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2012SONG3642228461Springer 2012-06-22. 2012. hardcover. Used: Good. 7.90x1.30x10.90. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
20042004BObernkirchen Germany: Black Letter Press 2004. Hardcover. NEW. A short novel of 1670 about the doctrine of Elementary Spirits Gnomes Nymphs or Undines Sylphs and Salamanders and their relations with humans.<br /> --- --- ---<br /> Obernkirchen Germany Black Letter Press 2004 IN ENGLISH. hardcover in purple cloth with gilding red endpapers no dj as issued. No. 220 of an edition limited to 333copies 255 pages 6.5 x 4.1 inches <br /> <br /> This short novel of 1670 gave the literary world a lasting gift: the doctrine of Elementary Spirits Gnomes Nymphs or Undines Sylphs and Salamanders and their relations with humans from Adam’s time to the present. Written as conversations between an all-knowing “Cabalistic†Count and a naïve narrator it is full of amusing and outrageous claims such as that all the great ones of the past were born from inter-species intercourse. Scholars suspect that Villars satirized contemporary credulity and the rise of Paracelsian beliefs in court circles. Esotericists on the other hand see his humor as a cover for secret doctrines and occult truths about the intermediate realms and their denizens.<br /> <br /> This edition is based on the most curious of several attempts to enlarge on Villars’ novel. It was published in 1700 ostensibly in liberal Amsterdam but probably in Lyon. It follows Villars’ text with a midnight “Address to the Gnomes†in which the Count exhorts them to take human spouses. A sceptical Viscountess joins the duo as the Count spins further yarns including one about a musician who married a Sylph learned magical tricks from her and narrowly escaped execution. As a finale Gabalis recounts how the fifteenth-century philanthropist Nicolas Flamel really got his wealth not from alchemy.<br /> <br /> The 1700 edition was also the only illustrated one but that is the oddest thing of all. The figures are printed from actual woodblocks of Alciato’s Emblemata dating from the 1540s almost identical to those of the Black Letter Press’s 1534 edition. Someone must have discovered them and had the idea of adapting the text to refer to them then cleverly integrating them into Flamel’s history.<br /> <br /> To preserve the atmosphere of the original the present volume reproduces a sprightly English translation of 1714 which exploited Alexander Pope’s use of Villars’ theme in The Rape of the Lock.<br /> <br /> The editor Joscelyn Godwin writes an Introduction and translates the supplements in a compatible style.<br /> <br /> Joscelyn Godwin born 1945 is the author editor and translator of many works in the fields of Western Esotericism and Speculative Music. For many years he taught at Colgate University in New York State.<br /> <br /> Joscelyn Godwin born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott Oxfordshire England is a composer musicologist and translator known for his work on ancient music paganism and music in the occult. Black Letter Press hardcover
2012100094319Belvédère 2012 21 pages 20x24x1cm. 2012. Relié. 21 pages.
2012100094433Belvédère 2012 in4. 2012. Relié.
2012100097125Belvédère 2012 in4. 2012. Relié.
