Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 147

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FLUDD, ROBERT. Tomus Secundus de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali Microcosmi historia. [with Tomi secundi tractatus primi, sectio secunda, De technica Microcosmi historia]. Numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations and diagrams. 277, [3]; 191, [13] pages, including engraved title and blanks 2M4 (with clean tear) and 2b6; lacks general half-title ("Microcosmi Historia"). Together, 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 308x197 mm, contemporary English calf, rebacked; marginal dampstaining and heavy browning in middle of first volume, rear free endpaper creased. Oppenheim: Johann Theodore de Bry for Hieronymus Galler, 1619
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first edition of the first 2 parts of the second volume of Utriusque cosmi . . . historia, Fludd''s philosophical magnum opus. Conceived as a 2-volume work comprising multiple treatises, it remained unfinished, and the various parts are not often found together. In his system, "the major explanatory mechanism of the workings and order of the world is the parallel between macrocosm and microcosm . . . Fludd''s metaphysics postulates a complex and all-embracing correspondence between the world of spirits and the physical world" (ODNB). Craven, pages 244-45; DSB V, 47-48; EP III, 207-08; Shaaber F157.