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STOLTZIUS, Daniel (c. 1597-c. 1644). Hortulus hermeticus flosculis philosophorum. Frankfurt: Luca Jennis, 1627.
The first edition of an important alchemical emblem book, with the label of German occultist Heinrich Tränker. The gem-like allegorical engravings in this work first appeared two years prior, at the end of a German alchemical miscellany by the same publisher with no explanatory text. The present work combines the images with explanatory prose and poetic captions to express the secrets of transmutation, on the model of Michael Maier’s 1617 Atalanta fugiens and Stoltzius’s own 1624 Viridarium Chymicum. Caillet 10386; Duveen p. 566; Ferguson II, p. 410-411; Landwehr 561.
Octavo (154 x 92mm). Woodcut title vignette, 160 engraved roundels on 40 plates within the text (dampstain to edges; annotations and pentrials on pastedowns). Seventeenth-century mottled sheep (some abrasion due to mottling process, spine starting but secure). Provenance: Louia (1662; signature) – Marquis de Paulin (undated gift inscription) – Heinrich Tränker (1880-1965, a noted German bookseller, occultist, and rival of Aleister Crowley; label).
The first edition of an important alchemical emblem book, with the label of German occultist Heinrich Tränker. The gem-like allegorical engravings in this work first appeared two years prior, at the end of a German alchemical miscellany by the same publisher with no explanatory text. The present work combines the images with explanatory prose and poetic captions to express the secrets of transmutation, on the model of Michael Maier’s 1617 Atalanta fugiens and Stoltzius’s own 1624 Viridarium Chymicum. Caillet 10386; Duveen p. 566; Ferguson II, p. 410-411; Landwehr 561.
Octavo (154 x 92mm). Woodcut title vignette, 160 engraved roundels on 40 plates within the text (dampstain to edges; annotations and pentrials on pastedowns). Seventeenth-century mottled sheep (some abrasion due to mottling process, spine starting but secure). Provenance: Louia (1662; signature) – Marquis de Paulin (undated gift inscription) – Heinrich Tränker (1880-1965, a noted German bookseller, occultist, and rival of Aleister Crowley; label).