Main entry:

Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637, author.

Title & Author:

Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia : in duo volumnina secundum cosmi differentiam diuisa / authore Roberto Flud aliàs Fluctibus, armigero, & in medicina doctore oxeniensi.

Publication:

Oppenhemii : Aere Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, anno MDCXVII-[MDCXXIV] [1617-1624]

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (woodcuts, engravings), maps (engravings), music ; 32 cm (fol.)

Notes:
The "M" and "D" in the date of publication are in apostrophic characters on title page.
Illustrations engraved by J.T. de Bry and Matthaeus Merian the elder.
"[The work] was to have been in two volumes, the first containing two treatises, the second three; it was completed as far as the first section of the second treatise of the second volume."--Dict of nat. biog.
Two issues of volume 1, part 1, are known to exist, with the catchword on page 7 either "mobile" or "stellis."
Signatures: volume 1: [pi]¹ ***¹ B-2B⁴ 2C⁶ ²A-2M⁴ (2M2+1) 2N-3G⁴ 3H² 3I-5H⁴ (-5H4).
Pagination: volume 1: [2], 106 [i.e. 206], [6], 276, [2], 277-788, [10] pages; volume 2: [2], 277, 191, [11], [12], 199 pages.
Leaves of plates (some folded) included in pagination; numerous errors in pagination.
Engraved title page; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Includes indexes.
Includes errata (volume 2, page 10).
Advertisment for volume 2: volume 1, pages 785-788.
Engraved title pages.; only the first treatise of v. 1 has general t.p.; the other parts have special title-pages: Tractatus secundus De natvræ simia seu technica macrocosmi historia. Oppenheimio, ære Iohan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1618 (788 p., 5 l.); Tomvs secvndvs De svpernatvrali, naturali, præternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa. Oppenhemij, in tractatus tres distributa. Oppenhemij, impensis Iohannis Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1619 (1 p.l., 277 p.); Tomi secvndi, tractatus primi, sectio secunda, De technica microcosmi historia [n.p., n.d.] (191, [1] p., 5 l.); Tomi secundi, tractatus secundus, De præternaturali utriusque mundi historia. Francofurti, typis Erasmi Kempfferi, sumptibus Joan. Theodori de Bry, 1621 (6 p.l., 199 p.)
Tomus secundus ends with the first section of the second treatise. It was to have contained three treatises, but was never completed.
Includes several folded leaves.
With this is bound the author's Veritatis proscenium. Francofvrti, 1621.
v. 1, pt. [1]. De macrocosmi historia [metaphysica & physica] (1617). pt. [2]. Tractatus secundus de naturae simia seu technica macrocosmi historia (Oppenheimio, De Bry, 1618) -- v. 2, pt. [1-a]. Tomus secundus de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia in tractatus tres distributa ; [First treatise, first section] (Oppenhemij, De Bry, 1619). pt. [1-b]. Tomi secundi, tractatus primi, sectio secunda, de technica microcosmi historia ([n.p., n.d.]). pt. [2]. Tomi secundi, tractatus secundus, de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia (Francofurti, typis E. Kempfferi sumptibus J.T. de Bry, 1621)
BM (part var.)
Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica, 222
Ebert, 7701
Gardner, F.L. Biblio. Rosicruciana, 217
Gardner, F.L. Biblio. Rosicruciana, 218
S. Hutin, Robt. Fludd p. 14 (part var. ed.)
Graesse, no. 1-5 (no. 3 var. ed.)
Macphail, I. Alchemy & The occult, 74
Macphail, I. Alchemy & The occult, 83
Cicognara, 32
Library copy: Tomus primus. Tractatus secundus is later edition. Editio secunda. Francofurti : Sumptibus hæredum Johannis Theodori de Bry ... , M. DC. XXIV [1624].
Library copy: bound in 3 v.: v. 1. Tomus primus, tractatus primus. Tomus primus, tractatus secundus (2nd ed), p. 1-259 -- v. 2. Tomus primus, tractatus secundus, p. 261-788, [789-798] -- v. 3. Tomus sedundus. Veritatis proscenium ("Rerum praecipuarum quae Tractatus hujus de microcosmo sectione prima[-secunda] continentur" bound in at end ([10] p.)).
Library copy: bookplates of Charles D. Brereton and Chas. Rainsford.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Piero en tête = Meditations on Piero", Centre canadien d'architecture May 2-Sept. 3, 2001.

Subject:

Cosmology Early works to 1800.
Geometry Early works to 1800.
Astrology Early works to 1800.
Machinery Early works to 1800.
Arithmetic Early works to 1900.
Music theory Early works to 1800.
Cosmologie Ouvrages avant 1800.
Géométrie Ouvrages avant 1800.
Astrologie Ouvrages avant 1800.
Machines Ouvrages avant 1800.
Arithmétique Ouvrages avant 1900.
Théorie musicale Ouvrages avant 1800.
02.00 science and culture in general.
Arithmetic.
Astrology.
Cosmology.
Geometry.
Machinery.
Music theory.
Wetenschappen.
Music Theory 16th-17th centuries.

Form/genre:

Engravings (prints) Germany 17th century.
Early works.
Surveys (form)

Added entries:

Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623, engraver, bookseller.
Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650, engraver.
Galler, Hieronymus, printer.
Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?
Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637. Veritatis proscenium ...
De technica microcosmi historia.
De naturae simia seu technica macrocosmi historia in partes undecim divisa.
De supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali et contranaturali microcosmi historia, in tractatus tres distributa.
De praeternaturali utriusque mundi historia.
Germany Oppenheim.
Provenance. Rainsford, Chas. Bookplate.
Provenance. Brereton, Charles D. Bookplate.
Bookplates. Rainsford, Chas.
Bookplates. Brereton, Charles. D.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 221612
Call No.: 11484
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library cage 30121
Call No.: 11482
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library cage 221613
Call No.: 11483
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available