AGRIPPA (Henri-Corneille). Opera, in duos tomos... Lot 6

AGRIPPA (Henri-Corneille). Opera, in duos tomos concinne digesta, & nunc denuo sublatis omnibus mendis in Philomeson gratiam accuratissimè recusa. Quibus post omnium editiones de novo accessit Ars Notoria, ut satis indicat Catalogus post praefationem positus. [et] Operum pars posterior. Quorum Catalogum exhibebunt tibi paginae sequentes. Una cum rerum et verborum hoc tomo memorabilium indice, & locuplete & certo. Huic accesserunt Epistolarum ad familiares libri septem, & orationes decem ante hoc seorsimeditae. Lugduni [Strasbourg], per Beringos fratres [Eberhard Zetzner], sd (c. 1630). 2 vol. in-12 of [8] ff.-1156 pp., [12] ff.-694 pp. and 5 tables in fine. Engraved figures in the text. Later covers. Broken booklets. Some leaves browned. Rare reunion of these 2 volumes, early edition of this masterly work by Cornelius Agrippa. "AGRIPPA (Henri-Corneille) famous Kabbalist, born in Cologne in 1486. His life could not have been more eventful. He professed Philosophy in several cities of Europe, and in the meantime found a way to be a soldier for several years. In turn Secretary of Maximilian I, Counselor of Charles V, Physician of Louise of Savoy, he died in Grenoble, between the years 1534 and 1538 (...) His name of Agrippa comes from his native town in Latin: Colonia Agrippina. (...) The works of this great philosopher having been early defended and condemned to fire (...), almost all the dates of his Complete Works are fictitious - when there are any.(...) These editions are all given by the famous 'Beringos Fratres', the brothers Godefroy and Marcel Béring, who also published several others without date." Caillet. "This is the so-called 'forged and mutilated' edition, but it is the most complete of many. Besides the four books of Agrippa's Occult Philosophy and his 'Lecture on Geomancy' it contains: the Heptameron of Peter of Aban (or the 'Magical Elemens') - a Summary of Goethe by Pictorius Villinganus, and a Study on Witches by the same. - Extracts from Pliny the Younger. - A Study of Demonomania by the same Villinganus. - Astronomical Geomancy by Gerard of Cremona. - The Magic of Arbatel. - Letters of John Tritheme, on his Steganography. - The Ars Notoria, of Apollonius Flores, revealed to Solomon. In Volume II are all the other famous opuscules of Agrippa: The Vanity of the Sciences; The Commentary on Raymond Lulle; The Pre-excellence of the Female Sex; The Sacrament of Marriage; The Monastic Life; The Relics of St. Anthony; The Antidote of the Plague; The Trigamy of St. Anne; Seven Books of Letters; Ten Discourses; The History of the Coronation of Charles the Fifth; and lastly, various Epigrams in Latin Verses on the subject of this Coronation. May all editions be so mutilated! The Second volume bears the title of : Operum pars posterior, quorum Catalogum exhibebunt tibi paginæ sequentes vna cvm rervm et verborvm hoc Tomo memorabilium indice et locupletc et certe. The index in question is rather awkwardly inserted on pages 664 to 680 of this Volume II, and does not bear any pagination number, although its pages count in the general pagination, which resumes at 681. The printing is in round letters." Caillet. "An undated edition of the complete works of Henri Corneille Agrippa, published in two volumes under the purported address "Lugduni, per Beringos fratres," with a peculiar mark and motto "Consilium, pietas et politia coronam firmant," which he used in 1616, is attributed to Eberhard Zetzner" BNF. (Caillet 82.)