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Book Condition: Used
Seller: LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

France
About Item: Goudae, Petrus Rammazenius, 1638.Large 4to [317 x 195 mm] of (4) ll. including the engraved title, 144 ll. (wrongly numbered 152); 30 ll., (1) l. of errata bound between the ll. 28 and 29, numerous engravings in the text. Bound in contemporary full brown mottled calf, double gilt fillet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt fleurons, red marbled edges. Contemporary binding.Posthumous first edition of Robert Fludd's last essay, dealing with Creation.Sir William Osler, Biblotheca Osleriana : A catalogue of books illustrating the history of medecine and science, n°2629; DSB V, 47ff. - Ferguson I, 284. - Wheeler Gift 112-113. - Mottelay S. 554. - Gardner 237 & 236. - Wellcome I, 2331 & 2332. - Poggendorff I, 763 (nur Tl. I). - Osler 2629.In his work, Robert Fludd (1574-1638), one of the most famous English philosophers and alchemists, demonstrates the equality between the Sun – source of light and life – and God.'In the first half of the seventeenth century [Fludd] was one of England's… Read More
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