Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 333

Price Realized: $ 228
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[HELMONT, FRANCISCUS MERCURIUS VAN.] Two Hundred Queries moderately propounded concerning the Doctrine of the Revolution of Humane Souls, and its Conformity to the Truths of Christianity. [6] (of [8]), 166, [2] pages, including final ad leaf; lacks initial blank. 8vo, 149x94 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century cloth with leather lettering piece; contents browned, title and next leaf slightly chipped along fore edge, contemporary owner's inscription on title. Bookplate of the Egyptologist Charles Francis Nims (1906-88). London: Rob. Kettlewell, 1684

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first edition of an exposition of Helmont's theory of the transmigration of souls, which stemmed from his interest in the Lurianic Kabbalah. Wing H1396.