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Provenance: Contemporary signature of Edmund Troutbeck on
pastedown and again on the title.
First edition. There is no colon after ‘London’ in the imprint, as in
Cole’s copy 2. Italian and French editions appeared in the following
year: Kirwan replied to the latter in his second edition, 1789. ESTC
T33332; Duveen p. 324; Cole 719; Neville I, p. 729; Blake p. 243;
Wellcome III, p. 398.
A famous book in the history of chemistry because it provoked the Wnal, and
decisive, battle in the chemical revolution. Kirwan’s Essay, regarded as the best
account of the phlogiston theory, was written to counter the new theories of
Lavoisier and others in Paris. But Lavoisier and the French chemists realised
that this provided them with a good opportunity to demonstrate the strength
of their new theory, and they replied with a translation into French by Mme
Lavoisier in which each section is followed by a lengthy refutation to which
Lavoisier and the other French chemists contributed. Kirwan replied to these
criticisms in the second edition of the Essay (1789), but the war was lost and
Kirwan abandoned phlogiston in 1791.
Though somewhat worn, this copy is in its original publisher’s boards,
unusual for this date in having a cloth spine.
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KNOOR VON ROSENROTH, Christian, Freiherr (1636–1689)
Kabbala denudata seu doctrina Hebraeorum transcendentalis et
metaphysica atque thologica... Pars prima continet Locos Communes
Cabbalisticos... Pars secunda vero constat è Tractatibus variis, tam
didacticis, quam polemicis
–– Tomus Secundus: id est Liber Sohar restitutus... cui adjecta
Adumbratio Cabbalae Christianae ad captum Judaeorum.
Sulzbach and Frankfurt: [Tomus primus:] Sulzbaci, typis Abrahami
Lichtenthaleri; [Tomus secundus:] Francofurti, sumptibus Joannis Davidis
Zunnery. Typis Balthasar. Christoph. Wustii Sen. 1684; [Adumbratio:]
Francofurti ad Moenum, sumtu Johannis Davidis Zunneri, cassitero Joh.
Phil. Andreae, Anno M DC LXXXIV, 1677–1684.
2 volumes 4to: Vol. I. a–d 4 e 2 A–4Z 4 ; 2 A–2O 4 ; )( 4 3 A–2A 4 ; 4 A–H 4 ; 674
leaves, pp. [36] 740 (i.e. 736, 33–36 omitted); 312; [8] 192; [193]–255
[1] (last two parts bound in reverse order). Engraved title on a4
(bound before the printed titlepage); titlepage to parts 3 and 4 dated
1678 on )(1. Vol. II. p 2 A–4L 4 (blank 4L4); a–3o 4 ; (a)–(h) 4 (i) 2 , 596
leaves, pp. [4] 38 [2] 598 [2] (blanks); 478 (i.e. 480, 67–68 repeated);
70 (i.e 68, 57–58 omitted). Engraved chart on p2v; titlepage in red and
black; sectional titlepage with imprint dated 1684 on (a)1; some text in
Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns
17 engraved plates: numbered 1–16 in vol. I, pt. 4, all but no. 13
folding, interleaved with the text (directions to the binder on 4 H4v);
and an unnumbered folding plate in vol. II intended to be placed at p.
242 in part 2 but here bound at p. 478 or the second series.