![[FLUDD, Robert (1547-1637)]. Fasciculus Geomanticus in quo varia variorum opera geomantica continetur. Verona: [Heidelberg?] 1687. [Bound with:] Tabulae geomanticae, seu liber singularis de tribus ultimis ex antiquo manuscripto de anno 1535. Frankfurt: Ioannis Davidis Zunneri, 1693.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12140_0471_000(fludd_robert_fasciculus_geomanticus_in_quo_varia_variorum_opera_geoman032234).jpg?w=1)
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[FLUDD, Robert (1547-1637)]. Fasciculus Geomanticus in quo varia variorum opera geomantica continetur. Verona: [Heidelberg?] 1687. [Bound with:] Tabulae geomanticae, seu liber singularis de tribus ultimis ex antiquo manuscripto de anno 1535. Frankfurt: Ioannis Davidis Zunneri, 1693.
2 works in one volume, 8° (166 x 100mm). First work with title in red and black, 7 letterpress tables of which one folding, woodcuts and diagrams, second work with 2 large folding letterpress tables. (First work with folding letterpress table with small marginal tear at fold and final leaf shorter in outer margin, second work without final blank.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges (lightly soiled). Provenance: erased ownership inscription on first title and later annotation on verso of title.
FIRST EDITION of a compilation of treatises on geomancy including Robert Fludd's Tractatus de geomantia. ‘In the Fasciculus of 1687, besides the works of Fludd and H. de Pisis, were Geomantic Questions by the Arab Alfakinus, translated into Latin by Plato (of Tivoli ?) and now first printed from an old manuscript of the year 1535’ (Thorndike). Page 123 is misnumbered 12 as in some other copies of the first edition. A copy of this first work was sold and described as having two engraved plates. Caillet 4035 (‘Ouvrage fondamental de Géomancie’); Cf. Thorndike VIII 482; Wellcome III, 11 (not calling for any engraved plates).
2 works in one volume, 8° (166 x 100mm). First work with title in red and black, 7 letterpress tables of which one folding, woodcuts and diagrams, second work with 2 large folding letterpress tables. (First work with folding letterpress table with small marginal tear at fold and final leaf shorter in outer margin, second work without final blank.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges (lightly soiled). Provenance: erased ownership inscription on first title and later annotation on verso of title.
FIRST EDITION of a compilation of treatises on geomancy including Robert Fludd's Tractatus de geomantia. ‘In the Fasciculus of 1687, besides the works of Fludd and H. de Pisis, were Geomantic Questions by the Arab Alfakinus, translated into Latin by Plato (of Tivoli ?) and now first printed from an old manuscript of the year 1535’ (Thorndike). Page 123 is misnumbered 12 as in some other copies of the first edition. A copy of this first work was sold and described as having two engraved plates. Caillet 4035 (‘Ouvrage fondamental de Géomancie’); Cf. Thorndike VIII 482; Wellcome III, 11 (not calling for any engraved plates).
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