roberti fludtii (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Jenae [Jena] & Arnstadii [Arnstadt], Leipzig: Litteris Caspari Freyschmidii [Caspar Freyschmidt] for Johannis Bartholom. Oehleri, Bipl., 1661. Quarto (20.5cm); contemporary parchment; [x],1-190,215-1010,10011-10026 [i.e. 1011-1026],301-340,[14],14,[48]pp. (collated, erratically paginated but complete); engraved title page by Paravincius, one foldout of ?De notis in manu? (?the notes of the hand?); woodcut palmistry and metoposcopy figures throughout. Manuscript title fading at head of spine with some label residue beneath; chipping with exposure along fore-edge of front board; brief split to vellum at front joint between third and fourth threads; general smudging to surface. Board visible through top corner of front pastedown from likely bookplate removal. Pages toned with mild to moderate foxing and offsetting; a few brief marginal chips not touching text; manuscript pen notes in Latin on rear flyleaf verso. A sweeping compendium of works on chiromancy (palmistry) and metoposcopy (forehead-wrinklery), Ludicrum chiromanticum (The Palmistry Entertainment) collects Praetorius? own scholarship on the subject with other major works by Robert Fludd, Balthasar Summer & Samuel Kelner, Caspar Schott, and Nicolaus Pompeius, complete with numerous diagrams and a fantastic engraved title page by Johann-Baptist Paravicini. Praetorius ? Hans Shultze to his friends ? was an occasional lecturer and full-time scholar, known as a great compiler of folklore, legend, and superstition. The Brothers Grimm praised his ?perspicacious erudition? and called him their ?most significant written source,? and his Blockes-Berges Verrichtung (1668) on the witches? sabbath at Mount Brocken informed the Walpurgisnacht scenes in Goethe?s Faust. Praetorius died during a plague outbreak in Leipzig in 1680. Thirty-ish copies found in OCLC but only a hand's-worth in North America. Fitzherbert 487; Dünnhaupt 8.1; Sabattini 443; Caillet 8950 See also: "Johannes Praetorius and his Magical World." The Thinker's Garden. Online [July 23, 2020] Gerhild Scholz Williams. Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time. [Ashgate, 2006].