pdf - Roger Gaskell Rare Books

194 x 155mm. Titlepage soiled, frayed with slight loss of engraved
border, and mounted; margins of Wrst gathering strengthened and
Xeuron border to portrait partly obscured; corner of 3A3 defective with
loss of a few letters and repaired. Light browning.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards. Soiled, old repairs to foot of
spine.
Provenance: About 80 words of early annotation (cropped) on pp. 18
and 60 and a few other words and marks; monogram bookplate and
an old library stamp on title, both unidentiWed.
First edition. VD17 23:291341V; Wellcome 3979 (Wellcome copy
imperfect); Duveen p. 382; Ferguson II, pp. 64–5; Neu 2611; Mellon
75; Manly Hall Collection 106.
‘Perhaps Maier’s most ambitious work in praise of alchemy. A kind of
symbolical banquet is held at the “Golden Table” in praise of Chemia and
12 representatives apear.’ (Duveen.)
The engravings are attributed to Theodor de Bry. The titlepage border
incorporates the portraits of the alchemists of the 12 nations; there is a portrait
of Maier aged 49 in 1617, and 12 symbolical engravings in the text.
130
MAIER, Michael (1568?–1622)
Verum inventum, hoc est, munera Germaniae, ab ipsa primitus
reperta (non ex vino, ut calumniator quidam scoptice invehit, sed vi
animi & corporis) & reliquo orbi communicata.
Frankfurt: typis Nicolai HoVmanni, sumptibus Lucae Iennis, 1619.
8vo: A–Q8 F6 (blank R6), 134 leaves, pp; [26] 11–249 [3] (colophon
on R5v, last 2 pages blank). Woodcut printer’s device on title and
colophon.
146 x 90mm. A few headlines shaved; printed on mixed paper stocks,
gatherings A, F, G, I and O–R browned.
Binding: Recent boards.
First edition. Manly Hall Collection 109.
‘This work on the gifts of Germany to the world culture includes the
Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, printing, and the religion of reform.’ (Manly
Hall Collection.)
131
MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628–1694)
De viscerum structurâ exercitatio anatomica... Accedit dissertatio
eiusdem De polypo cordis.
London: typis T[homas]. R[oycroft]. impensis Jo. Martyn, apud insigne
Campanae extra locum vulgo dictum Temple-Bar, 1669.
12mo: A–H 12 , 96 leaves, pp. [12] 180.