Wittenberg, Schurer & Gormann, 1616. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with triple ruled fillets to boards. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Inner hinges split. Wear and soiling to extremities. Previous owner's name in contemporary to spine. Internally nice and clean. (48), 888, (32) pp.
Third edition of this interesting and highly popular work offering a theological interpretation of natural history typical of the early 17th century, where natural phenomena were often seen through religious and moral symbolism. Editions appeared in Wittenberg in 1612, 1613, 1616,1621, 1624, 1633, 1642, 1659 and Amsterdam in 1643, 1654, 1665 “In 1612, the protestant theologian Wolfgang Franzius published a book entitled Historia animalium sacra. Franzius (Franz or Frantze, 1564–1628) was Probst [Rural Dean] of Wittenberg and professor of theology at the university. Wittenberg – the city where Luther had initiated the Reformation in 1517 – was still a stronghold for the Reformation, but the Catholic Counter-Reformation was a threatening reality. The Historia animalium sacra was widely read: A long series of editions appeared from 1612 until 1671, and an English translation was published in London in 1670. To later readers, Franzius’s work was presented together with extensive commentaries written by Johannes Cyprianus (1642–1723), professor of physics and later of theology in Leipzig.” (Roggen, Biology and Theology in Franzius’s Historia Animalium Sacra).
Nürnberg, 1785, in der Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidtischen Kunsthandlung, in-4°, (4) + 203 pp + (5)(Register) + (4)(Verzeichnis) + 50 handcolored engraved plates, contemporary full mottled calf, egyptian gilt fillet on both covers, raised gilt back, marbled endpapers, very slight foxing spots at some pages but an exceptionally fine copy in a very well preserved contemporary binding. Dru Drury (1725 - 1804), president of the London Society of Entomologists, published his Illustrations of Natural History from 1770 onwards. A second edition in three volumes was published in 1837. This is the first German edition.
Teschitz, Karl (i.e. Motesiczky, Karl Wolfgang Franz Graf ):
Reference : 38979BB
(1937)
Kopenhagen, Sexpol-Verlag 1937. Gross-8°. 17 S., 2 S. Anzeigen. Illustrierte Originalbroschur.
"Populäre Schriftenreihe: Politische Psychologie für Sozialisten, Nr. 2." - Exil-Archiv 5818. - Erste Ausgabe. - Teschitz hatte bereits 1935 seine einzige grössere psychoanalytische Arbeit "Religion, Kirche, Religionsstreit in Deutschland" beim Sexpol Verlag, den er massgeblich finanzierte, veröffentlicht. - Die vorliegende populäre Darstellung aus der Pfingstgemeinde erschien, laut dem Nachtrag, zuerst in einer norwegischen Zeitschrift. - Umschlag leicht gebräunt.