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HERMES Trismegistus
[Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, his Divine pymander, part
2 only] Hermes Trismegistus his second book, called Asclepius
containing Wfteen chapters, with a commentary.
London: printed for Thomas Brewster, at the three Bibles in St. Pauls
Church-yard, near the West End, 1657.
12mo: A–E12 F6 , 66 leaves, pp. [2] 127 [3]. Publisher’s adverstisements
on last three pages.
122x 65mm. A few headlines shaved; corners rounded, last page
soiled.
Binding: Contemporary sheep, rebacked, new endleaves. Corners
worn.
Provenance: A 16 word annotation in a contemporary hand on p. 94.
First edition in English. Wing H1567; ESTC R177956.
This translation and commentary – perhaps by John Everard – on the Asclepius
attributed to Hermes Trismegistus was issued with the second edition of the
Pimander, not present here. In the advertisements at the end of the ‘Divine
Pimander’ it is advertised as ‘in the same volume’ and this copy appears to
have been formerly bound with another work. There seems therefore to be no
justiWcation for treating this as anything other than a fragment, though as so
often with such tracts it is given independent entries in Wing and ESTC.
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HIGHMORE, Nathaniel (1613–1685)
Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica; in qua sanguinis
circulationem in quavis corporis particula plurimis typis novis, ac
aenygmatum medicorum succinctâ dilucidatione ornatam prosequuts
est... accessit index duplex, alter capitum, alter rerum & verborum
locupletissimus.
The Hague: ex oYcina Samuelis Broun bibliopolae Anglici, 1651.
Folio: p 2 A–2M 4 (blank 2M4), 142 leaves, pp. [12] 262 [10] (last 2
pages blank). Title and ‘Frontis physiognomica descriptio’ (intended
to face the engraved title but here bound following the printed title)
printed in red and black, woodcut and Xeuron headpieces, woodcut
initials, and 19 engravings printed in the text.
Engraved title and one inserted plate, Tab. XII.
There are in all 20 illustrations, numbered Tab I–XVIII mostly full
page, and 2 smaller engravings, not numbered. These are all printed
on the text leaves apart from Tab. XII.
274 x 172mm. Title­leaf washed and possibly from another copy;
engravings printed on pp. 243 and 246 just shaved without any
signiWcant loss; some light browning; a fresh clean copy.