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BÖHME, JAKOB. Signatura Rerum; or, The Signature of All Things: shewing The Sign, and Signification of the Severall Forms and Shapes in the Creation. [8], 224 pages. bound with his:XL. Questions Concerning the Soule [with The Clavis, or Key . . . Also called, Teutonicus Philosophus]. Folding engraved plate; letterpress table. [14] (of [18]), 155, [1]; [6], 28, [3] pages; lacks (a)² (To the Earnest Lovers of Wisdome). Together, 2 volumes in one. Small 4to, 172x127 mm, 20th-century brown calf, scuffed, front joint cracked, cords intact; varying toning and soiling of contents, scattered stains and marginal repairs infrequently affecting text, ink stains along edges of title in first work. 17th-/18th-century signatures of Anthony Hutchinson, Joshua Oates, and Edm. Fox; 19th-century Unitarian College embossed stamp; morocco booklabel of Haven O'More (sale of The Garden Ltd., 10 November 1989, lot 120). London: John Macock and Gyles Calvert, 1651; M[atthew] S[immons] for H[umphry] Blunden, 1647
first edition in english of the first work;first or second edition of the second, one of 2 editions of undetermined priority printed the same year, with the German original text only first published the year after. Wing B3419, B3408A.
