Silver binding.- Arndt (Johann) Paradiess Gärtlein, 2 parts in 1, title to part 1 printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, titles trimmed close at fore-edge just shaving text to part 2, occasional faint spotting, contemporary German silver binding, finely engraved with religious symbols amidst baroque foliate strapwork, each cover with 5 engraved panels (4 circular at corners, one square in centre), an engraved angel's head between the 2 upper panels and a moon between the 2 lower panels, spine with an engraved panel showing an obelisk resisting the elements, 2 clasps engraved with foliage, gilt floral endpapers, housed in a custom drop-back box, slim 8vo (142 x 59mm.), Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1712-11.*** The second part titled Christliches Buss-Beicht und Cümmunion-Buchlein. The five panels on each cover are engraved with allegories of Christian faith. The upper cover features a compass, two hands supporting a crown of thorns, a grapevine from which water (?blood) falls, a lily, and a dove flying towards the sun with a mountainous landscape in the background and a tree stump in the foreground. The lower cover features a flying dove, flowers in the rain, the dove returning to Mount Ararat, a dove perched on a mountain top above the flood, and a hand pouring water into a flower pot.Provenance: J. Dunn Gardner, December 22, 1871 (exhibition label to pastedown); 'Heilbronner, Maximilianstrasse, Munich (late of Augsburg) [?a bookseller] 1879, 100 Gulden' (pencil note to rear free endpaper); [Major] John Roland Abbey, no. 2657 (bookplate to front free endpaper; ink note to rear free endpaper 'bought Oct 11th 1945. £45'); Bernard Breslauer; Sotheby's, May 1985, lot 5, to Quaritch; Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (bookplate to inside drop-back box); Sotheby's, 6th December 2000, lot 74; Percy Barnevik.