Sale: 599 / Rare Books, Nov. 24. 2025 in Hamburg 
Lot 425000545
Lot 425000545 
425000545
Cornelius Gemma
De naturae divinis. 2 Tle. in 1 Band, 1575.
Estimate: € 1,500 / $ 1,740
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Cornelius Gemma
De naturae divinis characterismis. 2 Teile in 1 Band. Antwerpen, C. Plantin 1575.
Bedeutendes wissenschaftliches Hauptwerk des Löwener Professors C. Gemma (1535–1578). Behandelt Wundergeburten, Himmelserscheinungen und Fabelwesen.
Erste Ausgabe. Die interessanten Holzschnitte von Antoni van Leest und Gerret Janssen von Kampen zeigen Naturwunder, astronomische Figuren sowie 3 Sternkarten. - ''The present work is a disquisition on portents and prodigies in nature of every description, with their supposed connection with human affairs. Monsters, of which he gives curious pictures, which occur in other books on the same subject, were viewed as special works of the Creator intended to foretell or indicate coming events. His views have not been much respected by subsequent historians and biographers, but allowance must be made for the change of ideas and for the different ways of observing and interpreting phenomena which a lapse of three hundred years entails and the expositions of Cornelius must be regarded as illustrating the beliefs of his time'' (Ferguson).
EINBAND: Flexibler Pergamentband d. 18. Jhs. mit hs. Rückentitel. 8vo. 17 : 11,5 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 2 Holzschnitt-Druckermarken (wdh.) auf den Titeln sowie 64 Holzschnitten von A. van Leest und G. Janssen van Kampen. - KOLLATION: 229 S., 5 Bll.; 284 S., 2 Bll. - ZUSTAND: Ohne die auch in den meisten Bibliographien nicht angegebenen letzten 16 Bll. mit Index und Errata (vgl. Voet). - Leicht gebräunt, Buchblock etw. verzogen, Innenspiegel und Schließbänder entfernt.
LITERATUR: Adams G 373. - Durling 2042. - Wellcome I, 2735. - Caillet 4450. - Ferguson I, 308. - Thorndike VI, 406-409. - Voet (Plantin Press) 1243.
An important scholarly work by the Leuven professor C. Gemma (1535-1578). It deals with miraculous births, celestial apparitions, and mythical creatures. First edition. With 2 woodcut printer's devices (rep.) on the titles and 64 woodcuts by A. van Leest and G. Janssen van Kampen. 18th century flexible vellum with handwritten spine title. 8vo. 17 : 11.5 cm. - Without the last 16 leaves, which are not listed in most bibliographies, with index and errata (cf. Voet). - Slightly browned, book block slightly warped, pastedowns and ties removed.
De naturae divinis characterismis. 2 Teile in 1 Band. Antwerpen, C. Plantin 1575.
Bedeutendes wissenschaftliches Hauptwerk des Löwener Professors C. Gemma (1535–1578). Behandelt Wundergeburten, Himmelserscheinungen und Fabelwesen.
Erste Ausgabe. Die interessanten Holzschnitte von Antoni van Leest und Gerret Janssen von Kampen zeigen Naturwunder, astronomische Figuren sowie 3 Sternkarten. - ''The present work is a disquisition on portents and prodigies in nature of every description, with their supposed connection with human affairs. Monsters, of which he gives curious pictures, which occur in other books on the same subject, were viewed as special works of the Creator intended to foretell or indicate coming events. His views have not been much respected by subsequent historians and biographers, but allowance must be made for the change of ideas and for the different ways of observing and interpreting phenomena which a lapse of three hundred years entails and the expositions of Cornelius must be regarded as illustrating the beliefs of his time'' (Ferguson).
EINBAND: Flexibler Pergamentband d. 18. Jhs. mit hs. Rückentitel. 8vo. 17 : 11,5 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 2 Holzschnitt-Druckermarken (wdh.) auf den Titeln sowie 64 Holzschnitten von A. van Leest und G. Janssen van Kampen. - KOLLATION: 229 S., 5 Bll.; 284 S., 2 Bll. - ZUSTAND: Ohne die auch in den meisten Bibliographien nicht angegebenen letzten 16 Bll. mit Index und Errata (vgl. Voet). - Leicht gebräunt, Buchblock etw. verzogen, Innenspiegel und Schließbänder entfernt.
LITERATUR: Adams G 373. - Durling 2042. - Wellcome I, 2735. - Caillet 4450. - Ferguson I, 308. - Thorndike VI, 406-409. - Voet (Plantin Press) 1243.
An important scholarly work by the Leuven professor C. Gemma (1535-1578). It deals with miraculous births, celestial apparitions, and mythical creatures. First edition. With 2 woodcut printer's devices (rep.) on the titles and 64 woodcuts by A. van Leest and G. Janssen van Kampen. 18th century flexible vellum with handwritten spine title. 8vo. 17 : 11.5 cm. - Without the last 16 leaves, which are not listed in most bibliographies, with index and errata (cf. Voet). - Slightly browned, book block slightly warped, pastedowns and ties removed.
425000545
Cornelius Gemma
De naturae divinis. 2 Tle. in 1 Band, 1575.
Estimate: € 1,500 / $ 1,740
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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