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Title: Des gottseeligen hocherleuchteten Jacob Böhmens... alle theosophische Wercken... Author: Boehme, Jacob Place: Amsterdam Publisher: [Johann Georg Gichtel, editor/publisher] Date: 1682 Description: 15 parts bound in 4 volumes (some with multiple sections, for a total of 24 sections). Engraved general title (at part 12A), 16 (of 24) engraved plates (3 of which are folding), 1 engraved illustration in the text, large folding table. Engraved vignettes on some title pages. Engraved initials, headpieces, and tailpiece emblems. (8vo) approx. 15x9.5 cm (6x3¾"), 3 volumes bound in contemporary vellum (old manuscript titles written on bindings), and 1 volume bound in old calf (with original straps and clasps, gilt and gauffered edges, recent gilt calf labels, recently added loose paper spine label). The first collected works of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624), published by Johann Georg Gichtel using Boehme’s original manuscripts. Boehme has also been variously spelled Bohme, Bohmen, Behme, and Behmen. Each volume with the small rubberstamp of the Jacob Boehme Society Inc. (the private library of Charles Muses, academic, polymath and author). Book tickets of Sam Weiser Inc. Occult Books, New York. There were two indices for this printing, which are not present here (also lacking in the J.R. Ritman Library and Yale Library copies). Boehme, Jacob. [Johann Georg Gichtel, editor/publisher]. Des gottseeligen hocherleuchteten Jacob Böhmens... alle theosophische Wercken: Darinnen alle tieffe Geheimnusse Gottes der ewigen und zeitlichen Natur und Creatur : samt dem wahren Grunde christlicher Religion und der Gottseeligkeit, nach dem apostolischen Gezeugnuss offenbahrer werden : theils aus des Authoris eigenen Originalen, theils aus den ersten und nachgesehenen besten Copyen auffs fleissigste corrigiret: und in Beyfugung etlicher Clavium so vorhin noch nie gedruckt, nebenst einem zweyfachen Register: den Liebhabern gottlicher und naturlicher Weissheit zum besten an Tag gegeben. Volume 1: 1. AURORA. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title)] + [1pp (blank) + [22pp] + 360pp + [3pp]. 2A. SIGNATURA. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + [1pp (blank)] + pp. 3 - 218 + [2pp]. 2B. CLAVIS. [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + pp. 222 – 267. Large folding table facing page 254. 2C. TABULA. [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + [1pp (blank)] + p.271 – 287. 3A. APOLOGIA. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + [1pp (blank)] + pp3 - 32. 3B. APOLOGIA. [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + pp34 - 170. 3C. APOLOGIA. [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + [1pp (blank)] + pp173 - 265. 3D. APOLOGIA. [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + pp268 - 322. 3E. JUDICIUM. [1pp (title)] + [1pp (blank)] + pp. 325 - 368. Volume 2. 4. DREY PRINCIPIA. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title)] + [1pp (blank)] + pp3 - 448 + [7pp]. 5. DREYFACHES LEBEN. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + [1pp (blank)] + pp. 3 - 307 + [3pp]. Folding engraved plate facing page 153. 6. FRAGEN VON DER SEELE. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + [1pp (blank)] + pp. 3 - 165 + [2pp]. Folding engraved plate facing page 27. 7. BOTTLICHER OFFENBARUNG. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title)] + pp2 - 48. Volume 3. 8. BENADEN WAHL. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + [1pp (blank)] + pp3 - 198 + [2pp]. 9A. CHRISTI TESTAMENTA. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + [1pp (blank)] + [pp. 3 – 8] + pp. 9 - 85. 9B. FRAGEN VON DER SEELE. [1pp (title with engraved vignette)] + pp. 87 - 108. 10. MYSTERIUM MAGNUM. Folding engraved frontispiece + [3pp] + [1pp (blank)] + [1pp (title)] + [1pp (blank)] + p. 3 - 805 + [7pp]. Engraving on page 241. 11. GOTTLICHER. Engraved frontispiece + [2pp] + [1pp (title)] + pp. 2 - 48. Volume 4. 12A. DES GOTTSEELIGEN HOCHERLEUCHTETE. Engraved gener