Wecker - Les Secrets et Merveilles de Nature - 1639

A fascinating main work of early modern knowledge between science, magic, and practice – rare, in an attractive contemporary binding, and of great cultural and scientific-historical significance.

Publisher: Rouen, David Ferrand, 1639. 1,012 pages plus an index with many woodcuts in the text, leather binding from the period with rich gold tooling, 17 x 10 cm.
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A rare and impressive compendium of early modern natural philosophy, medicine, and 'secrets of art.' Wecker's famous work gathers in 17 books the entire spectrum of knowledge of his time: medicine and pharmacology, botany and zoology, alchemy, mechanics, optics, magic, secret writings, as well as practical instructions from household, craft, and technology. Scientific observation here still stands in exciting tension with superstitions, wonders, and secret teachings – a characteristic testimony of the transition period from the Renaissance to early Enlightenment.

Illustrated with numerous contemporary woodcuts (devices, diagrams, letters and secret scripts, natural history representations).
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No loose pages or tears, lightly browned, partly with few wormholes, without the last page of the register, overall a very beautiful specimen with authentic age patina.