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[Featured Lot] Reinzer, Francisco. Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica, Das ist: Philosophiche u. Politische Beschr...
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[Featured Lot] Reinzer, Francisco. Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica, Das ist: Philosophiche u. Politische Beschreib- u. ErklŠrung Meteorischen, oder in der obern Lufft erzeugten Dinge... [Augsberg:] [Detleffsen for Jeremiah Wolf,] [1712.] Folio. )(2 [-)(1 t.p.],A-3G4,3H2. [2 of 4],424,[4]p. Contemporary full vellum, inner hinge opening, some light dampstains, foxing, strong impressions of the emblems. Lacks frontispiece, 83 fine large text emblematic engravings by Jacob Mulle, Johann Stridbeck, and Johann Sibylla Krausen after Kadoriza. German edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.Krown & Spellman retail: $850
More Information: Reinzer (1661-1708) Jesuit writer and teacher born at Graz, professor of grammar, humanities, and rhetoric in Vienna; he taught philosophy in Linz, and moral theology in Passau, Gratz, and Laybach. This is his most famous work which went through several Latin and German editions. The fine illustrations are filled with meteorological images comets, meteors, lightning, winds, waters, treasures and secrets of the earth. These scientific and meteorological dissertations are largely based on Athanasius Kircher's works with an overlay of philosophical, political, and spiritual teachings. "...elaborate and strange...in which the political teachings are derived from meteorological phenomena."
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