1629 - Work of Ancient Talismanic Magic and Kabbalah
You have to love a book with the partial title “unheard of curiosities about Persian talismanic figures, patriarchal horoscopes and celestial characters.” Richelieu librarian, theologian and orientalist, Jacques Gaffarel (1601-1681) is considered the most important representative of Christian Kabbalah in the 17th century. Gaffarel was obsessed with angels, hidden codes, and the secrets of the universe. He even thought he could translate the language of birds!
This is a complete edition of Gaffarel’s most important and influential work. It includes two folding plates, which are often missing in other volumes. It also has an ex-libris bookplate from Jean H. Saint John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813), the American-Norman writer who is one of the founding fathers of American literature.
This important treatise devoted to ancient talismanic magic and Kabbalah, the original of which appeared in 1629, went through several editions despite the censorship of the Sorbonne which forced the author to submit to a retraction.
1629. Gaffarel, Jacques. Curiositez inouyes hoc est : curiositates inauditae de figuris persarum talismanicis, horoscopo patriarchum et characteribus coelestibus. [This is an unknown curiosity: unheard of curiosities about Persian talismanic figures, patriarchal horoscopes and celestial characters.] 1629. Hamburg: apud Gothofredum Schultzen. In-12°, full brown sheepskin, a folding title-frontispiece engraved by Wichman, 2 folding tables of the Hebrew celestial alphabet in fine. 53 ff. unencrypted - 290 pp. + 1 pp. appendix. Text in Latin. Upper cap and corners blunted, small lack of skin on the upper plate jaw at the bottom, browned pages. Inside cover antique bookplate from de Crèvecoeur.
You have to love a book with the partial title “unheard of curiosities about Persian talismanic figures, patriarchal horoscopes and celestial characters.” Richelieu librarian, theologian and orientalist, Jacques Gaffarel (1601-1681) is considered the most important representative of Christian Kabbalah in the 17th century. Gaffarel was obsessed with angels, hidden codes, and the secrets of the universe. He even thought he could translate the language of birds!
This is a complete edition of Gaffarel’s most important and influential work. It includes two folding plates, which are often missing in other volumes. It also has an ex-libris bookplate from Jean H. Saint John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813), the American-Norman writer who is one of the founding fathers of American literature.
This important treatise devoted to ancient talismanic magic and Kabbalah, the original of which appeared in 1629, went through several editions despite the censorship of the Sorbonne which forced the author to submit to a retraction.
1629. Gaffarel, Jacques. Curiositez inouyes hoc est : curiositates inauditae de figuris persarum talismanicis, horoscopo patriarchum et characteribus coelestibus. [This is an unknown curiosity: unheard of curiosities about Persian talismanic figures, patriarchal horoscopes and celestial characters.] 1629. Hamburg: apud Gothofredum Schultzen. In-12°, full brown sheepskin, a folding title-frontispiece engraved by Wichman, 2 folding tables of the Hebrew celestial alphabet in fine. 53 ff. unencrypted - 290 pp. + 1 pp. appendix. Text in Latin. Upper cap and corners blunted, small lack of skin on the upper plate jaw at the bottom, browned pages. Inside cover antique bookplate from de Crèvecoeur.
You have to love a book with the partial title “unheard of curiosities about Persian talismanic figures, patriarchal horoscopes and celestial characters.” Richelieu librarian, theologian and orientalist, Jacques Gaffarel (1601-1681) is considered the most important representative of Christian Kabbalah in the 17th century. Gaffarel was obsessed with angels, hidden codes, and the secrets of the universe. He even thought he could translate the language of birds!
This is a complete edition of Gaffarel’s most important and influential work. It includes two folding plates, which are often missing in other volumes. It also has an ex-libris bookplate from Jean H. Saint John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813), the American-Norman writer who is one of the founding fathers of American literature.
This important treatise devoted to ancient talismanic magic and Kabbalah, the original of which appeared in 1629, went through several editions despite the censorship of the Sorbonne which forced the author to submit to a retraction.
1629. Gaffarel, Jacques. Curiositez inouyes hoc est : curiositates inauditae de figuris persarum talismanicis, horoscopo patriarchum et characteribus coelestibus. [This is an unknown curiosity: unheard of curiosities about Persian talismanic figures, patriarchal horoscopes and celestial characters.] 1629. Hamburg: apud Gothofredum Schultzen. In-12°, full brown sheepskin, a folding title-frontispiece engraved by Wichman, 2 folding tables of the Hebrew celestial alphabet in fine. 53 ff. unencrypted - 290 pp. + 1 pp. appendix. Text in Latin. Upper cap and corners blunted, small lack of skin on the upper plate jaw at the bottom, browned pages. Inside cover antique bookplate from de Crèvecoeur.