Paris, (J. Laffray à Beaugency pour) Bibliothèque Chacornac, 1898 (plate-vol.) - 1900 (text-vol.), lg. in-4to, 182 p. / 12 plates, untrimmed, hw. former owner's name ‘E. de Graffenried ... 1921’, original wrappers, slightly stained, damage to bottom of atlas volume.
First edition of a precious work for the study of the High Kabala and Alchemy. It is the first translation of the original Latin edition published in Germany in 1609, with a volume containing facsimile prints of the 13 original copperplates including 10 double plates, a title-page, a portrait of the author (medical doctor in Leipzig, disciple of Paracelsus), and an emblem at the end of the atlas.“Cette oeuvre fut le drapeau autour duquel bataillèrent les Rose-Croix de 1610 contre les savants officiels, les ignorants et les craintifs d'alors”. Caillet 5748; Thornton VII/273-276.
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