Search Results: Titles starting with J from Adam Weinberger Books

In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Jean Le Clerc (1657–1736), the Swiss-Dutch Arminian pastor, philologist, theologian and erudite journalist, contributed significantly to the dissemination of knowledge to a large European audience. He was one of the most popular intellectuals of his time and author of the famous Bibliothèques, which, for over 40 years, covered topics such as history, law, theology and philology. The platonist Ralp Cudworth was an influential philosopher in the early modern period both for his criticisms of contemporaries like Bayle, Hobbes, Descartes, and Spinoza, and for his own distinctive philosophical viewsRALPH CUDWORTH. The text of Cudworth's magnum opus has first been transmitted in French, due to Jean Le Clerc, in some of the volumes of his Bibliothèque choisie, published between 1703 to 170.The entire work by Pierre Bayle was based on a the French chapter that Bayle read in Volume II, 78 - 130 pp. Nature plastiqueVolume… Read More

Jeu de tarot divinatoire dit "Grand Etteilla " ou " tarot égyptien. Pussey, Paris. N.d. circa 1880. Complete deck of 73 cards; the set does not have an introductory leaflet. The cards are somewhat dust soiled. Around 12 cards carry some sparse annotations. . "Etteilla", the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist who was the first to popularise tarot divination to a wide audience (1785), and therefore the first professional tarot occultist known to history who made his living by card divination. Etteilla published his ideas of the correspondences between the tarot, astrology, and the four classical elements and four humors, and was the first to issue a revised tarot deck specifically designed for occult purposes.

1526. [Early Printing]. Macrobius. IN SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS LIBRI DUO et Septem Eiusdem Satumaliorum. Nunc denuo recogniti & multis in locis aucti. Coloniae: Apud Eucharium Ceruicomum, 1526. Folio. (6),140 leaves. Handome copy in 18th/early 19th century vellum, which reused a medieval manuscript. Internally, some toning and some small worming to text., edges died blue , blanks old but replaced. From the esteemed library of Georgius Klok with bookplate. PROVENANCE : signature of Oporinus in a 16th century hand to lower title page. With woodcut diagrams and WORLD MAP in the text. Marcrobius is now little known apart from the present collection of works, which includes his famous cosmographical commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis (Scipio's Dream). First published in 1472, the works enjoyed wide popularity well into the sixteenth century. The handsome title page illustration can be attributed to Hans Holbein, who crafted a title page with a three-dimensional, ornamental style that included an image of… Read More