Arca mosis sive historia mundi. Que complectitur primordia rerum naturalium omniumque artium ac scientiarum.
Magdeburgi [i.e. Magdeburg].
Impensis Johannis Luderwaldi, 1669.
12mo.
[36], 220pp, [24]. With an additional engraved title. Slight marginal loss to **6.
[Bound with:] Historiae naturalis et civilis, ad nostra usque tempora, libri septum. Lipsiae [i.e. Leipzig], Sumptibus Johannis & Friederici Luderwald, 1671. 374pp. With an additional engraved title.
[And:] Ulyssea sive studiosus peregrinans omnia lustrans littora. Lugd. Batav. [i.e. Leiden], Ex Officina Cornelii Driehuysen et Arnoldi Doude, 1671. [8], 590pp. With an engraved title-page.
12mo. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, some soiling. Booksellers description pasted to FEP, occasional spots of foxing, overall internally clean and crisp.
[Bound with:] Historiae naturalis et civilis, ad nostra usque tempora, libri septum. Lipsiae [i.e. Leipzig], Sumptibus Johannis & Friederici Luderwald, 1671. 374pp. With an additional engraved title.
[And:] Ulyssea sive studiosus peregrinans omnia lustrans littora. Lugd. Batav. [i.e. Leiden], Ex Officina Cornelii Driehuysen et Arnoldi Doude, 1671. [8], 590pp. With an engraved title-page.
12mo. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, some soiling. Booksellers description pasted to FEP, occasional spots of foxing, overall internally clean and crisp.
A sammelband of three works by German historian, theologian, and geographer Georg Horn (1620-1670). Arca Mosis affords descriptions of the elements that compose creation, from flora and fauna to disease and the principles of human knowledge, and offers metaphysical and occult explanations as to there creation and workings.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 13463
