BRUNO, Giordano (1548-1600). De monade numero et figura. Frankfurt: J. Wechel & P. Fisher, 1591.
BRUNO, Giordano (1548-1600). De monade numero et figura. Frankfurt: J. Wechel & P. Fisher, 1591. 8° (155 x 100mm). Woodcut device on title and 50 woodcut illustrations in text. (Occasional browning and spotting.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin dated 1592 on front cover, dark edges (lacking one metal clasp, some rubbing to extremities, front free endpaper removed). Provenance : Bibliothek M.K. Neudold (noted 20th-century German calligrapher; n. 15009; bookplate). RARE FIRST EDITION IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING of Giordano Bruno’s work on philosophical and cosmological meditations. Most of the work was written in England and some parts during Giordano Bruno’s pilgrimage in Germany. ‘Giordano Bruno discussed at length the numbers from one to ten and the circle and other polygons up to the decagon... With the pentad, for example, he associated the shield of the magi, the key of Zoroaster, a figure of the hand with five lines and five “montes”, a sign to protect the theurgist from violent spirits, and various groups of five, with citation of Paracelsus, Talmudists and cabalists’ (Thorndike VI, 459). The De monade, the De minimo and the De immenso were bound together and were meant to be published as one work. The dedicatory letter is also important for the biographical information about Bruno’s life. Adams B-2951; Riccardi I, 200; Silvestrini 201.
BRUNO, Giordano (1548-1600). De monade numero et figura. Frankfurt: J. Wechel & P. Fisher, 1591.
BRUNO, Giordano (1548-1600). De monade numero et figura. Frankfurt: J. Wechel & P. Fisher, 1591. 8° (155 x 100mm). Woodcut device on title and 50 woodcut illustrations in text. (Occasional browning and spotting.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin dated 1592 on front cover, dark edges (lacking one metal clasp, some rubbing to extremities, front free endpaper removed). Provenance : Bibliothek M.K. Neudold (noted 20th-century German calligrapher; n. 15009; bookplate). RARE FIRST EDITION IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING of Giordano Bruno’s work on philosophical and cosmological meditations. Most of the work was written in England and some parts during Giordano Bruno’s pilgrimage in Germany. ‘Giordano Bruno discussed at length the numbers from one to ten and the circle and other polygons up to the decagon... With the pentad, for example, he associated the shield of the magi, the key of Zoroaster, a figure of the hand with five lines and five “montes”, a sign to protect the theurgist from violent spirits, and various groups of five, with citation of Paracelsus, Talmudists and cabalists’ (Thorndike VI, 459). The De monade, the De minimo and the De immenso were bound together and were meant to be published as one work. The dedicatory letter is also important for the biographical information about Bruno’s life. Adams B-2951; Riccardi I, 200; Silvestrini 201.
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