first edition Contemporary calf, nicely rebacked, red morocco spine label, new endpapers
1660 · London:
by More, Henry
London: Printed by J. Flesher, for W. Morden 1660 First edition. Contemporary calf, nicely rebacked, red morocco spine label, new endpapers. Folio. Old ink signature ("P. Courthope") on a preliminary blank, a little light marginal pencil. On the whole a very good, clean copy. More (1614-87) "…belonged to that little band of Christian Platonists which was formed at Cambridge in the middle of the seventeenth century, and the distinctive traits of their school of thought are perhaps best brought out in his writings" (John Henry Overton in D.N.B.). He was fascinated by the occult science of such men as Van Helmont and believed in witchcraft, which he considered "evidence of the reality of the unseen world." He was the only one of the Cambridge Platonists to publish extensively."
(Inventory #: 11423)