1- The composition of the world.

1st edition 1980
Amsterdam: The Busy Bee
[sewn bound in coarse burgundy linen with gold lettering on the spine, with dust jacket]
{245x189x44mm | 1156 g. | [1-14] 15-492 [493-496] p. | ISBN 90-234-5274-7}
* referred to as "Part I"
* incl. 45 rpm gramophone record: "Acoustic illustration for the Second book, Chapter 1"
* motto: "They do not understand how the diverging / corresponds to itself: returning harmony, / as with bow and lyre." - Heraclitus
* dated: June 1949-May 1950; 1964-1965; January-April 1976; June 1977-March 1980

2- APPENDIX to the first edition of The Composition of the World


1st edition 1986 (December)
Amsterdam: The Busy Bee
[sewn bound with flaps]
{229x155x7 mm | 121 g. | [1-4] 5-53 [54-56] p. | ISBN 90-234-5308-5}
* separately published supplement for the benefit of owners of the first edition of The composition of the world, published simultaneously with the second edition (in fact it is an overprint of the appendix)
* the pages have a double numbering: in addition to 5-53 also 491-535 (following the first edition)
* with a foreword by the author, dated September 16, 1986
* cover image: Robert Fludd - Utriusque Cosmi Historia (1618), 'The Temple of Music'. This image was also used for the third edition of The composition of the world. The year of publication has been corrected to 1617.

Both titles in beautiful condition