De Incertitudine & Vanitate Omnium Scientiarum et Artium Liber de Nobilitate et Praecellentia Foeminiei Sexus, Eiusdemque Supra Virilem Eminentia by Henrici Cornelii Agrippae [Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]
Publication: 1714 Heirs of Plener, Frankfurt and Leipzig
4to. Title, publisher’s dedication, preface, 660 pp. collated complete
Early 18th-century Latin edition containing two of Agrippa’s most widely circulated works, issued together. (On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Sciences; On the Nobility of the Female Sex)
De Vanitate Scientiarum is a critique of human knowledge across theology, philosophy, law, and medicine. Agrippa argues that all are uncertain or flawed. De Nobilitate Foeminei Sexus presents a defense of the superiority and dignity of women, drawing on biblical and classical sources.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a German Renaissance occult writer, polymath, physician, and legal scholar, best known for his Three Books of Occult Philosophy which have had a lasting influence on the Western esoteric tradition. He remains one of the most influential figures in early modern occult thought.
,Condition: 19th-century full vellum binding, spine with gilt-tooled compartments and morocco label, collated complete, browning to text leaves, a few leaves with creases to edges, no markings, overall very good condition