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"Kabbalah] Jean Tritheme Abbé / Gabriel de COLLANGE - Polygraphie et universelle écristure cabalistique (1 volume) From Jacques Kerver in Paris, 1561 - MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE of this rare and very interesting work RELATING TO THE KABBALA, the occult sciences and sometimes falsely associated with magic and witchcraft. Bound in superbly preserved full contemporary vellum, gilt plates on boards, smooth spine with false nerves, ornate caissons, title in old black ink, edges entirely gilt. A copy that has remained very pure, without any wetness, the paper is quite white, tiny little freckles, almost imperceptible. One of the most beautiful copies in period binding that we have seen. First edition in French of the first treatise on cryptography, by the German historian and benedictine Jean Tritheme (1462-1516), known as Trithemius. This is by far the best edition of this translation by Charles IX's valet de chambre and mathematician Gabriel de Collange, who was born in Tours, Auvergne, in the 1520s and was murdered on the night of St. Barthelemy's Day. The Edition is adorned with a title set in a fine woodcut frame featuring the arms of France, the Kerver emblem (two unicorns), scientific instruments and the anagram of the translator's first and last names, and a fine portrait of Collanges at the age of 37. Both are repeated twice throughout the volume. Printed in red and black, the text is embellished with 13 figures, each with a movable part. Jacques Kerver's large typographical mark appears on the verso of the last leaf. The last two parts of the book are in continuous pagination, but have a separate title page: first come the Clavicules, et interprétation sur le contenu és cinq livres de Polygraphie, & universelle escriture Cabalistique, followed by the Tables et figures planispheriques, extensives & dilatatives des recte & averse, servants à l'universelle intelligence de toutes escritures, tant metathesiques, transpositives, mythologiques, numerales, anomales [sic], que orchemales. A rare copy complete with its moving parts, or volvelles. Caillet, n°10850 - Dorbon, n°4957. - Mortimer, French books, n°528 In-4, 300pp."
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"Kabbalah] Jean Tritheme Abbé / Gabriel de COLLANGE - Polygraphie et universelle écristure cabalistique (1 volume) From Jacques Kerver in Paris, 1561 - MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE of this rare and very interesting work RELATING TO THE KABBALA, the occult sciences and sometimes falsely associated with magic and witchcraft. Bound in superbly preserved full contemporary vellum, gilt plates on boards, smooth spine with false nerves, ornate caissons, title in old black ink, edges entirely gilt. A copy that has remained very pure, without any wetness, the paper is quite white, tiny little freckles, almost imperceptible. One of the most beautiful copies in period binding that we have seen. First edition in French of the first treatise on cryptography, by the German historian and benedictine Jean Tritheme (1462-1516), known as Trithemius. This is by far the best edition of this translation by Charles IX's valet de chambre and mathematician Gabriel de Collange, who was born in Tours, Auvergne, in the 1520s and was murdered on the night of St. Barthelemy's Day. The Edition is adorned with a title set in a fine woodcut frame featuring the arms of France, the Kerver emblem (two unicorns), scientific instruments and the anagram of the translator's first and last names, and a fine portrait of Collanges at the age of 37. Both are repeated twice throughout the volume. Printed in red and black, the text is embellished with 13 figures, each with a movable part. Jacques Kerver's large typographical mark appears on the verso of the last leaf. The last two parts of the book are in continuous pagination, but have a separate title page: first come the Clavicules, et interprétation sur le contenu és cinq livres de Polygraphie, & universelle escriture Cabalistique, followed by the Tables et figures planispheriques, extensives & dilatatives des recte & averse, servants à l'universelle intelligence de toutes escritures, tant metathesiques, transpositives, mythologiques, numerales, anomales [sic], que orchemales. A rare copy complete with its moving parts, or volvelles. Caillet, n°10850 - Dorbon, n°4957. - Mortimer, French books, n°528 In-4, 300pp."
