FLUDD, Robert (1547-1637). Works, comprising: Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia. [i.e. Volume 1 (Macrocosmi), part 1.] Oppenheim: Hieronymus Gallerus for Johan Theodorus de Bry, 1617. Engraved title, two full-page folding engraved illustrations. – De Naturae Simia. [i.e. Volume 1, part 2.] The Second edition. Frankfurt: Caspar Rötelius for de Bry, 1624. Engraved title, 5 engraved plates, of which 4 double-page and one folding. – De Supernaturali, naturali, praternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia. [i.e. Volume 2 (Microcosmi), Part 1.] Oppenheim: Hieronymus Gallerus for de Bry, 1619. Engraved title. – De Praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia. [i.e. Volume 2, part 2.] Frankfurt: Erasmus Kempffer for de Bry, 1621. One double-page engraved plate. – Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana seu Meteorologica Cosmica. Frankfurt: in Officina Bryana, 1626. Engraved title, one folding engraved plate. – Anatomiae amphiteatrum. De Anatomia triplici. Frankfurt: Erasmus Kempffer for de Bry, 1623. Additional engraved title, one engraved folding plate. – Veritatis proscenium... seu Demonstratio quaedam analytica. Frankfurt: Erasmus Kempffer for de Bry, 1621. – Medicina Catholica [Part 1], seu mysticum artis medicandis sacrarium. [With:] De Sophiae cum Moria. [And:] Summum Bonum. Frankfurt: by Caspar Rötelius for Wilhelm Fitzer, 1629. One engraved double-plate. – Integrum morborum mysterium, sive Medicinae Catholicae [Part 2]. [With:] Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum historiae. Frankfurt: Wolfgang Hofmann in officina Wilhelm Fitzer, 1631. Two folding engraved plates, one double-page table; the second work with an engraved title and large folding table. – Phylosophia Moysaica. [With:] Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-Spongum. Gouda: Peter Rammazenius, 1638. 14 works in 6 volumes, 2° (319 x 199mm). Illustrations throughout, some full-page [see details of plates under each title]. (Without some blanks, browning and spotting, sometimes heavy, some short tears, some of these with old repairs, occasional marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary vellum, spines titled in manuscript, edges red (lacking ties, some soiling). Provenance: Bibliotheca ?Duinensis (title inscriptions dated 1638) — purchased by the Royal Institution on 10 May 1813 for £4 14s 6d. A RARE, UNIFORMLY-BOUND SET OF HERMETIC WORKS BY FLUDD, richly illustrated with designs attributed to de Bry, Merian and Fludd. The Macrocosm and Microcosm volumes, Fludd’s masterpieces, include the rare De Praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia (i.e. the second part of volume 2) which is seldom found bound with the others. Fludd sought a new understanding of nature based on Christian principles and interpreted the Genesis as a divine alchemical process. He believed the eternal truths of the Scriptures and the mysteries of the ancient occultist carried far more weight than the evidence of the senses and that humans are linked to divinity through nature. The Macrocosm is 'a presentation of Renaissance Magia and Cabala, with the addition of Alchymia as developed by Paracelsus and the developments introduced by John Dee into these traditions... [it is] a Rosicrucian philosophy, a Renaissance philosophy brought up to date' (Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, p. 80). The 'Veritatis proscenium' is Fludd’s reply to Kepler’s criticism of Microcosm. Caillet 4033, 4036, 4042; Duveen p.222-3; Fischer and Haberlandt pp.47-48; Houzeau & Lancaster 2965-2969; Wellcome 2324-2332.