Author
Hermes, Trismegistus, Everard, John, 1575?-1650?, translator., J. F., White, Robert, active 1639-1677, printer., Moule, Gregory, bookseller., Brewster, Thomas, bookseller., Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund., Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Publication Date
1650
Publication Place
London : Printed by Robert White, for Tho. Brewster, and Greg Moule ..., 1650 [that is, 1649] -
Printed by Robert White
Subject
Occultism--Early works to 1800., Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Alchemy., Hermetism--Early works to 1800., Philosophy--Early works to 1800., Philosophy., Hermetism., Occultism.
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
215
Physical Dimensions
16 unnumbered pages, 215 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 15 cm (8vo)
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
39895047
Record ID
9964576973503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1650
Notes
"Thomason received his copy in September 1649. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Sept. 25 1649"; last two digits of imprint year crossed through."--ESTC., Signatures: A-O⁸ P⁴., "To the reader" signed: J.F., Title within border of text ornaments and single rules; type ornament head-pieces., Woodcut initials and factotums., Printed marginalia. | Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund., Smith copy has a few ms. bookseller's notes (Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.) in pencil on front free endpaper and back pastedown; a few 19th-century(?) ms. marks and annotations in pencil in text., Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from Roger Gaskell Rare Books in 2015., Smith copy has autograph of Walter Pagel on front pastedown; formerly owned by B.E.J. Pagel (1930-2007)., Smith copy has 3 paper slips, each with bookseller's printed description of a copy of this work (1 annotated in red pencil and black ink), laid in., Smith copy bound in full 19th-century sprinkled sheep; gold-ruled spine panels; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("HERMES' DIVINE PYMANDER"); imprint date ("1650") stamped in gold at foot of spine., Smith copy: leaves closely cropped at head margin with occasional damage to running title. | The first edition of the English translation of the 17 books which comprise the Corpus Hermetica by Hermes Trismegistus. | Pagel, Walter, 1898-1983 (autograph) (Smith copy), Pagel, B. E. J. (Bernard Ephraim Julius) (former owner) (Smith copy)
Sample Text
To the reader, [Contents] The titles of every book of Hermes Trismegistus, 1. His first book, 2. Poemander, 3. The holy sermon, 4. The key, 5. That God is not manifest, and yet most manifest, 6. That in God alone is good, 7. The secret sermon in the Mount, of regeneration, and the profession of silence, 8. That the greatest evil in Man, is the not knowing of God, 9. A universal sermon to Asclepius, 10. The mind to Hermes, 11. Of the common miracle to Tat, 12. Hermes Trismegistus, his "Crater, or Monas", 13. Of sense and understanding, 14. Of operation and sense, 15. Of truth to his son Tat, 16. That none of the things that are, can perish, 17. To Asclepius, to be truly wise.
Atıf Yapılan
ESTC R202412, Wing (2nd ed.), H1565, Thomason Coll. E.1344[2], Ferguson, J. Bibliotheca chemica, I, p. 389, Yale. Alchemy, 96
Baskı Parmakizi
asto i-nd amw? whdo (3) 1650 (A)
