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Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum. Frankfurt: Lucas Jennis, 1624.
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STOLZ VON STOLENBERG, Daniel (1600-1660)
Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum. Frankfurt: Lucas Jennis, 1624.
First edition of a rare emblem book with a strong alchemical component. ‘This is an essential, seventeenth-century sourcebook in the symbolic and meditative tradition in alchemy and one of its most important emblem books’ (Marlan, The Black Sun p. 82). In his Viridiarum, Stolz, a disciple of Michel Maïer, paired 107 alchemical engravings to his original poems to explain the images to his readers, without directly revealing their secret meaning. Some plates had previously been used in Jennis's publications for Valentinus, Lambspring and Maïer among others. However, Landwehr questions Praz's opinion that the illustrations are connected with those in J. D. Mylius's Opus medico chymicum, published by Jennis in 1618. Landwehr, German Emblem Books 559; Praz p. 159.
Oblong octavo (97 x 150mm). 105 numbered engraved plates (of 107, lacking plates 21 and 107, and the first quire A8 [engraved title and preface) and two text leaves, the poem to figure 26 [H2] and to figure 107 [Ee3] and final blank, some soiling and dampstaining, chiefly at margins). Contemporary vellum over boards, recased (a little soiled, and rubbed). Provenance: Pisani Burney (bookplate).
Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum. Frankfurt: Lucas Jennis, 1624.
First edition of a rare emblem book with a strong alchemical component. ‘This is an essential, seventeenth-century sourcebook in the symbolic and meditative tradition in alchemy and one of its most important emblem books’ (Marlan, The Black Sun p. 82). In his Viridiarum, Stolz, a disciple of Michel Maïer, paired 107 alchemical engravings to his original poems to explain the images to his readers, without directly revealing their secret meaning. Some plates had previously been used in Jennis's publications for Valentinus, Lambspring and Maïer among others. However, Landwehr questions Praz's opinion that the illustrations are connected with those in J. D. Mylius's Opus medico chymicum, published by Jennis in 1618. Landwehr, German Emblem Books 559; Praz p. 159.
Oblong octavo (97 x 150mm). 105 numbered engraved plates (of 107, lacking plates 21 and 107, and the first quire A8 [engraved title and preface) and two text leaves, the poem to figure 26 [H2] and to figure 107 [Ee3] and final blank, some soiling and dampstaining, chiefly at margins). Contemporary vellum over boards, recased (a little soiled, and rubbed). Provenance: Pisani Burney (bookplate).
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