Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems.
York Beach, Maine: Nicolas-Hays, 2002. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 462pp. Original dark navy cloth with gilt lettering and blind rules, bw illus. & fold-out charts. In this attractive production, "DeJong translates the mottos and epigrams of the original 50 emblems in Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens, and provides a summary of both Maier's exposition and a commentary on each emblem......[DeJong] also includes an additional 30 alchemical engravings that explain her research...... Atalanta Fugiens is a book that expresses the science of the alchemists and how it conveys a world of feeling and thought in which macrocosm and microcosm, gold and lead, and the human soul and the alchemical alembic are demonstrated." This volume, and a number of others we are listing, are actually brand new copies purchased by us from the stock of a retired specialist dealer. An unread copy with just a hint of shelfwear and light foxing to top edge- otherwise a near Fine copy in lightly rubbed VG+ dust jacket.. (Dust jacket not clipped, now protected in mylar cover. Item #69560
ISBN: 0892540605
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