BOEHME, JACOB - Christosophia Oder der Weg zu Christo. Die Erste americanische Auflage.[Second TP] Das Achte Buchlein De Quatuor Complexionibus oder Trost Schrift Von Vier Complexionen. Geschrieben...
Ephrata, Ruth, 1811, First and only American Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo, II Vols. Bound as One, 395Pp. Ill.: Anon. 5 inserted mystical Etchings.. Very Good/No Jacket.¶ 1811?12. Lengthy exegesis for each plate. Large wood Engd. Vig. resembling the worm ourobouros. Jacob Boehme, German visionary, claimed to have received visions from the Holy Spirit on at least three occasions. At first, and at the insistence of the clergy, he refrained from recording his revelations, but eventually he he wrote description of these experiences, publishing many books in the last five years of his life. They were very popular in England, and much Quaker doctrine borrows from Boehme's works and ideas. The first American edition in the original language for German pietist readers. Duennhaupt 396, VII; Caillet, 1288-1309, First Century, II, 1805 [12 Locs], S&S 22416, Seidensticker P. 181. Half calf, new calf backstrip and some new gilding, Original gilt black Mro. label, a lovely copy nearly unfoxed, VG.
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