[ALCHIMIE] [SENDIVOGIUS, Michel] (1566-1646) The Cosmopolita - Lot 119

[ALCHIMIE] [SENDIVOGIUS, Michel] (1566-1646) The Cosmopolitan Traitez du cosmopolite nouvellement découverts. Où après avoir donné une idée d'une Société de Philosophes, on explique dans plusieurs Lettres de cét Autheur la Théorie la Pratique des Véritez Hermétiques A Paris, chez Laurent d'Houry, 1691, in-12, full contemporary basane, spine ribbed and decorated, 238 pp. Waxed boards, pale old trace of marginal wetness on the last quarter of the volume, old angular paper restitution on page 125 with loss of a few letters, bottom of title page restored. Caillet 10131: "La seconde partie de cet ouvrage contient les lettres de Michel Sendivogius communément appelé Cosmopolite sur la théorie et la pratique de la Pierre philosophale." Dorbon 4552: "Les Traitez... consist of 238 pages divided as follows: Title; Idée d'une nouvelle société; Statuts et Règles de la Société cabalistique des Philosophes Inconnus; Lettres de Michel Sendivogius ou de J.J.D.I. c'est-à-dire Jean Joachim Destinguel d'Ingrofont, communément appelé Cosmopolite, sur la Théorie et la Pratique de la Pierre Philosophale." Guaita 972: "Very rare". Duveen 545. Missing from Fergusson. Mention in contemporary pen on first blank leaf: "This book is the most truthful and least obscure of all the philosophers who have dealt with the Great Work". The last chapter features an engraved figure of Neptune's Trident, accompanied by the following statement: "This character was not invented and chosen at random without design: for the Trident is the Neptune of our parable, which contains in abbreviated form the whole Theory and Practice of Hermetic Science".