Sterck van Ringelberg - Andoverpiani opera (Astrologie, Okkultismus, Magie, Optik) - 1531

Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg (Ioachimi Fortii Ringelbergii): Andoverpiani opera, quae proxima pagina enumerantur
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Lugduni: Apud Gryphium
1531
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Banned book for its investigations on occult sciences, astrology and magic. Post Incunable.
First edition of this treatise on Occultism: hundreds of engraved plates on the most varied themes: Astrology, Occultism, Magic, Astronomy, Architecture, Mathematics, Geometry.
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Particularly interesting book on “Chaos”, in which the influences of (mobile and fixed) Stars on medicine and health are illustrated, in relation to the different ZODIAC SIGNS, as we can read in the Zodiac caption: “In morbum incidens, quum Luna est in sexto gradu Arietis...”.
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FIRST EDITION of Ringelberg’s works, complete with the treatise on arithmetic. 99 full-page woodcut plates.
Mortimer describes this edition of the work as “An example of Gryphius’s use of the small format for excellent academic editions of the work of contemporary authors”. Mortimer / Harvard French 460; Adams R-560.
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Contemporary leather binding, frames and titles engraved in gold, damp mark at the beginning, first two sheets restored ab antiquo, owner’s note handwritten on the title page. Numbering gap from p. 514 to p. 571, pages not included in the binding. Pp. 688, [2]. Sheets heavy with glue and perfectly inked, the plates about perspective are inspired by drawings made by Viator and Rodler.
OCLC lists Smithsonian, Michigan, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, Allegheny. Adams R562
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Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg (1499-1531) was a traveling scholar from Antwerp who lectured throughout Europe on almost every conceivable subject.
This compendium covers all of his encyclopedic interests, ranging from science, mathematics, and astronomy to Greek grammar and the occult arts (due to which the book was included in the Index of Forbidden Books).