The second half of the seventeenth especially in England marked a period where, in hindsight it might seen easy to separate conservative, theological practitioners of Cosmology and those proto-enlightenment thinkers. These four books certainly challenge and exhibit the true nature... Continue Reading →
ONE The Letters of Marsilio Ficino represent an essential core of his thought and influence as a chief architect of the Platonic and Hermetic revival, the philosophical and revelatory center of the new learning that was revamping religious vision and... Continue Reading →
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801J Johann Joachim Becher. (1635-1682) Actorum laboratorii chymici monacensis, seu Physicæ subterraneæ libri duo, quorum prior profundam subterraneorum genesis, nec non admirandam globi terr-aque-aërei super & subterranei fabricam, posterior specialem subterraneorum naturam, resolutionem in partes partiumq́; proprietates exponit, accesserunt sub... Continue Reading →
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468J Natalis CONTI (1520-1582) Natalis Comitis Mythologiae sive explicationis fabvlarvm libri decem : In Quibus Omnia Prope Naturalis Et Moralis Philosophiae dogmata in Veterum Fabulis contenta fuisse perspicuè demonstratur ; Opus cuiusvis Facultatis studiosis perutile ac propé necessarium. Accessit G.... Continue Reading →
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833J Chifflet, Philip (1597-1657) Owner: Hyacinthii Bussa Casalensis 835J Donne, John (1573-1631) Owner Cordelia Sandford. 477E Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) Owner Eliza: Sippi ...heetory... 1658. 650J Tasso, Torquato, (1544–1595) Tr. Edward Fairfax (c. 1580–1635) Owner Susanna Knollys 833J Chifflet, Philip (1597-1657)... Continue Reading →
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694J Francis Bacon 1561-1626 The essayes or counsels, ciuill and morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban London:Printed by Iohn Hauiland, and are sold by R. Allot, 1629. $3,800 Quarto, Signatures A-2V⁴ 2X² (a)² 2Y-3C⁴. Bound in the original... Continue Reading →
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These three incunabula all have notes deep in the gutters suggesting that most likely they were annotated while still in quires and feasibly disbound. 753J Dunns Scotus, (c.1265-1308) Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Ed: Thomas Penketh and Bartholomaeus Bellatus.... Continue Reading →
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428J Verheiden, Jacob. The history of the moderne protestant divines, containing their parents, countries, education, studies, lives, and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall treatises, and writings that are extant.... Continue Reading →
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