KHUNRATH HEINRICH Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae 1609 [i

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KHUNRATH, HEINRICH. Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae solius verae, Christiano-Kabalisticum, divino-magicum, nec non physico-chymicum, tertriunum, catholicon. Engraved portrait of Khunrath (trimmed and mounted) and 9 (of 10) plates, all double-page, backed with paper and rehinged; 2 double-page tables. 60, 222, [1] pages, including colophon leaf; lacks the engraved and letterpress titles and single-page plate of an owl. Folio, contemporary sheep gilt, heavily worn, rebacked; contents browned. (Hanau: Guilielmus Antonius, 1609) [i. e., Magdeburg: Levin Brauns, 1608]

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Alchemical treatise first published in 1595, "one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences" (Duveen). This copy is one of two editions with the Magdeburg imprint of Levin Brauns dated 1608 on the letterpress title missing here. Caillet 5747; DSB VII, 355-56; Duveen, page 319 (original edition); VD17 3:671762Q (this edition).