MAIER, MICHAEL. 1568-1622.
Viatorium hoc est de Montibus Planetarum Septem seu Metallorum. Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, 1618.
4to (191 x 163 mm). Title page with woodcut borders, 7 woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut head and tail-pieces. Contemporary calf with Greek cross within a wreath stamped in gilt on upper cover. Rebacked, with repairs to corners, scattered browning and spotting.

RARE FIRST EDITION of Maier's mystical work on the seven metals and their corresponding planets, each represented by an allegorical woodcut. Maier was court physician to Emperor Rudolph II and spent time in England at the court of James I. His alchemical writings influenced the curious minds of Elias Ashmole and Isaac Newton. Caillet 7005; Duveen 383; Ferguson II, 65.
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