BÖHME, JAKOB. Het derde Boeck des Auteurs, Zynde Hooge ende diepe Gronden van't drievoudigh leven des Menschen. Woodcut symbolic illustration on page 402. [8], 424 pages, including engraved allegorical title. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, contemporary vellum with white ink shelf number on spine, front cover starting; marginal foxing and dampstaining, mainly on opening leaves, accession number and note on leaf after title, bookplates on front pastedown, remnant of card pocket on rear pastedown. [Amsterdam: Nicolaes van Ravesteyn, circa 1636]
first edition of one of one of Böhme's chief works of mystical theology, Vom dreifachen Leben des Menschen [On the Threefold Life of Man], translated into Dutch from a manuscript in German. An English version first appeared in 1650, the German original text in 1660. Buddecke II, 17.
