1549 - First Edition Textbook on Pagan Occultism & Hermeticism
1549 Iamblichus + Hermes Trismegistus, De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (On the Egyptian Mysteries). The volume is the first edition in this version of 1549 - it's a bit of a legacy edition of the Aldine 1497, 1517 - Iamblichus De Mysteriis, along with a host of other hermetic / occult texts of late antiquity including:
'On the mysteries of the Aegyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians' by Iamblichus (250-325 CE) (Iamblichus de mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldærum. Assyriorum);
'Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades – on the soul and daimones' by Proclus (412-84 CE) (Proclus in alcibiadem de anima atque dæmone);
'On sacrifice and magic' by the same author (Proclus de sacrificio et magia);
'On deities and daimons' by Porphyry (c 234-c. 304 CE) (Porphyrius de diuinis atque dæmonibus);
'On daimons' by Michael Psellus (1018-78 CE) (Psellus de dæmonibus);
'Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius' by Hermes Trismegistus (early c's CE) (Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander. Eiusdem Asclepius)
Without a doubt, this is the who’s who of late classical pagan occultism, from Porphyry to Proclus to Hermes Tremegistus to Psellus’ famed volume on the nature of demons all in the illustrious translation of Marsilio Ficino. This is a rare opportunity to own the first edition of one of the most foundational textbooks of Renaissance Occultism.
1549. Iamblichus, etc., De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Lugduni (Lyon), Joan Tornaesium (Jean de Tournes). Octavo, in gilded leather over boards with tooling. Leather rubbed throughout, showing through leather. Binding in fair condition but holding. Front and last blank, inside board with attractive 16th handwriting. Complete in 543 pages, w/ printer’s mark. Interior remarkably clean, with little browning or foxing. An important and rare first edition of this landmark occult collection.
1549 Iamblichus + Hermes Trismegistus, De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (On the Egyptian Mysteries). The volume is the first edition in this version of 1549 - it's a bit of a legacy edition of the Aldine 1497, 1517 - Iamblichus De Mysteriis, along with a host of other hermetic / occult texts of late antiquity including:
'On the mysteries of the Aegyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians' by Iamblichus (250-325 CE) (Iamblichus de mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldærum. Assyriorum);
'Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades – on the soul and daimones' by Proclus (412-84 CE) (Proclus in alcibiadem de anima atque dæmone);
'On sacrifice and magic' by the same author (Proclus de sacrificio et magia);
'On deities and daimons' by Porphyry (c 234-c. 304 CE) (Porphyrius de diuinis atque dæmonibus);
'On daimons' by Michael Psellus (1018-78 CE) (Psellus de dæmonibus);
'Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius' by Hermes Trismegistus (early c's CE) (Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander. Eiusdem Asclepius)
Without a doubt, this is the who’s who of late classical pagan occultism, from Porphyry to Proclus to Hermes Tremegistus to Psellus’ famed volume on the nature of demons all in the illustrious translation of Marsilio Ficino. This is a rare opportunity to own the first edition of one of the most foundational textbooks of Renaissance Occultism.
1549. Iamblichus, etc., De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Lugduni (Lyon), Joan Tornaesium (Jean de Tournes). Octavo, in gilded leather over boards with tooling. Leather rubbed throughout, showing through leather. Binding in fair condition but holding. Front and last blank, inside board with attractive 16th handwriting. Complete in 543 pages, w/ printer’s mark. Interior remarkably clean, with little browning or foxing. An important and rare first edition of this landmark occult collection.
1549 Iamblichus + Hermes Trismegistus, De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (On the Egyptian Mysteries). The volume is the first edition in this version of 1549 - it's a bit of a legacy edition of the Aldine 1497, 1517 - Iamblichus De Mysteriis, along with a host of other hermetic / occult texts of late antiquity including:
'On the mysteries of the Aegyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians' by Iamblichus (250-325 CE) (Iamblichus de mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldærum. Assyriorum);
'Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades – on the soul and daimones' by Proclus (412-84 CE) (Proclus in alcibiadem de anima atque dæmone);
'On sacrifice and magic' by the same author (Proclus de sacrificio et magia);
'On deities and daimons' by Porphyry (c 234-c. 304 CE) (Porphyrius de diuinis atque dæmonibus);
'On daimons' by Michael Psellus (1018-78 CE) (Psellus de dæmonibus);
'Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius' by Hermes Trismegistus (early c's CE) (Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander. Eiusdem Asclepius)
Without a doubt, this is the who’s who of late classical pagan occultism, from Porphyry to Proclus to Hermes Tremegistus to Psellus’ famed volume on the nature of demons all in the illustrious translation of Marsilio Ficino. This is a rare opportunity to own the first edition of one of the most foundational textbooks of Renaissance Occultism.
1549. Iamblichus, etc., De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Lugduni (Lyon), Joan Tornaesium (Jean de Tournes). Octavo, in gilded leather over boards with tooling. Leather rubbed throughout, showing through leather. Binding in fair condition but holding. Front and last blank, inside board with attractive 16th handwriting. Complete in 543 pages, w/ printer’s mark. Interior remarkably clean, with little browning or foxing. An important and rare first edition of this landmark occult collection.