[RAPPOLT, Thomas von].

Honori Philaretis Hermopolitani. Jäger-Lust oder Philosophischer-Nymphenfang Das ist: Gründliche und auszfürliche Beschreibung des uhralten Steines der Weisen, In welcher Nicht allein desselben Art, Natur, und Eygenschafft, sondern gäntzliche Praeparation...Würde, Hoheit, endliche Würckung unnd Tugend...

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Title within woodcut border. 8 p.l., 88 pp. Small 4to, attractive antique calf, spine gilt. Hamburg: in verlegung des Authoris, Gedruckt bey Heinrich Werner, 1635. First edition of this extremely rare alchemical poem by the Silesian nobleman Rappolt, who was a physician and member of the Council of Mines of the Electorate of Brandeburg. It is his only printed work. "This curious treatise in German verse, accompanied by a commentary in Latin, treats of alchemical operations symbolized by a nymph hunt."-Duveen, p. 496-(describing, in error, his 1679 line-for-line reprint as the first edition). The work is prefaced by a vigorous attack on idolaters, gold-makers, and false philosophers who promised an always imminent discovery of a prosperity-ensuring "philosopher's stone," and on other "philosophers" and Aristotelians, who have neither profoundly studied nor understood the subject. At the end of the introduction Rappolt explains that those who patiently seek the "light" of this poem shall be rewarded, as he has hidden it to confuse "blockheads" and "hair-splitters." Fine copy. The OCLC description is incorrect; see the Harvard copy for a correct collation. Ferguson, II, p. 198-(2nd ed. of 1679 only).

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