Franckfurt & Leipzig, 1711. 4to. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly spine. Gilt boarders to boards. Traces from small paper-label to upper part of spine. Small worm-tract to upper margin of first 10 ff., not affecting text. A nice and clean copy.
Rare first edition of Johann Conrad Dippel’s commentary on Jakob Böhme. Johann Konrad Dippel (1673 – 1734), was a German Pietist theologian, physician, and alchemist. Dippel's reputation as a controversial theologian earned him both defenders and enemies throughout all of Europe. He would later become connected as the possible inspiration to Mary Shelley’s gothic horror “Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus”.