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Bloomsbury Auctions 25th Anniversary Sale
3:00 AM PT - May 15th, 2008

 

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Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street
Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP
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Lot 377C save

Khunrath (H) Amphitheatrum sapientiæ æternæ

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Khunrath (Heinrich) Amphitheatrum sapientiæ æternæ, solius, veræ, Christiano-Kabalisticaum,
first edition, additional engraved title dated 1602, letterpress title with woodcut device dated 1608, 2 double-page tables, 9 double-page engraved plates, 1 single-page plate, woodcut decorations, old ink marginalia and highlighting, double-page plates and 1 table all laid down on later paper, damp-staining affecting upper- & fore-edge of some ff. and single-page plate, bound in full modern black morocco, lettered in gilt, rubbed at corners and spine ends, [Ferguson I p.463; Caillet 5747], small folio, "Magdeburg, 1608" [Hanover, Antonius, 1609].

***"Il est trés rare de trouver cet ouvrage complet aussi bien de texte que de gravures." Caillet. "Khunrath is still of authority with modern devotees of occultism...The author of the Fegfeuer says that the 'Amphitheatrum and other things all bear witness to his disgusting arrogance and ignorance. He wrote not from the Spirit of God but from the ignorant devil of pride'". Ferguson..

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