ASTROLOGY - PORDAGE (John): Göttliche und... - Lot 4 - Vermot et Associés

ASTROLOGY - PORDAGE (John): Göttliche und Wahre Metaphysica, Oder Wunderbahre/ durch eigene Erfahrung erlangte Wissenschafft Der unsichtbaren und ewigen Dinge: Nemlich von denen Unsichtbaren Welten/. Durch Johann Pordädschen. Aus seinen MSptis getreulich gezogen/Nebst einer Einleitung. Aus dem Englischen. Edited by Johann Martin Hagen, Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1715. 3 vols. in-8 in blond calf, spine ribbed and decorated, blue edges (corners rubbed, numerous handwritten notes on blank leaves, slight foxing). Illustrated with a portrait of the author, 3 copper-engraved plates (1 folded) and 10 woodcut schematic texts. 7 leaves, pp. (3-)704, 16 leaves. (dlw); 360, 209, 261 pages, 12 leaves; 874 pages, 19 pages. First German edition. - The original English manuscripts are considered lost. Contains 7 detailed treatises as well as "important additions and comments by the German translator" (Jantz). - John Pordage (1607-81) was one of Jakob Böhme's first disciples in England. 18th-century Böhme editions. Short texts by him have been included (cf. Buddecke p. 104 ff.). "It is essentially a question of Cabalism, which Pordage presents only under particular images and in the language of mystical rapture, just as it is encountered in Böhme's writings" (Jöcher/Adelung VI, 654). Pordage expanded Böhme's theosophy with his own visions and influenced, among others, Gichtel and German Pietism. - The copperplates show the spheres of the visible and invisible world. - text complete, with blank leaves present, covered with period annotations. A fine copy. Jantz 2016. - Brüning 3575.