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MASSIVE HERMETIC COMPILATION HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. Divinus Pymander Hermetis Mercurii Trismegisti. Edited with commentary by Annibale Rosselli, O.F.M. [4], 43, [5], 160; [4], 161-342; [4], 184; [4], 204; [4], 267, [1]; [4], 206, [38] pages. 6 parts in one volume. Folio, 377x236 mm, later 17th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, front cover additionally stamped EASS above and 1679 below, worn overall, lacking catches and clasps; contents heavily browned with marginal dampstaining, worming in gutters toward beginning occasionally entering text, paper corrosion along lower fore edge of first few leaves, scattered oxidized stains. From the Benedictine Monastery of St. Stephan at Würzburg, with their panel stamp on covers and ownership inscription on general title. Cologne: Peter Cholinus, 1630
first edition in this form. 'Not so much a commentary on the Corpus Hermeticum as an encyclopedia of philosophical themes, with passages from CH I-VII and the Latin Asclepius serving as introduction' (Lamoen). This edition is reprinted from 1584-90 Krakow original of Rosselli's work and enlarged with the Greek text of CH I-XVIII and the Latin translation by François Foix de Candale of CH I-XVI. Hoffmann II, 208; Lamoen, Hermes Trismegistus--Pater Philosophorum 46 (http://www.ritmanlibrary.nl/c/p/pub/on_pub/pat/pat_pri_B2.html, 7 August 2009).
