De incertitudine & vanitate scientiarum & artium, atque excellentia Verbi Dei, declamatio.

8vo: 159 [= 155] ff. (final blank missing; cut short occ. shaving printed fore-edge marginalia, soiled at beginning and end, worming in blank fore-edge margin of ff. D1, E2, F1, G1, H1, I2, K1).

18th-c. mottled leather, richly gilt spine with raised bands and morocco label, red edges (sl. rubbed). Good copy.

Extremely rare 2nd (1st 1531) Paris ed. with a fake Antwerp address (to circumvent censorship). Agrippa (1486-1535), a lifelong student of the occult sciences, was a German physician, legal scholar, soldier, philosopher, theologian and occult writer. In 1528, after many public and private functions all over Europe, he accepted an offer by Margaret, duchess of Savoy and regent of the Netherlands, and became archivist and historiographer to the emperor Charles V. The present work (1st 1530), a satire of the sad state of science, presents a detailed and expressive account of the Neoplatonic notion of his theology: the opposition between knowledge and faith.
Ref. BP16 107381. - Nijhoff/Kronenberg 2253. - Moreau IV:842.
Prov. Old ms. entry on title (deleted). - "Francisci Fournet" (old bookpl.).