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

8vo: 159 [= 155] ff.

19th-c. dark blue boards, gilt flat spine with label (rubbed at edges and joints, sm. def. at head). Very good copy with wide bottom margin.

Extremely rare Paris edition with a fake Antwerp address (to circumvent censorship). Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (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 publ. 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 106529 (state B). - NK 50. - Prost (Agrippa) 12.
Prov. Contemp. ms. entry on title (crossed out).