Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 1,560
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
STEEB, JOHANN CHRISTOPH. Coelum sephiroticum Hebraeorum . . . Moysi revelatas interiores naturalium rerum characteres . . . manifestans, ex vetustissima Hebraica veritate medicinae, chymiae, astronomiae, astrologiae, botanicae, zoologiae, anthropologiae, aliarumque scientiarum nova principia . . . explicans. Title in red and black with printer's engraved device; engraved plate; 20 text illustrations. [6], 140, [16] pages. Folio, old 1/2 vellum, some wear along cover edges; scattered minor spotting, half-title loose. Mainz: Christoph Küchler for Ludwig Bourgeat, 1679
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first edition of a treatise on natural philosophy founded on an occult interpretation of the 7 days of Creation; includes references to the New World and Atlantis. Krivatsy 11404; Scholem, Bibliographia Kabbalistica 1090; Thorndike VIII, 388.