Agrippa von Nettesheim,H.C.

De incertitudine & Vanitate scientiarum declamatio invectiva, qua universa illa sophorum gigantomachia plus quam Herculea impugnat audacia, doceturque nusquam certi quicquam, perpetui, & divini, nisi in solidis dei eloquiis atque eminentia verbi dei latere. (Cologne), "mense Ianuario" 1532. cl.8°. 208 nn. Blind embossed. gilt over wooden boards with late. ribs. (Joints cracked, rubbed and damaged, upper chap. pasted over). VD 16, A 1156. Index Aureliana 101.848. Coumont A 15.21. - Early edition of Agrippa's main work, "Of the Vanity and Uncertainty of the Sciences", first published in Antwerp in 1530. A large part is devoted to the occult sciences, caused quite a stir and got on the index (Reusch 264). - Partly stained, partly. Understr. and marginalia in ink by old hand, inner joints broken, le. Bl. with small marginal missing, several ownership marks on the back and sides.