He was attacked at length by James VI of Scotland in his Daemonology (1597) and referred to by almost all the Tudor and early Stuart authors on witchcraft (Henry Holland in 1590, George Gifford in 1593, John Deacon and John Walker in 1601, William Perkins in 1608, John Cotta in 1616, and Richard Bernard in 1627). Thomas Ady’s

Candle in the Dark (1655) and John Webster’s Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677) were the first works to defend Scott’s uncompromising scepticism directly, and he was still an indispensable reference point for Francis Hutchinson in his Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft (1718). Scott also had a significant influence on Samuel Harsnett, later archbishop of York, and, through him, on two important witchcraft cases, in which the supposed victims were Mary Glover (1602) and Anne Gunter (1604). Both cases encouraged scepticism regarding claims of bewitchment.

Ady thus seems justified in his claim that Scott made ‘great impressions on the magistracy and clergy’ (DNB). It is often asserted that James ordered that all copies of the Discoverie be burnt when he came to the English throne, but there is no contemporary evidence to support this story, which first appeared in 1659.” [Oxford DNB] Wing S945. ESTC r39108. Coumont S38.4. Toole-Stott, Conjuring, 620. Cornell, Witchcraft, 497/8. Krivatsy/NLM 10735. Wellcome V, 71 (var.) Kernot 1664. $12500 282. [Sammelband] Sendivogius,Michael; Jean Beguin :Johann Pelecyus; & Pierre de la Potiere.

Sendivogius: Novum Lumen Chymicum Naturae Fonte Et Manuali Experientia depromptum & in duodecum Tractatus divisum: Cui accesis, Dialogue Mercurii, Alchymistae, & naturae perquam utilis. 2. Tyrocinum Chymicum Ioan.

Beguini...

Cologne: Anton Boetzer, 1617. A-D12. 69.[1]p. [issued with] Beguin: Tyrocinum Chymicum E Naturae Fonte Et Manuali Experimenta Depromptum. Cologne: Anton Boetzer, 1615. a12,A-H12. [14],[2 blank],195,[5 blank]. [bound with] Pelecyus: De Humanorum Affectuum Morborumq(ue) Cura. Libri Duo. Munich: Berg for the widow of Johann Hertsroy, 1617. )(12,A-R12. [24],373, [26],[5 blank]. [bound with] Potiere: Insignes Curationes, Et Singulares observationes centum. In quibus Varia morborum genera, eorum egregia propriaque remedia Therapeuticaque ratio explicantur, Cologne: Matthew Schmitz, 1616. A-G12. 158, [8],[1]p.12 mo. 4 vols in 1.

First edition of Pelecyus.

Contemp. vellum, lacks ties,paper label, crack in spine,old shelf labels on endpapers, stamps of Franciscan library on t.p.s, old owner’s names on first t.p. contemp. notes on endpapers in a careful hand; browning to three of the volumes, some foxing to Pelecyus, some moderate dampstains. Engraved t.p. to Pelecyus.

Publisher’s devices on other t.p.s Sendivogius (c1560-c1640) may have been the illegitimate son of a Polish woman and a Moravian noblewoman. He freed the Scottish alchemist Alexander Seton (d.1604) on a trip to Dresden, and after the latter’s death quickly claimed for himself Seton’s widow, Seton’s transmuting powder, and authorship of this treatise: Seton’s Novum Lumen Chymicum (1617). In it, the arcane writings of Paracelsus (c1493-1541) are explicated.

“Beguinus was a native of Lorraine, and flourished at the beginning of

the seventeenth century. After studying chemistry and pharmacy at Sedan (?) he came to Paris, where he made chemical preparations, and opened a school for instruction in chemistry, pharmacy, and metallurgy...His first publication was an edition of the Novum Lumen...At the instigation of a pupil, Jeremias Barth, he drew up a manual entitled Tyrocinium...It was meant for his own students ‘to save him the trouble of dictating and them of writing’ the methods he demonstrated...[Ferguson] Pierre de la Potiere [1581?-1640?] ...”was a physician and chemist, native of Anjou. early in the 17th century he went to Italy, and settled there, and in spite of his youth—he was barely 20—gained esteem as a successful practitioner. He took up residence at Bologna, was created French councillor and Royal physician, and was a strong supporter of spagyric remedies as against those then in fashion, and vaunted his ‘antihecticum’ and other secret remedies of his own invention...His works contain an account of remarkable cures, observations, and a treatise on fevers...He..is said to have been assasinated by a treacherous friend, Sancassani.”

[Ferguson] Pelecius [1545-1623] Jesuit was born at Ulm and entered the noviciate in Rome in 1567. He taught philosophy and theology as well as a preacher.

Backer/Sommervogel list 26 works to his credit on theological and philosophical matter from the Tower of Babel to this treatise on the passion of the soul.

Sendivogius: VD 17 3:622832P. Bruning 1215.Ferchl 33. Ferguson I, 93. Gmelin I,32.

Ackerman IV,11. Caillet 913. Chorinski 976. Esoterica 4551. Duveen 62. Kopp 322.

Mellon 90. Rosenthal, Magica, 140. Thorndike VII,158.

Beguini: VD 17 23:296484W. Bruning 1092. Ferchl 498. Ferguson I,365. Gmelin I,603.

Ackerman IV, 170. Caillet 10135. Esoterica 5439. Duveen 542. Kopp 335. Mellon 93.

Rosenthal, Magica, 8804. Thorndike VIII,106.

Pelecyus:De Backer/ Sommervogel VI,422,24.

Potiere:VD 17 23:2973E. Brunung 1159a. Hirsch IV,664. Wolfenbuttel 1310. $1200

283. Sennert, Daniel. [Paracelsus] De Chymicorum Cum Aristotelicis Et Galenicis Consensu Ac Dissensii Liber I. [All Published.]

Wittenberg: Zacharius Schurer, 1619.

8vo. a-b8, A-2Z8 [2Z 7 & 8, blanks. present.] [32],709,[23]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. limp vellum, spine slightly concave, marginal tear on a6 (no text affected), browning Device on t.p.,head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.

“Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) “professor of medicine at Wittenberg from 1602, followed Paracelsus in the theory of salt, sulphur and mercury as thhe constituents of bodies and the use of chemical remedies but avoided some of his excesses. ..recent German writers...emphasise that Sennert’s importance rests on the fact that he did not take over a purely mechanical corpuscular theory from such as Gassendi, as Boyle did...” [Partington.]

“He was the first to introduce chemistry as a subject of the medical curriculum and to make a serious effort to harmonize the doctrines of the Galenic medicine with what he considered true in Paracelsus’ doctrines...Though of immense

learning and fully alive to certain current errors, such as a universal medicine, remedies which physicians kept secret, the deceptions of the so- called alchemists, and the rigid adherence to mere authority by the Galenists, he still believed in transmutation, in the application of astrology to medicine and in the supernatural origins of disease...” [Ferguson II, p. 372.]

“The magic of Paracelsus, which he made, after chemistry, the second foundation of medicine and divided into six parts—the interpretation of preternatural signs, transformation of living bodies, the power of words, astrological images, wax images of patients and other persons, and the cabala—Sennert rejected as diabolical and impious. In the existence of such magic or witchcraft, based upon pacts with demons and worked with their aid, he had full faith, and rejected Wier’s denial that diseases could be so produced.” [Thorndike VII, 209.]

VD17 39:115710D.Bruning 1312. Kopp I,48. Ferguson II,371 (1655 ed.) Caillet 10145 “Excellent traite d’un medicin spagyriste et discussion sur la methode Paracelse.” . Waller 8849 (1633 ed.) Wellcome 5920. Neu 3795. Partington II, 272:II. $1750

284. South, Robert.

Musica Incantas Sive Poema Experimens Musicae Vires, Juvenam in In-

saniam adigentis, Et Musici inde Periculum.

Oxford:W. H. for G. West, 1667.4to. [2],19,[1]p. Second edition. Loose as issued with original sewing, stains, edge wear, uncut.

South (1634-1716), a man of strong prejudices and warm attachments, was never a self-seeker, and, when he changed his attitude, followed what appeared to be the dictates of commonsense. His use of humour in the pulpit suggested to Tillotson a want of seriousness in his character. Yet no preacher was more direct in his dealing with the vices of the age, no court preacher more homely in his appeals. His humour has a native breadth and freshness. Like Fuller’s pleasant turns, it always illuminates his subject; but, unlike Fuller’s conceits, it does not cloy. “ [DNB] “A hexamater poem, regarded at the time as correct and elegant, which describes the story of a lutanist, who has driven a youth to insanity and death by his celestial harmony. He was indicted for homicide, and here triumphantly vindicates himself: the accuser’s speech is also given.” [Madan].

Wing 4736. Madan 2786. $350

285. Spanheim, Frederich.

Introductio Ad Chronologiam. Et Historiam Sacram Ac praecipue

Christianam Ad Tempora proxima Reformationi Cum necessariis castigationibus Caesar Baronii.

Leiden: Daniel a Gaasbeeck, 1683. 4to. Vol 1 of 2 only. *-5*5,6*2,†-4†4,5†2,A-B4, C4, π4 between C2 & C3, D-M4,*A-*4A4, *4B2. [80].95,[1],[2],579,[1]p. First Edition.

Contemp. polished calf, blind rules on covers, spine banded, gilt rules and devices, title in gilt on leather label, front hinge cracked; folding port. repaired on verso, a few old annotations (some on an inserted loose slip), a few corner tears, a nice copy. Folding port. of Spanheim by A. de Blois, t.p. in red and black.

Spanheim (1632-1701) Swiss born church historian. He studied in Leiden and in 1655 was appointed as the successor to Johann Heinrich Hottinger as professor of theology at Heidelberg. In 1658 he was made professor of dogmatic and moral theology. In 1670 he taught at the University of Leiden and became the Coccejus professor of theology. There until his death he produced a number of important theological histories. His works were always noted for their evenhanded approach to religious subjects. A second volume was added to this study of sacred history in 1686 but is not present here.

STCN 168304. $350

286. Spiro, Nathan iv Yerushalmi ben Reuben David.

[Hebrew text:] Mamar Yayin ha-Meshummar.

Venice: 1660. 4to. [8],38ff First Edition.

Modern red cloth, gilt spine, tears and pieces lacking from first leaves (heavier on t.p. and following few leaves) some archival tissue repairs (some text losses), minor dampstains T.p. in woodcut surround Nathan Spiro was the son of Reuben David dayan of Cracow, legate to the Holy Land. He studied kabbalah with Jacob Zemah. He traveled to Venice. “A large amount of this output (of Lurianic teachings) was the work of men at the center established in Jerusalem between 1630 and 1660 whose leaders, Jacob Zemah, Nathan ben Reuben Spiro, and Meir Poppers, labored unstintingly both in editing Vital’s writings and in composing their own works. Of these only the books of Nathan Spiro, whi spent some of his later years in Italy, were actually printed..”[Scholem, Kabbalah, 1974.] The ‘Yayin ha-Meshummar’ is a work on the prohibitions relating to wine and the beard.

Steinschneider 6644:2. Cowley 507. Zedner 609. Vinograd, Venice, 1345. $375

287. Spiro, Nathan iv Yerushalmi ben Reuben David.

[Hebrew Title:] Sefer Mazzat Shimmurim. Abraham Aboab for Venturin ben David, ed.

Venice: Moresini for Antonio Rizzini, 1660.

4to. 84ff. First Edition.

19th c. cloth, spine torn, covers damp wrinkled, stamp of Jew’s College London on t.p., margins of t.p. repaired (no text loss), some old repairs (some small losses), dampstains, some corners bent, but a good copy. Kabbalistic charts.

The Mazzat is a work on the Mezzuzah, Ztizit, & Teffilin and the beginning of Kabbalsim.

Vinograd, Venice, 1346. Cowley 507. Steinschneider 6644:3. $500

288. St. Hilary of Poiitiers [Hilarius Pictaviensis.]

[Opera] Sancti Hilarii Pictavorum Episcopi, quotquot extant Opera: Nos-

tro fere seculo literatorum quorundam non mediocri labore conquisita, & a censuris nonnullorum male affectorum, ad sensum verae pietatis restituta: nunc tandem ex collatione veterum codicum emendata, variis lectionibus illustrata, & quorundam tractatuum accessione locupletata ; Horum Catalogum versa pagina indicabit ; Accessit geminus index locupletissimus. Eds. Gregorius Turonensis; Petrus

Damiani; Fortunatus; Robert Bellarmine, ; Jean Gillot; & Hieronymus Cologne: Anton Hierat (the elder), 1617. Folio. †3, 2 †6, 3 †4 [3†4 blank, present], A-2I6. [28], 348, [36]p Contemp. blind-tooled pigskin, bishop’s arms dated 1601 on covers, spine worn, titles in gilt on red leather labels, rear cover nearly detached, browned and foxed, old institutional label on f.f.e.p. Large engraved vignette on t.p., t.p. in red and black, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.

Hilarius Pictaviensis (of Poictiers; d. 368), who was one of the most severe opponents to Arianism. The first work, his De trinitate is the first great contribution in Latin to the discussion of this important dogma. Book 1 treats of natural religion and how it leads up to relevlation; book 2 especially discusses the baptismal formula; book 3 the union of the two natures in Christ; book 4 that this co-existence of two natures does not derogate from the unity of this divine Person; book 5 is against heretics (book 12 against Arianism in particular), etc. The book evidently produced a great impression. Contra Constantinum and Ad Constantinum: a petition to the emperor Constantine for toleration for the orthodox in Gaul, addressed to his fellow bishops of Gaul. Contra Auxentium and Auxentii Blasphemiae plena Ep.: treatises, written in 365, against the profession of orthodoxy made by Auxentius. It is a curious commentary upon early church history. De synodis is a explanation of the various professions of faith (318-9). In Ad apram filiam Hilarius draws a mystic portrait of the heavenly bridegroom, which is evidently intended to suggest the superiority of celibacy, but he leaves his daughter Apra an entirely free choice. Included is also his important commentary on the psalms. His commentary on Matthew is the most ancient exposition of the Gospels of Matthew by a Latin Father.

VD17 1:001369L. $550

289. Staricius (Stariz), Johann August.

Neu reformirt- und vermehrter Helden-Schatz. Das ist

Naturkundliches Bedencken, uber und bey Vulckanischer, auch Naturlich-Magischer Fabrefaction und Zubereitung der Waffen des Helden Achillis in GriechenLand, Daraus neben vielen Secretis zu vernehmen, was zu Martialischer Ausruestung eines Krieges-Helden vornehmlich gehorig...nunmehro...vermehret u. von neuen in Druck befordert worden.

N.P: [Germany]N.P., 1676 12mo. A-2C12. [10],576,[32]p.

Contemp. vellum, spine concave,yapp fore-edge,old owner’s note on t.p., minor stains, paper toned, marginal repairs to P1-P5, some worm damage to P7-Q1 some text affected on P7. T.p. in red and black, alchemical text cuts.

Staricius (fl 1609-1622) His book, which was quite popular and went through several editions, is on magic in war. “Wartime magic & technology in a wild mixture of the practical & the superstitious, with much folklore & learned lore, ranging from Achilles to the Hörnin Seyfried, from the Meistersinger to Joh. Fischart, from Knittelverse to Alexandrines...employing the symbol of the naturalmagical fabrication of the arms of armor of Achilles & ranging from protective talismans & spells to practical recipes & technical directions” [OCLC entries] “A curious book of secrets. It is not mentioned by Ferguson...Joecher

(IV,785) says that the author was a chemist living at Nuremberg about 1641, It appeared first probably in 1616...” [Duveen] “Fabrefactio armorum electro-magic. Particularia vom fest machen, Experiment des Heern von Redem sich fest zu machen; von Artillery od. Büchsenmeisterey item von Pulvermachen u. Feurwerkerey.”

[Rosenthal.]

VD17 3:308493B. Rosenthal 806. Kopp II,122.OCLC: 51111608 (1 copy listed, incomplete) $600

290. Stubbe [Stubbs], Henry.[Thomas Sprat] Legends no Histories: Or, A Specimen oOf some Animadaversions

Upon the History of the Royal Society. Wherein, besides the several Errors against Common Literature, sundry mistakes about the making of Salt-Petre and Gun-Powder are detected and rectified: whereunto are added two Discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that Subject...With A brief Account of those passages of the Authors Life...

London: [H.N.] for the Booksellers, 1670. [bound with] A Censure Upon Certain Passages Contained in the History Of The Royal Society, As being Destructive to the Established Religion and Church of England.

Oxford: [Henry Hall] for Richard Davis,1670. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. π2,*4,†4.A4,a4,B-R4. [30],3-127,[1]p. ; A2.B-I4. [4],64p.

Modern paper-covered boards, title in gold on leather label,small hole in first two leaves (no affecting text),edge repair on A3 (touching page number), minor stains.

Stubbs, Stubbes, or Stubbe, Henry 1632-1676, physician and author. “His friend Anthony a Wood describes him as ‘the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his age ‘a singular mathematician, and thoroughly read in all political matters, councils, ecclesiastical, and profane histories.’ He was also ‘accounted a very good physician.’ Wood adds: ‘Had he been endowed with common sobriety and discretion, and not have made himself and his learning mercenary and cheap to every ordinary and ignorant fellow, he would have been admired by all, and might have pick’d and chus’d his preferment. But all these things being wanting, he became a ridicule, and undervalued by sober and knowing scholars, and others too.’ Stubbe was intimately acquainted with Hobbes.”[DNB] This copy lacks the added part “Plus Ultra of Mr Joseph Glanvill reduced to a Non-Plus.”

Wing S6053 & S6033. Madan 2866.ESTC r21316 & r32736. $750

291. Stubbe {Stubbs], Henry.

The Plus Ultra reduced to a Non Plus: Or, A Specimen of some Ani-

madversions upon the Plus Ultra of Mr. Glanvill, wherein sundry Errors of some Virtuosi are discovered, the Credit of the Aristotelians in part Re-advanced; and Enquiries made...

London: N.P., 1670. 4to. 2 pts in 1 vol. a3,b4; A-O4, P5 (with inserted leaf pagi-

nated 115-6),Q-Z4. Complete. [14],116,115-179,178-79,[1] with errors in pagination.

First Combined Edition.

Contemp. paneled calf with corner fleurons and other repeated devices, expertly rebacked, title on red morocco label, spine banded, some paper toning, cut cose at bottom (sometimes into catchmark.)

Glanvill had written a defense of the Royal Society at the request of Oldenburg called “Plus Ultra” and this engendered a number of responses including this work by Stubbe. There are interesting chapters on the circulation of the blood (which Stubbe claims Harvey took from Caesalpinus), the telescope, life on other worlds, chemistry, baths, etc.

There are several issues of this work with no priority. This one contains “The Plus Ultra” section at the front of the “A Specimen” (with a separate titlepage). The imprint of our copy is a unrecorded variant without “For the Author” on the title-page (although it is possible it was simply trimmed off).

Wing S6063 (includes Wing S6067). ESTC r204855. TC I,31. $1250

292. Suarez, Francisco.

Opus De Virtute Et Statu Religionis In tres Tractatus distributum. In-

quibus Praeter Materiam Veri divini cultus, omnes, quaestiones de Magia, ac teterrimo Simonie peccato copiose, & eleganter disputatae continentur. Nuper In Lucem Auctum Et Emendatius Editum.

Venice: Bernardo Giunta [Junta], Giovan Baptista Ciotti, & Soc., 1609.

Folio.

†8,a-f6,A-2Z8, 3A10.

[88],776p.

Old vellum, minor stains, nicely rebacked in vellum with title in gilt on red morocco label; t.p.slightly stained, minor marginal worming, some leaves lightly browned, some light dampstains at end. Large printer’s device on t.p., t.p. in red and black, decorated initials.

“Francisco Suárez, Doctor Eximius, a pious and eminent theologian, as Paul V called him, born at Granada, 5 January, 1548; died at Lisbon, 25 September, 1617. He entered the Society of Jesus at Salamanca, 16 June, 1564; in that city he studied philosophy and theology from 1565 to 1570, and was ordained in 1572. He taught philosophy at Avila and at Segovia (1571), and later, theology at Avila and Segovia (1575), Valladolid (1576), Rome (1580-85); Alcalá (1585-92), Salamanca (1592-97), and Coimbra (1597-1616). All his biographers say that he was an excellent religious, practicing mortification, laborious, modest, and given to prayer. He enjoyed such fame for wisdom that Gregory XIII attended his first lecture in Rome; Paul V invited him to refute the errors of King James of England, and wished to retain him near his person, to profit by his knowledge; Philip II sent him to the University of Coimbra to give prestige to that institution, and when Suárez visited the University of Barcelona, the doctors of the university went out to meet him, with the insignia of their faculties. His writings are characterized by depth, penetration and clearness of expression, and they bear witness to their author’s exceptional knowledge of the Fathers, and of heretical as well as of ecclesiastical writers.

Bossuet said that the writings of Suárez contained the whole of Scholastic philosophy; Werner (Franz Suárez, p. 90) affirms that if Suárez be not the first theologian

of his age, he is, beyond all doubt, among the first; Grotius (Ep. 154, J. Cordesio) recognizes in him one of the greatest of theologians and a profound philosopher, and Mackintosh considers him one of the founders of international law. “ [Catholic Ency.]

His work on magic, simony, and cults was first published in 1608 in Madid. The Second book is devoted to “Superstitione” on occult beliefs, magic, witchcraft, demons, and punishment for such practices. A valuable source for students of the official church reactions to magical thought.

Camerini, Giunti/Venezia, II,502:96.De Backer/Sommervogel VII, 1670:9.Palau (1) VI,550.OCLC: 48392066 ( 2copies only). $1375 Mearne Binding for Charles II.

293. Sydenham, Cuthbert.

The Greatness Of The Mystery of Godliness; Together, With

Hypocrisie discovered in its Nature and Workings. [bound with] Hypocrise Discovered In Its Nature and Workings. In Several Sermons.

London: R. T[omlins] for Robert Boulter, 1671-2. 8vo. 2 works in 1 vol.

A4,B-K8; A-H8. [6],216; [10],186pp.

Third Edition, so stated.

Contemp. red morocco with the gilt monograms of Charles II on the covers and spine by Mearne; a.e.g., some rubbing at edges, small chip from head-cap, corner off of lower outer corner of K1 with some loss of text, some browning and foxing but a very good copy of a very scarce work.

“Sydenham or Sidenham, 1622-1654, The parliamentary committee for regulating the university sent letters to the members of convocation lauding his abilities, and bearing witness to his service to their cause, and on 8 March 1650-1 he was created M.A. On 22 Nov. 1652 Sydenham was appointed master of St. Mary Magdalen Hospital at Newcastle... He was ‘a genteel, comly personage,’ with an ‘aquiline’ nose, and in the pulpit was ‘a very Seraph.’ “ [DNB] Samuel Mearne was the greatest of the English binders of the Restoration period. These bindings were executed for the King but were permitted to be sold after the death of the King. (see Howard M. Nixon’s English Restoration Bookbindings, 1974.) Wing S6299 & S6302. $2000

294. Thyraeus, Petrus.

Opera, De Variis Apparitiones Dei, Et Christi,Angelorumque, Pariter,

Bonum Atque Malorum: nec non hominum, tum inter homines agentium, tum demortuorum, avumq(ue) agentium.

Cologne: Goswin Cholinus for Mater Cholinus, 1605. 4to. (:)4, 2(:)4, A-3P4 [3P4 blank, present.]

[16], 486p.

19th c. red speckled calf over marbled boards, gilt title and rules, library label and stamps of “Bibli. Prov. Germ. Inferioris “ with duplicate deaquistion stamp,some browning. Jesuit device in engraved vignette on t.p., head-piece, decorated initial.

Thyraeus (1546-1601) of Nuys concluded that the visible, audible, and tangible phenomena associated with hauntings are hallucinations caused by demons or spirits. “The Devil has power to represent the likeness (or similacrum) of an innocent person at a sabbat; but since the Devil is circumscribed by God, in practice he represents only the wicked, God protects the innocent... Spectral evidence is therefore valid proof of witchcraft.” [Robbins] VD 17 12:122029F. Caillet 10685. de Backer/ Sommervogel VIII,16:21. Thorndike VI, 533. $1000

295. Thyraeus,Peter & Guevara, Antionio de.

Thyraeus: Divinarum Novi Testamenti, sive Christi Filii Dei, Novi

testamenti mediatoris, apparitionum libris tres.

Cologne: Goswin Cholinus for Mater Cholinus, 1603. [32],326p.

[Bound With]

Guevara: Exegemata in Habacuc.

Augsburg: Christoph Mang, for Elias Willer,1603. [32],502,[66]p. 4to.

Contemp. pigskin, elaborately blindtooled, lacks clasps, soiled, old ownership on t.p. dated 1604 of the Weingarten Monastery; pinwormholes in margin of Guevara c100pp (no text affected), some marginal paper toning to Thyraeus.

Printer’s devices on t.p.s The present work on the physical appearance of Christ is in three sections: De Christi Apparatione In Judicio, De Apparitione Christi Filii Dei Sacramentali Usitata Et Peregrina, & De Apparitionibus Christi Impersonalibus. It is a essential piece in Thyraeus’ studies in the appearances of angels and demons. This work is quite scarce with only one copy located in OCLC. Guevara’s (1480-1545) Franciscan and Spanish writer of works on history, courtesy, mores, and theology. He became court preacher and historiographer to Charles V. “He was much admired for his politness, eloquence, and great parts..”

[Chalmers} His most famous work was his ‘Dial of Princes” which was translated into many languages. His style was immensely popular but he was also attacked for it for its excessive stylistic devices.First published posthumously in 1585, this is an extensive commentary on the prophecies of the biblical Habakuk to the Chaldeans with an Ephrasis in columnar form.

Thyraeus: VD17 12:122013D. Backer/Sommervogel VIII,17:22 .BL 17th (Germ) T455. Graesse, Mgica,83. Rosenthal, Magica, 1941.Not in Cornell, Witchcraft, or Caillet.

Guevara: VD17 12:119546A. Palau 110.406. Robbins 1023. $1500

296. Titus, Didacus Placidus de [Placido Titi].

Physiomathematica, Sive Coelestis Philosophica Naturalibus hu-

cusq(ue) desideratis ostensa principiis. [Second t.p. Quaestionum Physiomathematicarum Libri Tres In quibus Ex Naturae principiis hucusq(ue) desideratis demonstratur Astrologiae...]

Milan: Johannes Baptista Malatessa, [1650.] 4to. †4,2¶4.A-2S4.

[16],323,[1]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum, spine banded, title in old hand on spine, small inner upper margin wormtrack, some light damp & mold staining; owner’s entry on second t.p. “Pertines ad Bibliothecam S. Francisci Transty Gerim. Prohibito.” a nice looking copy.

9 engraved plates (one folding), printer’s ornaments, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials.bound betweenV4 &X1 in this copy. Tables and nativities.

Placido Titi (d.1668) of Perugia, monk of the Olivet Congregation, was one of the last staunch advocates of astrology. Thorndike describes him as “a sort of patron saint for astrologers in the second half of the seventeenth century,” who “lent something like the odor of sanctity to that sorely beset art... In 1650 had first appeared his Physiomathematica or celestial philosophy demonstrated by natural principles which had hitherto been lacking, another of the by this time fairly frequent attempts to rehabilitate astrology upon a natural basis... Placido held that the heavens acted upon the earth only by their light, thus abandoning any occult influence. If there were other stars in the sky than those we see, they do not act on us. As for r the tides, however, he holds that the sun and moon do not draw the waters of the sea as a magnet attracts iron, but cause the tides by rarefaction and condensation.”

The fact that this edition does not have a date on the title-page has caused some confusion as to the existence of an edition of 1646 or 1647 which is different from this one which has the date 1650 taken from the imprimatur. It is possible that the first gathering, with its own title-page, was added later (a different state?, it is not called for in the collation at the end) and this caused the confusion. There was a second edition in 1675 but we believe ours is actually the first edition.

Gardner, Astrologica, 1223 (taking title from second t.p., his copy lacked the prelims. present here).Thorndike, VIII 302. Caillet 10734 “Tres curieux”. Ackermann IV, 506. Houzeau/Lancaster 5175. Riccardi II,521-2 & Suppl. II,150. BL 17th Italian 907.

Bruni/Evans 5321. Vinciana 1618 (1646). Melzi II,376. $1500

297. Tomai da Ravenna, Tom[m]aso.

Idea Del Giardino Del Mondo...Ove oltre molti secreti maravigliosi di

natura, sono posi varii, & soavissimi frutti curiosissimi secondo la diversita del gusto de gli huomini... Nuovamente ristampa, & con somma diligenza correcta.

Venice: Antonio Tivani, 1690. 12mo. A-H12. [24],168 p.

Contemp. original? paper wrappers, light dampstains, untrimmed with wide margins, a veery nice copy.

Flower device on t.p.

“Among the topics and questions discussed in the fifty-two chapters of this popularization of science and occult science were the virtues of stones and herbs, how to tell if a child will be male or female and how many children there will be, why women and children do not have beards, demons of the air, comets and their marvelous effects, the salamander’s living in fire, the secret of holding one’s hand in the fire without injury, a recipe for infernal fire revealed to Paracelsus by a demon who lived in the sphere of fire, remedies for the bewitched and impotent,

signs of human complexions, accounts of animals, disease, the earth, planets, signs, and crystalline and empyrean heavens.” [Thorndike, VI,428.]

“Thus in a very curious and rare work, entitled, Idea del Giardino delMondo, by Tommaso Tomai of Ravenna (second edition), Venice, 1690, there is mention of “demons called incubi, succubi, or empedusi, and other lemuri, who are enamored of men or women.” What is indeed remarkable in these Tuscan names is that there has been on the whole so little change in them. It is of little matter that the Impusa does not appear in the modern account with one foot of brass or like that of an ass (alterum verò habeat æneum aut asininum- Suidas), since during the Middle Ages the word was often used as asynonym for Lamia, Lemur, or witch of any kind. If Italian writers could describe the Empusa as being the same with Lemures and Incubi, it is not remarkable that mere peasants should have applied the name quite as loosely. “[ Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1892] Rosenthal, Magica, 5827. BL 17th c. Ital. 908 (other eds.) $600

298. Topsell, Edward & Konrad Gesner.

[The Historie Of Foure-Footed Beastes. Describing the true and li-

uely figure of euery Beast, with a discourse of their seuerall Names, Conditions, Kindes, Vertues (both naturall and medicinall) Countries of their breed, their loue and hate to Mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their Creation, Preseruation, and Destruction. Necessary for all Diuines and Students, because the story of euery Beast is amplified with Narrations out of Scriptures, Fathers, Phylosophers, Physitians, and Poets: wherein are declared diuers Hyerogliphicks, Emblems, Epigrams, and other good Histories, Collected out of all the Volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other Writers to this present day.]

[London:] [William Jaggard,] [1607.] Folio. 330 x 209mm. A6, ¶6, 2¶8, *2, B2V6, 3A-3X6, 3Y8. [Lacks First & last blanks: A1, 3Y8; supplied from a smaller copy: C2, C4, D6, K3,L2-6, V5, Bb1, Qq1, Tt5, 3H1, 3M3, 3R6, 3S2; facsimile replacements A2-4, 2¶8, K2, O3, R6, T6, , 3V1, 3Y1] [42],757,[13]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. English calf, gilt and blind ruled with centerpieces gilt, nicely rebacked with bands, title gilt, endpapers renewed; 17 pages have been supplied from a smaller copy (some with tears and minor losses (V5, 2Q1, 2T5, 3H1, 3M3— cut into last line) and 10 are in facsimile on modern but sympathetic paper; some minor edge tears and minor spotting but a very clean copy with wide margins; bookplate and signature A6r) of John Sneyd of Bristol (1754-1809), a few sketches in pencil on A6r,3Y7v. This is the state with “gers” as the catchword on B2r [Harvard Copy] Profusely illustrated with woodcuts.

Topsell, Edward (bap. 1572, d. 1625), Church of England clergyman and author. “Insistence upon a spiritual reading of the book of nature is to be found prominently in the prefatory material, and less prominently in the text, of Topsell’s most celebrated publications, The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (London, W. Jaggard, 1607) and The Historie of Serpents (London, W. Jaggard, 1608), both dedicated to Richard Neile, dean of Westminster. Topsell’s declared purpose in collecting together pictures of animals, and stories about their ways, is to entertain, to

inform, and above all to edify. He envisages The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes as suitable sabbath reading-matter in the godly home (epistle dedicatory, final paragraph).. Topsell made no claim to be a naturalist. He was an industrious compiler, collecting information out of ‘divine Scriptures, fathers, Philosophers, Physitians and Poets’ amplified with ‘sundry accidental Histories, Hierogliphycks, Epigrams, Emblems, and Aenigmatical Observations’. He relied heavily on the Historia animalium of the mid-sixteenth-century Swiss protestant encyclopaedist Conrad Gesner, from whose work most of the text and the pictures in both books is derived. He reproduces much of Gesner’s text verbatim, but also paraphrases, digests, or omits passages without warning. He adds material from the English writers John Caius (on dogs), Thomas Blundeville and Gervase Markham (on the horse), and Thomas Penny via Thomas Mouffet (on insects), as well as remarks of his own. “ [Oxford DNB] STC 24123. ESTC s122276. Nissen ZBI, 4145. Wood p599. $2500

299. Topsell, Edward; Thomas Moffett; John Rowland; & Konrad Gesner.

The History of Four-footed Beasts And Serpents:Describing at

Large Their True and Lively Figure, their several Names, Conditions, Kinds, Virtues (both Natural and Medicinal) Countries of their Breed, their Love and Hatred to Mankind, and the wonderful work of God in their Creation, Preservation, and Destruction. Interwoven with curious variety of Historical Narrations out of Scriptures, Fathers, Philosophers, Physicians, and Poets: Illustrated with divers Hieroglyphicks and Emblems, &c. both pleasant and profitable for students in all Faculties and Professions. Collected out of the Writings of Conradus Gesner and other Authors, by Edward Topsel. Whereunto is now Added, The Theater of Insects; or, Lesser living Creatures: as Bees, Flies, Caterpillars, Spiders, Worms, &c. A most Elaborate work: by T[homas] Muffet, Dr. of Physick. The whole Revised, Corrected, and Inlarged with the Addition of Two useful Physical Tables, by J[ohn] R[owland] M.D.

London: E[llen] Coates for G[eorge] Srawbridge, T[homas] Williams, and T[homas] Johnson, 1658. Folio. 3 pts. in 1vol. 317 x 207mm. A8, B-5C6, 5D4.

[Lacks half-title, final leaf of text 5D1, final leaf of index 5D4, & blanks 4A2 & 4A6.]

[14 of 16], 818. [16 of 18], 889-1128, [4 of 6]p. First Complete Edition.

Modern 1/2 morocco over marbled boards, title gilt o spine; endpapers renewed, lower corners of some leaves, including title, repaired; F3, F4, 2L4, and 2X4 repaired along margins with loss of some of the shoulder notes, margins of a few more leaves repaired, small hole in leaf F1 with loss of some letters, paper flaw in O6 without loss, some light spotting and staining including an ink stain on the top edge i the middle of the book (not affecting

text). Divisional titles with woodcut vignettes, numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page.

Wing G624 [Under Gesner]. Freeman 3730. Nissen ZBI, 4147. Wood p599. ESTC r6249. British Bee Books 17. $4500

300. Torquatus a Frangipani, Alexander Julius.

Panegyricus Aeternatura Gloriae... Johannis Christophoro Konigs-

marcho: [Including the Gnomoglyphia; Arcus Triumphales & Mausolaeum Sepulchrale, & Lachrymae Regales sections.]

N.P. [Amsterdam?]: N.P., 1663. Tall folio. 395 x 254mm. π 4 , A - R 2 , 2 π 1 (t.p),A-F2,3π9.

[8],67,[40]p.

First Edition.

19h c. 1/2 vellum over marbled boards, title in gilt on red leather label, old description pasted to inner cover, bookplate of C. G. Platen, signature of Magus laurentii Stahl on engraved t.p.,marginal repairs to letterpress t.p., and margins of port.,folds of three large folding plates with verso supports on folds, minor foxing.

A very nice copy. Extra engraved t.p. & section title by Jan van Visscher after designs by Torquatus, engraved t.p., engraved arms, port. of Konigsmark by Jan von Meurs, 4 large folding plates by Gerrit van Feneam after Torquatus, 12 large emblematic text engravings.

Rare, beautiful panegyric book issued to celebrate the life, and commemorate the death of Hans Christoff von Konigsmarck (1605-1663) Swedish General of the Thirty Years War. “..war ein guter Offizier und ein vorzuglicher Organisator, eine Eigenschaft, die er bei der Neueinrichtung der schwed. Verwaltung in Bremen und Verden bewies...Er galt als einer der reichsten Manner seiner Zeit” [NDB 12,360.]

Possibly printed in Amsterdam (cf. Thieme-Becker under Fenaem), Antwerp (cf. British museum cat.), Slesvig or Kiel (cf. Moller, J. Cimbria literata.

Havniae, 1744. v. 2, p. 894). Berlin Cat. 3169. Warmholtz XIII, 7357. Praz 195.

Graesse IV,39. OCLC: 41325854 (incomplete). RLIN: CJPA89-B13250 (2 copies). $1750

301. Torquatus a Frangipani, Alexander Julius.

Panegyricus Aeternatura Gloriae...

N.P. [Amsterdam?]: N.P., 1663. Tall folio. 400 x 274mm.

π4,A-R2,2π2,AF2,2π7. [8],67,[40]pp.

First Edition.

Contemp. 1/2 sheep over marbled paper boards, rubbed, minor worming in spine and to covers, t.p. laid-down with repaired worm track, second leaf remargined in inner margin, some margins repaired etc.; some clean tears at edges of large folding plates (with modern archival repairs), a missing piece of the blank margin of one folding plate is restored, occ. rust holes; generally clean and crisp.

Extra engraved t.p. & section title by Jan van Visscher after designs by Torquatus, engraved t.p., engraved arms, port. of Konigsmark by Jan von Meurs, 4 large folding plates by Gerrit van Feneam after Torquatus, 12 large emblematic text engravings. $1750

302. Torreblanca Villalpando, Francisco.

Epitome delictorum, sive de magia: in qua aperta vel occulta invocatio daemonis intervenit...

Lyon: Jean Anton Hugetan, 1678. 4to. [8],576, [108]p.

Contemp. calf, spine banded, extra gilt, expertly rebacked using old spine; edges speckled; archival support to lower margin of t.p.,lower corner of last leaf restored (no text affected), minor foxing, minor edge worming. T.p. in red and black,printer’s device on t.p.

Torreblanca (d.1645), a jurist of Cordova, first published his work on demonology and Magic in 1618. “The work is divided into four books devoted to divining magic, operative magic, and its punishment in the forum exterior and juridical, and in the interior tribunal of the soul and confessional....Magic is defined after Proclus and Psellus as an exacter knowledge of secret things in which, by observing the course and influence of the stars and the sympathies and antipathies of particular things, they are applied to one anothe at the proper time and place and in the proper manner, so that marvels are worked...Torreblanca turns to diabolical magic and the extent of the powers of the devil to make it possible...Torreblanca has jumbled together natural and diabolical magic almost inextricably, but his remaining chapters are on witchcraft, with the two last on natural and divine remedies against it...” [Thorndike] Caillet 10764. Graesse, Magica, 53. Palau 334.827. Cornell, Witchcraft, 550. OCLC: 11407716. Robbins 1026. Coumont T33.3. $2000

303. Tryon, Thomas.

The Way To Health, Long Life and Happiness: Or, A Discourse of Tem-

perence...To which is Added, A Treatise of most sorts of English Herbs...To which is added a Discourse of the Philosophers Stone, or, Universal Medicine, Discovering the Cheats and Abuses of those Chymical Pretenders.

London: N.P., 1697. 8vo. [16],456,24pp. “Third Edition”, first issue.

Contemp. paneled calf, rebacked, spine banded, title gilt on red leather label, endpapers renewed, some marginal soiling and dampstaining, a few pencil notes, lower outer corner of 2F7 off, affecting catchword on verso.

Tryon (1634-1703), “in his forty-eighth year, ...became conscious of an inward instigation to write and publish his convictions to the world. His writings are a curious medley of mystical philosophy and dietetics, his objects being, as he himself informs us, to ‘recommend to the world temperance, cleanness, and innocency of living’ to give his readers Wisdom’s bill of fare ‘ and at the same time to write down several mysteries concerning God and his government’. He strongly recommends a vegetable diet, together with abstinence from tobacco, alcohol, and indeed all luxuries; but recognizing that, in spite of his admonitions, people would still imbibe strong drinks and ‘gorge themselves on the flesh of their fellow animals,’ he gives some practical information on the subject of meats, and wrote a little treatise on the proper method of brewing. In his horror of war and his advocacy of silent meditation, as well as in his mystical belief, he forms an interesting link between

the Behmenists and the early quakers; and he seems to have been widely read by secretaries of various schools both in England and America. Benjamin Franklin was greatly impressed when a youth by the perusal of ‘The Way to Health,’ and became for the time being a ‘Tryonist;’ nor is it in any degree fanciful to discover a marked likeness between the style of Franklin and the quaint moralizing of Tryon, though there is in the latter a vein of mystical piety to which ‘Poor Richard,’ with all his virtues, is a stranger.” [DNB].

Added to this edition is the “A Dialogue between an East-Indian Brackmanny, or Heathen Philosopher, and a French Gentleman, &c,” as well as a portion of Sandys’ translation of Ovid, and, more significantly, the essay on the Philosopher’s Stone. This, the third edition, is the first printing of Tryon’s alchemical essay.

Wing T3202. Bruning 2874. Krivatsy/NLM 11996. Duveen 588. Pritchard 2307. Bitting 466-7. Simon, G, 139. Oxford 43. Cagle 1031. Alden 697/182. Pritchard 2307. $1250

304. Turner, William.

The History Of Religions In The World; From the Creation down to

this Present Time...To which is added, A Table of Heresies: As Also A geographical Map, Shewing in what Countrey Each Religion is Practised.

London: John Dunton, 1695. 8vo. [16],684p. First Edition.

Contemp. paneled sheep, front cover detached, binding worn. H e m i sphere map showing the religions on p. 603, text cuts.

Turner (1653-1701) divine, vicar of Walberton and rector of Binstead in Sussex. The DNB calls this work “ingenious.” John Dunton, the bookseller, who was Turner’s publisher, says he was ‘very generous, and would not receive a farthing for his copy till the success was assured.’

Wing T3347. $500

305. Ussher, James. & Robert Cooke.

Gravissimae Quaestionis De Christianarum, In Occidentis præsertim partibus, ab Apostolicis temporibus ad nostrum usq; aetatem, continua suiccessione & statu, Historica Explication.

London:[Eliot’s Court Press for] Bill Norton, 1613. [bound with] Cocus [Cooke], Robert. Censura Quorundam Scriptorum, Quæ Sub Nominibus Sanctorum & veterum Auctorum, à Pontificiis (in quæstionibus potissimùm hodie controversis) citari solent. In qua ostenditur, scripta illa, vel esse supposititia, vel dubiæ saltem fidei. London: [Richard Field], by Guil. Barret, 1623. 4to. 2 vols. in 1.

First Editions.

Full calf in blind, mild chipping on spine.

Ussher, James (1581-1656), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh and scholar. “The main focus of Ussher’s early academic career was anti-Catholic theology and history. ..In 1613...published his first work, Gravissimae quaestionis, de Christianarum ecclesiarum .... This demonstrated what became the hallmarks of Ussher’s published work: thorough and impartial scholarship which demonstrated a rare gift for discovering and printing crucial primary sources; often, however, allied to a rather more partial and polemical subtext. The main substance of the work

was a meticulous and path-breaking account of many medieval heretical groups, based upon extensive and often original manuscript research. But it also had an underlying polemical purpose: this was to trace the rise of Antichrist in the Roman Catholic church, especially from the eleventh century, and to demonstrate how the purity of the Christian gospel was preserved in the later middle ages by groups such as the Cathars and Waldensians. Hence Ussher sought to emphasize the protoprotestant elements of the heretics, and discard as Catholic distortions evidence which contradicted this. According to the table of contents, the work was to extend up to the Reformation, but the latter part was never completed; Ussher abandoned the narrative in the early twelfth century, thus leaving it unclear just how radical he was prepared to be in tracing a non-episcopal descent for the protestant churches through an at times bizarre collection of heretics.” [Oxord DNB] Cooke, 1550-1650, Robert Cooke (1550-1615), Vicar of Leeds. Cooke provides a list of the works cited by Christian apologists cited bt Roman Catholic writers. It was often cited in its time and went through anumber of editions.

Ussher:STC 24551.ESTCs118953. Cooke: STC 5470. ESTCs108115. $450

306. Vecchi, Paulo [De].

Observationum Omnigenae Eruditionis In Divinam Scripturam carptim

Universam, Libri Duo. Primus Continens Observationes physiogomicas, sive locos S. Scripturae, qui ponderantur iuxta physiognomica principia, itaut physiognomica, Eruditio doceatur, & simul S, Scripturae ancilletur...

[Volume 1 only, complete in itself.]

Naples: Francesco Savio for Francesco Balsalmo, 1641. 4to. π2, A-2A4, a4 [4],64,[8],73- 190, [10]p.

First Edition.

Cont. limp vellum, a bit soiled, hand lettered spine. Old ownership signature on blank part of title, some minor stains & light toning. Vecchi [DeVecchi] was a canon of the cathedral in Capua. His “Observations of Every Kind of Erudition on Divine Scripture” was envisioned a 32 part work covering all types of subjects in relation to scripture from physiognomy and medicine to astronomy, ethics, magic, kabbalah, hierogyphics, music, architecture, theology, etc. He only published the first two volumes, this one on physiognomy and a second (not present here) on medicine.

The first part of this book sets out the apparatus for the whole intended 32 volumes. It is followed by 105 chapters on physiognomy. It is a scarce work with only a few copies found in our bibliographies and none listed in US libraries.

BL Ital. 17th. II, 935. Laehr I, 220. Gerlach, Vecchi 1641.Thorndike,VII,461. $450

307. Venner, Tobias.

Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam. Or, A plain Philosophicall Demonstra-

tion of the Nature, Faculties, and Effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health, with divers necessary dieteticall observations; as also of the true use and effects of Sleep, Exercise, Excretions, and Perturbations, with just applications to every age, constitution of body, and time of yeere.. Whereunto is annexed... a necessary and compendious Treatise of the fa-

mous Baths of Bathe, with a Censure of the medicinable faculties of the water of Saint Vincent’s rocks neere the City of Bristoll. As also an accurate Treatise concerning Tobacco.

London: R. Bishop for Henry Hood, 1637. 4to. A4,a4, B-2Z4,[2]2A2. [16],364p.

Modern antique 1/2 morocco over marbled boards,title gilt on red morocco label; worming in lower margins generally not affecting text, light dampstain in upper portion of first leaves, early signature on t.p. “Tho: Walker”, lower margin of last leaf torn and restored with slight loss.

Venner, Tobias (1577-1660), physician and medical writer. “By the time he obtained his BM and DM degrees in 1613, Venner was already visiting Bath between spring and autumn when the annual influx of the sick provided a lucrative trade for visiting physicians. Bath’s hot mineral springs enjoyed a reputation for the successful treatment of skin problems, paralytic disorders, and painful conditions.

The spa was popular with people from all ranks of society but bathing was confined to just three months of the year, so avoiding the hottest and coldest seasons, which were considered dangerous, though Venner challenged the wisdom of this statement in his publication The Bathes of Bathe (1620). Several earlier writers had published books about bathing which featured Bath but Venner was the first to write exclusively about the city’s spa....

The Bathes of Bathe accompanied the initial part of another work by Venner on the preservation of health, entitled Via recta ad vitam longam, the final part of which he completed two years later. The book followed a traditional format, and discussed how the six ‘non-naturals’ (environment, diet, sleep, exercise, excretion, and the passions of the mind) affected the balance of the four humours (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile). Venner advocated the consumption of bran to prevent constipation, and regular cleaning of the teeth to prevent tooth decay and bad breath. He cautioned against drinking water conveyed through lead piping. He also published A Briefe ... Treatise Concerning the Taking of the Fume of Tobacco (1621). Although he personally disliked its ‘detestable savour’ and deplored its immoderate recreational use, he recommended tobacco-smoking as a means of improving digestion and countering the malign effects of cold, misty weather and contagious air...Venner’s writings suggest that he was a man of moderate habits and piety, so it was not surprising that during the Commonwealth period he espoused the puritan cause. His longevity certainly served to prove the efficacy of his regimen: he died at Bath on 27 March 1660 in his eighty-third year.”[Oxford DNB] STC 24646. ESTC s126791 (issue with last page numbered). $1250

308. Villars, Nicholas Pierre Henri, Abbé de Mountfaucon.

Nouveaux Entretiens Sur Les Sciences Secretes, Ou Le Comte De

Gabalis: Renouvelle & augmente D’Une Lettre Sur Ce Sujet.

Cologne: [Pierre Marteau,] 1691. 12mo. A-I12. 215p. First Edition of this Title with first 5 entretiens and the Lettre.

Contemp. French mottled sheep, spine gilt, front cover detached, paper age toned.

Small planisphere on t.p.

Villars’ (1635-73) work is on demonology and the occult sciences of the Rosicrucians written in the style of a dialogue. It was an attack against such sciences and appealed to common sense. But Villars revealed the secrets of the Rosicrucians. “In spite of its satirical character The Count of Gibalis awoke an interest in the occult, so much so that it is believed by some that Villars intended to promote Paracelsian magic than to destroy it. Only a few years after the appearance of the book, however, its author was murdered by the Rosicrucians, it is said, to avenge his indiscretion and mockery.” [Seligmann. History of Magic.]

There are several states of the title page this has the imprint date but not the printer.VD17 23:320788W. Caillet 7707. Yves-Plessis 496. “Edition rare”. Wolfsteig 42465. Gardner, Rosicruciana, 686 (1693 ed.) OCLC: 41482074 (1 copy at Princeton only). Not in Cioranescu. $400

309. Vincent of Lerins; and Augustine of Hippo.

Peregrini , Id Est, Ut Vulgo Perhibetur, Vincentii Lirinensis, Adversus

Prophanas Hæreses, Commonitoria duo. Editio repurgata, cæteris purior & emendatior. Hùic adijcitur Augustini liber de Hæresibus.

Oxford:William Webb, 1631. 12mo. [4], A-L12, M6. [8], 274, [2].

Full modern pebble grained calf, blind tooled ruling. Banded spine, black morocco label with title in gilt lettering. Brown speckled edges. Side edges occasionally trimmed close, slightly effecting margin notes. Falconer Madan’s copy with his stamp on π2. Engraved initial, head and tail pieces.

Vincent (d. ca. 450), a semi-Pelagian monk on the island of Lérins, was opposed to the position of Augustine of Hippo. In order to provide a guide for the determination of the true Catholic faith, he wrote the present work, which despite an emphasis on tradition asserts the final ground of Christian truth as Scripture; the authority of the Church was only to serve as a guarantee to the Scriptures’ correct interpretation. Furthermore, what development did occur in doctrinal matters was to come only through a more thoroughly explicated reading of the Scriptures.

Augustine of Hippo (354-430), doctor of the western Church and one of the most frequently read and esteemed ecclesiastical authors of late antiquity, established the position that humankind lost free will in Paradise when Adam and Eve chose to be separated from God, and so, by this act of defiance, necessitated grace as a requirement for salvation. His position on Predestination, although unique and never quite fully accepted by the Roman church, predated that of Jean Calvin by more than a millennium. STC 24749. Madan I, 159. $350

310. Waeyen, Johannes Vander. [Balthasar Bekker] De Betooverde Weereld Van D. Balthasar Bekker Onderfogt en Weederlegt Door Johannes Vander Waeyen.

Franeker: Leonardus Strik, 1693. 4to.

628pp. First edition.

1/4 calf, banded, gilt lettering on spine, boards. Occasional damp stains in margins, otherwise a nice copy. Text in Dutch.

Vander Waeyen’s (1639-1701) examination of Balthasar Bekker’s “The

World Bewitched,” published two years after the first edition of Bekker’s work appeared at Leeuwarden. Bekker’s work met with a barrage of criticism in the years after its appearance. The present work is by the Frisian scholar and book collector Johannes Vander Waeyen, most of whose works were printed at Franeker and who was a member of the Academia Frankerana. Bekker himself had spent time at Franeker, and was the subject of a study “Balthasar Bekker in Franeker, ein portret” (1848).

Baertsoen p.528. Graesse, Magica,62. Coumont W0.1. Van der Linde 156. $450

311. Wagenseil, Johann Chrisoph.

Tela Ignea Satanæ. Hoc est: Arcani, & horribiles Judæorum adversus

Christum Deum, & Christianam Religionem Libri ANEKDOTOI. Sunt vero: R. Lipman Carmen Memoriale. Liber Nizzachon Vetus Autoris Incogniti. Acta Disputationis R. Jechielis Cum Quodam Nicolao. Acta Disputationis R. Mosis Nachmanidis Cum Fratre Paulo Christiani, Et Fratre Raymundo Martini. R. Isaaci Iber Chissuk Emuna. Libellus Toldos Jeschu. Joh. Christophorus Wagenseilius ex Europæ Africæq; latebris erutos, in lucem protrusit, Theologorum Christianorum fidei, ad tanto rectius meditandum ea, quæ conversionem miserrimæ gentis Judaicæ juvare possunt, illos committens commendansque. Additæ sunt Latinæ Interpretationes, Et Duplex Confutatio. Augustinus Justinianus Episcopus Nebiensis in Præfatione præmissa Victoriæ Porcheti. Novi siquidem quam non libenter in suarum literarum adyta nos admittat gens illa [Judaica] pervicaeissima. Expertus sum equidem, quantis sit opus laboribus, vigiliis, sumtibus, auxiliis denique, volentibus Hebræorum penetrare secreta. Accedit Mantissa De LXX. Hebdomadibus Danielis.

Adversus V.C. Johannis Marshami Equitis Aurati Angli novam & incommodam earundem explicationem.

Altdorf: Joh. Henricus Schönnerstædt, 1681. [bound with] De Loco Classico Gen. XLIX.10. Ad Christophorum Arnoldum....Dissertatio. Altdorf: Schönnerstæde,1676. [bound with] Id Est: Duo Codices Talmudici Avoda Sacra Et Tanid, Quorum Primus agit de Idololatria;Alter, de Sacrificio Jugi, quod olim in Templo Hierosolymitano quotidie offerebatur. Paraphrasi Latina redditi a Gustavo Peringero Sveco. Altdorf: Schonnerstædt,1680. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. [2], 633, [15], 260, 60, [2], 480, 132, [8], 78, 102p. This copy lacks the “Libellus Toldos Jeschu.” First edition.

Full recent calf, blind tooled ruling, banded spine, red morocco label with title in gilt lettering. Blue speckled edges. Light to moderate browning and foxing, with occasional dampstain. Occasional notations in old hand. T.p. in both red and black inks, library stamp on same. Upper right corner of frontis repaired.

E n graved frontispiece portrait of Wagenseil. Engraved initials, head and tailpiecs.

Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633-1706), scholar and professor of history and later eastern languages at Altdorf, traveled widely as a tutor to the children of the count de Traun and during these excursions earned the esteem of the princes of Germany, the emperor, and Louis XIV of France. He wrote and published around 20 works in French and Latin, including a defense of the existence of Pope Joan. The pres-

ent work is considered to be his principal work and consists of a collection of pieces written by Jews against the Christian religion and refuted by Wagenseil through long notes. Although Wagenseil himself wanted them to be used in disputations with Jews in the hope of converting the latter to Christianity (i.e., without persecutions or forceable means), the writings tended to be used widely in anti-Jewish propaganda. Many of the Jewish writings were published for the first time in this volume, with a Latin translation.

VD17 12:113135P. Caillet 11323. Graesse VI (pt.II), 408. Brunet V, 1397. BL 17th German W33. Scholem Coll. 499. $1850

312. Wagenseil, Johann Chrisoph.

Tela Ignea Satanæ...

Nuremberg, Frankfurt am main, & Altdorf: Johann Hoffman, Johann David Zunner & Johann Heinrich Schönnerstædt, 1681. 4to. [2], 633, [15],

260, 60, [2], 480, 26, 3-45,[1],96 (of 102)p.

First edition.

Old reversed calf, rebacked, title on label; old bookplate and stamps of “London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews”; port. laiddown,marginal repairs to t.p. and first leaf (some los to imprint), [9]A4 paper flaw at head aftecting 1 line; some paper aging but all-in-all a good copy. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Wagenseil.

VD17 12:113135P. Graesse VI (pt.II), 408. Brunet V, 1397. Caillet 11323. Furst III,489.

Scholem Coll. 499. $1000

313. Ward, Samuel.

Magnetis Reductorium Thelogicum, Tropologicum, In quo eius novUs

verUs et sUpreMUs UsUs InDICatUr. London: A. M[athewes], 1637. 8vo. π1,*8,[A missigned B]6,B-L8. [26],162p.

Second issue with prelims reprinted and with an added index and Dedication to King Charles begining on *1r.

19th c. 1/2 calf over paper, gilt title, wormtrack in upper margin causing some paper loss but just touching text, marginal stain on frontis. and t.p., some rear leaves cut close at bottom with some loss of collation marks and catchmarks.

Emblematic frontis. showing 5 types of magbets including a globular lodestone or terella, surrounded by versoria; woodcut head-piece, printer’s ornamnets, decorated initials.

Ward, Samuel d. 1643, master of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge. “He appears first to have become known to the learned world as one of the translators of the Authorised Version, his share in the work being chiefly the Apocrypha; during this time he also made the acquaintance of Ussher, whom he often assisted in his patristic researches.” [DNB] “The author gives a spiritual interpretation to the various properties of the magnet.The illustrations opposite the title-page are interesting. Strada’s poem is given, p.150, followed by another, on the golden magnet which is said to attract not iron but gold.” [Wheeler Gift].

“Samuel Ward’s The Wonders of the Load-Stone (1640) is a spiritual conduct book that illustrates the Protestant Reformation’s characteristic interpretation of all aspects of this world as signs of divine providence at work. That characteristic interpretation, borrowed from Judeo-Christian tradition, finds its manifestation in the use of the rhetorical figure of similitude, a resemblance or comparison, to link this world and the next world, the human and the divine, the scientific perspective and the theological perspective. Ward interprets the results of scientific experiments using the loadstone, or magnet, as similitudes and signs of divine characteristics and order. Thus, his spiritual conduct book represents a pre-Enlightenment representation of science and religion as inextricably related.” [Helaine Razovsky, “Science and Religion in Samuel Ward’s The Wonders of the LoadStone”] STC 25028. Wheeler Gift, 111. $1000

314. Webster, John.

Metallographia, Or an History Of Metals.

Wherein is Declared the signs of the Ores and Minerals both before and after digging, the causes and manner of their generations, their kinds, sorts, and differences; with the description of sundry new Metals, or Semi-Metals, and many other things pertaining to Mineral knowledge. As also, The handling and shewing of their Vegetability, and the discussion of the most difficult questions belonging to Mystical Chymistry, as of the Philosophers Gold, their Mercury, and the Liquor Alkahest, Aurum potabile, and such like. Gathered forth of the most approved Authors that have written in Greek, Latin or High-Dutch. With some Observations and Discoveries of the Author himself London: A[ndrew] C[lark] for Walter Kettilby, 1671. 4to. 205 x 140mm.

A-3D4, 3E2 [-3E3ads & E4 blank]. xvi, 388p. First Edition “St Paul’s” var.

Modern 1/2 calf over marbled boards, ruled in blind on spine, gilt lettered morocco label, new endpapers, title page stained, trimmed and laid down on old paper, 2 neat ownership inscriptions in top margin, offsetting from old dutchpaper wraps; next 2 leaves slightly worn and chipped at lower corner, lacks final advertisement leaf, occasional light marks and chipping to margins, 1 top corner tip missing, small area of worming at lower edge of lower margin affecting end of the book, not affecting text, barely noticeable in places, and at top blank edge of last 2 gatherings; early neat ink notes in 2 margins, pale dampstain to lower corner of second half of the book; wide margins.

Webster, John (1611-1682), schoolmaster and polemicist.

“The reformed universities, according to Webster, had to promote experimental and utilitarian learning, which should include alchemy and natural magic, which he vindicated against the impostors’ misuse. His philosophical views, as expressed in his project of reform, are eclectic: besides Baconianism and Helmontian iatrochemistry, he also supported the theosophy of Fludd and Boehme, and the atomism of Digby and Gassendi. Along with Van Helmont, he attacked the Aristotelians’ overestimate of human reason and stressed the role of divine illumination as the foundation of true learning...

The Metallographia, or, An History of Metals is Webster’s major scientific

achievement. (The book was dated 1671, though it may have been published during the previous two years.) As attested by internal evidence, the work, containing references to a huge volume of alchemical, chemical, and mineralogical literature, was completed after 1666. Webster’s professed end was that of stimulating metallurgical knowledge and the exploitation of mines in England. The work, however, deals with a wide range of topics, including a vindication of the ancient origins of alchemical knowledge, the generation of metals, their use in medicine and their transmutation. Helmontian chemical views are strictly linked with the corpuscular theory of matter, which is mainly based on the works of Robert Boyle. The Metallographia had a noticeable impact on the world of learning. It was reviewed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of 1670 and in the Journal des Sçavans of 1678. John Beale praised it in a letter to Henry Oldenburg of January 1671, while D. G. Morhof (De metallorum transmutatione, 1673) dismissed it as scarcely original . Webster’s proficiency in chemistry was extolled by a Durham schoolmaster, Peter Nelson, in a letter to Oldenburg of 25 March 1671, where he spoke of him as ‘a man of more than ordinary acuteness and very fit for your Correspondence’ (Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, 7.535). With a few exceptions, historians now recognize Webster’s Metallographia as a valuable contribution to seventeenth-century science of metals.” [Oxford DNB] Wing W1231A. Bruning 2235. Duveen 611. Ferguson,1:268. Honeyman 3096. ESTC r34737 (with imprint at “S[aint] P[aul’s].) Pritchard 282. $1850

315. Webster, John.

The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. Wherein is affirmed that

there are many sorts of Deceivers and Imposters. And Divers persons under a passive Delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But there is a Corporeal League made betwixt the Devil and the Witch, Or that he sucks on the Witch’s Body, has Carnal Copulation, or that Witches are turned into Cats, Dogs, raise Tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved, Whereunto is also handled, The Existence of Angels and Spirits, the truth of Apparitions, the Nature of Astral and Sydereal Spirits, the force of Charms, and Philters; with other abstruse matters.

London: J[onas] M[oore], 1677. Folio. π4, a-2Y4. [2Y4 blank, present.]

[1],[15], 346,[4]p. First Edition.

Contemp. blind paneled calf, rebacked, title gilt on black leather label, some rubbing to spine, corners rubbed; edges red; endpapers renewed, bookplate of Mountgarret, imprimatur leaf backed with chip off outer upper corner, t.p. soiled with tears (some with old patches); occ. stains and minor foxing.

Webster, John (1611-1682), schoolmaster, physician and polemicist.

“The reformed universities, according to Webster, had to promote experimental and utilitarian learning, which should include alchemy and natural magic, which he vindicated against the impostors’ misuse. His philosophical views, as expressed in his project of reform, are eclectic: besides Baconianism and Helmontian iatrochemistry, he also supported the theosophy of Fludd and Boehme, and the atomism of Digby and Gassendi. Along with Van Helmont, he attacked the Aristotelians’ overestimate of human reason and stressed the role of divine illumination

as the foundation of true learning...

Webster’s last work was The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft (1677), a criticism of the traditional demonology. It is apparent that material for it had been collected for several decades and the work was completed by 1674, but initially it failed to gain an imprimatur, apparently because of opposition from the ecclesiastical authorities. Webster had asked for the support of his friend and correspondent Martin Lister, to whom he sent a draft of the work in 1674. He also sent a copy to the Royal Society, which was forwarded by Oldenburg to Hooke, who read it on 19 March 1675. In the event, The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft was published in 1677 with the imprimatur of the society’s vice-president, Sir Jonas Moore, dated 29 June 1676, and was dedicated to the justices of the peace in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The work, which opens with a vindication of freedom in philosophical matters, is aimed at answering the arguments in favour of the existence of witchcraft held by Meric Casaubon and by Joseph Glanvill. Although he denied that demons have a pure spiritual nature, Webster stated that men can only have mental, not physical, contact with the Devil. He maintains that what is commonly taken as a sign of possession is to be imputed to melancholy, imposture, or ignorance.

Having denied the Devil’s capacity to intervene in the natural world, Webster engages in a vindication of natural magic, which is largely indebted to Van Helmont’s arguments. The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft was attacked by Glanvill and

by Henry More (Sadducismus triumphatus ... with a Letter of Dr. H. More, 1681), who asserted the real existence of witches. Webster’s demonological views were also attacked by Benjamin Camfield, a Leicester cleric, who accused him of denying the existence of spiritual substances (A Theological Discourse ... also an Appendix Containing some Reflexions upon Mr. Websters Displaying ..., 1678).

[Oxford DNB] Wing W1230. ESTC r12517. Caillet 11366. Coumont W11.1. Mellon 133. Hunter Macalpine 209-11. Throndike VIII, 575-80. Kittridge 343-50. Kernot 1677. Goodell 1916. Sepher 4330. $3000 Dunninger’s copy

316. Webster, John.

The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft.

London: J[onas] M[oore], 1677. Folio. π4, a-2Y4. [2Y4 blank, present.]

[1],[15], 346,[4], [2]p.

First Edition.

1/2 black cloth over patterned paper boards, title gilt with “Dunninger Collection” stamped at bottom of spine; Dunninger bookplate [Joseph Dunninger “The Amazing Dunninger” was one of the most famous stage magicians and mentalists of his time. He was a radio and television personality and a close associate of Harry Houdini.] imprimatur leaf and t.p. backed with two old tape stains on t.p. on upper margin and in fore-edge; first leaf hasmargin restored and tape-stain; pp 267-90 show some minor dampstains at head.

Provenance: from the collection of Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975) renowned American magician. $3000

317. Wecker, Johann Jacob [ & Alexis of Piedmont, Alessio Piedmontese]

De Secretis Libri Septem: A Ioan. Iacobo Weckero, Doctore Medico, ex Italico sermone in Latinum conversi, & multis bonis Secetis aucti diligentiusq; castigati. Accessit eiusdem Vveckeri opera, octavus de artificiosis vinis liber. Editio Quarta.

Basle: Ludovico Künig, 1603. 8vo. A-Aa8, Bb4. 361, [25]p. Fourth edition.

Full calf, rebacked, original boards, blind tooled ruling with circular mark in center of front and rear boards, corners worn. Banded spine with title in gilt lettering. Red speckled edges. Browning, especially around edges, with occasional dampstains Wecker (1528-1586) professor of Logic and Latin, physician, wrote books on alchemy, pharmacy, cooking, & medicine. His book of secrets went through many editions and was translated into several languages. He distinguished himself in treating the victims of the plague in 1565 and was made first physician of the city of Colmar. Besides secrets this work, first published in 1582, treats of angels and demons, magic, elements, and astrology.

VD17 3:013269S. This edition not in Caillet, Duveen, or Ferguson. Graesse VI, 427 (1604 ed.). Galland, Cryptology,198. Shulman 5. $750 318. Wecker, Johann Jakob [ & Alexis of Piedmont, Alessio Piedmontese].

De Secretis Libri XVII. Ex varijis Authoribus collecti, methodiceq; di-

gesti, & aucti Per Ioan. Iacobum Weckerum, Basiliensem, Medicum Colmariensem.

Accessit Index locupletissimus.

Basle: Ludwig Konig for Konrad von Waldkirch, 1613. 8vo.

[16],667,[27]p.

Old vellum, front hinge split —a second volume has been removed from the binding making the cover too large for the book, and disconnecting the block from the back. Slight worming in the margin of the first signature. Some light browning and stains. Old marginal pen markings. Text cuts and diagrams. Headand tail-pieces. Large device on title. Woodcut reverse initials.

VD 17 1:000049Q. Thorndike VI, 215-6. Graesse VI, 2, 427. Ferguson II,534(note).

Caillet 11368. Ferguson, Secrets, I,35 “It is arranged in a most systematic manner, and in this respect is superior to all the others...” Esoterica 5244. “Recueil de secrets et recettes médicales, de dissertations sur Dieu, les anges et les démons, les astres et les éléments, les sciences, la magie, l’astrologie,etc.”

Krivatsy/NLM 12624 (1604 ed with same printer and page count noting it is an exact reprint of the 1598 ed.) Galland, Cryptology,198. Shulman 5. $600

319. [Sammeband] Wedel, Georg Wolfgang; Arnold Bachimius [Densinger,

Bachimus-Denstonius or Bachim Denston]; Christian Andreas Vinhold; Georg A. Weinhold.

Wedel: Experimentum Chimicum Novum De Sale Volatili Plantarum, quo latius exponuntur...

Jena [Frankfurt am Main & Leipzgg]: Johann Fritisch,1675. [bound with] Bachimius: Pan-Sophia Enchiretica, seu Philosophia Universalis Ex-

perimentalis, in Academia Moysis primum per sex prima Capita libri Genesos tradita, Demum per Ignem Examinata & probata, per-quam Natura Universalis rerum omnium, Vestibus deudata, in Virginitate, & Simplicitate sua, omnium oculis spectabilis exponitur, stante post tabulam.

Noriberg: Johann Ziegeri,1682. [bound with] Weinhold. [Elementorum geographiae Euclideae libri IV. [Containing:]Vinhold:...Paradoxa Philosophico-Mathematica CC & L...

Dresden: Christian Bergens, 1679.

12mo. 3 works in 1 vol. [22], 96. [6], 3-221,[1]. [2 blank]. (Lacks [3], 1-18)19-178, New t.p. 179-234p.

First Editions.

Old vellum, stained, edges speckled, edge stains to first leaves of first work, tear from margin of A5 of Wedel with loss; some worming in Weinhold (minor text affects),ink stains on last leaves, some light browning.

Plate of alchemical instruments in Wedel by I. Linck; lacks frontis. to Denston (see Adam McLean’s web site for image).

Wedel (16451721) physician, professor of medicine at Jena, “He was distinguished for his comprehensive learning, success as a practitioner, unceasing labour as professor and author, for his great modesty, recitude, and beneficence to the poor... he was a strong supporter of the iatro-chemical principles of De la Boe Sylvius. But he was also a staunch believer in alchemy, assigning it to great antiquity, and considering that it was concealed even in the myths of the ancients.” [Ferguson] Bachim-Denston (McLean), or Arnold Bachimius (BL Cat, & Duveen), or Arnold Denston (OCLC), or “Cosmosophus’” ‘s work is apparently the only book published by him. Duveen suggests the name is a pseudonym (See: Adelung I,1320). It was put on the Index of Prohibited books on March 16,1688. “it is a curious kind of scientific encyclopedia divided into 257 theses. There is a section on metals and precious stones.” [Duveen] Arnoldus Bachimius...proposed to examine and test by fire and to reveal the nature of all things in a state of nude virginity.” [Thorndike VIII,228-9] Wedel: Bruning 2327. Ferguson II,535. Duveen 614. Rosenthal, Magica, 893. Bolton I,908. Neu 4298.

Bachimius-Denstonius: Bruning 2510. BL 17th German B8. Duveen 36.Neu 176. $700

320. Wedel, Georg Wolfgang.

Experimentum Chimicum Novum De Sale Volatili Plantarum, quo

latius exponuntur, specime ipso exhibita.

Schernhauerus; & J. Linck, prefs.

Caspar Sagittarius; Johann Simon

Jena: Johannn Bielcke for the Widow of Samuel Krebs, 1682.

12mo.

A10, B-E12, F10 [F10 blank, present.]

[22],96, [17],[3]p. Second edition.

19th c. marbled boards, paper label, opened before text block, cut close touching some letters and side-notes, foxed, paper toned. One full-page woodcut with two alchemical appartuses illustrated, head-pieces, decorated initials.

VD 17 1:1004773F. Bruning 2529. Ferguson II, 536. Duveen 614 (1st ed.) $400

321. Weigel, Christoph , Gregor Andreas Schmidt & Samuel Faber.

Sculptura Historiarum Et Temporum Memoratrix. Das ist,

Gedachtnuss-hulfliche Bider-lust, der merckwurdigsten Welt-Geschichten aller Zeiten, von Erschaffung der Welt bis 1697...in Kupfer gebracht.

Nuremberg: Johann Daniel Tauber, 1697-8. Folio. 2 vols. in 1.

[48],152,[2],259,[20]p.

First Edition.

Contemp. vellum,soiled, tears in front hinge, edges speckled red, lacks f.f.e.p., small tears in t.p. edge, minor stains, small repair to 3M1, creases in last leaves. 48 full-page engraved plates of multiple subjects by Christoph Weigel (Nagler XXIV 48,32), t.p. in red and black, lacks extra engraved t.p.

Christoph Weigel (1654-1725) publisher, map maker, artist, and illustrator. “The height of his career was reached in 1698 when he settled in Nuremberg.

Her produced two ponderous editions of the Bible...In addition to these he also published cartographical works and a large historical work (this.) Many of the designs submitted to him by others he engraved himself.” [Faber Du Faur] This is a vast history of the world illustrated with small engravings designed to aid the student in memorizing the important events of the past. As an icongraphic memory tool, it is the great tradition of symbolic and emblematic books of the period.

VD17 39:122940Z & VD17 23:300976D. BL 17th German S933. Bauer, Weigel, 9.1 & 9.2. Graesse VI;2, 430. Young, Memory, 373.OCLC: 22210735. Will/Nopitsch III,533.

Rammense 1599. $1200

322. Weigel, Valentine, attrib.

Eine kurtze ausfuhrliche Erweisung, Was zu disen Zeiten in ganz

Europa bey nahe kein einige Stuhl sey in allen Kirchen und Schulen, daraff nicht ein Pseudo-Propheta, ein Pseudo-Christus.Ein Verführer des Volcks ein falscher Ausleger der Schrifft stehe und der nicht in die Zahl der blinden Leiter gehöre Das ist Der nicht deren einer sey vor welchen uns Christus gewarnet hat und der da nicht anhabe die Notas, Characteres, Signa & Fructus falsorum Prophetarum, &c.

N.P.:[Meissen] N.P., 1697. 8vo. A-D8. [64]pp. First Edition.

Vellum-backed marbled boards, paper evenly toned.

Weigel (1533-1588) Lutheran pastor at Zschopau from 1567 to his death.

He wrote mystical books influenced by Paracelsus and in turn influenced Jacob Boehme. “...supporter of mystical Christianity against the dead religious life of his time...Weigel had studied Platonic philosophy according to the Neoplatonic interpretation of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, also the writings of Dionysius and Erigena. In him there was a union of the two traditions of the search for truth; to his study of the older mystics and to their teachings as transmitted by Schwenkfeld and Sebastian Franck, he added the study of natural sciences, astrology, alchemy, and magic, from the works of Agrippa an Paracelsus, both of whom were...indebted to the Jewish Kabalah. “ Margaret Bailey, Milton and Jackob Boehme,1914. All of Wegel’s works were published long after his death and they

were publically condemned and publicly burned in 1624.

“A discussion of Valentin Weigel’s writings nowadays is no easy matter, as recently the number of works definitively to be attributed to Weigel has been drastically reduced. For the evolution of Paracelsism into a religion, however, the distinction between genuine and spurious works by Weigel plays a secondary role, as first of all the entire corpus of “Weigelian” works had a simultaneous and integral effect, and secondly both Weigel as well as his collaborators, continuators and/or forgers were all enthusiastic readers of the theological and nature philosophical works of Paracelsus. Whether Weigel’s collaborators also meddled with the works of Paracelsus cannot be ruled out entirely. Had they done so, however, they merely continued an already existing tradition of both impatient radicals and able propagandists, who used Paracelsus as a stepping stone to finally rid themselves of the double yoke of the Roman Antichrist and the apocalyptic beast (this is how the old Paracelsist Johannes Montanus used to characterize the Augsburg confession). But these pseudepigraphic products, too, are amongst the historical witnesses of Paracelsism and therefore deserve to be taken into account.” Carlos Gilly. `Theophrastia Sancta’ Paracelsianism as a religion, in conflict with the established churches (BPH on-line) VD17 23:274311G. OCLC: 31989826 (1 copy located, Rutgers). $1500

323. Wendelin , Marcus Frederick.

Contemplationum physicarum sectiones tres. I. De principijs et af-

fectionibus corporis naturalis; II. De mundo; III. De corporibus caelestibus... [bound with] Admiranda Nili. Commentatione philologicâ geographicâ, historicâ, physicâ, & hieroglypicâ [sic], ex CCCXVIII. autoribus, Græcis & Latinis, vetustis & recentibus illustrata. Cum duplici indice, uno autorum, qui allegantur & illustrantur: altero rerum memorabilium: cui subjicitur totius opusculi methodus schematismo logico comprehensa.

Cambridge: Daniel Rogers, 1648. 4to. 2 works in 1 vol.

A8,a2,B-2T8, 2V2, 2X4.. a2 (bound out-of order) A8,B-F8. [20], 242, [10], 243-392, [10], 393-648; [20], 72, [6]p. First Editions published in England.

Modern 1/2 calf, engraved additional title (marginal browning with sm. loss from head margin just touching border), some dampstaining and browning throughout; old owner’sname on extra-engraved t.p. Engraved t.p. of Aristotle, the scolastic doctors, a lecture hall, and philosophy and the sevel liberal arts; Cambridge Uinversity symbol on t.p.s,; head-pieces, decorated initials.

Wendelin (1584-1652) German schoolman, classical scholar, and theologian of the reformed religion. He was born in Heidelberg and studied there. He studied philosophy and theology with David Pareus. He became the tudor of several royal students: Price Johann Kasimir, Christian and Friedrich Moritz of Anhalt, and Peter von Sebottendorf. After the death of rector Gregor Bersmann, he became for 40 years the rector of the gymnasium in Zerbst. He wrote works on a number of subjects; classical philology, philosophy, and dogmatic theology. This is his survey of the physical world in three parts “Physiologia Generalis, De prin-

cipiis & affectionibus Corporis naturalis,” “Cosmologia,” and De Corporibus Coelestbus, Continens Uranologiam et Astrologiam.” It is also bound with his work on the River Nile which collects ancient texts referring to the river with sections on its use as a symbol, on the physical nature and animal life including two sections on the crocodile. The Contemplationum was first published on the continent in 1625 and the Nile work was published in 1623.

Wing W1349 & W1348. ESTC r41324 & ESTC r34739 $1000

324. Wharton, George,Baron. & Johann Rothmann.

The Works Of That Late Most Excellent Philosopher And Astronomer,

Sir George Wharton...[Containing] Johann Rothman’s Keiromantia:Or, The Art Of Divining By Lines amd Signatures Engraven in the Hand of Man, By the Hand of Nature... John Gadbury, ed.

London: H(enry) H(ills) for John Leigh,1683. 8vo. π1,A8 [A5 the chiromancical hand has been moved before Ll2 the title-page of the Rothmann], BVv8.

[32].670,[1,errata].First collected edition.

Contemp. spotted calf, blind rules on covers, spine banded, gilt rules, title on red morocco label, bottom spine cap off, front hinge split at bottom, some laether worn from cover, edges speckled red; endpapers renewed in the 19th c?, minor stain in inner margin of last 8 leaves; wormholes in lower margin, a pinhole through the text and some tracking on pp555-594 with some losses.The paper is quite clean and crisp otherwise.

Frontispiece of Wharton , plate of chiromantical hand, astrological charts in text. T.p. in red and black.

Wharton, Sir George 1617-1681, first baronet, astrologer and royalist. “He pursued his astrological studies at Oxford with much industry... On 22 March 16441645 he made, at Oxford, the acquaintance of Elias Ashmole, whom he first instructed in alchemy and astrology. Ashmole and Wharton remained friends for life...Wharton involved himself in embittered controversy with rival astrologers who were politically opposed to him. He attacked with especial rancour William Lilly, John Partridge, and John Booker, and for many years he maintained against them a war of vituperation. Wharton’s almanac for 1644, which he printed at Oxford under the name of Naworth, ‘with His Maiesties command,’ was severely assailed by Booker in his pamphlet entitled ‘Mercurius Celius.’ Wharton retorted in ‘Mercurio-Celicio-Mastix; or, an Anti-caveat to all such, as have (heretofore) had the misfortune to be Cheated and Deluded by that Grand and Traiterous Impostor of this Rebellious Age, John Booker : Printed Anno Dom. 1644.’ In Wharton’s almanac for next year he first supplied his own name on the title-page and described himself as student in ‘the Mathematicks.’ In the preface he denounced Booker as ‘that clubfisted fellow,’ and Booker’s friend Partridge as ëthat blood hound.’ Under each month of the calendar he catalogued the chief events of the war then in progress, and interspersed his work with scurrilous rhymes. ‘An Astrologicall Judgement upon his Majesties Present March: Begun from Oxford May 7, 1645. º By George Wharton,’ was published at Oxford by H. Hall in the same year. At the same time Lilly, in his ëStarry Messenger,’ denounced Wharton as a man of ‘no worth’ (a pun on Naworth), and charged him with plagiarism.

After the surrender of Oxford in 1646, Wharton ‘was put to his shifts and lived as opportunity served.’ He was in Yorkshire in September 1646, when he wrote ‘Bellum Hybernicale: or Irelands Warre. Astrologically demonstrated, from the late Celestiall congresse of the two Malevolent planets Saturne and Mars in Taurus, the Ascendent of that Kingdome’ (1646-7, 4to). Shortly afterwards he renewed his attack on Lilly in ‘Merlini Anglici Errata.’ Subsequently he removed to his native place in Westmorland. In August 1647 he was ill of the plague. On his recovery he took part in publishing a quarto sheet week by week in London under the title ‘Mercurius Elenchicus.’ There he venomously satirised the proceedings of the parliament. On 12 March 1648-9 he was arrested and sent to Newgate by order of the parliament. On 26 Aug. he escaped from the prison, and remained in concealment until 21 Nov. 1649, when he was recaptured and committed to the Gatehouse, Westminster. In the autumn of 1650 Ashmole, who befriended him throughout his troubles, learned that John Bradshaw, the president of the council of state, had resolved to have him hanged. Ashmole appealed to Lilly to use his interest with his patron, Bulstrode Whitelocke, so as to procure Wharton’s release. In the result Wharton was discharged from prison after engaging to write nothing thenceforth ‘against the parliament or state.’ On regaining his liberty he was quite destitute, and Ashmole generously invited him and his family to occupy his house at Bradfield in Berkshire. For a time Wharton acted as Ashmole’s agent on the estate, but he chiefly occupied himself with his almanacs. In 1657 and three following years he gave them the new title of ‘Calendarium Ecclesiasticum,’ and added under the title of ‘Gesta Britannorum’ a useful chronological table of the leading events in English history from 1600. In 1652 he brought out a translation of a Latin treatise on palmistry or chiromancy, called ‘The Art of Divining, by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the hand of man, written by John Rothman, M.D...Wood calls him ‘a constant and thorough paced royalist, a good companion, a witty droll, and a waggish poet.” [DNB] Nothing is known about Rothmann other than he was a mathematician and physician who practiced in Saschen-Anhalt. He published his Chiromantiae Theorica Practica in 1595 which was an attempt to bring chiromancy and astrology together into one discipline.”The highly abstruse and theoretical astrology would benefit by being tied down to so worldly a thing as flesh and bood, while palistry, already struggling in a tightly fixed symbolism, would be given more freedom bty its association with an art which followed a prolix individual reading for any one symbol.’ [Gettings, Book of the Hand,179.] “Only five books on Palmistry were published in the English language between 1500 and 1700, three of them translations.This is one of the most beguiling...”Fitzherbert, Palmist’s Companion] Gardner, Astrologica,454. Wing W1538. Sabbatini 548 “raro.” Fitzherbert 336. $800

325. Wharton, George.

Bellum Hybernicale: Or, Ireland’s War Astrologically demonstrated,

from the late Coelestial-congress of the two Malevolent Planets, Saturn and Mars, in Taurus, the Ascendent of that Kingdom. Wherein likewise, their future Opposition in the Signs Sagittary and Gemini, (most ominous to London, and many other

of the South and West parts of England) is Mathematically handled. The Ignorance, Malice, Mistakes, Errors, Insolencies, and Impertinencies of John Booker (in his Astrological Observations upon the said Conjunction, in a late Pamphlet of his, styled, A Bloody Irish Almanack, &c.) discovered, corrected, refuted, and retorted: And The Author further vindicated, from his and Master Lilly’s former frivolous, false, and malicious Aspersions, throughout the whole Discourse.[Extracted From:The Works Of That Late Most Excellent Philosopher And Astronomer, Sir George Wharton.]

[London:] [H(enry) H(ills) for John Leigh,] [1683.] 8vo. P8,Q-S8. [ 2 2 3 ] 272p.

Modern cloth, minor darkening at edge of leaves.

Text genitures.

“He mocked Booker’s Bloody Irish Almanack (1646), which predicted the impending devastation of Ireland, by celebrating the Irish Catholics’ continuing success. In his remarkable Bellum Hybernicale, published in December 1646, he openly justified the rebellion of 1641 on the grounds of the Irish people’s long history of repression, and suggested that the English and Scots were at least equally to blame for the massacres. This pamphlet, with his almanac for 1648, prompted the House of Commons on 25 September 1647 to order his arrest, though he evaded capture for a further six months.” [Oxford DNB] Gardner, Astrologica,454. Wing W1538. $250

326. Wharton, George.

Merlini Anglici Errata: Or, The Errors, Mistakes, and Mis-applications

of Mr. Lilly’s New Ephemeris for the Year 1647... Syderum Secrea...Poems... [Extract from: The Works Of That Late Most Excellent Philosopher And Astronomer, Sir George Wharton...]

[London:] [H(enry) H(ills) for John Leigh,] [1683.] 8vo. T-2D8.

[273]415,[1]p. Modern cloth, label off spine, some foxing and light edge darkening.

Gardner, Astrologica,454. Wing W1538. $350

327. Wilkins, John, Bishop of Chester.

An Essay Towards a Real Character And a Philosophical Language.

[With] An Alphabetical Dictionary, Wherein all English Words According to their Specifications, Are either referred to their places in the Philosophical Tables, Or explained by such Words as are in those Tables.

London: for Sa(muel) Gellibrand, and for John Martin, 1668.Folio. 2 vols. in 1. π2, a-d2,B-Z, Aa-ZZ,Aaa-Mmm4 (Mmm4 blank], aaa4,Aaa-Ttt4 [Ttt4, blank]. [20], 454,[2 blank]; [158]p. First edition.

Contemp. mottled calf in panel design, rebacked with red morocco label, edges speckled red, stamp of Birkenhead Library, minor dampstain & wormhole at upper margin of first leaves ),minor repair to corner of first two leaves (no text affected) a few other minor stains & edge worming but overall a very clean, crisp copy with ample margins, edge tear on G3 repaired with archival tissue. Two small leaves (150 x 95mm) of contemporary notes on the work are laid in. Large device of Royal Society on t.p.,4 full-page plates (one folding), 2 large folding tables (com-

plete).

Wilkins (1614-72) was a thorough mathematical and scientific genius, beloved by many of his contemporaries on both sides of the Civil War. This work, his greatest, culminates the 17th century movement toward the creation of a universal language. The first part deals with the origin of language, letters, etc., and serves as an introduction. The second part “is an enumeration and description of all those things and notions to which names are to be assigned”; part III treats the therry of grammar and phonetics; and part IV outlines his proposed alphabet. The last part, issued with a separate title and imprint, actually constitutes an index to the whole work. “[Wilkins]Calls for a universal language had increased as a result of the flourishing of vernacular literature and an increasing dissatisfaction with Latin, partly with regard to the difficulty of learning it, but also with regard to its ambiguities and complexities. Wilkins rejected the approach of those who believed that the supposed language of Adam might be recovered, but tried to develop an artificial equivalent based upon a classification of knowledge. The vocabulary of this new language was to be built up by systematic modifications of the basic generic terms that were deemed to cover all the major categories of existence. A knowledge of the system would enable the reader, or listener, not just to recognize the signification of a word but also to understand how the referent fitted into the entire scheme of things. This is what made Wilkins’s artificial language ‘philosophical’, not just universal in the sense that a unanimously agreed upon lingua franca would be.[Oxford DNB] Wing W2196 and W2176. Alston VII,290 . Galland 202. Lowndes 2922. Kennedy 5469. Hazlitt II,645. Young 377. $4750

328. Wilkins, John.

The First Book. The Discovery Of A New World Or, A Discourse

tending to prove, that ‘tis probable that there may be another habitable World in the Moone. With a Discourse concerning the possibility of a Passage thither. The third impression. Corrected and enlarged. [Issued with] A Discourse concerning A New Planet. Tending to prove, That ‘tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets. The second Booke, now first published.

London: John Norton [& Richard Hearne] for John Maynard, 1640.

8vo. 2 parts in 1 vol. A , B-Q , R ,2a2; 2a (- 2a1 blank), B-Q , R [lacks [2]R4 errata].

[2]P7 cancel is printed as [2]2a8, here pasted to the verso of[2]P7 (uncancelled) adding a woodcut diagrm. [10],242, [6]; [14],246,[2]p. First Edition of the “New Planet”, third of the “Discovery.”

18th c. marbled boards, rebacked and recornered, armorial bookplate of James Barlow, Latin motto in margin of lettterpress t.p., a few minor stains and foxing; paper flaws in [2]C8, [2]D6 (repaired) no text loss.Lacks frontis., numerous woodcut text cuts.

Wilkins, John (1614-1672), theologian and natural philosopher.”Wilkins’s interest in the latest developments affecting natural philosophy was apparent in his earliest publications. In 1638 he published The discovery of a new world, or, A

discourse tending to prove, that (‘tis probable) there may be another habitable world in the moon. He added to this in 1640 his Discourse concerning a new planet; tending to prove, that (‘tis probable) our earth is one of the planets. Powerful and influential works of popularization, these books aimed to expound and defend the new world picture developed by Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. The first book argued that the earth was not uniquely different from other heavenly bodies, while the second tried to remove philosophical and religious objections to the earth’s motion and show how it might be physically possible.” [Oxford DNB] “The central argument was borrowed from Galileo; the moon is not a shining disk or whatever else men might have imagined, but a world with natural features much like the earth. And is fo, then the moon might also be inhabited, although Wilkins does not find sufficient grounds to say, what sort of beings the inhabitants are, thus neatly avoiding the touchy question of whether they are descendents of Adam.” [DSB] STC 25641. ESTC s119973. Nicholson 93.Macclesfield 2125. $2750

329. Wither, George.

England’s Remembrancer. Containing A Narration of the Plague lately

past; A Declaration of the Mischiefs present; And a Prediction of Judgements to come; (If Repentance prevent not.) It is Dedicated (for the glory of God) to Posteritie; and, to These Times (if they please) by Geo. Wither.

London: John Grismond, 1628. 12mo. π2, A-Z12, &12, *2. Pagination erratic.

First Edition.

Contemp. calf with blind rules, piece missing from head-cap with short tear in rear hinge; contemp. owner’s initials on f.f.e.p., fore-edges of “Meaning of the Title page” and engraved t.p. are worn with some losses, signature of “Will Shippens 1724” on t.p. & B4 recto. Occ. stains, foxing,etc.Part of blank margin lacking from &1, a few old marginal notes. An untouched and unrestored copy in good condition. Engraved extra t.p with map of England, ships, battle scene, & allegorical figures.

Wither, George (1588-1667), poet. “... the plague struck London and provided the occasion for his ‘Historie of the pestilence’. The manuscript was presented as a new year’s gift to Charles I in 1626. It took over two years for Wither to get Britain’s Remembrancer (1628), a revised and much expanded version of this work, into print. The preface describes how he had to print each sheet with his own hand ‘because I could not get allowance to doe it publikely’, and it was published without a licence and sold by John Grismond, one of the ‘friendly’ stationers who had published his Wither’s Motto and Faire-Virtue. These difficulties are usually ascribed to his quarrel with the Stationers’ Company (Wither, History of the Pestilence, xi), but it may have been his determination to witness the truth that caused problems with the authorities: John Eyre in a letter dated June 1640 recalled that when Britain’s Remembrancer came out it ‘was then and still is, forbid the press’ (Norbrook, Republic, 69; Rutland MSS, 1.520) .

The eight-canto poem marks a new consciousness of Wither’s prophetic powers encapsulated by the quote from Job on the title-page, ‘For, I am full of mat-

ter; and the spirit within mee compelleth me’. It is often praised for its vivid descriptions of the effect of plague on the life of Londoners. Yet it was its prophetic dimension that secured its immediate popularity. Wither later claimed that at least 4000 copies of the first impression were published and that soon afterwards ‘Some eminent persons’ tried to secure for him ‘the office of their City Remembrancer, then void ... though it took not effect’ (Wither, Memorandum to London, 1665, 5, 28). Its prophecies were still being reprinted in the late seventeenth century.” [Oxford DNB] STC 25899. Pforzheimer 1079. Grolier, Wither to Prior 1036. ESTC s121916. $750

330. Woodall, John.

The Surgeons Mate or Military & Domestique Surgery. Discouering

faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, w[i]th ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott, and otherwise as Namely: Wounds, Apos fumes, Ulcers, Fistula’s, Fractures, dislocations, w[i]th ye most easie & safest wayes of Amputation or dismembring. The cures of the Scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye Collicke and Iliaca Passia, of Tenasmus and Exitus Ani, and of the Calenture, with A Treatise of ye cure of ye Plague. Published for the service of his Ma(jes)tie and of the com:(mon)wealth.

[London:] [Rob(ert) Young ( J. Legate? and E. Purslowe), for Nicholas Bourne, ] [1639.] Folio. 297 x 200mm. A6, B6 (B5+[pi]1), C-F4, G8, H-O4, P6, 2A-

2R4, ¶6, 3A-3O4, 3P-3R2. [36],29, [1], [8], 31-98, 144-275, [1], [12], 301-376, [2], 379412, 11,[1]p. [36], 26, [8], 27-98, 141-275, [13], 301-412, [12] p. Second, enlarged edition.

Contemporary calf, rebacked and partly recornered, some scuff marks and rubbing on sides, title gilt on red morocco label; .small rust-hole in folding plate, long laminated repair in 3M1-3M2, marginal support on plate facing p412, some waterstaining and soiling, old notations on endsheet, occ. marginal pen trials.

Engraved t.p. by G. Glouer with 9 portraits [incl. Woodall] and emblem, 4 (of 5, lacks the equestrian port. of Charles I.) engraved plates, woodcut allegorical representation of Mercury on page 225; woodcut astrological and alchemical symbols on pages 248-60; folding letterpress table.

Woodall, John (1570-1643), surgeon.”In 1613 Woodall was appointed the first surgeon-general of the East India Company, probably recommended by Sir Thomas Smyth, its governor and his patron.

Responsible for selecting surgeons, treating injured workmen at the company’s small dockside hospital at Blackwall (Poplar), and supplying ships with surgeons’ chests, he published in 1617 The Surgions Mate, or, A Treatise ... of the Surgions Chest, the first good medical textbook of its kind in English, chiefly written for young sea surgeons. The instruments and medicines for a surgeon’s chest, with their uses, are clearly described, followed by sections on acute surgical problems, potentially lethal medical conditions, a discourse on scurvy, and a treatise about alchemy and chemical medicines. Woodall’s is also the earliest comprehensive clinical account of scurvy to prescribe lemon juice for its prevention and cure...Between 1626 and 1628 the Barber-Surgeons were authorized to supply surgeons’ chests for the navy, merchant marine, and the army, which prompted Woodall to publish in 1628 his Viaticum, the Path-Way to the Surgeons Chest; specializing in the treatment of gunshot wounds it was mainly designed to instruct young surgeons with the English troops who attempted to relieve Huguenots blockaded in the Atlantic port of La Rochelle. This short work and Woodall’s Treatise ... of ... the Plague and a Treatise of Gangrene and Sphacelos were incorporated with separate title-pages in a revised and extended edition of The Surgeons Mate, or, Military and Domestique Surgery in 1639. Dedicated to Charles I, it contains an equestrian portrait of the king engraved by William Marshall and a fine plate illustrating Woodall’s own invented hand trephine, safely used for cutting holes in skulls for the next three centuries. His detailed description of the amputation of sphacelos, or dead tissue, at the upper limit of established gangrene, enabling him to save more than a hundred lives, was long accepted as a standard work on the subject. A discourse on venereal disease and a dispensatory of medicines, promised in the epilogue to his Surgions Mate in 1617, never materialized...

In or before 1612 he had presented the Barber-Surgeons’ Company with a table and a picture of Paracelsus. The Surgions Mate also reflects his keen interest in both theoretical and practical Paracelsian iatrochemistry and chemical medicines. A 78-page section on alchemy, written for novice ship surgeons in the 1617 edition, is expanded in the second with an extra 12-page essay entitled ‘Certain fragments concerning chirurgerie and alchymie’, supplemented by an excellent table of alchemical symbols and a glossary of alchemical terms... Elias Ashmole acquired several of Dee’s rare manuscript books and papers, found in the secret drawer to a chest belonging to Woodall, who also knew Dee’s son Arthur, the alchemical writer.” [Oxford DNB.] Young printed the first set of signatures, apparently Legat printed the second and Purslowe the third [see STC.].

STC 25963. ESTC s95910. Garrison/Morton 2144 & 3177 (1st ed.)Not in Pritchard. $5500

331. Zanger, Johann.

Tractatus Duo Unus de Exceptionibus, Alter de Quaestionibus Seu De Torturis Reorum...

Amsterdam: Johann Jansson, 1643. 4to. )(4 A-4E4 *-4*4 5*6. [54],592p.

Contemp. vellum, yapp fore-edge, title in ms on spine,old owner’s stamps and sign. on t.p., upper corner dampstain to first leaves. Head-piece, decorated ini-

tila, type device on t.p.

Zanger (1557-1607) was a lawyer and author of several works on the law.

His two most popular books, first published in the 1590s, are gathered here together. STCN 164304. OCLC: 23161177. Schulte III,2;31. ADB XLIV,685. $450

332. [Zetznerus, Lazarus,ed.]

Theatrum Chemicum Præcipuos Selectorum Auctorum Tractatus De

Chemiæ Et Lapidis Philosophici Antiquitate, veritate, jure, præstantia, & operationibus...Vols. I-IV. Strassburg: Lazari Zetzneri, 1613-.

[With] [Theatrum Chemicum...Volumen V. Strassburg:1622.]

[With] Johannes Jacbum Heilmann, ed. Theatri Chemici Volumen Sextum, Theologis, Medicis, Et Tam Vulgaribus Quam Hermeticæ...

Strassburg: Eberhard Zetzner, 1661.

8vo. 6 vols.

[8],869,[31];[4],598,[6];[4],911,[12],+De Magne Lapidis 28; [8],1146,[34];[6-of 8, lacks T.p..,],1009,[31];[18],772,[24of 25, lacks errata leaf]pp.

Second Collected Edition with two added volumes in first editions.

Handsome modern (antique style) 1/2 calf over marbled boards, spines extra-gilt with title-labels, edges red; stamps of Jesuit school; extensive early alchemical annotations on virtually every page; seven page manuscript index at the front of the first volume in French, repair with slight loss on Z1 volume 1; usual browning and paper aging. Text cuts, 6 folding plates (complete), alchemical illustrations. “...the largest storehouse of alchemical texts ever published.” Duveen. “omnium gatherum” Thorndike. This important collection contains over 200 different alchemical works (see: Ferguson II,436-439 or Caillet III, 591-595 for lists).

This was a widely influential collection, Newton’s set was similarly covered in annotations. This second edition of the Theatrum is preferred to the first of 1602. In 1622 a fifth volume was added and in 1661 a sixth (both in this set).

Bolton 1050. Duveen 574. Ferguson II,439 (Not in Young Coll.). Krivatsy/NLM 13261. Caillet 10598 “préférable”. Guaita 2154. Ouvaroff 603. Gardner 642. $9500

333. Zimara Marco Antonio, attrib.

Antrum Magico-Medicum: In quo Arcanorum Magico-Physicorum,

Sigillorum, Signaturarum & Imaginum Magicarum, secundum Dei nomina & Constellationes astrorum, cum Signatura Planetarum constitutarum ...: Thesaurus locupletissimus, novus, reconditus ; Cui Medicamenta Etiam varia Chymica ex Mineralibus & Vegetabilibus conficiendie modus: Tractatus item de rebus, quae humano corpori eximiam & venustam formam inducunt: De variis etiam Metallorum & Minerarum praeparationibus, & experimentis plurimis, quorum consideratio candidioris & Philosophici ingenii est, Tractatio subiungitur [with] In qua Arcana Naturae, Sympathiae & Antipathiae rerum in Plantis, Animalibus, animaliumque morbis & partibus ... continentur Accesserunt Portae Intelligentiarum Sive Canones Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum, Arabum, Aegyptiorum,

Orphicorum, Pythagoraeorum, Graecorum & Latinorum priscorum, quibus omnis veterum Sophorum Sapientia, hactenus occultata, in apertam lucem producta, filiis vera doctrina proponitur. Et Canones Hermetici, De Spiritu, Anima & Corpore Maioris & Minoris Mundi.

Frankfurt : Johann Frederich Weiss [vol 1.], Daniel & David Aubry and Clemens Schleich for Andreas Wechel’s Heirs [vol. 2], 1625-6. 8vo.

2 pts in 1 vol. *8,A-2K8 [2K8 blank]; )(8,A-3A8 [3A8 blank]. [14], [2], 525, [1], [16], 749,[1]p.

Contemp. vellum, small tears in foot of spine; title in ms on spine,yapp fore-edges, stamp of P.E. Willems on t.p.,paper lightly age toned.

Zimara (1460-1532) born in Naples, professor of Philosophy at Padua.

Where he delivered lectures upon Aristotle and Averroes.Ferguson doubts the attribution to Zimara and makes a good case for its mis-attribution [See: Secrets VI, 8ff] First published this work in Latin as “Antrum magico-medicum.” “Its first part, arranged alphabetically by diseases, gave modes of curing ills of the human body. Its second part dealt with magic signatures, considered first in top to toe order, then alphabetically by diseases. The third part took up medicaments which help by likeness. The fourth part on seals and images... Parts 5 and 6 consisted of medicaments from minerals and vegetables; parts 7 and 8, of experiments.”[Thorndike] VD17 39:120661V & VD17 39:120663L. Caillet 11589. Wellcome 6811. $2000

334. Zimara, Marco Antonio, attrib.

Magische Artzney-Kunst, darinnen enthalten ein gantz neuer über-

aus reicher Schatz verschiedener magisch-naturgemässer Geheimnisse....Samt einer besonderen Hand Kunst ein Perpetuum Mobile...zu machen...Aus dem lateinischen in das Teutsche übersetzet.

Frankfurt: Johann Zieger, 1685. 8vo. [6],636,[16]p. First German Edition.

Later cloth, edges blue-green,old armorial owner’s stamp on verso of t.p..

Lacks frontis.

VD17 23:639145P. Caillet 11591. Ferguson II,566. Ferguson, Secrets, VI, 9. Ferchl 596.

Other eds: Duveen 633. Krivatsy/NLM 13272. Graesse, Magica, 41. Zachert/Zeidler IV,1839. Neu 4428. Thorndike VI,602. $1850

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