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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextMichael Constantine Psellus (1018-1178 C.E) was one of the most notable writers and philosophers of the Byzantine era. The Byzantine domain was effectively the eastern Greek speaking part of the Roman Empire centred on Byzanti.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michael Constantine Psellus (1018-1178 C.E) was one of the most notable writers and philosophers of the Byzantine era. The Byzantine domain was effectively the eastern Greek speaking part of the Roman Empire centred on Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) which split off from the Latin West in 364 C.E. Its intellectual legacies helped lay the foundations for the Italian Renaissance. It was the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that released a tide of Greek reading scholars into Western Europe, particularly Venice. With them came much of the magical and Hermetic knowledge which the Greeks in their turn had inherited from the Egyptians. The Key of Solomon was one such text. It is therefore essential to the understanding of such magical texts that one understands exactly how the Byzantines understood the nature of daemons. Psellus forms the bridge between the ancient world, Byzantine Greek, and the grimoire conception of the nature of daemons. Hailing from Constantinople, Psellus' career was an illustrious and practical one, serving as a political advisor to a succession of emperors, playing a decisive role in the transition of power between various monarchs. He became the leading professor at the newly founded University of Constantinople, bearing the honorary title, 'Consul of the Philosophers' He was the driving force behind the university curriculum reform designed to emphasise the Greek classics, especially Homeric literature. Psellus is credited with the shift from Aristotelian thought to the Platonist tradition, and was adept in politics, astronomy, medicine, music, theology, jurisprudence, physics, grammar and history.

Paperback. First Edition. Adelaide, Andrew Murray, Printer, Rundle Street (Sold by C. Platts, Bookseller, Hindley Street .), 1845. Octavo, xii (last blank), 106 pages plus a folding etching, but lacking the folding frontispiece map noted by Ferguson. Original bright green wrappers with the full title page details repeated on the front cover (with the date of publication now added); wrappers a little marked, but expertly conserved (the front cover is now lined on the verso, stabilizing a long tear, and filling in some minor loss to the edges); title page a little marked; occasional chips and dog-ear creases to the uncut edges; trifling signs of age and use, but essentially a very agreeable copy. The State Library of South Australia has a copy of this item with the map (and it's a beauty - a hand-coloured lithograph, 322 × 213 mm, produced in 'Goodwood nr Adelaide' in 1845). However, reading between the lines, a case may be made for stating that not all copies were issued with the map. Its absence here notwithstanding, this is by any account a very rare publication, and worthy of serious consideration on at least two counts. The folding plate is an etching (paper size approximately 220 × 280 mm) of 'Ridley's Reaping Machine. S. Australia', signed and dated in the plate 'NRF 1845'. The artist is Frederick Robert Nixon (circa 1817-1860), who arrived in Adelaide in May 1838 to take up a position as assistant surveyor. In 1845, he published 'Twelve Views in Adelaide and its Vicinity, South Australia. Drawn, etched, and printed by F.R. Nixon'; it was the earliest South Australian plate book. He was a self-taught artist who 'had to manufacture all his machinery for preparing and pressing his etchings . [they] are superior as works of art, and accurately as well as pleasingly depict the scenes which they represent ('The South Australian', 21 February 1845). Nixon left Adelaide in May 1846, bound for Mauritius, where he died in 1860. Kerr's 'The Dictionary of Australian Artists' (1992) records that the Ridley etching was the only other one he is known to have produced. There is a lengthy chapter (10 pages) on the Aboriginal inhabitants, and the chapter on horticulture contains seven pages on vines and wine-making, with the information credited to M. Vaillant (see page 58). Ferguson 4014.