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98.
Maier Michael
Lusus serius, quo Hermes, sive Mercurius rex mundanorum omnium sub
homine existentium, post longam disceptationem in concilio octovirali habitam,
homine rationali arbitro, judicatus & constitutus est.
Oppenheimii: ex
chalcographia Hieronymi Galleri, sumptibus Lucae Jennis, 1619.
2 opere in un volume in-4º (mm 195x150). Pagine 79. LEGATO CON:
Borch Oluf
,
De ortu, et progressu chemiae, dissertatio.
Hafniae [Co-
penhagen]: typis Matthiae Godicchenii sumptibus Petri Haubold
Reg. Acad. Bibl., 1668; pagine [12], 150, [2]. Macchie e arrossature
alla seconda opera dovute alla qualità della carta. Legatura ottocen-
tesca in mezza pelle.
Prima edizione di entrambi i testi. I OPERA: Caillet, 6995; Ferguson II,
pagina 63, con la data 1619; Jouin, 456;
Manly Hall Collection,
102; Rosenthal,
BMP 570: «Très rare»; Wellcome I, 3985; Wolfstieg, 42294: «selten». Si veda
A.E. Waite: «It is a chronicle concerning a fantastic Parliament of Beasts [...]
who lay before man -in the position of an appointed arbiter- their respective
claims to pre-eminence [...] [as] one and all are of conspicuous utility to
man.. The Judge is to choose a King from among them [and] Mercury is
found to be the miraculous splendour and Light of all the world»; II OPERA:
Bolton I, 95, segue a Duveen: «This celebrated treatise, the most frequently
quoted by earl historians, was highly prized by the alchemists of his day»;
Ferguson I, 119; Krivatsy 1548; Wellcome II, 206.
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