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[22], 605, [1 blank], [4], [23 index], [1 blank], [48], [22] pp. + 2 engraved plates on either side of one sheet. Includes "The Life of Jacob Behmen" by Durand Hotham and Behm's "Four Tables of Divine Revelation" with separate title-pages. (Folio) 10¾x7¼, modern black leather in antique style. First Edition in English.

First edition of Boehme's masterpiece, a mystical interpretation of Genesis. "Jacob Boehme (or Behmen, as he has usually been called in England), the peasant shoemaker of Görlitz, is one of the most amazing phenomena in an amazing age...he has a living intuition of the eternal forces which lie at the root of all things" (Cambridge History of English and American Literature). Boehme completed this work in 1623, and died the following year without an inkling of the wide influence it would have on generations of mystics; especially in English. Rare.